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We love hosting people at our shop in Edina, MN and or serving via our shipping products. We service kitchen knives with professional sharpening tools and skills as well as educate about kitchen knife use, shapes, metals and more through our social channels, classes and in store fittings (think of it a bit like golf clubs and ski boots). We hear from.

We're a small team who loves games. We're fully bootstrapped, our North Star is building and buying fun and inspiring games you come back to daily. Since we're self funded and fiercely independent, we're keen to build and buy sustainable and profitable games that we continue to invest in. Come play! Hey, good game, BTW.

N2H4 is a new business, product and system design firm. We invent stuff. We also boost growth while intelligently making the future a very tangible present. Working with executives, founders, brand and product teams, c-suite leaders and agencies with curious problem sets and exciting potential. Specializing in SaaS, Marketing, Product Design and.

• Focusing on creative and pragmatic solutions for business objectives in software, digital and mobile contexts. Identify and build software development and designer teams, leveraging problem-solving and design thinking.
• Contracted by a MedTech company to design and develop a patient-centered orthopedic recovery experience that continues to earn new levels of investment and expanded customers; process included clinical research.
• Selected as product and user experience research and design agency for an IBM Watson powered AI engine for a venture-backed machine learning startup serving Fortune 100 customers
• Hired by a regional sports services leader to design and replace legacy scheduling and operations software, a million dollar initial effort, which continues to serve +100K users annually; process included stakeholder.
• Contracted by a multi-national financial services company to ideate, research, and rapidly iterate solutions for testing financial service products with software experiences including credit checks, identity theft.
• Chosen partner for strategy and content development, product design, and user research for Fortune 100 customer sales and retention efforts for tens of millions of customers in the United States

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, US

• Recruited to evolve and reinvent sales, operations, and curriculum, leveraging software innovation and product development skills as the key impetus to drive brand growth and expansion. Took reins on all software.
• Began with 12 schools (2017), added 9 schools and 4 states (21 schools in 2020), acquired a brand (2 schools) while building systems, talent, and support for growth, on track to achieve growth targets
• Transitioned to digital-first marketing structure that leverages attribution and tracking for operational and marketing optimization designed to exploit the power of email integrated with omnichannel efforts
• Lead the brand (Love Water) and product merchandising (Swim Path) re-positioning efforts with customer at center of design and major customer lifecycle touchpoints as guides
• Orchestrated internal and external resources to reinvent sales and business processes, including technology innovation in the form of continuing the build of a ground-up CRM, which cut weeks off registration annually.
• Moved HR processes from paper to digital, streamlining application, screening, and onboarding processes

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Invented and built a company that originally pioneered real-time customer engagement messaging, conceptualized the idea in 2010, brought to market in 2011. Led product design, market fit, user research, sales/client.
• Grew platform to revenue growth of 35%+ annually, now with a ~$100M valuation; scaled-up the original team, now ~60 members, focused on improving customer businesses; clients include Mall of America, Hilton World Wide.
• Secured first client (Mall of America) with a custom alpha product, building a bridge for collaboration, a foundation for the business and an outline for the go-to-market strategy
• Co-led successful enterprise sales and customer success effort to land Westfield and Hilton Worldwide (as global enterprise provider for all brands)
• Led user experience research, product-market fit, and product design efforts while co-leading software architecture through version 5

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Co-founded a proprietary hosted SaaS software solution used by CNN, Marshalls, 3M, Mattel, Starkey Labs, H&R Block, Nature Valley, Fallon, Coyne PR, Attention USA, and others. Clients used Curation Station to gather.
• Co-developed software's business strategy, co-led national sales, public relations, and client relations
• Selected by CNN to support the Presidential Town Hall at SXSW, empowering producers to curate thousands of social influencer, audience and crowd mentions across platforms for use on air with ease
• Collaborated with fashion retailer T.J. Maxx to curate customer social (i.e., what they discovered in-store) to brand's homepage, enabling coop brand marketing minus coop investment
• Partnered with HR and career departments of 3M and PwC to curate employee stories found across social media to fuel hiring and attract more interesting, interested and qualified prospects
• Enabled social activated online retail conversion improvements for fashion and children product brands

• Guided brand and marketing campaign development for an agency consortium focused on brand development, design, and digital engagement. Managed creative strategy and digital marketing campaigns, performing successful.
• Redesigned brands for digital fashion and fitness campaigns launched eCommerce tools, outpaced goals 82%
• Provided creative direction, design, and project management for banner ads and digital strategies for organizations like NBA teams and national insurance companies across national and international platforms

• Analyzed and defined client business objectives and contributed to the strategic problem-solving processes to meet aggressive goals through the development of content strategy, research, strategic plans, site.
• Created and contributed to strategy briefs, audience profiles, content analysis, content strategies, and information architecture documentation (structure charts, flow charts, and wireframes)

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, US

• Researched, managed, designed, and executed a complete redesign and deployment of a new instructor training program. The impact was measurable and positive.
• As Manager, I embraced the opportunity to inspire great experiences for Students, Staff, and Parents while keeping the whole system tuned and operational.
• As an Instructor deeply enjoyed building confidence in students through the mastery of skills. Further, I regularly achieved top scores in customer satisfaction.

• Supported and actualized Apple’s vision of educating and enabling end-users to create custom digital media through group presentations and one-on-one personal training.
• Guided customers through the buy cycles, ushering them from initiation to decision

D.School Executive Bootcamp, Design Thinking

Certificate, Graphic Design

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Biblical Studies / Greek / Communication

Master Of Arts - Ma, Philosophy And Religious Studies