Blake E. Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

• Learn Arena is an e-learning start up looking to revolutionize education through gamifying course work by rewarding top performers with money. Wanting to get some start up experience, I pitched them utility player.
• Managed and contributed to uploading process for new courses on our curriculum platform
• Compiled list of investors and initiated follow up process for fundraising outreach; supplied CEO and executive team with updated investor lists
• Developed marketing strategy for homeschooler student/participant base
• Arranged meetings with other start-up founders to encourage knowledge sharing and network expansion
• Coordinated and generated Podcast Touring leads for CEO

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

• I’ve done project based corporate recruiting under a senior recruiter / Managing Director of an independent executive search firm. This has consisted of generating and managing a candidate pipeline, screening.
• Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) - Sales and Sales leadership
• Manufacturing and Online Consumer Retail - HR Leadership / Payroll / Benefits, Production Management and Accounting
• SaaS - Customer Success / Customer Experience (CX)

Washington D.C. Metro Area, Remote

• On the program operations team, I worked as an operations specialist at the Institute for Humane Studies, a non-profit organization that supports academic freedom and classical liberal ideas. I managed email automation.
• Project management of graduate student funding programs, utilizing Asana as our core collaborative task management tool
• Developed, grew, and managed existing relationships with our academic specialists
• Partnered with technical team to lead new email automation project, which saved hundreds of labor hours
• Worked cross functionally with technical and academic specialist teams to manage database functionality and Salesforce reporting efficiency

Austin, TX, Remote

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

The bread and butter of developing customer service experience. Worked for companies like Tom Thumb Grocery, Rockfish Seafood Grill, and Lowe’s Home Improvement. Responsibilities ranged from attending to customer needs to taking orders, answering the phone, running food, bartending, stocking product, processing online orders, forklift operation, etc.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• National talent management services firm serving a variety of businesses from small to fortune 500 sized companies. Provides high impact solutions across the full talent life cycle (executive search talent acquisition.
• Established and executed an email marketing campaign that increased company brand awareness in a highly competitive market culminating in securing new client prospects for firm
• Executed proactive sourcing strategy to quickly identify candidates for firm's executive search unit clients resulting in decreased "time to fill" for executive positions in client companies
• Performed operational analysis that streamlined workflow process to improve client outreach capacity
• Initiated research for implementation of newer cloud-based CRM software to replace antiquated version. This improved efficiency in serving clients, increasing revenue and profitability

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• I worked as an assistant for a food photographer and lifestyle content creator. Involved in the development of various photoshoots and videos for clients. Duties ranged from constructing props and backdrops to cooking.
• Increased efficiency and speed of client service development, allowing a larger threshold for ongoing projects

Business Administration And Management, General

Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services, 4.0 Gpa Fall 2016