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Fort Collins Colorado

Building a world class educational company.www.pendalearning.com

Colorado And Michigan Offices

Global Building Products is comprised of two main business units. My responsibilities include leading all aspects of both organizations.Town+Country Cedar Homes is a nationally recognized luxury log and timber home design build company with offices in Colorado and Michigan. The company has been a significant player in the Log and Timber Frame Home industry since 1947 and has built thousands of homes for clients in all 50 states of the US and in 22 counties. Specializing in custom and semi-custom homes, the company provides design and architecture services, sustainable and green building techniques, project management and customer advocacy. Town +Country is one of the premiere builders in the market today. The company can be found at http://www.cedarhomes.com/Heartwood Mills is a specialty mill with a 35-acre facility in northern Michigan. With a milling and kiln drying capacity of 10 million board feet annually it is one of the largest and most recognized specialty mills for producing, specialty sidings such as log siding, bead board, and live edge siding. The mill is also capable of producing fine hardwoods for the cabinetry and flooring industries as well as other niche product lines. More information about Heartwood Mills can be found at http://heartwoodmills.com/

Consulting with Education Technology and Education Management companies in the areas of marketing, product design, funding strategies, sales management and direct sales

Dallas, Texas.

Leading all aspects of the operations of a world class social robotics platform company.

Greater New York City Area (Working Home Based From Colorado)

Responsible for all aspects of building the sales, marketing and implementation aspects of the Schoology business. Day to day the focus was on establishing the market presence and legitimacy of small a Learning Management Platform in the ultra competitive LMS and Ed tech space. Sales and revenue accomplishments included YoY sales growth of 220% in 2013 and 160% YoY YTD in 2014. The full recruitment and build out the sales team to include regional and territory managers as well as inside sales and account managers. Was responsible for establishing processes and procedure to scale to over 5 million users of the Schoology platform. In addition, was responsible for driving full marketing build out, collateral, trade show and lead generation campaigns to support very ambitious sales projections. Also contributed significantly to product and development methodology and prioritization to meet market and competitive demand. Participated in quarterly board meetings and reporting, investor relations. Generally lent my experience expertise and credibility where ever the organization needed it in the process of becoming a global company. Other awards and accomplishments included winning the SIIA CODiE awards in 2013 and 2014 for best K-12 Enterprise Platform, best Learning Management System (LMS) and best overall K-12 solution. Secured contracts with client districts from the top ten largest in the country and over 600 other K-12 enterprise clients in the US and internationally.

Stuart Florida

I was responsible for managing all aspects of the operations of ILC. Core responsibilities included developing product and marketing strategies to increase the effectiveness and scalability of Response to Intervention and diagnostic assessment technology and processes for K-12 education. Lead the effort to define the core focus of the company in two areas primarily. The first area of focus was in developing marketing strategies into the K-12 space, and in forging OEM relationships with major education publishers. Grew revenues and penetration in both areas quickly which resulted in the sale of the organization to Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) in the fall of 2011. Lead the diligence and acquisition effort. In my role as consultant to NWEA post acquisition (What Works Consulting) I have focused on product integration and sales strategies and training for the NWEA team since the acquisition.

• Manage 22 Direct Reports (8 sales 4 marketing, and 15 account management-Implementation) Provided plan and direction to exceed revenue goals 8 out of 10 years; Direct team response to 100 key RFP’s per year in a very competitive market.; Manage all major RFP responses to lead team to multiple wins in large urban districts all RFPs from 2005-2008 • Managed entire revenue channels including all new sales, renewals and support • Establish, organize and keynote annual users conference and sales conferences• Established product release deliverables and metrics that drove increased customer adoption and sales and sales pipeline for new software product releases; • Acted as negotiations lead on Excelsior acquisition by Knowledge Universe in fall/winter 07-08• Functional COO for majority of time in this position

• Manage 22 Direct Reports (8 sales 4 marketing, and 15 account management-Implementation) Provided plan and direction to exceed revenue goals 8 out of 10 years; Direct team response to 100 key RFP’s per year in a very competitive market.; Manage all major RFP responses to lead team to multiple wins in large urban districts all RFPs from 2005-2008 • Managed entire revenue channels including all new sales, renewals and support • Establish, organize and keynote annual users conference and sales conferences• Established product release deliverables and metrics that drove increased customer adoption and sales and sales pipeline for new software product releases; • Acted as negotiations lead on Excelsior acquisition by Knowledge Universe in fall/winter 07-08• Functional COO for majority of time in this position