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Greater Seattle Area

Developing and executing a long-range digital channel strategy for KEXP 90.3 PM in Seattle, one of the most influential listener-supported music radio stations in the world.

Greater Seattle Area

Consulting on product roadmap, user experience and testing, and go-to-market strategy for early-stage startups in the streaming music and music licensing fields.

Greater Seattle Area

* Developed new content and other strategic partnerships for Rhapsody.* Executing product integration agreement with Shazam.* Executed co-marketing agreements with TuneIn and Qello Concerts.* Managed partner relationships with Facebook, Twitter, Shazam, SoundHound.

Greater Seattle Area

* Managed team overseeing Rhapsody’s mobile carrier, consumer electronics and distribution partnerships, with $30 MM annual revenue.* Launched Rhapsody unRadio product tier in partnership with T-Mobile.* Launched new Rhapsody Premier +1 product tier.* Extended partner customer growth through base marketing, sales support, and continual analysis and optimization of conversion funnel.

Greater Seattle Area

* Led launch of each of Rhapsody’s mobile apps and oversaw backlog and product roadmap for their initial years.* Measured and increased by over 100% key engagement metrics like active days per month and average plays per user.

• Helped grow annual RollingStone.com Page Views by 27% and Page Views/Visit by almost 16% from 2007 to 2008.• Documented or managed creation of specifications for major new site features including polling, music trivia, editorial blogs, email campaigns. Enhanced site community features with forums, user comments and ratings, through implementation of Pluck SiteLife.• Managed day-to-day partner relationship with the RollingStone editorial staff.

* Helped grow subscriber base 10X by defining and effectively documenting all business and user requirements for a major product launch under the AOL brand, incorporating input from multiple teams and corporate offices.* Supported consistently high-quality and on-time product releases through the development of supporting documentation such as primary and secondary use cases, visual task flows, business process modeling, site maps, etc.* Enabled business to track growing user base by leading web analytics implementation projects with Omniture and WebTrends, defined all KPI reports.

* Served as effective liaison between creative and engineering teams for development of web-based content management and music scheduling applications. Wrote and edited product and process definition documents, and user guides.* Enhanced online presence for established media brands by producing high-quality online music experiences for affiliates including Microsoft, Artist Direct, RollingStone.com, Blue Note and Alligator Records, The WB, Universal Music Group.* Achieved 14 of the top 75 Internet broadcasts as rated by Arbitron, by producing content libraries (audio files and related data) for more than 60 genre-based music channels.

• Revised two-session Web Publishing curriculum, based on Macromedia Dreamweaver. Course won first place in annual competitive review by the Association of Computing Machinery.• Designed new course, “Web Publishing III: Advanced Design Techniques.”• Faculty consultant on the educational use of Internet communications and multimedia.• Designed training materials for PeopleSoft Student Enterprise Systems.

• Production responsibilities for a developer and marketer of CD-ROM and Web-based educational software in the banking and financial services industry.• Maintenance of LI corporate Web site. Additional HTML/Javascript editing for custom Web-based training products.• Proofreading, manuscript editing, and revision management for a test-preparation product for the Chartered Financial Analyst examination. Coordinated the work of ten content providers, an outside editor, and technology vendors.

• Designed and taught sections of Masterworks of World Literature organized around world theatre history and dramatic literature.• Designed and taught sections of Rhetoric and Composition and Special Topics in Writing in a networked classroom.• Staff Member, Computer Writing and Research Laboratory (1992-1995). Managed daily operations in the computerized classrooms and labs. Facilitated incorporation of Internet research tools into the classroom.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba

M.A., English

Activities and Societies: Co-Chair, Graduate Student Assembly (1996-1997). Shared executive duties of the representative organization.

B.A., English

Activities and Societies: Duke University Players (actor, director, playwright), Duke Marching and Pep band (flute), Triangle Music.

Master Of Arts - Ma