Chris Abraham CV and Résumé

Meritus Media, Clearwater, FL

Digital Strategy

• Manages and recovers Google Business Profiles (GBP) from suspensions, ensuring swift reinstatement and compliance with Google's policies.
• Creates, optimizes, and maximizes GBP presence, improving local search visibility and engagement through strategic content updates, reviews, Q&A management, and service/product listings.
• Provides expert SEO services, including on-page, off-page, and technical SEO to enhance organic search rankings, site performance, and keyword integration.
• Implements AI-driven SEO (AISEO) strategies, leveraging AI tools to refine metadata, expand content, and improve search engine indexing.
• Handles online reputation management (ORM) and perception management (OPM), mitigating negative search results and reinforcing brand credibility.
• Optimizes Google Search Console, PageSpeed Insights, and Core Web Vitals, ensuring sites meet Google’s performance and indexing standards.
• Executes 301 redirects, site migrations, and backlink disavowals, resolving technical SEO issues and maintaining link health.
• Advises businesses on integrating GBP with their website, enhancing local SEO, building trust with Google, and improving discoverability.
• Secured high-profile clients, working with executives, brands, and businesses across various industries.

Gerris Corp, Arlington, VA

Principal & Founder

• Offers extensive influencer marketing and social media marketing consulting services for a wide array of businesses.
• Evaluated and improved search engine optimization and online reputation management.
• Managed all aspects of marketing, digital PR, blogger outreach to ensure successful marketing campaigns and increased brand recognition.
• Secured high-profile clients including TB12, Skinny Coconut Oil, Newconomy.media, SPYRUS, Status Labs, SweatNOW, and others

Unison Agency, Washington, DC

Director, Social Media

• Launched social media practice focusing on online brand recognition.
• Used comprehensive social media campaign to drive sales efforts.
• Worked with founder and president, Robert Fardi, on business development projects.
• Secured high-profile clients including AAFMAA, Sage North America (Sage One & Sage 50), Snikiddy, and CFCNCA.

Reputation.com, Redwood City, CA

Team Lead, Special Projects

• Sold reputation management services in subscriptions from $10,000-$100,000 per month to high net worth and high-profile individuals.
• Provided detailed technology and strategy recommendations to staff and business owners.

SocialAlly, Ontario, CA

President

• Developed business strategy, tactics, and processes for social media and digital PR.
• Training social media and blogger outreach team.
• Secured high-profile clients including Mizuno Volleyball and McKinney.

Abraham Harrison, Arlington, VA

Cofounder and President

• Developed and oversaw the execution of comprehensive marketing plans and strategies including, but not limited to, SEO, SEM, PPC, ORM, content marketing, blogger outreach, and customer engagement.
• Managed business operations and development.
• Secured high-profile clients including Alzheimer's Association, Aruba Tourism, Deutsche Telekom, Greenpeace, Habitat for Humanity, Home Shopping Network, International Medical Corps, Kimberly-Clark, Mitsubishi Motors, National Association of Home Builders, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Qorvis Communications, Sharp Electronics, Snapple, USOC Winter Team, T. Rowe Price, and Friendster.

Georgetown SCS, Georgetown University

Guest Lecturer

• Influencer marketing

Georgetown SCS, Georgetown University

Guest Lecturer

• Online reputation manegement

Georgetown SCS, Georgetown University

Guest Lecturer

• Organic search engine optimization (SEO)

South-by-Southwest (SXSW)

Panelist

• Outsourcing & Offshoring Social Customer Service

NVTC Social Media Committee

Moderator

• Meaningful Measurement: The Impact of Social Media panel discussion

School of Journalism and Comm., University of Oregon

Guest Lecturer

• Digital PR and social media marketing

School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University

Guest Lecturer

• Web technology and entrepreneurial journalism

University of Maryland, College Park

Guest Lecturer

• Digital PR and social media marketing, COMM 350 (Public Relations Theory) and COMM 370 (Mediated Communication)

American University and Georgetown University

Guest Lecturer

• Social media, marketing, and technology career and internship opportunities

Department of History, American University

Guest Lecturer

• History in the Digital Age class

Writer’s Center

Instructor

• Blogging Basics & Intermediate Course: how to blog, including SEO, strategy, writing for online consumption, story ideas

School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Guest Lecturer

• Blogging and viral marketing strategies for the Executive Masters in Public Affairs program

Renaissance Weekend

Renaissance Weekend is an invitation-only retreat that brings together innovators and leaders from various fields such as business, government, the arts, science, and more, to share ideas and engage in wide-ranging discussions.

• Participant since 2001
• Moderator and blue dot

Potomac Boat Club

Rowing club based in Washington, D.C., situated on the Potomac River. Founded in 1869, it is one of the oldest rowing clubs in the United States. The club offers both recreational and competitive rowing programs, fostering a community of rowers ranging from novices to Olympic athletes.

• Senior Member

Miriam's Kitchen

Non-profit organization based in Washington D.C., with a mission to end chronic homelessness in the area. Founded in 1983, it offers a range of services including providing healthy meals, case management, housing support, and advocacy for systemic change. They strive to create meaningful connections with individuals experiencing homelessness, helping them move towards stable housing and improved health.

• Volunteer Sous Chef

Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction

The Southern Jurisdiction is headquartered at the House of the Temple in Washington, D.C. and is sometimes referred to as the "Mother Supreme Council of the World," as it was the first Supreme Council of Scottish Rite Freemasonry.

• 32nd Degree 

Naval Lodge No. 4, F.A.A.M.

Naval Lodge No. 4, F.A.A.M. is the oldest continuously operating lodge in the District of Columbia. It was originally chartered as Washington Naval Lodge No. 41 by the Grand Lodge of Maryland in 1805. The lodge's name was changed to Naval Lodge No. 4 in 1817, when the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia was formed.

• 3rd Degree Master Mason

St. Monica and St. James Church

St. Monica and St. James Church is an Episcopal church in Washington, D.C., located at 222 8th Street NE in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. The church was founded in 1854 and is part of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. 

• Former Member of Vestry and Webmaster