• Oversee production of all advertising materials, including preparing copy, designing offers, evaluating proofs and enhancing layouts for more than ten clients at a time.• Build partnerships with diverse internal teams including sales, technology and operations departments to streamline processes.• Review, analyze, optimize, and report on campaign performance.• Liaise with customers, management and sales team to better understand customer needs and recommend appropriate solutions.• Communicate with vendors regarding order availability, future inventory and campaign optimizations.• Maintain customer success with forward-thinking strategies focused on addressing customer needs and resolving concerns.

• Manage numerous campaigns of up to 500K budget, for Fortune 500 level clients on several kids, parents and teacher sites including Jeff Kinney’s (author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid series) virtual world creation, Poptropica.com. • Adeptly handle all client communications as the frontline liaison between software programmers, designers, agency executives, editors and accounting.• Oversee all project objectives including initial client conference, timeline management, client expectations, creative team guidance, campaign delivery, and billing. • Manage all moving parts between design, editorial, and technical teams to ensure all client campaigns delivered in full, on time, and with optimal performance.• Analyze, leverage and measure comprehensive data, reporting results to teams and client in order to benchmark goals and successes.

• Strategized and assisted in the development of client promotion and media campaigns.• Led an online development team (creative, editorial, technology, and ad operations) in creating sponsored content and custom features.• Proactively made recommendations and provided solutions to optimize client’s program performance.• Reconciled delivered media for monthly revenue recognition and billing processes.• Identified renewal and up-sell opportunities with clients.• Chosen to be team leader; responsible for training and mentoring all new hires.

Worked in a variety of advertising sales roles at companies including WRKO Radio AM 680, Citysearch and LocalTel Yellow Pages. After multiple years in this role, I transitioned into the role of account manager utilizing skills learned while selling including relationship building, identifying client needs and understanding the deadline driven project management process.