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• 🤘 Helping people & organizations solve problems, find passion & capture long-term greatness 🤘Recently ranked as the Top 50 Business Development Consultants on ADPList!Recently recognized as a Top Voice Consultant on.
• Consulting with clients in building, growing, optimizing & maintaining flow of schedules & pipeline for the production process.
• Consulting on brand management, change management, messaging, timelines, deployment & growth opportunity across platforms.
• Demonstrated proficiencies in collecting research & data, competitor comparisons, analysis & direction in marketplace for the creation of brand voice, strategy, logos, marketing collateral, services, events & more in.

Seattle, Washington, US

• Brought in by the Founder to perform a cross-departmental, business-wide discovery to sustain & retain their triple digit(!) 2023 & 2024 YoY growth including - Identifying & linking software programs, tech stack.
• Over 5 months - interviewed stakeholders, c-suite executives, directors, managers & individual contributors to identify opportunities in existing & future processes, production, timelines, schedules, tech stack.
• Outlined a roadmap with instructions on delivering sweeping improvements across teams & link workflows & projects, designed to sustain & continue growth.
• Conducted soft skill interviews to identify employee skill sets & contributions & make recommendations around their strengths & where we see opportunity to upskill. Conducted skill assessments through Strengths Finder.

Woodinville, Washington, US

Working with the founder to scale business across segments. Establishing marketing and business development strategy, managing vendors, scaling employees, identifying opportunity and leading initiatives and strategy for growth.

Seattle, Washington, US

• Working with executive level leadership to identify opportunities, design strategy and develop new and engaging programs for the Magnolia Chamber of Commerce. Program Management including -
• Design and implement a scratch PMO structure to better organize, track and optimize events and staff.
• Curate designs for events, social media and email campaigns focused on growing membership by delivering value driven initiatives including stakeholder approvals.
• Work with executives to interview, dissect and understand business needs in an evolving space.
• Lead, create, test and organize events promoting networking, business development, presentations and more.
• Design, source, coach and host unique scratch events focused on small business growth and development. Sourced venue, managed logistics, costs, coached public speakers, designed engaging presentations and more. In six.

Working with the founder throughout their entire journey, from cradle through glass ceiling including - business concept, mission, brand, voice, audience targeting, value proposition, sales programs, events and customer retention.Since the beginning, our goal has been to identify and build a luxury focused, women only travel group with global destinations..

Brought in by Director of Brand to function as their Marketing department focused on the execution for a variety of Marketing duties including - - Plan, organize & execute photoshoots of product- Select, edit and color correct product photography for their website and other Marketing collateral- Production of Marketing materials including business cards.

Bellevue, WA, US

• Brought in by CMO to perform a department-wide discovery including identifying & linking software programs, tech stack integrations, processes, soft skill interviews & best practices to the department. Presented a.
• Over 4 weeks - interviewed stakeholders, c-suite executives, directors, managers & individual contributors to identify opportunities in existing & future processes, production, timelines, schedules, tech stack.
• Outlined a roadmap with instructions on delivering improvements including a timeline estimate targeted to save the company money on resource burn.
• Conducted soft skill interviews to identify employee skill sets & contributions & make recommendations around their strengths & where we see opportunity to upskill. Utilizing the existing software stack & employee.

Irving, Texas, US

• Working in-house in their Marketing Dept. for 4+ years, a brief intermission (for a few years) and back as a Marketing Consultant. Duties have flexed and shifted, but overall included - Driver of numerous concurrent.
• Researched, selected and implemented PMS—for new department-wide project management system that offered far greater timeline and data visibility, delivering 40% improved productivity and efficiency.
• Collaborated with C-suite executives and stakeholders to strategize, conceptualize and deploy all marketing collateral for nationwide campaigns across print and digital platforms; quarterly in-store promotions for.
• Directed social media strategy and audience engagement across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube channels, growing digital audiences 36% (440,000 to 600,000+). Developed daily, original organic posts reaching 1M+.
• Controlled all photography in lifestyle and product, including creative direction/onsite management of shoots.

