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Perth, Au

Lead the design and development of educational toys for STEAM education. Research market trends and oversee the creation of safe and engaging product designs

Tampa, Florida , Us

The team at Launch X Marketing is dedicated to providing top-notch digital marketing solutions tailored to the needs of small and mid-size companies. Our approach begins by meticulously evaluating brand positioning and creating captivating brand stories. By harnessing the potential of high-performance, SEO-focused websites, digital advertising, and social media platforms, we ensure the delivery of impactful messaging that resonates with ideal customer profiles. Our primary focus is on driving lead generation and fostering unwavering customer loyalty. The team of experts at Launch X is ready to elevate your brand presence and achieve remarkable success in the digital landscape.

Tampa, Florida, Us

Develop product launch and marketing strategies for mobile-based platform systems for retail and restaurants. Resulting in better customer UX, Staff UX, and Associate UX through a high-speed platform that connects a company's entire tech stack into one source of event-based data that can be accessed in real-time from any location.

Hunt Valley, Maryland, Us

Expert in ecommerce unboxing experience! Using data and targeting Undigital's ad serving platform can provide personalized and focused marketing messages in brands' ecommerce packages that increase customer lifetime value (CLV) and generate more sales through strong retention marketing. - Personalized direct to consumer messaging automizer and at scale- Build stronger brand experience- Provide cross selling marketing opportunities based on customer purchases- Build loyalty programs for brands- Increase Customer Lifetim Value (CLV) and increase sales- Performance dashboards against marketing campaigns

St Petersburg, Florida, Us

Develop new in store technologies for brands to sell products at partner retailers that include. Sam'sClub, Walmart, CVS, Bed Bath and Beyond, Buy Buy Baby, Staples, Barnes & Noble and Kohl's • Developed a mobile technology that uses item recognition to deliver graphics, augmented reality andvideo in store. • Created a platform that uses QR codes and NFC tags to provide category content to customers atretail stores. • New technology for delivering targeted inserts into e commerce packages that are linked to pointof sale information. Allowing for personalized inserts at scale with a better return on ad spend with alower total cost to brands. • Responsible for product road-maps, business plans, P&L, sprints, marketing, sales training, andstrategic growth plans.

Wangen/Sz, Ch

Team lead for creating B2B sales strategies for coatings with major brands in North America • Grew sales from $250,000 to multi-million dollars in annual sales in the North American market • Increasedcustomer base from 3 active customers to over 25 active customers • Created 4 major marketing programs in which customers used ILAG branded logos on product at retail (KitchenAid, Lagostina, OXO, Bed Bath and Beyond) • Managed brand partners coating needs during the R&D and production process • Developed B2B sales strategies for major brands and large factories in China

St. Petersburg, Fl, Us

Director for the development of products and brand direction for HSN private label in housewares • Developed products for the Bon Appetit magazine license that resulted in the second largest product launch in HSN culinary history • Set up direct sourcing partnerships with Asia factories to allow increased return on investment at lower retail price points • Owned brand direction and development of product lines • Implemented product development tracking systems at HSN for reviewing product timelines internally and with branding partners to reach retail targets

Consultant for products and marketing to provide high end safety gloves into the Oil and Gas industry • Develop brand strategy that fit the specific needs to the oil and gas industry • Focused Ringers to develop a hand-safety initiative that expanded the product offering to more than just gloves resulting in a glove program that will more than double Ringers Gloves sales into this new channel of distribution • Designed branding and marketing material to train sales team on communicating product features

Supervisor for team responsible for transition from specialty store sales to mass market sales• Developed and managed merchandising plan for launch of product to support Disney Cars 2 program at Toys R Us• Established development processes that enabled the quicker product design/turnover/ production/shipping cycles that large retailers demand • Increased margin 20 percentage points across the line to an average margin of 50%

Houston, Tx, Us

Manager of the team responsible for creating new business opportunities in the housewares specialty channel; directed efforts of teams for design, engineering, production, purchasing, market planning and product launch • Developed a branded and patented cookware line that doubled annual cookware sales and maintained a 60% margin • Established brand and marketing direction that resulted in increased core business by 20% in the first two years • Increased tea kettle business from $2 million to $8 million a year through strategic planning and retraining of sales force• Created a LIVESTRONG® licensed line of housewares products that added $1 million of sales in the first year • Expanded retail penetration to Bed Bath and Beyond, Costco and Target

Jacksonville, Florida, Us

Utilized technologies to create and market new business opportunities in the debit card industry• Conceived, developed and produced a user-friendly technologies and integration program that increased business from $5 million to $12 million within 12 months using existing IT infrastructure • Improved user experience for flexible spending benefits product that resulted in an additional 2 million debit cards added to the system within 10 months• Conceived, developed and implemented a gift card program specifically tailored to small banks that generated an additional $5 million dollars in new revenue in the first year

Director of the team responsible for product development, brand and marketing strategies • Grew a basic walkie-talkie business from a $4 million product line to a $20 million branded product line by revamping core brand direction, marketing direction and sales force strategy for retailers. • Used new technologies to develop market leading products in core categories• Utilized trend data to market a line of dolls that sold over a million units at retail in the first year. • Doubled sales of an existing musical toys line from a $20 million dollars to $40 million dollars

Designed line of Star Wars shoes for the Brown Shoe Group Created the original product line for Fun Line Toys that generated $8 million in the first year the company was later acquired by Action PerformanceDeveloped foam ball line that resulted in first year earnings of $10 million and later sold to Patch Products

Bachelor'S Degree, Communication And Media Studies

Bachelor Of Science, Communications; Graphic Arts

Graphic Design Marketing