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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, IL, US

• Provide day-to-day planning, coordination, and project management across the entirety of the client onboarding process and ongoing client maintenance for all media platforms
• Manage cross-functional and geographically dispersed project teams using keen leadership, effective communication, strong negotiation skills
• Provide status/tracking of project progress and manage project trade-offs across scope, timing, and resources and adjust priorities as needed
• Organize and facilitate Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, & Sprint Review for a 3-discipline cross functional team
• Lead and/or contribute as an individual resource or subject matter specialist to cross-functional projects
• Facilitate technical resources to deliver technology solutions in support of key project initiatives by working closely with functional leaders, digital media SMEs, account managers and engineers

Chicago, IL, US

• Manage external consultants, create project roadmaps, implement solutions, and maintain project timelines.
• Identify vendors & determine best solutions consistent with goals.
• Gather, compile, and organize data sets, synthesize data into reports and provide feedback on trends.
• Oversee the development teams for project website, animated video, & marketing campaign.
• Generate creative mock-ups & wireframes as well as oversee the development of web properties.

New York, NY, US

• Analyzed project requirements to managed and coordinated staffing for client events.
• Researched & analyzed software development requirements for SaaS-based application solutions for staffing management projects and client manifests.
• Evaluated requirements & problem solved travel arrangements, vendor procurement, venue sourcing & logistics for projects.

Chicago, IL, US

• Overall responsibility for the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling, & closure of a project.
• Assist in measuring the team’s velocity and other measurements.
• Create product roadmap, user stories, project requirements, work tickets, as well as effectively communicate the UX|UI design to the development team.
• Communicate with the client and other stakeholders outside of the organization as to the progress of milestone and conduct product demonstrations for the client.

Lake Bluff, Illinois, US

• Document client requirements translating requirements into tickets and verifying that tickets meet acceptance criteria.
• Manage a portfolio of clients and their customizations to the product as well as over see implementations &
• Collaborate with users as well as Customer Success Managers, Engineers, Implementation Consultants, and Product Managers to optimize the product.
• Supervise Trello & Jira boards keeping linked tickets in sync as well as managing deadlines & prioritization.
• Translate marketing campaigns to real-world results, analyze user analytics and provide digestible reporting.

• Implement and deploy product launch campaigns across a variety of channels, as well as track, analyze and report the success of those campaigns and events using Google Analytics & Google Console.
• Develop social media content (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) and marketing campaigns.
• Assess current competitor offerings, seeking opportunities for differentiation.
• Update and create front-end website content using both the WordPress platform and HTML5.

• Update and create front-end website content using both the Magento platform and HTML5.
• Perform routine Magento (versions 2.1 – 2.3) maintenance as needed.
• Manage product listings and customer databases using the Magento platform.
• Maintain FTP files structure and update content as needed by the client.
• Project manage the redevelopment of the site from Magento to PHP, overseeing a team of 3rd party offshore developers.
• Provide server tech support, email server maintenance and managing user admin permissions.

Windermere, Florida, US

• Manage project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope of the product to ensure successful delivery, including project plans, team goals, software testing, success criteria metrics and project.
• Liaison with project personnel to identify, plan and resolve potential problems, monitor and track project milestones and deliverables and successfully communicated between internal, external and third-party project.
• Oversaw project Scrum meetings to coordinate activities of project team personnel.
• Prepared project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and defined project milestones, as well as scheduled and facilitated meetings with internal teams and project clients.

• Publisher of Delight Gluten-Free Magazine
• Developed the requirements of the Delight Gluten-Free Magazine’s website, web applications, and managed the software development life-cycle of two versions of the magazine’s custom mobile application.
• Planned and executed marketing strategies to determine the demand for products and services for the brand and identify potential customers, define a target demographic for advertisers, and maximize return-on-investment.
• Established B2B sponsorship programs to maximize brand’s exposure and differentiate offerings from competitors.
• Delivered content, oversight and strategy based on reporting and analysis for internal and external social media accounts.
• Provided business management, trend analysis, product roadmaps as well as industry-specific insight to several clients.

US

• Produced seminars at leading Fortune 500 companies including Yahoo!, McDonald’s, Microsoft & Hilton for Chief Learning Officers and senior HR executives.
• Maintained relationships with network members and developed additional partnership opportunities.
• Delivered exciting e-learning and digital-based events such as quarterly webinars and Social Media Bootcamp.

• Developed a network of apartments to be used in the flexible-term furnished housing market in Manhattan.
• Managed day-to-day operations, accounting system, vendor, and customer relations.
• Created sales channels in the sublet real estate market in which to market & sell available inventory.
• Used social media and online properties to market the brand and properties.

New York, NY, US

• Oversaw the day-to-day operations of the Empire Force Events offices and assisted with event-related procurement.
• Assisted with staff travel arrangements & logistics for events.
• Represented the company at various industry-related functions providing in-person marketing opportunities.

New York, NY, US

• Initial point of contact for members including top tourist destinations, retailers, and restaurants, regarding special requests and inquiries.
• Acted as a liaison between meeting planners & trade show managers and NYC & Company members by providing qualified business leads.
• Managed relationships with NYC & Company meeting and convention clients.
• Managed 2007 corporate relocation during office renovations for over 100 employees at 3 locations.
• Acted as liaison and concierge to more than 100 VIP delegates of the Republican National Committee; oversaw daily operations of delegate resource call center during 2004 RNC Convention.
• Planned and executed events for more than 400 attendees at top tier venues on a monthly basis; managed on-site crews.

Master’S Degree, Product Innovation & Computing

Full Stack Web Development Bootcamp

Bachelor'S Degree, Management Systems

High School, General Studies