Derek Mcgrath Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area

Building resilient operational processes and optimizing them through technology and automation. - Operational Improvements: Identify inefficiencies and implement best practices in collaboration with the team. - Market Research: Analyze industry trends and competitors to inform strategic decisions. - Technical Capabilities Awareness: Assess and recommend technology solutions for efficiency and automation. - Optimized Efficiencies: Refine processes to maximize productivity and reduce manual work.

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Worked in a cross-functional roll at this boutique educational publishing company. My varied background and experience allowed me to assist in many facets of the business. - Spearheaded search for new Time Tracking software to be used internally; implemented software, trained staff on its use, and wrote documentation. New software saved company approximately 50% in spend and improved reporting efficiency. - Served as interim Project Manager - updated and documented processes; worked with new Project Manager to ensure stakeholders' needs were met and extraneous processes were discontinued. - Managed workload and communication with subcontracted employees. - Built Learning Objects in an online proprietary Content Management System. - Assisted in company transition from various free Google applications to Microsoft Teams - updated company documentation, updated spreadsheet formulas, wrote functions/scripts in VBA in Excel, provided tech support and process improvements. - Developed a digital marketing strategy for LinkedIn. - Created weekly and monthly reports to be reviewed by Senior Leadership. - Onboarded newly hired employees; assisted with Resume review and updates to employee information databases. - Member of internal team driving company culture. - Member of internal team reviewing potential uses of AI.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Cross functional leadership position managing new product development from potential project acquisition to final delivery, and beyond. - Managed $500k+ in sales consecutive years, surpassing projections both years. Handled 100+ requests annually and 35 products through development cycle. - Work with MHE sales nationally to find potential business opportunities. - Create financial analysis and scope document of product development; work with cross-functional teams to ensure stakeholders' needs are all understood and met. - Ensure marketing collateral is developed for products, as needed. - Follow up with sales and marketing reps to ensure product is meeting customer needs; strategically find opportunities for follow-on sales for newly developed product. - Professionally develop direct reports through training and hands-on learning.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Working in a multi-faceted project management role in a fast-paced and expanding cross functional department. Daily duties include equal parts project management, coordination, and execution. This role necessitates managing multiple projects with disparate deliverables simultaneously, attention to detail, budget management, process delegation, and communication. There are multiple internal and external stakeholders making key decisions prior to and during each project, and all expectations must be effectively and efficiently managed.Projects have run the gamut from individual school learning customization to K-12 state adoption.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Worked as a consultant on location at McGraw Hill Education. (See McGraw-Hill Education experience above.)

Columbus, Ohio Area

Providing Digital Marketing to small- and medium-sized businesses with a restricted budget. SEO, PPC, Social Media, Web Site SEO and Efficiency Audits, Web Site Development, Google Analytics, and Google Adwords management are among the consulting services we offer. Visit http://www.derekmcgrath.com/ for more information, or contact us at {contact (at) derekmcgrath (dot) com}. - Worked with Experis and MedPac Technologies on a short-term consulting basis providing front end Web Application development to get MedPac's SNF medical platform from an Alpha to a production-ready Beta stage. - Consulted with West Hollywood Rental Properties based in California. Provided SEO and Digital Marketing services. - Consulted with Milton. in Kansas City. Provided direction and advice to the Vice President / Creative Director on implementation of an e-Commerce portal for their website.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Brand Development (Google and social media websites), Brand Management, SEO, web site traffic growth, web site development and management. Provided SEO and digital marketing reports and recommendations to executive team. Ran several Google Adwords and Facebook Ads campaigns, and used A/B multivariable testing to determine the best solution to digital marketing wants. Designed and/or developed, from wireframe to finished product, a Marketplace website which showcased vendor content and had an E-Commerce component. Specific project information is further explained in the above resume.

Columbus, Ohio Area

I managed the content we received from digital content vendors and made sure it was stored correctly in our proprietary online content repository, and delivered through our web application and e-commerce portals. I worked with our IT consultants onsite to help develop scripts and standards that took client data and transformed it to system-required specifications. This included writing command line scripts in Unix and Ruby to transform content to compatible encoding. The project was divided into 2 parts. One involved receiving content from vendors in various encodings (ASCII, ISO-8859-x/Windows 125x, UTF-8/Unicode), transforming it to Unicode in a MySQL Unix DB (which served as our online content repository), to be delivered and cross-compatible on Mac 8+ and Windows Vista+, also requiring cross-browser compatibility on IE 6+, Firefox 3.0+, and Safari 3.1+.The other involved creating XML files and standards to unify client data. This was before Common Cartidge, so everyone had their own titles and fields of Metadata. The scripts we wrote not only scrubbed content to eliminate excess data, but also populated our XML files with the field names that were required to properly be imported, implemented, and searchable in the Learning Object Repository.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Hired as the 4th employee of this start-up, we did not have titles so much as we had individual strengths that were utilized in varying degrees on a multitude of projects. Duties over this time included making cold calls, traveling and doing in person product demonstrations and trainings, doing online demonstrations and trainings, brain storming and creating new product features, defining cross-discipline specifications, creating marketing materials, writing company copy, contacting and acquiring new content vendors, and other various tasks associated with a start-up.

Greater Chicago Area

Represented exclusively by Custom Comedy Capers. Provided entertainment, mostly at corporate events and small theaters. Performed improvisational and sketch comedy in front of groups as small as 10 people, and as many as 500. Performed approximately 10 shows with them over this period, as well as doing other shows independently. Also played guitar and sang at bars to supplement income.

Chicago, Illinois

Learned valuable task management and client relation skills in this fast-paced restaurant. Hired originally as a server, was promoted to also tend the bar and take out counter. Filled in as a food expediter during busy periods when kitchen manager was busy with other tasks, ensuring food orders were complete and correct before being delivered to tables.

Chicago, Illinois

Periodically played acoustic guitar and sang before and after Cubs games at this iconic bar in the heart of Lakeview, 1/2 mile South of Wrigley Field.

Greater Chicago Area

Worked at this consulting company on site at a large shipping facility. Worked on multiple applications, upgrading them all from MS-DOS-only compatibility to WIN32 compatibility. Also trained teens in various technical skills including typing and basic internet usage as part of a Chicago city public project.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Planned, developed, and delivered an event registration page for the company’s internal network using HTML, Javascript, SQL, and ASP. Also completed other various back-end coding projects for the company’s internal network and internet website.

Overland Park, Ks

Was given and completed various web development tasks. The largest project involved creating a front-end registration page and back-end registration-capture and database integration for the website of the professional sports franchise – the Kansas City Chiefs. Used HTML, Javascript, SQL, and ASP to complete these projects.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Worked at the downtown headquarters of this international bank doing web application development. Used HTML, ASP, SQL, and Javascript to create multiple financial reporting applications and various other internal applications only accessible on the company’s internal network.