We are a full-service marketing agency that helps businesses amplify their online presence by improving the quality of their website and social media engagement. Our services include:- Design, build, and maintain websites that not only make your business look great, but load quickly and are SEO optimized.- Create a social media presence for your brand that leaves your competition in the dust.- Performance-tuning your website to ensure maximum sales, conversions, and engagement. - Social media management, PPC, email marketing, and much more.

• Manage a global team of scrum masters / project managers that deliver software and infrastructure upgrades across all areas of the organization including merchandising, supply chain, e-commerce, stores and finance. • Set performance objectives for the team, foster collaboration, and drive results. Coach team members and course correct as needed.• Establish standards and best practices for the team – ensure all team members are properly onboarded, trained and set up for success. • Vendor & staffing management: work with vendors, hire & allocate staff, long-range planning• Coordinate project funding & execution across multiple business units including solution delivery, infrastructure, e-comm and product teams. • Responsible for scrum teams’ success: Coach/teach scrum masters, product owners and scrum team members on SAFe/Agile principles and techniques. • Process improvement (lean six sigma).

• Managed multiple concurrent complex IT projects for internal business applications and infrastructure enhancements/upgrades across all areas of TJX IT.• Led project teams of up to 20 programmers, engineers, analysts, and specialized consultants that spanned across geographies, vendors and skill sets to achieve project objectives.• Monitored workflow, project success criteria, reported status and managed risks, issues & escalations from project team.• Onboarded & managed 3rd party contractors. Reviewed progress, approved work and evaluated performance.• Ensured project work meet all corporate and government standards (SOX). Worked with auditors as needed.• Selected for Emerging Leaders Program – TJX’s program for developing associates with high potential.

• Managed IT enhancements for internal business applications and infrastructure enhancements.• Setup and managed operational support for TJX’s Integration Bus. Determined roles & responsibilities, coordinated efforts across all support teams and managed on-call rotation & procedures.• Designed, coded & maintained Windows, Windows Mobile & Web applications. • Provided on-call and production support for four critical business applications.

I've designed and taught courses on over 15 topics related to communication skills, social media and personal development. These courses are offered publicly and privately - they can be tailored to meet the needs of any group, company or organization.I offer social media, SEO and blogging consulting services to help people & organizations that lack the time, resources and/or expertise to keep up with the latest trends and features - everything from building websites, blogs & social media profiles to optimizing, strategizing, maintaining and updating them.I can provide keynote speaking services for both large and small groups. Speeches can be motivational or educational - I can take a subset of material from a course and tailor it to meet the needs of the attendees of the event.I provide one on one coaching and training as well as coaching to small groups/teams.Some of the topics I can assist with include: - Social Media (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, SEO & Marketing). - Blogging (Wordpress) & Web Site Services. - Public Speaking and Presentation Skills. - Networking. - Job Interviewing. - Negotiations. - Memory improvement techniques. - Online Business Promotion. - Goal setting, personal organization and life/career skills.

• Developed classes in business and communication related topics including social media, blogging, public speaking, job interviewing, networking, negotiating, memory enhancement, time management, and goal setting.• Taught continuing education classes to working professionals, facilitated discussions and coached attendees during class to improve their performance.• Researched the latest tools and trends, incorporating them into courses to keep the material current.• Provided consulting services for clients in WordPress, social media marketing and online business promotion.

• Wrote and debugged applications to run on web servers using VB, C++, Java, ASP, XML, XSL, SQL, & JavaScript.• Developed solutions for FedEx Returns commercial e-commerce solution. Designed & created ASP pages using COM components written in VB & C++ with a SQL Server back-end.• Coded improvements, tools, and bug fixes for commercial software applications using VB, ASP, & XML/XSL.• Conducted training classes for in-house support group instructing them on new FedEx Returns application features.• Worked with the build team, QA, and support team to track & report bugs, troubleshoot issues and release hot fixes.

• Managed development of projects successfully throughout all phases of the systems development life cycle (SDLC). • Developed Intellicast.com Email Service providing nearly 80,000 subscribers weather forecasts for over 35,000 locations. • Spearheaded strategy and managed development effort to implement sending of email and subscription management in-house saving WSI over $16,000 per month. • Led technical effort and worked with outside vendors to improve Intellicast.com's search engine rankings providing more traffic to the web site and saving WSI $14,000 per quarter. • Researched, evaluated, and worked with vendors for products ranging from servers to databases, reporting solutions and development tools providing the development team with the best resources available.• Wrote formal requirements and worked with the entire engineering team to create a formal method for writing requirements.• Created a web-based system to allow meteorologists throughout the U.S. to supply a local co-branded forecast to be displayed on Intellicast.com which resulted in increased traffic to the site. • Designed and created applications using C++, VB, .Net, SQL Server, ASP, Perl, COM, and other emerging technologies. Trained and mentored new team members in these technologies. Ported C++ and ASP code to .net using C#.

Taught MS Office, MS Windows, Internet use & HTML.