Currin Brenner Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

2014 - 2016: Growth Marketing Manager - As Coursera's first Marketing hire, I was responsible for strategy and execution across multiple channels including email marketing, SEO, social media, and beyond. 2016 - 2018: Email Marketing Manager - As the Marketing team grew with fantastic specialists, I decided to focus my responsibilities on only email marketing & coding. 2018 - present: Email Developer working with in-house notifications tools and Salesforce Marketing Cloud solutions; Front-End Newbie supporting Wordpress and React Apps. I’m taking Coursera courses to learn front-end web development skills - it’s fun! Our team is growing -- let's work together! We may be hiring for something you’d love to do:https://about.coursera.org/careers/

We had a powerful and easy-to-use mobile web development framework, and we wanted engineers to know about it. So I told them to come check it out, and they loved it. When they had feedback or needs, I worked with Engineering and Dev Support to get questions answered and enhancements made. —-• Summary – Key stakeholder in all developer enablement & relations for an industry-leading mobile web platform with 100+ name-brand clients• Product Management – Manage the design/build/test process for the Developer Console (code management system) including: complete redesign, site requests analytics monitoring graphs, project build notifications, brand new Developer Center, etc. • Support – Focused Technical Support workflow by implementing dedicated client HipChat chat rooms, organization-centric ZenDesk forums, support priority matrix, and initiated the “Moovweb” tag on Stack Overflow• Owner of product feedback loop with internal and external developers via support inquiries, interviews, surveys, and events. • Project Management – Oversee mobile launches for e-commerce sites as they relate to specific product-enablement initiatives • Email Marketing – Write copy and HTML for all developer-centric emails including platform release newsletters, customer feedback surveys, and new user engagement CRM. • Event Planning

Leader of the front-line team for engaging and satisfying StumbleUpon’s 25 million+ users. Systematically gather user feedback and sentiments, analyze needs, convert into quantitative measurements, and collaborate with Product, Engineering and Marketing to ensure requirements meet users’ requests.Support - Goal: 100% of user-submitted bugs are reported and fixed.o Run customer service for StumbleUpon’s product suite including: website; iOS, Android, Nook, and Windows 8 applications; Chrome extension, Firefox add-on, etc. o Led migration of support platform from ZenDesk & Wordpress to Salesforce’s Desk; new dynamic help center and feedback form reduced incoming issues by 20% and case turnaround time by 30% overallo Manage Beta Testers to ensure new major products are iterated on and problems are fixed before public releaseo Handle all legal matters.Social Media - Lead strategy on 11 social media channels to keep StumbleUpon top-of-mind, encourage social sharing of brand, gather user feedback, drive quality traffic to site, and increase app downloadso Key Performance Indicators: Funnel hundreds of thousands of people to the site each year with no product or financial needs, Klout of 86o Built relationships with bloggers to enhance brand recognition and exposure to niche marketsEvents & Promotions - Execute on events and promos that result in word-of-mouth “brand ambassadors” with estimated reach in the tens of thousandso Often primary host in conjunction with external partners including Etsy, Scoutmob, Lonely Planet, etc.o Examples: “StumbleUpon Wants to Buy You Dinner” (covered in Fast Company), “StumbleUpon Wedding Planning” (covered in Business Insider), “StumbleUpon Women in Tech” (panel of top female tech execs), etc.B2B Advertiser Community - Revived editorial strategy for social media and blog directed at current and prospective advertising clients. New focus and execution led to 300% more site traffic, and thousands more in reach.

Weston, Ma, Us

PM for B2C professional communities. Features included building backend CMS tools, ad units, utm journey tracking, single sign on, and beyond. Worked with a lean and mean team of Ruby on Rails engineers. We didn’t have data eng or analysts, so I wrote a lot of mySQL and helped structure the setup of BI tables. —- Write thorough Product Documents, including Front and Back End Requirements, Implementation, Wireframes, etc.- Manage platform roadmap, filtering and prioritizing requests, setting time lines, and communicating to organization- Responsible for organic, non-CRM revenue on Monster Communities- Act as point person for platform display advertising products, built unique units to surpass ad revenue goals - Crafted formal sales documentation on a dozen IAB and custom units to better communication with clients- Lead on numerous platform features and enhancements, including but not limited to: information architecture, email marketing, user referral, SEO, social media, and paid media

I was promoted into a role which was unique because I worked a little bit with every department in the company. ——- Launched five Monster Professional Communities in five months- Responsible for each site’s business strategy, information architecture, creation and execution of the site name, logo design, and skin and calculated ROI evaluation; formally presented to and approved by upper management - Collaborated and led members of on-site and remote Ad Ops, Lead Gen, Engineering, Marketing and Sales teams on implementing key ad, CRM, registration, and job seeker products for the new sites; always delivered by deadline- Managed 8 people and trained 5 new team members on the CMS, SEO, social media, basic HTML, community management, analytics, QA, business development and user engagement- Continuously evaluated site metrics, heat maps and user feedback to double PV/V, used Google Analytics and Keyword data to increase search engine traffic 25%, and met growth metric goals each month

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In the days before LinkedIn, I worked at an exciting startup where we built and managed niche professional communities. The skills I learned and used were very broad: analytics, writing, coding, etc. We were launching new sites every couple weeks. The “develop fast” and “run lean” mentality is one that is still engrained within me today, no matter the size of the organization. ——- Managed, edited and produced five different social and career networking websites for niche professions. - Updated site daily, maintained user engagement, tracked site analytics, created biweekly newsletters (sent to over 1 million members), performed social media and guerilla marketing duties, and acted as the site’s product and liaison- Created sites’ long and short term strategic goals, wrote original content weekly, performed market research, created and managed dozens of content and promotional partnerships, and lead business development

After graduating from Vanderbilt, I needed financial capital so I could move to San Francisco and work in technology. For a summer I gained fantastic experience working at Bricktop’s in Nashville, TN. It is a mid to upscale restaurant with Southern-Americana cuisine; it is owned and founded by Joe Ledbetter of Houston's fame. Everything on the menu tastes good, seriously.

Land and photo surveyed nearly 80 Holiday Inn locations in North Texas. Measured, calculated and recorded data about exterior signage for site plans, sign data, codes research, and sign visibility evaluation. Recorded digital and hard copy information and drew engineering sketches of sites using SMC’s in-house software.

Supported multi-acre, undeveloped, environmental restoration site project. Researched major economic impact studies, specifically potential reuse and recycling of contaminated soils for construction of concrete and aggregate-based materials. Performed photo surveys and drew engineering sketches of AT&T sites in Texas and Oklahoma.

Routed advertisements and merchandise paperwork for organization. Jump-started project to convert hard-copy archive files to digital files and completed nearly 1,000 files. Specially chosen to work at festivals and events, including the Congressional Veggie Dog Luncheon, the “Chicken Display” in the National Mall, and Taking Action for Animal Conference in Washington, D.C. Handed out 1,000 Vegetarian Starter Kits in a week

Bachelor'S Of, Engineering Science And Engineering Management

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