Background of STC
Stone Temple Consulting (STC) has been providing SEO Consulting services for over 5 years. STC has worked with a wide range of clients, ranging from small silicon valley start-ups, to Fortune 25 companies. STC has two partners, Eric Enge and John Biundo, and a team of senior SEO consultants, who provide SEO and SEM services for the company's clients. Other members of our team include:
STC helps its clients implement search engine friendly sites, that are rich in content, and also helps clients market their sites effectively to attract lots of high quality links. STC also provides search engine marketing (PPC) services, and designs and implements blogs. Our approach has a proven and repeatable track record of success.
STC relies solely on SEO methods that comply with the search engines' terms of service. This means that the company does not buy links, or engage in link swap campaigns, and also does not attempt to trick the search engines into providing sites with artificially high rankings. These are practices that may temporarily lift search engine rankings, but in the long term are harmful to your business. Whereas with the approach used by STC, the rankings you gain through our efforts tend to be stable, and secure.
Eric Enge
Eric Enge has been working in the industry for more than 30 years. Eric has been an entrepreneur for most of his career. His major accomplishments include:
- 10 years at Phoenix Technologies (1986-1997)
- Ran worldwide engineering from 1987 to 1991
- Company IPO in 1988
- Personally responsible for bringing AOL into the OEM market
- Bootstrap Launched a software group in 1993 to $10M in sales at a 20% profit before tax in 1995
- 9 years search engine and business development consulting (1997-2006)
- Participated in IPO of Xoom.com in 1998
- Participated in $70M sale of eFax.com
- 5+ years SEO, web marketing, and web site publishing (2003-2009)
- President, Stone Temple Consulting
- SEO Consulting Services for companies looking to grow their search engine traffic
- Check here for detailed case studies
- Eric is co-author of The Art of SEO book, along with Rand Fishkin, Stephan Spencer, Jessie Stricchiola. The book is scheduled for release in Fall 2009.
- Eric is the only person in the industry making regular contributions to Search Engine Land, Search Engine Watch, and SEOmoz.
- Eric also wrote The Professional's Guide to Link Building for SEOmoz.
- Grew Bestprices.com revenue from $0 to $3+M per year through search engine optimization
- Managed search engine optimization for education-online-search.com (EOS), a site that generates more than 500 leads per day
- Sold EOS and related sites in February of 2006.
- Worked with Ziff Davis' computer and video games site and grew its search engine traffic by more than 500%.
- Responsible for search engine optimization for City Town Info, a site with information on more than 20,000 cities and towns across the US
You can also see Eric's Google Coop profile for more info.
John Biundo
John has over 25 years experience in the software industry, as both an individual contributor and a senior executive. His roles have included software development, marketing, technical support, and sales. Highlights of John's Career:
- 7 Years at Project Software & Development, Inc. (1981-1988)
- Director of Product Marketing, 1987
- Helped convert product lines from proprietary technology to 4GL tools and SQL Relational Databases
- 6+ Years at Ingres Corporation (1988-1994)
- Various senior sales engineering, field marketing, sales, and management positions
- Managed New England area major accounts
- 7 Years at Forte Software, Inc. (1994-2001)
- Director of Technical Sales
- Director of Product Marketing
- Director of Java Business Unit - responsible for introduction of the SynerJ Enterprise Java product, which was the featured asset in Sun's acquisition of Forte
- Key executive in the marketing and sale of Forte Software to Sun Microsystems for $540M
- 5 Years as a Freelance Web Technology / Linux Server Consultant (2001-2006)
- Technical skills include Java, Apache Administration, Linux, PHP, XML/XHTML, CSS, and related web technologies
- Principal Consultant at Stone Temple Consulting (2005-2008)
- Specializing in Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing
Jamie Bridges
Jamie has been involved in providing custom IT solutions for Fortune 500 companies for more than 19 years. His professional experience includes:
- Consultant with Andersen Consulting/Arthur Andersen (1989 – 1994)
- Designed, implemented and deployed custom Client Server applications
- Provided technology direction for client companies
- Senior Consultant with Forte Software (1994 – 1996)
- Developed custom Forte applications for Fortune 500 customers
- Trained developers in the use of Object Oriented Analysis and Design concepts
- Provided technical direction for software development projects
- Mentored client developer teams
- President of JHB Soft (1996 – 2007)
- Founded company to provide start to end application development support to Fortune 500 customers
- Developed and delivered custom and packaged training programs
- Led implementation efforts for developing custom reporting solutions for customers
- Principal Pay-Per-Click Analyst with Stone Temple Consulting (2008)
- Specializing in Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing
Art Gould
Art Gould consults with Stone Temple Consulting on Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Networking and Marketing Strategy. Art has over 25 years of high technology experience in a wide variety of roles, including hands-on development, development management, software product management, and developer program management. He has also been taught computer science and co-founded a startup. His accomplishments in a wide variety of settings include:
- Taking a cold startup from inception to acquisition of five customers.
- Community and Developer program management (Sun Microsystems, AMD, Inc.)
- Software product management (Micro Focus, Forte Software, Sun Microsystems)
- Software sales engineering and consulting (MicroFocus)
- Adjunct faculty in computer science (De Paul University)
- Mission-critical Corporate experience (Sears, American Hospital Supply, Baxter Healthcare)
- Application Development Manager
- Project Leader
- Quality Consultant
- Hands-on application development
- 1 patent pending
Jim Parent
Jim has 7 years experience in web site programming, design, and development and 20 years experience in the Consumer Products industry. His experience includes:
- Principle Search Analyst at Stone Temple Consulting (2007-2008 )
- Specializing in Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing
- 7 Years as President of East Bay Computing (2001-2007)
- Webmaster for Spanworks( 2001-2003)
- Webmaster for Motorsports Market (2003-2007)
- Designed and programmed the first California DMV approved an on-line certification program for car dealers
- 20 years in consumer products industry, first as an engineer, and then as
manager of product and process development. (1980 - 2000)
- 3 Years as Process Development Engineer for Clorox Household Products Division
- 7 Years as Manager of Product and Process Development for the Kingsford Products Company
- Awarded 6 design and utility patents
- 4 years as Manufacturing Services Manager for Clorox Household Products Divison
- Led the rollout of Lotus Notes for the Clorox Company's manufacturing standards system.
- 6 years as Manager of Product and Process Development for Combat Products
Rob Pirozzi
Rob has over 25 years of high technology experience in various management, marketing, sales, and technical roles. His experience includes:
- Principle Search Analyst at Stone Temple Consulting (2007-2008)
- Specializing in Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing
- 4 Years as Founding Principal of WorldRech Marketing (2003-2007)
- Provided web marketing and freelance writing services to clients
- 12 years with IBM/Lotus Development Corp. (1991-2003)
- IBM Software Account Manager
- Lotus Certified Consulting IT Specialist
- Lotus District Technical Manager
- Lotus District Manager, Strategic Solutions Sales
- Lotus Product Sales Manager
- Lotus cc:Mail Account Executive
- Lotus Program Manager, Communications Products Sales Education
- 9 Years in High Technology with Banyan Systems, Prime Computer, and Epsilon Data Management
- Marketing management
- Sales
- Technical support of sales
- Application programmer
