Robin Shank, Mba Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

PORTL is the first device that lets people beam themselves to a location thousands of miles away and interact with people there. You can call it telepresence, or even holoportation, but it’s real right now.

Connections, Coordinator, Data Maven, Task-master.Green Business Networking is a non-profit organization providing the owners and decision-makers of socially and environmentally conscious businesses a time and place for connecting, sharing, deal-making and networking. Green Business Networking meets the 2nd Tuesday of each month. Find group on LinkedIn.The Green Economy Think-Tank Day 2010 (Green Economy Think-Tank Day) brought leaders and decision makers from various private and public sectors now building our Los Angeles green, sustainable economy together to forge new and deepen existing connections. GETTD Participants identified solutions and continue to create ‘actionable’ intelligence resulting in tangible outcomes and positive results in 2011.

Greater Los Angeles Area

StakeHolders Capital is a full service wealth management firm committed to integrating our clients’ values with their financial goals.

Greater Los Angeles Area

VerdeXchange's cross-platform California Conference brings together accomplished clean and green tech entrepreneurs, energy & water companies, advanced vehicle manufacturers, soft & hardware developers, public policymakers as well as: procurers, innovative financiers, and environmental stewards "under-one-roof" to assess "what's in-market," "what's about to be in-market," and "what's needed" in the global, trillion dollar verde economy.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Event Run-of-Show, Speaker Coordination, Web Site Updates, Communication and Editing, General Background Support

Greater Los Angeles Area

REV is devoted to working with SMEs (small and mid-sized enterprises) to help them improve their profits by embedding sustainable business practices into their operations, culture and business model.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Host Committee: various outreach, planning, past event staff, speaker and stage manager

Greater Los Angeles Area

Events Chair - We use the power of business to solve social and environmental problems throughout greater Los Angeles. • We Connect People • We Educate Professionals • We Create Impact

Greater Los Angeles Area

Liaison between B Revolution and Social Enterprise business community. Business Development, Customer Relationship Management, Event Hosting, Partnership Development

Greater Los Angeles Area

Organization, Planning, Strategy, Marketing Plans

Santa Monica

2012: Outreach, volunteer coordination, event logistics2011:Event Outreach, PR, Exhibit Booth Sales and Support

Create product sustainability profiles through research and interviews. Profiles are used by purchasing managers for items commonly used in hospitals and large medical clinics.Practice Greenhealth is the nation’s leading membership and networking organization for institutions in the healthcare community that have made a commitment to sustainable, eco-friendly practices. Members include hospitals, healthcare systems, businesses and other stakeholders engaged in the greening of healthcare to improve the health of patients, staff and the environment

Green-focused MBA. Presidio prepares MBA students to be skilled managers who are competitive and relevant in any field. Presidio's degree in business administration connects rigorous management theory and practice with social responsibility, ecological awareness, systems thinking, and leadership within an integrated framework of sustainable management.

Strategy/Marketing Consultant for CoHousing Partners. Created Marketing and Strategy plans for cohousing development company.CoHousing Partners works with future residents, to create socially vibrant and environmentally sustainable communities. Our clients are given the opportunity to envision, plan and create their very own neighborhoods, supported by the leading professionals in the field.

Evaluate Annieglass production flow and recommend improvements in sustainability (energy and materials) and operational efficiency for implementation in the near and long-term.Annieglass is handmade on California's central coast by a small group of highly skilled artisans and is noted for its beauty as well as its quality and strength. Every one-of-a-kind piece is proudly engraved with the studio signature.

Direct a team managing union and non-union employees in newspaper production operations. Manage 21-acre property and 88,000 ft2 facility, responsible for daily upkeep, environmental regulations, carbon emission initiative implementation, safety and capital expenditures. •Direct daily production and transportation logistics of The Wall Street Journal and New York Post, weekly production of Barron’s.•Directly responsible for more than $8,000,000 annual production budget, including $1,800,000 transportation budget. Managed projects adding 16% more color to the paper and cutting cost by implementing a web size reduction, reducing newsprint usage by 20%.

Directed talented Prepress/Pagination staff producing ad materials and digitally paginated pages for LA Weekly/OC Weekly newspapers; managed printing contracts for both newspapers.•Directed conversion of Ad prepress from Quark to Adobe Creative Suite; upgraded pagination systems and implemented new file transfer procedures to commercial printer without impacting customers.•Managed commercial printing contracts worth $6,800,000 annually, negotiated reduced costs for new special perfect-bound editions.

Directed a team of professionals to manage and optimize printed quality and customer service through training, testing, print analysis and partnerships with internal and external customers.•Implemented and lead a process of ad adjustment (credit) review, sales and advertiser education and pressroom awareness that reduced production ad credits to $87,500 for 2003, down from more than $481,000 in 1999. •Lead Training Task Force creating 3 new training programs in 2003, attended by 487 press operators resulting in .3% reduction in newsprint waste, 70% improvement in rolls-per-break and anecdotal improvements in crew productivity.

Managed daily operations and long-range strategic planning of plate making, press and newsprint handling departments. Created and implemented plans for installing, training, testing and transition to new $65 million offset printing presses.•Administered expense budgets of almost $19 million annually, maintained zero percent growth year-over-year while implementing 3% merit increases for 240 employees.•Implemented programs to reduce newsprint waste by 6% and improve rolls-per-break by 28%, saving the company more than $354,000 in 1997.

Served as a prime resource for information and guidance among Knight-Ridder newspapers in the areas of reproduction quality and newsprint conservation.•Created Knight-Ridder newsprint conservation program, which saved Knight-Ridder newspapers more than $500,000. Developed a comprehensive newsprint conservation audit.•Conducted annual evaluation of quality procedures for Knight-Ridder newspapers and detailed recommendations for improvement. Identified and troubleshot reproduction problems for 29 newspapers.

Mba, Sustainable Management

Activities and Societies: NetImpact, MediaLab, Student MentorGraduation May 27, 2011

Bs, Printing Management, Minor In Economics