We’re building the first hotel booking platform for social media, backed by 80M+ followers on Instagram and TikTok. I lead vision and strategy for our product, strategic partnerships, customer support, analytics, and internal operations.

Tripscout, part of the @hotel network, is the largest social travel network on Instagram; we own and operate 140+ handles and reach an audience of 80 million travelers growing on average of 2+ million followers per month. We specialize in crafting custom social-first campaigns for Destination Marketing Organizations, Tourism Boards, and Hotels worldwide. With the industry's most followers and extensive data insights, our innovative approach leverages the latest social trends, ensures campaigns with high engagement, and ultimately inspires travelers to take action. We know that 97% of Millennials use social media to plan their trips and travelers are spending more time on social platforms than ever before. A billion users spend an average of 53 minutes per day on Instagram; rather than pulling them away, Tripscout wants to meet them where they are! Whether representing a city, state, or country, Tripscout stands as a trusted partner with an impressive client list, including Discover Puerto Rico, Visit San Francisco, Visit Maine, Visit Nebraska, and more. Connect with us today at tripscout.com.

I work with the world's largest companies spanning the retail, aerospace/engineering, financial services, and hospitality industries to transform IT teams into customer-obsessed, digital organizations.

Working everyday to reimagine and grow products that help millions of couples plans their weddings and local vendors grow their businesses. Specifically I focus on:-Local Search/Vendor Discovery-Lead Generation-User Generated Content/Reviews-National Media/Editorial Content-Personalization-SEO

Treater began as a social/mobile application focusing on low-dollar "casual gifts" redeemable directly at the point-of-sale. I was brought on to help transition the business from a consumer-to-consumer model in search of a more scalable platform with a B2C focus. The result was a white-labeled referral marketing platform that enabled brands to acquire new, direct-referral customers through incentive based offers. I led the product development team in addition to playing a significant role in business development, analytics, pricing, and sales operations through the company's eventual acquisition.More than anything, I had the privilege of working everyday with a kick-ass team, I made mistakes, learned new things, deployed eight lines of code, and enjoyed every step of the journey. Can't beat that.

Primarily responsible for developing product and partnership strategies to enable next generation payments, redemption, and analytic capabilities. Additional responsibilities include:-Market and Industry Research-Payments and Data Strategy-Strategic Partnerships-Data Analysis/Pricing/Forecasting-Competitive Intelligence-Operational Analysis-Financial Modeling-Requirements Development/Product Discovery-KPI/Reports Development-HIVE-QL/MySQL-Salesforce.com Reporting

As the space race was taking off, I found an opportunity to move back into recruiting and work on growing our sales organization. The goal was to grow from 17 to 250 by the summer time. We opened an office in Santa Monica, quadrupled the team in NY, and built a 100+ person entry-level sales training program at home in DC. One month I calculated that I personally had a hand in hiring .1% of the total US job growth. That was a really, really bad month for US job growth.As the company grew from 600-5,000 employees we faced some unique challenges: 60,000 unscreened resumes, hundreds of inactive open positions, and no requisition-approval system. I got to work on restructuring the workflows for our Applicant Tracking systems and a bunch of data projects to help us manage thousands of resumes we received every week.

Joined LivingSocial as Inside Sales #7 when we were nothing more an a no-name Internet hack company above the Chinatown Hooters. Spent my days calling small merchants in Omaha who used the s-word (scam) a lot. Learned the difference between a Keratin treatment and a Brazilian blowout. Unsuccessfully attempted to sell six sessions of laser hair removal for $99. While I loved talking to merchants and trying to help them with their businesses, I quickly realized inside sales wasn't especially motivating for me. Around 45 minutes before I accepted an offer somewhere else, we closed $183M in funding. Instant game changer.

Full life-cycle recruiting for IT infrastructure and security roles. Found some pretty creative ways to initiate and build relationships with people much smarter than myself. Figured out what cloud computing was. Interviewed people for jobs that may or may not have actually existed. Sold the value of the NCI. Maintained retrospectively ridiculous gross margins. Became far too familiar with government contracting related acronyms. Mastered second tier buzzwords like "LDAP" and "Dynamic Resource Allocation" and "CD-ROM". Told Linux geeks that I use Slackware at home (I'm personally more of a Debian man). Tried to give people some hope and guidance during the worst job market in decades.