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Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Vice President of X8 IT Executive Search with a focus on building genuine relationships to inspire and empower exceptional individuals and organizations.

Greater Atlanta Area / Dallas, TX

• Constructed a successful Marketing firm from the ground up and with zero debt, with a focus on branding, consulting, web design and the counseling of effective marketing strategy for small-to-midsize businesses.
• Manage projects from sales to concept, including design, development, deployment, quality control and follow-up/maintenance after Go-Live.
• Manage personnel involved in all process levels ranging from entry level contacts/managers, to executives, agency contractors and internal staff for content creation, interface design, development and project launch.
• Directly responsible for identifying and assimilating unique solutions to complex business needs, seamlessly integrating the creativity of design personnel with the functionality of development personnel. Strong.
• Consulted and assisted hundreds of businesses in setting, attaining and maximizing ROI goals by educating them through best practice marketing strategy.
• Create and implement SEO and Adwords campaigns to effectively increase product and brand growth with a focus on ROI maximization.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Director of Sales and Marketing for a Texas based IT Consulting firm specializing in Cyber Security, Big Data and Cloud Engineering.

Greater Atlanta Area

Decorated Executive Sales Expert in the IT Consultant and Project Services industry.Personally responsible for the identification and negotiation of multi-faceted and deeply technical IT project solutions with multiple Fortune 100 organizations.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Executive Salesman in the Property and Casualty Insurance Data Industry
• Directly responsible for the acquisition and negotiation of multi-year, multi-million dollar contracts and relationships
• Consistently engage with members of upper level management and executive level decision makers
• Directly responsible for the management of relationships with multiple Top 100 insurance carriers in the US market
• Responsible for the management of highly technical project deliverables ranging from original inception to final implementation of complex and robust insurance data solutions
• Responsible for independently creating, managing and executing sales and marketing strategies designed to engage and obtain commitment from upper level insurance management and executives

Atlanta GA

• Executed events for Palm Interactive, Nabisco, Kraft, Cadillac, Activision, Grey Goose, Bacardi, Blackberry, Microsoft, Turner Broadcasting and NBC.
• Managed direct marketing events for various fortune 500 companies.
• Maintained an adaptive ability to identify and neutralize problems and risks “on-the-fly” while maintaining seamless event execution and consumer experience.
• Managed personnel, inventory and on-site liaisons to ensure smooth event execution including all point-of-sale displays, marketing collateral, models, vehicles and environment creation.
• Interacted directly with target consumers and clients alike to increase brand awareness and provide product education for substantial product launches.
• Required to consistently learn complex and new products in short time spans and be able to quickly and effectively build presentations and educate personnel accordingly for their ability to educate others.

Alpharetta, GA

• Managed all phases of product development and implementation processes for integrating the LexisNexis “CLUE” system into insurance agencies
• Worked with cross-functional teams to integrate software systems that controlled information retrieval and transmission for insurance companies regarding potential and existing clients.
• Delivered total scope of assigned projects within time and budget constraints including quality control and system testing.
• Identified, analyzed, tracked and managed total project body including time, cost, human resources, communication and all deliverables.
• Regularly update management on project progress and status reports.
• Managed all cross-functional relationships necessary to complete projects including software engineers, developers, client liaison executives and project managers.