Robert Laurie Email & Phone Number

Remote - Palo Alto, Ca

Applying technical and account management skills to help reshape the way readers and learners interact with content they want and need to be successful in their studies and throughout their lives.

Spoiling. Lots of spoiling.

Greater Chicago Area

Mchenry, Il

Write and submit grant proposals to private foundations, corporations, clubs, and federal, state, and county government entities. Meet deadlines, track requests, generate budgets, ensure proper allocation of funds. Provide service performance reports to funders. Research new funding opportunities. Co-Chair, Community Awareness Committee of McHenry County Continuum of Care to End Homelessness.

Fontana, Wi

OddInt Media is a Story Studio for Oddly Interesting Stories.

Nationwide

Full Potential Associates is a consulting firm that exists to help people move forward. Our specialty is maintaining the proper balance between planning for the future and keeping your business operating smoothly today.Our business is focused on the blending of technology, publishing, and education. With decades of experience in these markets, we are perfectly positioned to help your organization realize its full potential. We can help you with Strategy, Market Awareness, and Business Connections. For a fuller picture, go here: http://www.fullpotentialassociates.com/aboutservices

Illinois

Developed and maintained relationships with specific key customers, ensuring their needs and service expectations were understood and met. Led onsite customer visits and met with customers at national and state conferences, user group meetings, and other events. Implemented key concepts of strategic plan, hit sales targets, and exceeded customer needs.Developed and implemented improvements to existing processes, services, plans, and procedures. Formed and led cross-functional teams as needed to achieve results, particularly for new accounts and new business.Increased sales by 12% in troubled market. Co-chaired company-wide, select, inter-departmental team to identify key issues and workable solutions.

Directed operational activities to ensure effective delivery of digital applications and content to customers in public library, K-12 schools, and higher education markets.Engaged two offshore partner companies to enable quick turnaround of digital assets from publishers to market.

Managed transfer of knowledge, workflows, processes, and data in merger of two business units, while minimizing negative impact to customers. Focused on customers, data integrity, EDI, and sales support.Significantly broadened new company’s understanding of public library market’s complexity and needs.

Managed IT group, ensuring alignment between IT functions and business strategy, goals, and values. Assembled and led group of programmers, web developers, system/network administrators, and technical support specialists. Maintained responsibility for data integrity, security, backup, and disaster recovery planning. Managed data enhancement strategy, engaging and contracting with external providers of descriptive data. Introduced technology to enable customer-focused strategy: website enhancements and uptime, XML processing, thin clients, VPN, and data backup and protection.

Ba, French

Post-Grad Studies, Industrial Administration