Chris Smith:  

CLASS OF 1985
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College station, TX
College station, TX

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Life I founded an online marketing agency about six years ago called Argent Media, and I provide SEO consulting, PPC advertising, social media management, and online reputation management through it. I also have served occasionally as an expert witness in lawsuits involving things like online defamation, trademark infringement, and domain names. Some of the cases have been prominent, involving organizations like Google, U-Haul, PODS, GoDaddy, and The Academy Awards. I'm currently engaged to be married to a wonderful woman I met in a church singles group! College I attended TAMU for quite a while, switching majors and taking extra courses for fun. I hold a Bachelor's of Environmental Design degree. After graduating, I worked at TAMU as professional support staff for the Cartographics office in the College of Geosciences and Maritime Studies. I served as Manager of Administration until 1996. While there, I created many maps and scientific illustrations for books and journals of all kinds. Also, I was the author of the TAMU Clip Art Disk, and the Texas A&M University Map with points of interest, the latter published by the TAMU Press. I designed the 12th Man Foundation shield logo, which has been reproduced or embroidered on many products such as shirts and hats, and can be seen most commonly on decals on the rear windows of cars all over Texas. During my time at A&M, I...Expand for more
created a number of paintings and drawings centered upon the campus, winning some awards for them as well. Reproductions of these works are available on my personal website. Past: I work in new and emerging technologies, primarily internet based, but I also work in the related wireless arena. I work on mapping, local search, SEO, SEM, content development, SMS, Mobile, XML, etc, etc. I worked for Verizon for 10 years, eventually serving as head of the technology department for one of their largest websites, and they treated me well. I have a few patents registered for my work in maps and search technology, and I was awarded a Verizon corporate Individual Award of Excellence for my Search Engine Optimization projects. I typically attend and speak at the Search Marketing Expo (SMX) Conferences every year, and sometimes other conferences as well. Strange that I ended up doing such heavy-duty technical work, since my schooling was generally all visual design oriented. But, I've always had a heavy technical bent, and have been very interested in science as well. I used to be very active in the Dallas gothic community for some years, and was occasionally found at alternative concerts and events. I wrote and published a book about the Science Fiction / Fantasy authors, Tim Powers and James P. Blaylock, with their cooperation, and they also signed the limited edition copies.
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