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Building cool things for investors.

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Championed the Design and Development of a Top-Performing Stock Product:Spearheaded the conception and execution of a stock-focused product that rapidly became the organization's best-seller, significantly contributing to revenue growth.Continuous Product Enhancement and Innovation:Directed an ongoing process of iterative improvements and feature additions, ensuring the product remained competitive and aligned with evolving market needs.Revamped Product Line with Advanced Algorithms:Engineered and implemented cutting-edge algorithms to incorporate options trading strategies as part of a comprehensive product modernization initiative, enhancing product-market fit.Rapid Launch of Cryptocurrency Coverage:Led a high-performing team to design and successfully launch comprehensive cryptocurrency coverage within an aggressive four-month timeframe, establishing a strong market presence.Efficiency-Boosting Automation Solution:Developed and deployed an automated system capable of generating approximately 1,000 daily articles, significantly expanding content production with no additional costs.Educational Webinar Leadership:Regularly hosted informative webinars highlighting products and services while providing expert commentary on the stock market, investment landscape, and the broader economy. Strategic Partner Engagement:Served as a subject-matter expert and product advocate in sales meetings with major financial firms, fostering productive relationships and contributing to successful corporate partnerships.User-Centric Product Development:Conducted in-depth user interviews to gain insights into customer wants and needs, enriching the product development process with user-driven feedback alongside metrics-based analysis.Vendor Evaluation and Cost Optimization:Analyzed intricate data sets from various vendors to identify providers aligning with the product's growth objectives and budgetary constraints, optimizing resource allocation.

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

Effective Management of Editorial Operations:Directed all aspects of daily publishing operations, including story assignments for weekly features, copyediting, and the creation of weekly market previews and wrap-ups, showcasing strong organizational and managerial skills.Content Creation Process Enhancement:Spearheaded initiatives to streamline and enhance the content creation and publication process, optimizing efficiency and quality, and demonstrating process improvement capabilities.Creation of Marketing and Subscriber-Success Materials:Conceptualized and led the production of materials tailored for marketing and subscriber-success initiatives, with a focus on delivering practical skills and value to end-users, showcasing a customer-centric approach.Strategic Relationship Management:Successfully maintained and expanded strategic partnerships with prominent entities such as CFRA Research and Argus Research, demonstrating expertise in partnership development and management.Key Point of Contact for Major Financial Partners:Acted as the primary point of contact and subject matter expert in relationships with key partners, including Fidelity Investments, TD Ameritrade, Ameriprise Financial, and others, highlighting ability to manage crucial business relationships.

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

Directed all aspects of content creation and publishing. Led rethink of publishing goals and associated redesign of website; Increased daily average pageviews by 100% without significant increases in resources. Collaborated with internal and external partners to create specialized content and pages for specialized advertising units.

Charlottesville, Virginia

Produce content focused on options trading education and strategies for publication across multiple websites.

Performed a variety of clerical and administrative tasks, including: filing, typing, scheduling meetings, handling incoming and outgoing mail, collecting and tracking receipt of documents for personnel files; acted as first point of contact for HR department; assisted with the planning and operation of job fairs; ensured accuracy and completeness of packets given to new hires; maintained adequate supplies for HR department; managed shipping of materials to more than a dozen outlying offices; coordinated flu shot program offering vaccinations to close to 500 employees across 17 locations in 3 states.

Worked through a temp agency providing back-office support to payment centers in Va. W.Va and Md. Researched misapplied payments, handled biller/processor reconciliation for credit card transactions, adjusted customer accounts as needed.

Basic administrative tasks need to keep day-to-day operations of HR department running smoothly. Assisted with several special projects, including flu shot program that offered shots to more than 500 employees in 3 states.

Wrote original news stories published both online in real time, and in e-mail newsletters using a variety of sources including: company documents, conference calls and interviews with industry participants, such as analysts, traders and company executives.

Wrote stories from company press releases, government documents and other sources for real time publishing and inclusion in daily newsletters covering the financial industry. Vetted incoming press releases and other company documents for news value.

Wrote human interest and pre-event stories. Designed section fronts, and inside pages. Helped select and integrate new youth-oriented content into newspaper and website. Designed and laid-out pages for various special sections published by newspaper. Responsible for uploading department content to website

Designed and laid-out daily news pages including: Region section front, Business pages and inside pages. Frequently responsible for story and photo selection and headline writing. Participated in daily news meeting to plan the next day's paper. Responsible for posting content to newspaper's website.