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St Paul, Minnesota, United States

Responsible for leading stakeholder engagement and communications programs for a rapidly growing civil engineering firm. Provide overall business development and strategic leadership, program management, and process improvements to foster the evolution of Isthmus Engineering as a premier partner in Minnesota.

River Falls, WI

Own and operate a seasonal NFL Flag Football league for youth athletes 5-18 years old, establishing first NFL Flag football league in western Wisconsin and growing revenue and net income each year with over 2200 registered players. Driving sales growth and new member registration & retention through email campaigns, social media and word-of-mouth loyalty.

Hudson, Wisconsin, United States

Licensed real estate salesperson in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Dedicated client service leader working to generate leads and develop long-term relationships with buyers, sellers, and investors in western Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota. Responsible for developing communication plans for lead generation and responsibility for all contract negotiations and.

Prescott, Wisconsin

Responsible for developing lead generation marketing programs, sales growth initiatives and a brand development strategy, working with an experienced leadership team to provide marketing and brand management expertise and capability development. Leading a team of four and partnering with a broad network of distributors, contributing to 6% sales growth and.

River Falls, WI

Invested partner in a family member's outdoor power equipment business. Responsible for developing sales strategies, creating marketing plans to accelerate customer growth, inventory pricing and retail store management. Repositioned brand to differentiate on service quality and parts availability, and created sales growth programs for professional lawn.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Responsible for sales, operations and financial management of $200M pet service businesses. Span of control over 210 corporate and 4,300 retail store associates. Directed all sales training, marketing, service development and employee training programs. Achieved over 4% comparable sales growth, surpassing total pet services and overall PetSmart company.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Responsible for all marketing strategies and campaign management for $850M pet service businesses. Achieved an average of 4% comparable store sales growth annually over three years, managing internal and outside marketing partners, integrated marketing campaigns and leading a team of 5 direct reports.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for leading customer marketing plans for several business units at Best Buy. My work has included customer value proposition strategy development, market opportunity analysis, marketing effectiveness and competitive analyses, integrated marketing communications, brand development, customer segmentation and customer research. I have experience.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for brand managment and marketing communiations strategy & implementation for the Marvin Windows and Doors brand. Directed team of 13 across areas of marketing communications, trade shows, program management, creative services, public relations, and call center management. Accountable for both national, regional and local marketing activity.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Led Internet marketing planning, brand strategy consulting and project management for multiple businesses. Directed planning and project activities across multiple departments and functional work groups. Clients included The Toro Company and FleetBoston Financial.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for developing brand management and strategic planning capability for Digital Café (a start-up interactive division of Campbell Mithun.) Developed Internet marketing communication plans and strategy consulting to Campbell Mithun account management and their clients. Clients included Land O'Lakes, Domino's Pizza, Kimberly-Clark, Hostess and the.

Managed brand strategy and marketing communication planning for Kimberly-Clark and Kmart. Exceeded revenue growth for businesses and responsible for advertising budgets of over $20 million.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Supervised communications planning and project management for Famous Footwear. Contributed to double-digit same-store sales increases for two consecutive years and increased brand awareness.

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Marketing, Management

Activities and Societies: Sigma Phi Society, Sigma Phi F'90, Hoofers

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Marketing

Activities and Societies: Active speaker and career mentor for the University of St. Thomas – Opus College of Business alumni network and.