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Portland, OR, US

Remote

Portland, Oregon Area

- Designed and created a Super Sentai/Power Rangers inspired storytelling game: Henshin! - Worked directly with comics creators to generate artwork for product release. - Organized and facilitated a promotional podcast to help educate players about how the game works.

Portland, Oregon, United States

- Owns merchandise development, taking concepts from ideation through to execution.- Works collaboratively with cross functional teams (editorial, production design, operations, retail sales, marketing) to define and develop product Go To Market strategies. - Provide in-depth reporting and analysis, to influence and back up future production decisions..

Portland, Oregon Area

Portland, Oregon Area

- Currently manages a team of 8 across 5 key accounts.- Serves as the primary point of contact for clients-- translating their needs into actionable next steps. - Responsible for the planning, organization, and motivation of a project team across multiple large-scale, ongoing projects. - Implemented a cross departmental Contractor higher process, to help.

Los Angeles

- Generated over 50 unique retailer covers during my time, helping to increase overall sales by 30%- Created the production & print process for exclusive variant covers, including: Translation of key artistic & marketing requests into requirements, management of approval process for licensor and retailer from initial concept to final layout & artwork and.

Somerville, MA

- Maintained the store’s list of monthly events calendar.- Worked with owners to schedule and facilitate event-specific site modifications.- Implemented and manage the online ticketing system, BrownPaperTickets, in the main website infrastructure.

Somerville, MA

- Managed multiple web-based projects, from UX & design through development-- including full site designs, application development, and data visualizations. - Worked closely with internal stakeholders to translate requirements into project plans and specifications, using Microsoft Project, FogBugz, and Jira.- Responsible for organizing and tracking open.

Greater Boston Area

ComedyCazi is a monthly comedic stage show held in Davis Square's premiere comic shop, Comicazi that I co-created, produce and manage. - Responsible for scheduling rehearsals and performances- Acted as the primary point of contact for the improvisers, production team and performance space- Created and distributed our marketing materials (posters.

Westborough, MA

- Managed internal resources and monitored timelines, keeping projects on time and under budget. - Produced page content for client sites within multiple content management systems, including Sitecore, Kentico, and Wordpress. - Maintained marketing efforts for EditMe, Wakefly’s internal intranet solution.

• Created promotional teacher & student video interviews for Youtube and Vimeo with our video producer.
• Analyzed e-mail advertisement revenue, outreach and overall effectiveness for each academic term.
• Worked with sales team to manage & execute a large-scale military outreach project.
• Built and maintained Twitter follows & followers using CoTweet, resulting in 6,000+ followers.
• Produced the Music Business & Production Handbook documents using pre-existing course content.

• Created extensive full-length (400-600 words) and short-length (200-300 word) reviews for Manga (Japanese comics) on a weekly basis.
• Conducted a panel discussions on cooking, cultural superheroes, post modern art theory and industry internships at Anime Boston 2009, 2010 and 2011 as well as New York Comic Con & Anime Fest and San Jose's Fanime, as a.

• Built and maintained social identities for Naruto Shippuden Campaign and acted as resident Anime expert, providing in-depth analysis on consumer targets and the overall anime marketplace.
• Interacted with core fans in social networks, message boards, video upload sites, micro-blogging sites.
• Managed database of client contests and was responsible for distributing contest information.