Mark Simonsen Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, British Columbia

My last four clients have been Fortune 500, Fortune 50, Fortune 5, and a large, privately held company. Projects have ranged in size from 10s of millions to 100s of millions and billions. Three of my last four projects have been nominated for international Best of the Best awards; two of them have been award winners: Best of the Best, and Business Transformation and Operation Excellence. In every project we helped get teams back on track, improve communications, and strengthen leadership. We also helped the companies save tens of millions of dollars via optimizing processes and performance, and capture tens of millions in new revenues.RLG is a worldwide organization of performance improvement specialists. RLG International partners with organizations who share the belief that capturing the hearts and minds of the workforce will produce significant performance improvements. Since 1983, we have grown our implementation business by consistently providing our clients with a significant return on their investment and a visible, lasting results-based culture.

Provo, Utah Area

Red Rider is a multi-faceted Advertising agency. The company was founded about 20 years ago and is in all senses much more than a traditional Advertising agency. It's a Marketing and Design hybrid that combines Creative Design and Writing capabilities across Print and Electronic mediums along with services including Strategy, Media Buying, Web Design & Coding and Packaging, Promotion & Promotional items. Also experts at Branding, Corporate Identity and Logos.Red Rider gets it. They have the experience and know-how to build great strategy and bring it together with killer design and messaging...and they understand service, budgets, turn-around times and deadlines.Red Rider has been incredibly successful in obtaining for its clients the level of exposure they seek in their respective markets. Clients range in size from extremely large corporations to small start-ups and include: Bank of American Fork, Novell, the W.W. Clyde companies (such as Geneva Rock, etc.), Select Health, Symantec, Henry Schein, Dentrix, eSpeakers, LANDesk, Simplifile and many more.

Provo, Utah Area

Smart Phone Mobile App & Social Media Visualization CompanyHelped define, refine, launch & start up this new company that grew out of a project at the BYU Marriott School of Management MBA program.

Design, development, manufacture, marketing, promotion, sales and support of electronics products for the music industry. fOXX products are used by countless professional musicians including Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, Peter Frampton, Adrian Belew and many more as well as by weekend warriors and amateur musicians.

Provided many services to a variety of companies. Helped with start-up, turn-around, growth opportunities, provided interim leadership and much, much more.

Utah County, Utah

Investment, development and operations of real estate, construction, consumer retail, food service, sales, marketing, promotion, and support. Built this company up and sold it in a nearly 8 figure deal.

World's largest online job board & recruitment site. Built this company up and sold it to TMP/Monster in an 8 figure deal. Started as VP of Development; later promoted to COO; then to CEO.

California

Internet based Supply Chain Management & Logistics. Worked closely with partners: IBM, Microsoft. Helped close multi-million dollar contracts w/ big clients: Carrefour, Maersk.

Tennessee

One of the world's largest musical instrument manufacturers. Oversaw development of the factory of the future w/ customer tours, on-site performance venue, restaurant, museum, store and more. Also helped CEO w/ other ventures including Gibson Cafes, software company acquisition & integration, company website and more.

For the Rock N Soul Museum in Memphis Tennessee, the first permanent Smithsonian Museum outside Washington, DC. Oversaw design, construction, and coordination with Gibson Musical Instruments.

Entrepreneurial ventures, contract work & consulting.

A couple of the world's largest software companies, at the time.I sold them my San Diego based software company and then helped build a large, successful new division of Mac and Windows products.

California

Software development services, specifically AppleWorks v3.0 and later for Apple subsidiary Claris Corp.

California

Software design, development, sales, and marketing. Numerous award winning, chart-topping products. Tremendous growth. Multiple millions in annual sales. Did a leveraged buy-out of this company after free-lancing for them for a few years.

Mba, Business Administration, Management And Operations

Bs, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: ACM, IEEE, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Design Technology, Spanish