Currently manage creative, marketing and communications professionals as well as an inside sales team to generate and close new business opportunities in the Customs brokerage and consulting, W&D, and International transportation industry. The team is responsible for content marketing and lead generation via the web, digital advertising, social media and collateral materials development. Our writing, design and communications work supports customer education in the realm of International trade using email alerts, webinars, and a library of online resources maintained by the group. We also prepare comprehensive responses to Requests for Proposals (RFPs). The inside sales team is charged with individual sales goals, met by conducting prospect research and outreach, as well as timely followup and identification of creative customer solutions. Strong collaboration between the inside sales and marketing teams has resulted in continuously improving analytics and sales performance for A.N. Deringer, Inc.

Former Board President of the Ronald McDonald House Charities in Burlington, Vermont. Served as Chair of the Development Committee, leading fundraising and development initiatives, as well as public relations and special event direction. Such a wonderful group of caring volunteers and important resource for families with sick children receiving treatment at University of Vermont Medical Center/ VT Children's Hospital.

Provides marketing project management and support to Choice Strategies, a division of WageWorks. Choice Strategies is a leader in consumer-directed benefits, including custom Health Reimbursement Arrangements, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Health Savings Accounts in the small business market. Develops and manages multi-media communication and marketing campaigns to drive sales, inform employers, and educate participants. Serve as the conduit between the local division and corporate marketing department to integrate product messaging and company branding. As part of the Vermont office leadership team, provide marketing and communications direction and project management.

Communications and marketing campaign development. Responsible for annual budget and marketing spend of division.

Account executive and project manager for Marketing Partners in Burlington, Vermont. Providing local businesses with social marketing, public relations, and communications services. Worked with non-profits, higher education, business startups, small businesses, and public sector entities in the renewable energy, education, healthcare, specialty food, and financial services fields. Extensive project management involved collaboration with social media, advertising, and design personnel to develop websites, social media policies, collateral, and advertising campaigns. Assisted in the development and authorship of strategic marketing and communications plans.

Provided technical writing, marketing and community outreach support services to engineering firms and transportation/government agencies in Delaware and Maryland. Worked with tremendously talented graphic designers to produce professional materials.

CREATIVEtypes, LLC is a small, women-owned business that helps technical service firms to produce competitive marketing campaigns. CREATIVEtypes personnel offer the same level of customized marketing and communications services provided by in-house employees, but without the added overhead and benefits costs. CREATIVEtypes’ mission is to allow customers in the engineering, architectural, scientific, education, management, and law communities to focus their technical resources and incur business development costs only on an as-needed basis.

Responsible for the start up and development of a centralized national marketing department for an environmental consulting firm with revenues of $85 million. Department served 600 employees in 18 regional offices worldwide. Developed, managed, and monitored annual marketing plan and budget of nearly $1 million. Directed and developed marketing communications, proposals, and public relations materials. Work activities included creating and coordinating special events; trade shows and receptions; seminars; videotapes; brochures; qualification statements; and internal and external newsletters. Accomplishments include design and publication of the firm's first newsletter; development of the first winning response to the American Academy of Environmental Engineers' Annual Engineering Excellence Awards competition; and launching two national multimedia marketing campaigns and special events to position the company’s proprietary technologies.

Responsible for the completion of client questionnaires, as well as development of company qualifications materials and proposal coordination. Produced approximately one 254/255 submittal per month, in addition to writing portions of corporate brochures, quarterly client newsletters, and press releases. Also maintained advertisements for nationwide placement in environmental journals.