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Fair Oaks, Ca, Us

Solar Smartphone Accessories that keep you powered up. Whether you’re a student, outdoor professional, recreation enthusiast, or homeowner with a power outage, you have a dead phone risk. iPowerUp's products will recharge you every day, for free, from the sun.

Sacramento, California, Us

Addwater integrates smart inbound marketing practices with compelling design to help businesses attract and keep high-profit clients and customers. We do it with a combination of strategic thinking, customer-centered design, and reality-based marketing. The objective is always to position our client as the best choice!The marketing system we practice is based on what worked well for Apple in my years there and after. We've simplified it, and sized it, to help businesses small and large get remarkable results quicker, and with less effort.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Directing elevated 3D experiences for Enjoy's personalized mobile store services including R&D, design, logistics, and related programs.

Sacramento, California, Us

We help businesses attract and keep high-profit clients and customers. The marketing system we teach is based on what worked well for Apple in our years there and after. Now it’s been simplified and sized to help businesses, small and large, get remarkable results quicker, and with less effort.

Sonoma, Ca, Us

We're a new company focused on helping hobbyists and professional growers know what their plants know.Why? Too much guesswork by novices and pros alike results in over-watering, over-fertilizing, and inefficient or incorrect lighting, energy, and water management.Our solution: An easy-to-use smart plant growth system that integrates • A multi-point sensor network• Professional-grade sensor and communications system• Cloud connectivity to simple monitoring and management appsRole: CEO/CMO Juggling many funding, admin, marketing and product design hats including strategist, product manager, product designer, customer engagement manager, website designer, app UI design, presentations and other marketing and funding activities. Includes industrial design of hardware products, testing/demo lab, pilot installations —and anything else we dream up!

Sonoma, California, Us

Responsible for marketing and sales support efforts, including online media, inbound marketing programs, web apps and tools, events, and user experience.Led marketing targeted at Lighting Designers, Architects, Interior Designers, Contractors, and commercial lighting sales channels for Vode —a maker of very high-quality commercial LED lighting systems installed in corporate, institutional, and educational buildings worldwide. Accountable for brand awareness, market validation, metrics, online content, online tools, user experience, customer adoption, and market penetration. Also provided strategic business and HR planning, budget management, and counsel leading to elevated HR practices.• Developed first annual marketing plans, budget projections, product launch strategies, and positioning strategies• Led user testing and "Right Stuff" projects to improve the critical website user experience dramatically• Lead redesign of technical and marketing documentation of over 90 pieces• Improved marketing team productivity and impact • Elevated brand awareness within an extraordinarily discerning and sophisticated professional community• Regularly achieved response rates over 30% and conversion rates of 5-8% for outbound marketing• Established PR, inbound marketing, and content marketing programs and operations

A one-stop online resource for residential landscape design services and outdoor furnishings and contemporary garden design products.

Venture capital investor and coach of early and growth stage companies.

Marketing strategy, prospective investor introductions, identity design, UI design, POP strategy and design, industry organization introductions, biz model counseling

Sacramento, California, Us

Served as the Managing Principal from founding through the development of products and services designed to accelerate the growth of small to mid-size businesses.. Accountable for community networking, business strategy, go-to-market planning, team building, client acquisition and administration. Also responsible for business development, client relationships, customer satisfaction and product quality.• Established a rapid growth marketing consultancy • Leveraged consultancy as a laboratory to explore client-centered online products • Generated positive cash flow that underwrote proprietary product and services development• Lead product development for 20 business-optimized blog products • Established executive level partnership with social blogging platform Tumblr• Achieved over 15,000 blog theme and widget users• Themes and widgets realized a churn rate of under 4% since inception

Led Marketing, UI design, HR and Customer Service for LikeList (SpotLikes) —an online and mobile web app where people who think alike share lists of their favorite local businesses. Accountable for market validation, metrics, online product look and feel, user experience, user acquisition, SMB customer acquisition and local market penetration. Also for onboarding new staff, HR policies and benefits programs for initial year.• Developed 5-year sales and marketing plans, financial projections, go-to-market strategy, positioning and product UI designs that achieved funding• Played critical role in pitching and acquiring venture capital funding of $7.5 million• Built A-team of experienced designers, marketing professionals and regional evangelists• Achieved brand awareness of approximately 80% in key local markets• Acquired a base of over 45,000 consumer users and over 5,000 SMB users

Sacramento, California, Us

Incubated and lead a website development and advertising agency that delivered big-city strategic thinking and creativity to small and mid-sized businesses helping them compete against big brands. Accountable for general management, team building, marketing, sales, client marketing strategies, media planning, creative direction and client satisfaction.• Moved into a new region and built a client base of over 60 local accounts• Clients included community pillars: Chamber of Commerce, Visitors Bureau, and Business Alliances etc.• Established semi-automated systems for business strategy, media planning and campaigns• Developed print and online marketing strategies, marketing media plans, promotions, advertising and collateral that helped boost Sonoma Valley tourism revenue by over 20%Partial list of clients:• Artefact Design & Salvage• Borel Bank• Boston Private Bank• Cornerstone Gardens• Larson Family Winery• M Squared• O'Reilly / Safari Books• Sonoma Valley Chamber of Commerce• Sonoma Valley Visitors Bureau• Synecor Medical Device Incubator• Washington Mutual Bank• YMCA of Silicon Valley and Mid-Penninsula

Sacramento, California, Us

Established and lead the creative team for a brand strategy and online media design consultancy serving Internet start-ups and entrepreneurial corporate divisions. Accountable for staff, contractor and vendor recruiting and management, creative strategy development, project management, and team coaching for brand identity, website, packaging, collateral systems and environmental projects. Also responsible for co-pitching all new business, project profitability and maintaining executive relationships with key accounts.• Recruited additional founding partners and creative team ultimately totaling 35 full-time staff and 25 contractors —total headcount over 100• Developed and evolved production workflow to accommodate rapidly growing staff and technology requirements.• Played decisive role in landing scores of clients —leading to $11 million in annual revenue• Led teams and projects achieving awards and distinctions for creativity and design• Successfully helped pivot the firm, creative team and client base to survive dot-com bubble burst in 2000• Creative team members are now chief creative officers of leading consulting firms and internal marketing groupsPartial client list:• Adobe Systems• Bluelight.com / Martha Stewart• BlueNile• Burger King• Fender Guitars• FireTalk• HomeBid• Joe Boxer• Levis• Lightspeed Venture Partners• LiquidAudio• NapaStyle / Michael Chiarello• NEC • Sun Microsystems• Wells Fargo ATM Services

Hired to dramatically elevate the quality of work coming from the firm’s original office, install infrastructure and workflow to improve work efficiency and profitability. Accountable for creative team management and growth, creative strategy development and client satisfaction.• Grew a team of 7 earnest designers and writers to a team of 35+ award winning creative professionals • Helped office achieve highest profitability of the firm every quarter of tenure• Led a team that became a pioneer of website and online user interface design• Improved office profitability, work quality and aggressive adoption of technology to support CKS Partners going public• Opened expansion office in another state with responsibility for new client acquisition and team recruitingPartial client list:• American Express Financial Advisors• Apple• Camino Healthcare & Hospital• Grass Valley Systems• HP• McDonald's• National Semiconductor• Nextel• NTB• Philips Electronics• Radius• Sony• Tektronix• TV Guide Onscreen• Xerox

Cupertino, California, Us

Ba, Fine Art And Industrial Design

Design Management

Industrial Design, Engineering And Manufacturing Processes