Looking for Seo Expert ?

[Jake]

If I may suggest you will find more candidates on internet marketing and webmaster forum sites. There are plenty of ebooks and video courses that may teach you enough at least to oversee your seo campaign which you can outsource to freelancers. There seems to be a trend of the search engines making automated seo technology less effective shifting the focus to genuine quality content.

You can get at least a superficial exposure to the latest SEO issues at these sites.
http://searchengineland.com
http://searchenginewatch.com
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/
http://www.seomoz.org/google-algorithm-change

The Whiteboard Friday videos in the seomoz blog are particularly informative, though much of the advanced issues discussed there only apply to giant enterprise sites.