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Bay Islands, Roatán, Hn

I enable our visionary Founder to systematically execute by leveraging the EOS® (The Entrepreneurial Operating System®) framework within our startup. There are many hats to wear during this phase of the company. Some of my tasks include: designing and executing the initial go to market strategy, launching Ecommerce operations, and assisting in project management and basic company organization.

FEB 2023 - Limited in scope to sales and conference promotional activities. SEPT 2022 -JAN2 023 My duties centered around full-stack SEM marketing systems. This includes SEO and paid media traffic, email marketing, and social media channel optimization. Creating SOPs around analytics and data management, mapping and optimizing the customer experience journey, and generating higher user retention levels over time. Proposing and implementing sales and marketing plans for sustainable community channel growth and scaling client and strategic partner relationships.

Lakewood, Co, Us

This venture has evolved into my catchall private brand that houses my Futurepreneur consulting services. This was my first company that began life as a solo internet marketing freelancer and web design service. It has since evolved into an ideation think tank and springboard, serving as my umbrella label for designing, developing, and deploying select ideas, inventions, and other miscellaneous online adventures.

London, London, Gb

My Experience (2021/22): This future-focused crypto venture partnership / accelerator made even A16z seem uninspired at the time. After digesting the Open Metaverse OS paper I felt they were funding and building the blocks towards the digital free world of tomorrow with a preference for privacy-preserving and consumer-focused Web 3 startups. My role was to facilitate and amplify communication of their accelerator across social media and omnichannel marketing campaigns. It was full-stack marketing with a small but mighty talented team.

Longmont, Colorado, Us

Archer Tax Group provides comprehensive tax planning and strategic guidance for entrepreneurs, traders, and investors with a focus on cryptocurrency, hemp, and/or real estate holdings. By staying abreast of constantly shifting technical and regulatory developments, Archer's niche expertise when coupled to a powerful information and specialist contact network makes it the go-to choice for a superlative solution. With our personalized family accounting practice approach and relentless attention to detail, Archer continues to grow year after year. Learn more about our concierge practice at http://bit.ly/2NKaB2l and schedule a complimentary consultation! As the marketing advisor, I am constantly increasing, monitoring, and suggesting strategies to expand the company's digital footprint in the marketplace. I employ a combination of digital marketing methodologies using SEM mediums and PR video and podcast outreach to bolster content marketing campaigns. I also spend time identifying mutually beneficial strategic partnerships and developing industry-targeted influencer outreach systems.

Hollywood, Florida, Us

The founders engaged me to begin designing and creating systems around overhauling the following areas for their Shopify store. (Feb Update: The company recently decided to focus on other manufacturing operations rending my online retail proposals vaporware.)1. Create a comprehensive brand strategy to relaunch the brand and product portfolio and make it relevant in the CBD / Hemp market. Develop all aspects of the marketing plan for the remainder of 2020 and the first quarter of 2021.2. Responsible for updating Creative and Brand Identity, managing E-commerce on the Shopify platform, Digital Marketing (SEM), Social Media, PR, Influencer programs, Partnerships, and Copywriting.3. Reallocate the marketing spend and define KPI’s and commence data reporting to leadership. 4. Configure Google analytics, design and deploy a Klayvio email marketing system, a customer loyalty program, and a paid traffic campaign for 2021.5. Drive an eCommerce road map to align with the business plan and new products launching in 2021.Operationalize the marketing organization and improve the communication and processes between product design and fulfillment to align the overall vision and storytelling for the brand.6. Build missing brand assets on major social media outlets and channels. Define social media strategy and budget.

(My Defunct Startup SaaS) Creating and launching a blockchain educational startup that applies cryptoeconomics to education in order to build a prototypical online learning-centered economy. It combined gamification concepts with an incentivized learning rewards model powered by an adaptive learning AI. It would have served the blockchain /crypto industry by helping define the true CAC (customer acquisition cost) and economic impact of adding a new user to a cryptocurrency economy while providing transparency around the user journey and use of funds. We were building a crypto or blockchain user onboarding service that helped everyday people grasp cryptocurrency concepts by using a hybrid of microlearning and gamification similar to the way the app Duolingo teaches foreign languages. We were creating a more powerful and transparent alternative to the Coinbase/Earn program to give a voice to more projects, tokens, and emergent cryptocurrencies. As a first-time CEO / Founder I tried to do everything and wear all the hats with minimal funding and this venture taught me the value of pivoting from market feedback and almost every Founder's Dilemma lesson in Noam Wasserman's must-read book.

Fort Collins, Co, Us

This startup provided a user acquisition service for blockchain and cryptocurrency-based companies and/or economies by giving them exposure to mobile gaming apps using a novel advertising technology (SDK). Jalapeno created technology to help bridge the gap between the mammoth global mobile gaming industry and the emergent blockchain and crypto industry. Well into the twilight of the startup's life, I came on as CMO and was tasked with consolidating the scope of the companies mission and message while simultaneously helping the CEO acquire additional funding to build our product MVP. Research lead me to conclude that crypto education itself was the real opportunity so I founded First Contact Crypto to pursue this hypothesis.

Naples, Fl, Us

(Company now defunct- Oct 2016) I was promoted from Business Development to virtual CEO after a series of personnel changes and charged with re-branding and relaunching HelpmeSOCIAL's online social media management dashboard tool to align with grandiose investor goals. I was tasked with developing all the systems, processes, and infrastructure to facilitate exponential growth and leverage the IP. Unfortunately, I was also underqualified for this role at the time having little managerial and CEO leadership experience. The entire software development team rapidly left and although I tried to pivot the dashboard technology to be a niche social marketing tool to help law firms discover and post compliant content we ultimately failed. The technology stack and integrations with those social media platforms were not scalable and the Southwest Florida market focus proved to be far too small to meet the investor's expectations.

Naples, Fl, Us

I worked with clients to help automate and systematize their social media marketing campaigns by promoting HelpMe Social's digital dashboard technology in a sales and marketing role. (Think Hootsuite/ Buffer/ MeetEdgar but primitive) In addition, I assisted in raising brand awareness through educational social media advocacy campaigns (webinars, online demos) and collaborated in more traditional marketing campaigns (local seminars, meetups before they were called that). My primary area of focus with the company was establishing and developing lead generation systems, customer onboarding, and software development objectives (feature set). This software company was merged into Over2Social.

Naples, Fl, Us

Strategic web direction, online traffic optimization, conversion tracking, and online relationship building. I managed the majority of the rudimentary SEM marketing at the time. Google Adwords, email marketing, marketing copy, Youtuber (blogger) outreach, etc. In retrospect, I experienced numerous challenges scaling the site during my tenor at this position as the site was built on an early mutated Magento stack. (A self-hosted 1.5 with patchwork code modifications often impacting site performance and user experience).

Managed the entire information technology infrastructure for an accounting firm consisting of more than 50 computers, spread across multiple physical locations, web assets, and serviced hundreds of client machines.

This was my first job out of ITT after I received my MCSE certification from Microsoft. I was the junior rookie tech with flashy Microsoft credentials assisting seasoned Novell network engineers to administer various client small to medium-sized LAN networks throughout SWFL. I learned various hardware and software troubleshooting skills, server and workstation deployment methods, network design and maintenance, etc.

Nanodegree, Digital Marketing

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Certification Mcse Windows Nt 4.0/2000, Electronics Engineering Program

Strategic Foresight - Future Studies