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New York, New York, US

Orva is a Top 10 Amazon Seller partnering with the world's most respected Softlines & Footwear companies to accelerate their incremental marketplace sales & share.

Baltimore, MD, US

Flywheel absorbed the Transact team in June 2024 as part of the Omnicom x Flywheel acquisition.In March 2024, I was the primary commerce lead responsible for transitioning and onboarding the HanesBrands, Inc. $65MM retail media business into Omnicom. During this same 30-day period, I built a net-new 15-person media division to support the day-to-day.

New York, US

Transact was Omnicom's full-service practice area dedicated to providing Connected Commerce and eRetail services for the largest brands in the world. As one of the first Media Directors hired, I was responsible for standing up a brand new retail media division directly integrated into Omnicom's extensive agency network. We built our business almost.

Seattle, Washington, US

• Drive thought leadership and shape company-wide approach to client success and eCommerce strategy
• Key decision maker in optimizing our business to improve employee and client retention
• Leadership sponsor for our most strategic SMB/Enterprise accounts
• Lead retail media team, providing oversight and guidance across a $100MM Amazon Ads investment
• Develop and refine advertising SOPs built to support team scale & efficiency
• Manage all staffing needs for the retail media division including hiring, performance reviews, career development, and utilization

Seattle, Washington, US

• Advertising team lead responsible for training other retail media managers and departments
• $15 million in managed Amazon Ad spend across our most strategic SMB and Enterprise accounts
• Developed agency-wide Amazon Ads best practices, playbooks, and SOPs
• Primary POC for resolving technical campaign issues and client escalations

Seattle, Washington, US

• Established and built our agency partnership with Amazon Advertising
• Secured access to various APIs and new beta programs
• Launched and managed in-house Amazon DSP capabilities
• Created advertising (search + DSP) GTM strategy for the company
• $10 million in total managed Amazon ad spend across Sponsored Ads and DSP
• Partnered with sales and marketing to create case studies and win new business

Baltimore, MD, US

• Retail media and DTC campaign strategy, activation and measurement across search, display, video, native, social and affiliate
• Managed retailer partnerships with Amazon, Walmart, and Target
• Primary point of contact for all programmatic digital vendors
• Partnered with account management, content and digital strategy teams

Cockeysville, Maryland, US

• Led, mentored and trained a team of ad ops specialists focused on trafficking digital direct media buys
• Troubleshooted technical ad delivery issues related to ad servers, websites and mobile applications
• Analyzed inventory monetization reports and provided opportunities to increase department revenues
• Responsible for leading two seamless ad server migrations of all digital advertising assets
• Campaign set up, trafficking and management for the top 15 revenue generating markets
• Created and executed multi-screen IBV advertisement campaigns using the Mixpo platform

• Developed all promotional marketing materials for online and print distribution
• Assisted with invoices, filling orders and reconciliation
• Built and maintained client relationships

Towson, MD, US

• Market research, ad trafficking and campaign management for nationwide political campaigns

• Conducted market research and competitor analysis on Baltimore’s broadcast TV stations
• Created one-sheets and media kits for traditional and digital advertising sales teams
• Communicated and presented new resources and analysis at weekly sales meetings

Stevenson, MD, US