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Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, Washington, United States

Greater Seattle Area

I recognized an opportunity to create a new sales vertical in the SLED (State, Local & Education) Government sector, and was subsequently promoted to lead the channel. This new channel directly addressed a growing demand for more effective bus routing-design software. ***I outlined the SLED bus-dev roadmap, which included identification of the top three.

Greater Seattle Area

I was originally brought to the company as a sales proposal writer responsible for $1.2M+ new business in 2017 alone. I researched and discovered new RFPs, developed commensurate sales strategies, and was accountable for every facet of the proposal development lifecycle—from content writing and illustration/graphics—to design presentation/layout, and.

Seattle, WA

I became known as the “Business Storyteller”, guiding business people and entrepreneurs in divining and articulating their passion; helping them move beyond the mere “what” to find the “why”— to forge connections with their customers at an emotional level, and engender long-term product and brand loyalty. *** I worked with customers in the U.S., Europe.

Greater Seattle Area

As “Marketing Genius” I was solely responsible for creating the company’s marketing from scratch. As Operations Director, I refined our Just-in-Time (JIT) Manufacturing processes critical to our ability to remain competitive. *** I created and implemented a viral marketing and customer engagement strategy, inviting our customers to email their own modeling.

Budapest, Hungary

I wore many hats, driving key strategic sales, and developing an online product catalogue and eCommerce ordering system. I made an impact across company operations, transitioning us to JIT Manufacturing of apparel and souvenirs locally and overseas—and leading a digital transformation to automate our ordering, manufacturing, and supply chain management..

Hungary

PayMentor was a suite of web-based credit management and debt collection tools that I originally designed. I was the project manager for the development team that created the initial product (Net-Collect), and managed a group of 15 outsourced developers.Venture capital investment allowed me to get away from the development, and work on the Software.

Hungary

I was brought in to manage the production of both the English and Hungarian versions the Book Of Lists, 1999. This is a pair of printed books that rank the top companies in each of 50 different industries. As such, it requires a massive amount of research and data collection/validation.This book is entirely advertising supported, and therefore required.

San Francisco Bay Area

In my role as a Licensee Engineer for JavaSoft (nee: Sun Microsystems), I was the technical liaison between licensees of the Java Virtual Machine, and the Java development team. I assisted licensees with their implementation of the JVM, provided bug fixes, assisted them with conceptual hurdles, and just generally made sure they got what they needed, when.

San Francisco Bay Area

Began work here as a Macintosh System Administrator. Supported Macs throughout the entire facility, including network backups and installing/repairing network wiring.Founding member of the Multimedia Group. Researched cutting edge multimedia technologies, and developed internal NASA tools using these technologies. Trained government employees on the uses.

San Francisco Bay Area

Apple's first foray into direct-consumer-support was the System 7 Answerline. I was a front-line telephone technical support person, and assisted customers over the phone and in person with their use of Apple System 7.I was quickly promoted to Tech Lead, and from there, hand-picked by the PowerBook team to provide support for the original line of PowerBook.

San Francisco Bay Area

Was the sole tech support person for this fledgling network hardware manufacturer. Represented the product at trade shows and user groups, designed presentation materials and tradeshow booths, did telephone tech support, hardware diagnostics and repair (oscilloscope and soldering iron work), and just generally did what needed to be done.

San Francisco Bay Area

Started as Telephone Technical Support person the day after I graduated from high school. Eventually rose to Tech Support Manager, managing a team of 10 phone reps, and 8 hardware repair techs (three of whom went on to found DriveSavers).

Ba, Fashion Design

Fashion Design degree, with a focus on couture construction techniques and sustainable materials.

Aa, Fashion Design

Fashion Design, focus on illustration.