John Gerhardt Email & Phone Number

Blue Ash, Ohio

Teaching Social Studies courses and advising student organizations.

Full-time graduate student at Xavier University working toward my teaching license and Master's Degree in Secondary Education in Integrated Social Studies.

A marketing consultancy business, focused on market analysis, competitive strategy, communications, and business development.

Wyoming, Ohio

Taught Social Studies courses and college preparatory hands-on classes for students needing direct teacher attention.

• Managed and drove ROTEX® "brand" on a global scale, including print advertising, website (SEO and PPC), interactive campaigns, trade show presence, editorial articles, press releases, and intellectual property. • Market analysis of new business opportunities based on internal and external market and customer data.

Established a market analysis business. Projects included consumer and business market segmentation and analysis for telecommunications company, and research of certain technology markets for products/offerings to be introduced.

• Developed industry and competitor-specific analyses in support of strategic market initiatives.• Created content for and presented competitor-focused training for more than 2000 representatives resulting in competitive wins for the company. • Conceived and championed the development of an innovative CD-ROM Competitive Primer, raising competitive awareness among the sales force and saving over $100K in corporate travel costs.

• Evaluated the strategic fit and synergistic connections with potential partners to create and market innovative product and service offerings to what, at the time, was the highest per capita concentration of high-speed Internet users on a broadband ADSL network.• Effective liaison between technology resources, marketing, and customers to develop and integrate technology and content into the broadband network and create the customer market message. • Negotiated partnership and develop agreements with content and technology partners. • Led cross-functional teams (internal and external resources), to identify and develop new products.

• Designed and implemented a competitive intelligence system and process in a newly competitive market. • Managed product life cycle and profitability of multiple product lines at Cincinnati Bell Telephone, expanding sales channels and creating new product bundling offerings.

• Developed and communicated actionable analyses to drive company strategy and product development initiatives in the legal, business, and government markets. • Created content design and user functionality for the NEXIS Market Research products and worked with marketing resources to coordinate commercial launch. • Worked closely with both technical and marketing resources to translate customer needs into product design and communicate product capabilities to the market.• Negotiated and signed content and royalty agreements to provide market research content for inclusion on the Lexis service, expanding available content and lowering internal production costs.• Leveraged relationships with state and federal court judges and executives, resulting in the acquisition of exclusive value-added online content for the service, creating a competitive advantage for the company.

Masters Of Secondary Education, Social Studies Teacher Education

Jd, Law

Ba, History