Mark Emerson Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

London, Gb

Tiburon, Ca, Us

Digital Foundry envisions, plans and executes on custom digital solutions for todays leading brands via our robust in-house full stack engineering and digital consultancy practices. Our work spans industries with an always laser focus towards client value and innovation.

Independent consultant with deep financial services expertise and a focus on digital strategy engagements. • Directed the design of a client's web portal in support of their strategy to provide liquidity products to small institutions and high net worth holders of alternative assets. • Managed client engagements, partnering with a boutique creative agency to direct their client relationships within financial services.

Responsible for the product management and development of BlackRock’s institutional client account websites, leading a global team of product managers and software engineers dedicated to the maintenance and evolution of the platform.• Implemented an API first architecture, evolving the client web portal from that of a static push of data to that of a dynamic, on-demand retrieval of data and two-way communication between the client and BlackRock.• Created a federated model, enabling multiple engineering teams to deliver services to the client web portal all managed via a single monorepo

Global head of BlackRock's User Experience & Design team, responsible for the design and visual identity of BlackRock's public and client facing digital properties including the web, tools and business application channels.• Developed a new visual identity and user interaction patterns for BlackRock's Aladdin suite of applications.

Led a group of six UX&D professionals, responsible for the design and visual identity of BlackRock's public and client facing websites. Expanded the team's mandate to develop a new on-line visual identity and branding across multiple business channels, driving the effort to persist a common look and feel across all BlackRock websites and related digital properties.• Transformed what was a marginalized and under appreciated team and discipline into a well respected and effective voice of expertise within BlackRock

Project Manager responsible for the development of client facing web properties and marketing campaigns.

Project Manager representing RBC Capital Markets NY on the effort to integrate the client's institutional and retail (RBC Dain Rauscher) Operations groups.

Added business domain expertise and coordinated offshore development efforts as related to the client's implementation of the Sophis Risque system.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Project Manager on multiple initiatives, focusing on data conversion, process review/redesign, operations consolidation, testing and business continuity planning.

Bachelor Of Arts, English

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