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San Jose, California, Us

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Vision.Space is the most advanced enterprise conference room platform. With multiple screen video walls, multiple data streams, multiple touch interaction points, and easy wireless connectivity, Leverage innate abilities in elevating brand awareness and amplifying Vision.Space portfolio to attain designated objectives. Manage P&L for all online sales and lead generation for achieving defined goals. Applied proven methodologies and led all technical sales discussions with clients.- Authored a product roadmap as well as devising and executing robust strategies for new markets, while overseeing all digital assets and communications.- Developed and launched a rebranding strategy for the core consulting operation.- Utilized broad industry knowledge and built a full product line of $MM channel by partnering with fortune 100 clients with an average deal of $200K per engagement.- Designed extensive support-subscription business model with clients that resulted in $MM recurring revenue.- Outlined full product roadmap for data visualizations, application interactions, and product verticals.- Designed a complete content management system, including core interactions, wireframes, and data structures.- Authored as well as leveraged quality communication skills to negotiate favorable enterprise-level contract terms and conditions.

Austin, Texas, Us

Living Direct, Inc. is an online retailer specializing in small appliances and home goods. I was brought in to evaluate the overall marketing structure and focus, and redirect where necessary. The marketing role is a balance of maximizing weekly gross revenue while maintaining sufficient product margins, as well as extending the reach of the in-house brands wherever advantageous.Responsibilities include the following:• P&L responsibility for all online and merchant channel sales (several $MM)• On track to exceed YOY growth goals in revenue with equal margins• Direct the day-to-day efforts of all customer acquisition team activities, including paid keyword marketing, SEO marketing, social media, and offline campaigns• Direct the website merchandising team to optimize the right mix of products across 10 websites with a total product catalog of 10,000+ SKUs• Control all promos and offers in terms of acquiring customers while maintaining sufficient gross margins• Oversee the design team’s work of online graphics, product photography, weekly mass-market emails, and site updates• Initiated several branding efforts, which include logo redesigns, page layout UX changes, and eventually a complete overhaul of the main website properties• Overhauled all marketing KPI reporting to a quick and comprehensive weekly dashboard format in order to quickly identify trouble areas and risks, resulting in marked channel acquisition improvement and better insight into gross margin dollars.• Introduced Agile marketing methods as well as built closer cooperation with IT to better manage the overall project portfolio• Conducted several process audits within the sourcing and product additions teams to uncover inefficiencies that were leading to poor content on the website

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

Chaired channel allocation for a marketing budget of worth $15M+ and outlined an online merchandising roadmap and all related business rules. Partnered with retail marketing / merchandising, finance, and IT departments to restructure and fulfill ecommerce goals. Projected ROI for upcoming projects, and formulated 3-year technology plans and extensive “what if” risk assessments, incremental revenue planning, and operational margins.- Hands-on deployments in Japan, Korea, and China- Demonstrated proven expertise and instituted various multichannel initiatives for the Famous Footwear retail chain, resulting in a 70% lift in online sales and significant growth in cross-channel customer acquisition. - Introduced online channel strategies for partners in Asia and Europe to establish their ecommerce which resulted in explosive online growth.- Improved overall portfolio by revising keyword marketing profiles rather than tracking each campaign individually.- Revamped channel analytics and dashboards for tracking relevant marketing KPIs, including detailed acquisition and retention targets for 30M monthly unique visitors, a housefile of over 2M customers, and an inventory spread of 45,000 shoe styles across 250+ brands.

Park City, Ut, Us

Directed application development process and all infrastructure improvements related to IT during a period of hyper growth. Spearheaded an engineering team of five developers to 30 members in several teams, including front-end web development, ERP development, B2B communications, DBA / data warehousing, systems / network engineering, and desktop support for a company with 400 employees. Managed various multi-million retail websites, including supply-chain management systems, inventory control, purchasing prediction, online marketing tools, secure ecommerce, and customer management. Drafted and presented reports directly to the President. - Received recognition from executive leadership for growing revenue from $27M in 2005 to $135M projected for 2007. - Standardize processes and procedures by instituting several company-wide initiatives, including a complete wiki-based intranet with over 15,000 articles and re-engineering of network around an N+1 commodity hardware architecture for the web servers, Db servers, and order management servers. - Accelerated business velocity by expanding network infrastructure from 10 machines to more than 70 commodity servers for managing extensive growth.- Developed an automated search keyword management comprising 500K keywords daily for SEM marketing teams.- Minimized 220% service call time through AJAX interfaces for customer-facing shopping carts and back-end employee tools.- CIOInsight.com Case Study: “Backcountry.com Bets the Shop on Open Source” 2006-05-08.

Tokyo, Shinjuku-Ku,, Jp

Responsibilities included IT and application development for a job-seeking website and HR consultancy specializing in international candidates and corporations based in Japan (like Monster.com for foreign nationals in Japan). Directed the work of a major system overhaul, upgrade in deliverables, as well as expansion of online revenue channels. Reported directly to the General Manager.Highlights include the following:• Developed a web-based ticket tracking system for candidates and recruiters• Improved the content management system used by advertising sales and placement agencies• Placed several IT candidates within major firms in Tokyo

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Manage relations with major IHV and ISV partners in Asia-Pacific Region, including Samsung, Fujitsu, NEC, HItachi, Dell. Involved with support, co-marketing, channel sales issues on executive level. Responsible for quarterly business reviews, engieering coordination, and pre-sales training.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Direct the consulting teams for EMEA region; meeting with enterprise clients to ensure inclusion of professional services in major projects; handle relations with partners' professional service teams; disseminate corporate policies to engineers and consultants within Europe.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Directed the enigneering and design team for Red Hat ECommerce division, including extensive architectural documentation, database layout, interface requirements, administration tool design. Acted as pre-sales enegineer and handled all relations with customers from contract signing to final delivery of website.

Mediabang was a website design firm specializing in database-driven dynamic websites. As a founding partner, I was responsible for all business operations within the company. Duties included authoring proposals, preparing site maps, outlaying programming goals, overseeing staff of designers and programmers. Revenues grew from $5,000 in starting capital to $480,000 annually in 2000.

Masters, International Relations

Bachelor'S Degree, Japanese Literature, Asian History