I manage the social and web teams for CatCon and DogCon, the biggest pet-centric pop culture conventions in the world. I am responsible for strategy and implementation of social marketing campaigns and contests, and work with sponsors and partners to create original content for social media and our newsletter. I also manage the development of our website and the CatCon App.During live events, I supervise our on-the-ground social media team, produce streaming content, and manage design and production of programs and other printed marketing materials.

I provide strategic and tactical consulting in marketing and social media. I have over 15 years of experience managing distributed, multidisciplinary teams.- Director of Marketing for Ticket Out, Inc.- Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief for Next for Me- Content Marketing and Project Management for SayWhat Consumer Research- Marketing and Content Strategy for WrightRobbins Channel Enablement Solutions- Content Marketing and Social Media Management for Refresh.io (Acquired by LinkedIn)- Product Manager and team lead for the launch of OwnZones Beta - Product Manager for TILE Financial's SpendGrowGive iPhone App - Product Manager, Content Strategist, and Community Manager for the Cisco Learning Network

Co-author of "Next for Me: A Guide to Startup for Dreamers," and "Next for Me: A Guide to Change for Everybody"

Led a team of developers, designers, producers and moderators to design and implement the Idea Networks market research platform for client sites ranging in size from 300 to 15,000 members. Established best practices for community recruitment, engagement, and retention.

User engagement and outreach for the 100,000,000 member Yahoo! Groups and Yahoo! 360 community. Content strategist and writer for Yahoo! 360 and Yahoo! Groups product blogs. Served as member advocate with product and engineering teams.

Project manager for community integration initiatives on Yahoo! Autos, Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Local.