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Develop and advance Quality Matters marketing strategies to increase revenue and market penetration. • Conduct ongoing market research and evaluation of marketing practices• Identify internal and external sources of audience data, conduct analysis and forecasts, prepare reports and make outreach recommendations• Track relevant membership organizations, key service providers, and other leading organizations in online education• Measure the effectiveness of executed marketing tactics, including email and web marketing practices and recommend changes

Portland, Oregon Area

Manage monthly and yearly budget of the Oregon BranchUse Quickbooks for financial statements Work with accountant on 990 and other yearly tax filingsVolunteer position - about 5 hours per week

Portland, Oregon Area

• Organize and manage a 250+ member education cluster. Quarterly meetings attended by CEO’s, Presidents and managers of over 30 companies that cater to the education market in the Portland area.See www.nwedcluster.com for more information

• Generate market research that informs corporate strategic planning, along with marketing and sales strategies. • Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Business Development and Product groups to expand presence in K-16 education, government and other markets.

• Enrollment of International Schools in Asia, Canada and Northern Europe• Manage complex relationships with educational organizations that are not school districts - tutoring agencies, foundations and school management organizations• Responsibilities include designing and developing financial models used by various levels of management for forecasting, trend analysis, variance analysis, and budgeting• Work with Superintendents, Principals and other key members of large and small school districts

• Taught undergraduate and graduate business and financial courses for DeVry University and Keller Graduate School of Management

• Established marketing relationships with USPS, Microsoft and GMAC Real Estate, accounting for 60% of customer traffic and 40% of revenue (over $1 million dollars annually).• Key information and statistics provided for investment and long-term planning and analysis. • Defined product, tagline, website and marketing collateral. Due to marketing efforts, website was 7th most advertised in December 2001. • Established all commerce related activities on website. Set up billing, pricing, privacy, customer service, and web tracking software. Reported directly to CEO.• Developed sales training material and managed 4 person telesales call center. • Coordinated tradeshows that developed over 5,000 leads.

• Responsible for negotiating with vendors and suppliers to establish guidelines for buying and selling. • Processed financial transactions and reported daily billings to accounting department. • Evaluated programs and issues by gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information. • Migrated electronic (EDI) mappings from IBM mainframe to SAP R/3 and from Sterling Gentran:Basic to TSI Mercator translator. Major customers included Union Pacific Railroad, City of Portland, and Bank of America.

• Created electronic links to suppliers and customers to Nokia’s SAP R/3 software. • Responsible for transferring US division from Gentran:Mentor to Harbinger TLE mapping software. Mapped inbound and outbound data to ANSI and EDIFACT standards and tested documents to ensure link with trading partners. • Worked from 2/98 to 7/98 at world headquarters in Espoo, Finland where I trained European staff on ANSI standards.

• Sold interfacing add-on to CFI software product linking third party accounting systems. • Created and taught custom 3 day data analysis course to allow large banks and credit unions to customize CFI software to electronically exchange data to other systems.

Doctorate, Education

Activities and Societies: AERADissertation topic on language usage and student assessment results

Mba, Business

International Finance class taken at Helsinki School of Economics, Finland

Ms, Physics

Ba, Math, Physics

Activities and Societies: cum laude

Education record