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English, Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese, Italian
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MING-CHIN WU

MING-CHIN WU

Senior Gaming Marketing Manager
Houston,TX

Summary

Head of Gaming Marketing in North America with 16 years of experience designing and implementing marketing campaigns. Launched HP’s gaming brand OMEN in 2016 into a billion-dollar business. Brought a nonexistent brand to #3 in the gaming PC category in 4 years. Built marketing teams, resources, and social channels from the grounds up. Formed deep understanding of evolving gaming target audiences and competition to develop differentiated positionings and effective marketing communications. Finds white spaces for brands to uniquely own, early adopter of latest industry trends, and establish partnerships that strategically align with brand values. Consistently produces fresh and creative marketing activations, resulting in winning marketing industry awards in 2017, 2018 and 2020 Leads with ambition, driven by purpose, passionate about developing team cultures based on values, actions, and collaboration.

Overview

6
6
years of post-secondary education
15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Marketing Manager North America - Gaming

HP Inc
Houston, TX
04.2016 - Current

- Head of North America Gaming Marketing

- Manage all marketing for OMEN gaming brand, delivering on brand and business goals + triple digit growth Y/Y

- Oversee OMEN social community and social channel strategy & creative. Grow customer advocacy and engagement. Resulting in double digit growth in channel growth Y/Y, x3 - x4 higher engagement rates than industry.

- Established strategic partnerships with gaming, lifestyle, community brands and organizations. Spearheaded esports partnerships, tournament leagues.

- Creative campaign development, content planning and launch advertising campaigns in media, social, livestreaming, social influencer, community management, retail activations.

Marketing Campaign Manager Americas

HEWLETT-PACKARD
Houston, TX
04.2015 - 04.2016
  • Sprout by HP marketing campaign launch: lead multi-million campaign launch for new immersive category hardware product: PR, social, influencers, media, events, roadshows.
  • AMS Marketing Strategy & planning Direct cross-functional, cross-organizational teams and agencies in the development and execution of go to market campaign plans and budgets.

Marketing Analytics Manager Americas

HEWLETT-PACKARD
Houston, TX
03.2012 - 04.2015

- Marketing Campaign Insights & Analytics

- Manage, trained, and mentored a team of offshore analysts based on Guadalajara and Bangalore

- Lead marketing campaign analysis, anchoring marketing analytics and insights to campaign planning & strategy for PC and printing businesses

Senior Digital Strategy Specialist

JCPENNEY
Plano, TX
05.2011 - 03.2012
  • Ecommerce Site Merchandising and customer experience optimization.
  • Competitive analysis and digital strategy.

Analyst, Internet Marketing

ACADEMY SPORTS + OUTDOORS
Katy, TX
01.2010 - 01.2011
  • Digital Marketing strategy & planning.
  • Internet Marketing Analytics : Review digital marketing analytics and reporting for all campaigns (online banner ads, landing pages, mobile advertising, external email, social media), conduct optimizations, improved KPIs.

Digital Media Manager

RAZORFISH, Digital Media & Marketing
Chicago, IL
01.2008 - 01.2009

- Launched online, interactive media campaigns for fashion brands driving awareness, engagement, sales.

- Reporting and analysis: Presented post campaign analysis, daily and weekly analytics reports, examined media measurements and e-commerce conversions, concluded insights and recommendations for optimizations.

Senior Account Executive

SAATCHI & SAATCHI
Taipei, Taiwan
01.2003 - 01.2006
  • Brand advertising and integrated marketing plans for P&G brands.
  • Managed P&G brand advertising campaigns driving leadership position in market share.
  • Concept launch and execution of integrated advertising campaigns for P&G brands: Olay, Head &Shoulders, and Pampers.
  • PR, TV, print, OOH, events for new product launches.
  • Consumer insights, copy testing and advertising research.

Education

MS - Integrated Marketing Communications

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
09.2006 - 12.2007

BA - English Literature and Language

UNIVERSITY oF RICHMOND
08.2001 - 07.2002

BA - English Literature and Language

NATIONAL CHENG CHI UNIVERSITY, Rice University
09.1999 - 07.2003

Skills

Marketing and advertising

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Additional Information

  • AWARDS:
  • 2021 PRO Awards finalists for Best Gaming / Esports campaign
  • 2019 Girls in Tech Taiwan : 40 under 40
  • 2019 OMEN Gaming Lab at Twitch : Finalist for 2020 Ex Awards Best Trade Show Activation
  • 2018 Ex awards best esports activation: Gold Ex Award for OMEN Challenge: PUBG edition (Twitch Con)
  • 2017 HP Marketing Reinventor awards
  • 2017 PRO awards: BEST BRAND AWARENESS CAMPAIGN (Twitch Con)
  • CONFERENCES:
  • 2019 Brand ANA Marketing Conference Panelist
  • 2018 NY Adweek Panelist
  • 2018 Esports Summit Keynote speaker

English, Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese, Italian

Native speaker of Mandarin Chinese and English

Italian I, II, III, IV (9.6 continuing education credits), Rice University GSCS

Volunteer

Opera in the Heights

Northwestern NU Asian and Asian American Alumni

Northwestern Alumni Affinity Leaders and Learners

Timeline

Sr. Marketing Manager North America - Gaming

HP Inc
04.2016 - Current

Marketing Campaign Manager Americas

HEWLETT-PACKARD
04.2015 - 04.2016

Marketing Analytics Manager Americas

HEWLETT-PACKARD
03.2012 - 04.2015

Senior Digital Strategy Specialist

JCPENNEY
05.2011 - 03.2012

Analyst, Internet Marketing

ACADEMY SPORTS + OUTDOORS
01.2010 - 01.2011

Digital Media Manager

RAZORFISH, Digital Media & Marketing
01.2008 - 01.2009

MS - Integrated Marketing Communications

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
09.2006 - 12.2007

Senior Account Executive

SAATCHI & SAATCHI
01.2003 - 01.2006

BA - English Literature and Language

UNIVERSITY oF RICHMOND
08.2001 - 07.2002

BA - English Literature and Language

NATIONAL CHENG CHI UNIVERSITY, Rice University
09.1999 - 07.2003
MING-CHIN WUSenior Gaming Marketing Manager