Founder & CEO of Polished Geek, LLC. We're a boutique digital marketing and web development firm, specializing in helping corporate training providers and consultants improve their businesses and marketing ROI.Polished Geek began in 2009 as a partnership between a software architect (the Geek), and a Fortune 500 business consultant (the Polish - that's me). We bring a unique business-centric approach to the "geeky side of digital marketing." That's stuff like Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), Lead Generation, Marketing Automation and Website Personalization. ✔Experience & Technology Specialties: ● B2B Lead Generation CRO (CXL-certified Conversion Rate Optimization services) ● B2B eCommerce CRO ● Drip Certified Marketing Automation Consultant (Drip by Leadpages, marketing automation) ● Website Personalization & Context Marketing Consultant (Evergage, RightMessage, Persosa & other personalization engine platforms) ● Joomla CMS expert, providing premium Joomla web development, maintenance & support services ● Project Management Institute (PMI) certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with experience leading digital projects for SME up to enterprise-level, across multiple industries.

Startup entrepreneur in web design and development. Launched Polished Geek, LLC, a boutique web development firm specializing in complex Joomla! Content Management integrations, custom web applications, and extensions for Joomla!

Program Management, Business Planning and Analysis.Providing project management, consulting and strategic guidance for the Workplace Investing line of business, with primary focus on new Product development and delivery to market.

Project management leadership for implementations of Content Management software products and custom application development. Full end-to-end requirements analysis, scope definition, project delivery execution, client production rollout and project closure responsibilities. Broad industry experience in financial services, insurance, retail, communications, government and manufacturing, delivering high impact business management consulting for mission-critical software applications. Acts on additional business opportunities discovered during the course of engagement to drive increased services and software revenue. Negotiates client acceptance of deliverables and proactively manages contractual risk. Project management of professional services engagements averaging $500K up to $2M. Recognized for outstanding contributions with award of “Professional Services Most Valuable Player” designation for exceptional revenue delivery performance and “Sales Project Manager of the Year 2005.”

Telecommunications industry corporate project manager leading development and implementation of web-based customer relationship management (CRM) solution within $330M division. Responsible for end-to-end change management, including all aspects from scope and customer requirements definition to delivery of customized training and continuous product improvement.

Providing internal consulting services and system expertise to multiple company sites across North America.* Conducted detailed analysis of customer-allocated inventory processes and systems (Baan IV ERP software), resulting in the creation of financial reorganization and resource plans to improve profitability* Designed and documented new financial, logistical and manufacturing exception processes in consultation with on-site system implementation teams* Selected as one of 24 global team members to evaluate pre-release ERP software on behalf of corporation (BaanERP/Series and Hyperion software)

Various positions within a corporate finance organization. Consistently promoted and accepted increasing leadership roles on finance project initiatives.Senior Financial Analyst; 1998 – 1999Hands-on project management of general ledger and cost accounting modules for large-scale enterprise resource planning system implementation (Baan IV software), with extensive cross-functional process development and testing experience.Senior Financial Analyst; 1995 - 1998Customer Service Finance pilot team leader for implementation of proprietary global departmental budgeting, forecasting and reporting system. Financial Analyst; 1993 - 1995Core team member for general ledger system implementation (Oracle Financials).Senior Accounts Receivable & Payable Representative positions 1989 - 1993