Create and execute go to market strategies for emerging brands and products for consumer wellbeing and healthcare. Focusing on direct to consumer engagement using paid advertising, social, ecommerce and results-focused digital first tactics. Continuously test strategies to identify and enhance brand and product rollout targets. Develop and oversee vendor relationships to execute quickly, on time and on budget while leaving room for creative approaches.

Facilitated and lead coach for 3 iterations of a 16 week pre-accelerator enabling Australian founders to reshape their global strategy and improve business operations. Invited founders hailed from Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales. Funded through the Australian Business Entrepreneurs' Programme, Rockhampton Regional Council and Rockhampton native Bevan Slattery. Selected Participant Highlights- Multiple companies generated first revenue- Best days of sales, first trade shows attended- First media exposure- Prototypes, alpha and beta products & services launch for multiple companies- Automation of sales and marketing through leading tools like ActiveCampaign, Keap/Infusionsoft, Zapier

ShakeSpot helps everyday athletes meet their fitness goals by providing on demand pre & post workout drinks through an easy to use & interactive kiosk. ShakeSpot's unique design allows gyms to provide frequently drinks as a membership amenity with zero construction, staffing or often wasted ingredient purchases.

Assisting Central Western Queensland (Australia) identify opportunities for business development and expansion through a variety of programming, mentoring and partnership development. In the region until at least June 2018.

The Learning House, a privately held company, provides complete student life cycle management & support for online degree programs including: lead generation; marketing; enrollment; student support and faculty training.• Document, plan and manage a suite of products for Higher Education servicing online degree programs• Utilize Agile & SCRUM methodologies for PHP/MySQL development team• Technologies used: MySQL, PHP, Balsamiq Mockups, JIRA, Moodle, Blackboard, WordPress, Expression Engine, SalesForceSelected Achievements• Managed the creation of a new LMS (Learning Management System) course authoring tool that provides interactive, mobile-accessible content creation and delivery; will provide over 100 colleges and universities with updated course delivery tools for thousands of courses• Oversee the development of a new education-focused CRM (Customer Relationship Manager) for lead processing, admission documentation, advising and ongoing student & prospect interactions

• Sharing leadership development insights, measurements and tools to help organizations grow by knowing their employees and human capital within North & South Carolina.• Seeking aggressive, poised, and results-focused business-minded professionals to add to our company.• Lending an ear and helpful hand to the entrepreneurship and education communities.

The Oliver Group uses a series of assessments to help leaders of an organization understand differences in individual personalities and motivating behaviors. I consulted with over 200 organizations and 1,500 individuals learn and implement the Predictive Index into their daily leadership style.I partnered with organizations to evaluate and improve their talent management life cycle to include: role design; talent acquisition; behavior based interviewing; retention; and succession planning techniques. Candid conversations were frequent with recruitment teams, hiring managers and senior leadership on candidate and role fit by using personality, selling knowledge and cognitive assessments.In this role I also had the opportunity to conduct multiple 360-degree feedback sessions and was invited to facilitate and participate in over 30 team building sessions that included individual contributors, managers, VPs and C-suite participants.Selected Achievements• Consulted with organizations with sizes ranging from startups to multiple Fortune 100s• Matched company best client retention rates two consecutive years• Identified over $200K in additional revenue generating engagements across 5 service lines• Built relationships across multiple industries including healthcare, banking, technology, professional service, manufacturing and government• Implemented continuing education program• Removed non-value added internal processes to reduce project completion timeTraining Received• Predictive Index Analyst• Customer Focused Selling

Taught a senior-level undergraduate course on Information Security.

I help align owner and management goals and plans to operations by leveraging technology to automate or supplement business processes.

A self-funded startup that licensed a patented technology used to remediate heavy metal contaminated soil and waterAchievements•Created $3M business plan for technology validation, industry acceptance, field trials and market penetration•Presented business plan concept over 20 times to active venture capitalists in MBA student competitions, earning multiple non-diluting cash awards; Placed 3rd runner up globally out of over 360 international teams selected to participate•Extremely rewarding experience to take a concept from research papers and a patent to understand the market and bring the product close to commercialization

•Assisted in the planning and execution of international business plan competitions•Provided support for the MBA program through networking events, faculty and staff projects and MBA curriculum enhancements. •Conducted a pilot test of classroom capture technology to implement an internet accessible audio and video recording system for the entire University of Louisville, resulting in an investment of over $2.5 million for the technology.

Recruited to build a team to implement a senior capstone project for the local government. Project focus:•Generate business requirements and design future system to track applications associated with over $50M in funds for local, state and federal Housing & Community Development grants•Integrate local Geographic Information System to provide additional reporting capabilities •Convert paper and Excel documents to web-based portal for simultaneous access and enhanced reporting•Meet design, coding and documentation standards of Louisville Metro GovernmentTechnologies used:•ASP.net•C#•SQL