Andy Black

www.skillpages.com/andy.black

Dublin, Ireland
Worked at SkillPages
Studied at The University of York

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About Andy Black

Passionate about converting data into actionable market intelligence and driving business profits.

Skilled at planning, implementing, and optimising Search Engine Marketing (SEM) campaigns.

Andy Black's Latest Activity

Andy Black

I've created a new SkillPage: Excel

Andy Black (SkillPage Update: Google Adwords)

AdWord Campaign creation tool delivered in 24 hours! Wow. @George Ciubotaru took a quick spec from me yesterday to create a tool that generates massive and highly targeted AdWords campaigns.

Up to now I've been using a shell script I wrote about 2 years ago on my PC using Cygwin... View all

George Ciubotaru and Alex Gartland

were tagged in this update.

January 24

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Andy Black (SkillPage Update: Korn Shell Scripting)

Optimising a script by performing less disk reads Finally got round to speeding up a script I wrote over 2 years ago and have used almost daily since!

Instead of grep'ing for data out of a config file repeatedly each time within a for loop, I've read the contents once into an array. This... View all

Andy Black's Experience

SkillPages

Search Geek Jul 2011 - Present (8 months)
Populis

Head of SEM Operations Jan 2011 - Jul 2011 (7 months)
Populis

SEM Manager Oct 2010 - Dec 2010 (3 months)
GoAdv

SEM Analyst Dec 2009 - Sep 2010 (10 months)
Dunnes Stores

Senior Oracle DBA (Contractor) Jul 2008 - Jul 2009 (1 year 1 month )
CRH

Lead Oracle DBA (Contractor) Oct 2005 - Jul 2008 (2 years 10 months)
EPI

Data Analyst/Developer (Contractor) Aug 2005 - Aug 2005
Wyeth

Senior Oracle DBA (Contractor) Feb 2004 - Jun 2005 (1 year 5 months)
GlaxoSmithKline

Senior Oracle DBA (Contractor) Aug 2002 - Jan 2004 (1 year 6 months)
O2 UK

Senior Oracle DBA (Contractor) Dec 2000 - Jun 2002 (1 year 7 months)
Reuters

Oracle DBA Jan 1999 - Dec 2000 (2 years )
Reuters

UNIX Systems Administrator Dec 1996 - Dec 1998 (2 years 1 month )
Enesco Limited

Analyst/Programmer Jul 1995 - Dec 1996 (1 year 6 months)
Newton Rigg College

IT Instructor Mar 1995 - Jun 1995 (4 months)
Clark Door Limited

Systems Assistant Sep 1993 - Mar 1995 (1 year 7 months)