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Salem, Or

Our program is adventurous, ambitious and comprehensive, taking in nature and wildlife around the world and presenting it in ways that truly transport the viewer. Our role is co-witness. Unlike traditional nature film our approach is minimalistic and allows people to simply be with the animals and in their habitats…all around them.Seeking a financial partner to help us put 15 months of international project work into the next gear.

Salem, Oregon

IIBA led Business and Systems analysis for high value State Agency focussed on meeting Oregon's housing needs.

Portland, Oregon Area

Creative and project oversight of regional leader in Virtual & Augmented Reality and cinematic grade 360 video production company. Managed all client relations and end-to-end delivery on pioneering and industry relevant creative projects with global consumer market audiences.Responsibilities & Accomplishments:• Mastered cutting edge VR, AR and 360 Video production workflows, equipment and platforms.• Secured and executed projects for some of the world’s leading creative agencies and global brands.• Established the business as a foundry for talent through a popular and successful internship program in 2015 & 2016, successful graduates have gone on to work at the industry leading agencies.

Portland, Or

Top level, direction of local, multi-project group providing management and strategic insight across a range of group projects including retail operations and household name event planning.Responsibilities & Accomplishments: * Ongoing analysis of the business needs and objective setting to the ownership level. * Managerial responsibility for substantial budgets on a project by project basis. * Report production, data engineering and creative oversight for all business units.Facilitated the acquisition of NXT Industries and shareholdings in Portland Gear, Time & Oak and Society Nine. Structured joint venture agreement with Lyon Films to create VR Northwest. Established company in the Portland start-up space by forming mentorship relations and creating partnerships with Portland's world class entrepreneurs (Tony Peniche, Marcus Harvey, Lynn Le).

Salem, Or

Project management and direction across key local and web based business projects, including a large user base interactive platform project within the college sports industry and a local charity portal - VB.Net on SQL.Responsibilities & Accomplishments: * Ground-up development of user and management interfaces and environments. * Managed an eight strong team of developers across multiple platforms and disciplines. * Development of identities and communications approaches for all business projects.

Salem, Oregon

Undertook multiple internal and external projects for this, 500 employee, multi-million dollar, national leader in insurance lead generation. Responsible for all matters of communication and identity as well as top-level process development for all aspects of the day-to-day operations.Responsibilities & Accomplishments: * Ground-up rebuild of VB.Net on SQL intranet for production management and delivery. * Rebranded the business for outbound communications to Fortune 500 clients. * Managed report delivery to key clients via advanced SQL to Excel architecture.Established Santiam Technology with HBW Leads ownership to provide technology and development services to an extended client base.

Tigard, Or

Strategic head developer for boutique creative agency based in Tigard OR. Responsible for bottom-up development of web presence for all online facing clients. Ongoing responsibility for development and maintenance of over 30 websites.Responsibilities & Accomplishments: * Design consulting, map development, UI design and code/script production. * Responsible for all client web presence strategy and tools leveraging. * Created and maintained websites for large clients and small clients alike with a focus on clean, efficient, standards compliant code.

London, United Kingdom

Multi-million dollar account management and logistical direction for this Worldwide on-board consumables provider to clients such as Virgin Airways, El Al, Cathay Pacific and British Airways to a global logistics framework that is both time and location sensitive.Responsibilities & Accomplishments: * Increased client expenditure through product innovation and reliability. * Ensured supply chain dependability through communications process development. * Created new top-level reporting architecture (Excel based) from worldwide profit and logistics centers to PLC board located in London.Emigrated to US in November 2007 leaving this position in good standing.

London, Uk

Account management for the UK’s market leader in promotional materials with responsibility for the London area and City Financial District. Working with high visibility, high budget clients such as Investec, Lehman Brothers, Citigroup and Accenture.Responsibilities & Accomplishments: * Creative production of client briefs, range planning and design consulting. * Increased portfolio income from £400k to >£1m per year. * Selected to represent US sister company in partnership with key UK accounts.

London, United Kingdom

Senior relationship management of £1m+ business accounts, general advisory and value adding function for leading UK bank.Responsibilities & Accomplishments: * Delivery of core strategic proposition and business objectives to portfolio. * Voted manager of the month three times by regional team. * Secured promotion to senior level within 5 months of joining bank.

London, Uk

Direction and co-ordination of all UK operations for this small specialized giftware firm operating internationally. Increased trade sales turnover from £36k (1998) to £480k (2003).Responsibilities & Accomplishments: * Grew client base ten-fold through professional sales and marketing strategies. * Managed supply chain from Russia, China and Taiwan as well as domestic suppliers and exports to Japan, The Netherlands, US and Scandinavia. * Planned all aspects of the business' attendance at over 20 international trade exhibitions.

Ba (Hons), Economics

Graduated with Honors in Economics, undergraduate electives in Astrophysics and Psychology.

A-Levels, Psychology, Politics & Economics (Abb)

UK Pre-degree Advanced Level Certficates.