Michael Fiscus Email & Phone Number

Detroit Metropolitan Area

The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is a volunteer and donor powered charity committed to supporting the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives.What started as a challenge between three friends in 2000 has grown into the world’s largest charity funder of childhood cancer research grants. Since then, volunteers have held more than 16,663 events and more than 630,454 shaves have taken place to stand in solidarity with kids fighting cancer.Since 2005, St. Baldrick's has awarded more than $342 million to support lifesaving research. We have played a role in virtually every advancement in the field of childhood cancer research in the past 22 years.My role is to grow and accelerate our existing funding initiatives and develop net new ways to raise funds and awareness for childhood cancer research.

Detroit Metropolitan Area

Work with the CEO and business development team on Rova MDM and Verizon MDM product evolution.

Cupertino, California, United States

Lead technical pre-sales resource dedicated to top tier US carrier, focused on national business development and driving iOS/iPadOS platform adoption. Helped grow Verizon B2B into Apple's largest B2B channel globally, consistently driving growth every single year.Developed enablement programs for the carrier that included strategy and training materials.

Cupertino, California, United States

Communicated the capabilities of the iOS platform to the business community at the national level.Assisted customers with process evolution, business transformation to improve productivity and reduce costs.Assessed security infrastructure, network and system design requirements between Apple's iOS platform and user's existing environments. Identifying key process improvement opportunities. Assist customers to prepare for successful mobile deployments and integration.Gave guidance and implementation engineering/management advice in regards to security, mobile device management, app development and best practices for transforming business.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Built and managed a SMB sales team, tripling revenue over previous year in my first 3 months. Developed a SMB focused team from existing staff with mentoring and training. Recruited by Apple Enterprise Carrier Team within 3 months to help grow iPhone in business initiatives with ATT's business channel team.

Detroit Metropolitan Area

Launched Michigan In Motion as a marketing company (evolved from AM Services), with a technology-based focus. Primarily focused on small to medium size companies doing print, social/web and video based marketing and business development. Specializing in driving growth of the motion picture industry in support of state based tax incentives for film production in Michigan. Provided marketing services to three communities, which included creating a local film production office to promote job growth during Michigan's film incentive program. This involved creating a unique brand and identity and marketing it nationally to the film industry. This resulted in several film, tv and advertising productions being shot in the communities.Consulted with multiple Michigan communities to replicate processes and grow the film industry across the state of Michigan, up until the film incentives were eliminated.WBRWtv was a public access tv station in northern Macomb County. I worked as the development director as the station evolved into a community media center, offering various services to the local community. Developed the business plan/initial implementation, included all branding and marketing materials.• Working with complex tri-community government for alignment of budget and resources.• Built a training lab for students and senior citizens, offering classes from basic internet to video and film production. Developed volunteer recruitment training and retention plan.Pro bono work for the St. Baldrick's Foundation at a national level, which included branding and marketing reviews. Produced an ongoing series of promotional videos for St. Baldrick's Foundation.

Detroit Metropolitan Area

Campbell-Ewald had recently completed a merger with another company, Lintas and had many challenges with redundant and conflicting IT departments. Within my second year I was asked to step up, reorganize and lead my first team. Because of that initial success, within 4 years I was managing most of the technology teams. I developed strong relationships with the various business units, focusing on a customer service/partnership approach.Managed multiple technical teams in support of up to 1400 employees, across multiple divisions and locations in the US. Research emerging technology in the creative field (web, video and print) and oversee implementation and support. Developed a top notch teams that delivered cutting edge technology that drove innovation and consistently met project deadlines, always under budget.Worked closely with new business development team, to leverage creative technology in new and innovative ways, assisting in several years of growth.Customer focused management philosophy that built strong partnerships with internal business units.Worked with the separate business units to identify process improvement opportunities. From research, acceptance by stakeholder, to deployment and training.• Researched and deployed secure mobility tools• Research and deployed HD video production workflow• Researched and deployed automated print ad production system• Implemented mobile and stationary video conferencing solutions• Researched and identified digital asset management, collaboration and workflow solutionsIn 2006, I was asked to take over management and reorganize the operations team. See below.Campbell-Ewald grew to the nation’s eighth largest advertising and digital communications agency, it had offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, New York, and Washington, D.C. Primary clients include Chevrolet, Alltel Wireless, US Navy, Ghirardelli Chocolate, USPS, and GMAC, among others.

Detroit Metropolitan Area

Temporarily assumed management of the Campbell-Ewald Operations team after 3-4 years of quality of service issues. Oversaw management of entire data center while reorganizing the department to improve efficiency. Evaluated all core services and developed action plans to address problem areas and drastically improved uptime and quality of service.- Strengthened department expertise by cross training staff on all systems and functions- Oversaw migration of over 1200 users to MS Exchange/AD infrastructure in under 6 weeks- Offsite spam filtering solution to reduce volume of spam and network bandwidth- Core infrastructure optimization, including file services, security and network (wireless)- Disaster recovery evaluation and planning- Researched, evaluated and implemented replication servers

Detroit Metropolitan Area

Marketing and consulting services and creative production for a variety of clients in the Metro-Detroit area.The experience publishing Anti-Matter Magazine and developing a digital workflow before there was a digital workflow, led into a career in technology based consulting, driving industry transformation.Anti-Matter Magazine was published from 1989-1995. It was an alternative entertainment magazine, focusing on music, film and gaming. I handled most of the art direction, all of the digital production and did a fair portion of the writing.Developed marketing strategies for a variety of companies. Which included the creation of online marketing efforts and created/maintained a number of websites from 1994-2001, for small to large companies.This was at the dawn of digital production, which grew to creative technology consulting for freelance graphic artists, small-medium advertising agencies and newspapers during the transition to desktop publishing. I helped the metro Detroit publishing market (newspapers, magazine, printers and advertising agencies) to go digital and eventually direct to press as soon as the technology evolved. Ioffered consulting, implementation, training and support for creative production workflows for both print, web and video. This led to a full time position at Campbell-Ewald, focusing on emerging technology and engineering it for marketing and advertising and eventually being promoted to a VP role.

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Detroit Metropolitan Area

Opened an independent music store, dedicated to selling alternative music and music related items. Worked heavily with a number indie labels like Wax Trax, Nettwerk, TVT along with a focus on imported and local music. Helped the band Nine Inch Nails break in Detroit, then nationally and they helped break us a few years later, thank you Trent, it all worked out for the best.Interestingly, Trent was working at Apple when I started, but he never responded to a email I sent him that simply stated, "you owe me money". I thought it was funny, not sure he did.

Detroit Metropolitan Area

After winning awards for jewelry design while in high school, I explored going into being a professional jeweler. Started with repairs and adjustments. After mastering the tools, I shifted into a high level of design, which included developing sketches that I eventually would carve out of wax for casting.Designed a created high end jewelry at an established quality jewelry chain, that was founded in 1907.

Detroit Metropolitan Area

WLBS 102.7 was a metro Detroit (Mt. Clemens) radio station in the early '80s featuring New Wave/Alternative music. I interned with a few DJs and helped in studio. Also went on site and back stage for a number of amazing concerts, including The Clash and Big Country.