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Portland, OR, US

Portland, Oregon, United States

• Led concept development and deployment of Children’s National Hospital Foundation’s “Share Dr. Bear Everywhere,” an augmented reality (AR) mobile app that allowed donors to create virtual dioramas and digitally.
• Directed creative and technical production of UNICEF: Cranky Uncle Vaccine, a mobile educational game available on iOS and Android in six Middle Eastern/ North Africa (MENA) countries and ten languages.
• Directed concept creation, design, and physical installation of Nationwide Children’s Hospital‘s “Light Up a Lawn, Light Up a Life,” a public art installation of 120+ six-to-ten-foot-tall internet-connected butterflies.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Serve as Scrum Master and Agile Coach for project teams across the museum, including digital exhibits, fundraising, and financial systems implementations. Develop and present training curricula for museum staff. Served.
• The Holocaust Encyclopedia: seamless re-platform and cutover of the museum's highest-traffic digital property from a pre-internet application to a modern web application.
• Fundraising Optimization: a transformational shift in the museum's fundraising operations led by a donor-centered working group created from departments across the institution.
• “Tower of Faces:” an AR installation that brought museum photos to life in sound and video.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Accountable for production of all client engagements at mid-sized full-service creative agency. Implemented project management practice at agency. Notable projects include:
• Implemented strategic campaigns for national railway Norfolk Southern, encompassing public relations, social, print, radio, video production and analytics monitoring of campaign performance.
• Directed creative operations of a travel and tourism digital marketing retainer for The National Harbor of Washington, including paid search, paid social, email-marketing, and landing pages.
• Facing History: original video content social media campaign for educational non-profit. Best of Broadcast, 2018 Addys DC.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Accountable for production of large-scale engagements to clients as well as managing the client relationship from a delivery and commercial standpoint. Led teams in a globally distributed environment to design, build.
• Led 120+ person global team to design and develop a mobile banking application for TD Bank. Accountable for managing effective communication between client, vendors, and team. Directed user experience (UX) and user.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Directed digital marketing engagements for prominent global brands in the areas of brand strategy, UX design, and CMS implementation. Directed sales operations and led pitches during a period of 97% revenue growth.
• NASDAQ: UX/UI design, content strategy, and SDL Tridion CMS build of business.nasdaq.com, an online portal for B2B sales.
• Jaguar Land-Rover: 24\7\365 managed service of 158-site, multi-lingual SDL Tridion cloud CMS.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Accountable for quality and on-time, on-budget completion of client deliverables. Notable projects:
• José Andrés: identity creation for Beefsteak, a celebrity chef-driven fast-casual dining concept.
• Chop’t: brand strategy and brand identity for fast-growing NY-DC fast-casual dining concept.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Managed cloud virtualization, voice and data infrastructure, and real estate consolidation projects for prominent national advertising agencies and public relations firms. Managed entire life span of mission-critical application cloud migrations, including: assessment; planning; data center build-out; cutover; testing; and continuity of operations..

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Accountable for client delivery, new business development and recurring account revenue. Managed agency's account P&L. Directed delivery for all accounts and served as executive lead on development of digital.
• Blue Cross/Blue Shield of America: SDL Tridion CMS implementation for FEPBlue, the largest federal website by subscriber (2.4M+) in the U.S.
• ASCD: 2009 EDDIE- and 2010 CODiE-winning PDInFocus, a web-based e-learning application
• Tyco Flow Control: user experience design and SDL Tridion CMS build of 24-language website

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Accountable for client delivery for all accounts. Managed finance and human resources departments. Managed extensive overhaul of agency’s accounting practices and authorized annual review of agency’s financial.
• Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection’s 2010 Addy- and 2010 Webby-winning RepowerAmerica.org website redesign and WordPress CMS implementation
• U.S. Department of State Telecommunication Procurement Office’s global SugarCRM customer relationship management (CRM) solution
• Rack Room Shoes’s 2009 back-to-school digital marketing campaign, including website redesign, development of two contest microsites and design of banner ads and email marketing templates

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Directed adoption of standardized software development processes for agency, including coding standards and configuration management practices. Expanded agency’s creative and information architecture services. Notable.
• Branding, design and development of the University of Virginia’s Encyclopedia Virginia, an authoritative online reference about Virginia funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities
• Pew Research Center’s 2008 Webby-winning Religious Landscape Survey online application
• Marriott Essentials, an online application for the development and delivery of hotel event proposals

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Implemented basic software development life cycle (SDLC) and project management practices at 18-person agency. Directed CMS implementations, website redesigns and custom application development for 20+ association, commercial and nonprofit clients.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Directed two-year, $2MM budget best-of-breed Microsoft Solomon and CA Clarity EPM implementation. Implemented business process improvements in sales, operations and finance by leading cross-disciplinary teams assembled from all company business units.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Accountable for Sarbanes Oxley and FDA 21 CFR Part 11 compliance of information technology (IT) practices. Led company through IT regulatory audits conducted by several government agencies and Fortune 50 pharmaceutical clients. Trained staff on SDLC best practices.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Managed implementation of FDA-regulated laboratory information systems (LIMS) including company’s clinical pathology and reporting systems.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Managed adoption of standard operating procedures and corporate policies required for software regulatory compliance. Managed ongoing support of FDA-regulated LIMS.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Managed development of scientific research databases for industry general counsel in defense of multi-billion dollar class action lawsuits.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Managed research teams in support of toxic tort cases.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Improved communication and efficiency of 15-person sales group by implementing customer relationship management system. Provided training and technical support for system.