Los Altos, California, US

• Brought in as a Marketing Consultant to deploy a new program to all levels of the agency. Tasked to self-train on all existing business processes and workflows and migrate into a new-to-market agency program management.
• Consuming all of the clients’ processes and workflows and the all-in-one system, creating, scrapping and bridging workflows to be integrated across the agency.
• Milestones included setting deployment schedules, interviewing leads and departments to understand competency levels within the programs, creating level-up training sessions, videos, resources and workflows to deploy.
• Working closely with COR’s COO, Client Success Managers and their Development teams to address and fix issues closest to the dollar, we successfully deployed the program two weeks ahead of schedule to incorporate a.
• Created an interactive 55+ page document of detailed processes including end to end functionality of the program spanning logging into the program, through closing out a client and invoicing. This document was.
• Successfully onboarded and drove with leadership the discovery through the delivery process of new and existing client work. Including identifying client needs, managing scope, budget burn, creative and management.

Seattle, WA, US

• Working across C-Suite and Product departments to identify needs, goals, processes, workflows, resources, culture and communications across U.S. and international offices.
• Overseeing and managing a local and remote team of 15+ including controlling resource and financial burns of Marketing department and contractors. Responsible for six figure yearly budget including weekly and monthly.
• Development and implementation of scratch and active Project Management processes to optimize workflows and deliverables in an ever-evolving environment.
• Originally brought on to consult on company-wide brand refresh including - logo redesign, print and digital collateral refresh, new website platform build and more. Entered in the middle of the project with no process.
• Controlling contractor and vendor relations including onboarding, budget allocation, hours tracking, deliverables and productivity stand up meetings.

Mountain View, CA, US

• Charged with sourcing and recruiting viable job candidates for a company receiving three million application submissions each year. Owned entire candidate journeys from passive contact through on-campus interview.
• Pitched, routed, and pipelined candidates based on business needs. Leveraged LinkedIn for networking. Organized 12-15 30-minute calls per week to discuss candidates’ goals and values aligned with Product areas.
• Built pipeline from zero to 800 candidates within six months.
• Easily hurdled OKR (objectives & key results) metrics quarter one. Recognized with “Above & Beyond” award for promoting accessibility issues and managing candidate journeys with skill, brand-centricity, and enthusiasm.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Represented the agency brand while shepherding candidates through the interviewing process, portfolio critiques, contract administration, and negotiation of rates and salaries. Proactively managed candidate journeys.
• Led improvements to social media presence and worked with executives to mine opportunities for evangelizing candidate/employee experience and agency ethos. Identified and filtered-out negative online reviews resulting.
• Worked with executive leadership to identify bottlenecks and improve the candidate journey/experience.

Seattle, Washington, US

• Collaborated with 18 team leads and stakeholders including company owner, management, vendors, creative and production teams, and volunteer groups. Owned and drove end-to-end lifecycles of individual events, including.
• Researched options for project management system, and selected and implemented Trello; setup teams and trained users. Reverse-engineered development of an interactive product utilized in building lobby.

Redmond, Washington, US

Project-managed and edited a Microsoft vendor catalog featuring company-branded tchotchkes and products. Interfaced with a MS Partner to define scope and ensure final product included brand-centric messaging and addressed all customer requirements. Completed project early with zero revisions requested.

New York, NY, US

• Collaborated with Creative teams to build cohesive strategy for development of print and digital marketing/advertising collateral—designed to amplify the brand, increase product awareness and audience engagement, and.
• Worked cross-functionally to define the customer journey and engender captivating online experiences. Strategy leveraged paid advertising, banner ads, and creative and interactive, cross-portal social media campaigns.
• Handled day-to-day website maintenance, production, and content refresh. Responsible for image asset management; coded placement of imagery for thousands of product photography assets.

Tukwila, WA, US

• Led design on direct mail marketing for the company and clients
• Developed designs and prototypes for experimental marketing strategy to influence direct mail and promotional materials
• Worked with teams to develop print collateral and learned important printing processes including production of product end to end through various methods

Spokane, US

• Key contributor in implementing a new order picking system to increase efficiency, accuracy and balance to the workload between warehouse shift employees
• Supervised all on-site warehouse labor including regular and flex positions in alignment with budgeted hours
• Coordinated all inbound and outbound shipments with carriers
• Ensured proper receiving procedures - including handling of the product, safety and compliance from staff and carriers
• Successfully balanced safety, quality, and productivity performance to achieve business goals
• Managed workflow to meet planned department productivity standards and coordinated meetings with management

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