Sarah Santoro Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, North Carolina

Depending on the business and their pain points I can provide a variety of services including strategic planning and implementation, partnership and brand development, copywriting, social media management, and act as a marketing point of contact for media.Let's talk about your needs and how I can help!

Atlanta, Georgia

After a terrible accident I paused my career to take care of my husband who suffered a C2 spinal cord injury. He became fully dependent, needing full time care and assistance. I found myself in a position to learn a lot really fast in order to adopt a roll where I had enough SCI knowledge to act as a nurse, respiratory therapist, physical therapist as well.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

I lead the execution of written email nurture and customer reference activities, as well as organic social media strategy and content deployment.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Managing all marketing directives for EMC, a business that focuses on proactive and reactive repair and maintenance of roadways, bridges, forestry, infrastructure and more.

1000 Centregreen Way, Cary NC 27613

Responsible for managing the relationship between Lenovo and their external vendors, with a focus in working with vendors that provide various marketing activities including video and media agencies, direct marketing, market research, promotional products, and e-commerce solution providers. During my time with SDI and Lenovo I have been successful in.

• As IBM Software Group Client Reference Manager I manage the development of external and internal client reference assets including case studies, videos, podcasts, etc. I am the liaison between marketing and sales.
• Successfully managed Client Reference assets for IBM Software group in the areas of Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure; consistently met or exceeded targets around publication and asset usage.
• Prepared and presented teleconference sales education sessions for large groups around the reference process in order to drive client reference leads.
• Interviewed and formed relationships with C-level clients to accurately develop their usage success story through to publication on ibm.com.
• Planned and represented a sub-conference of 400 clients and prospects for IBM’s Pulse event, exceeding all targets/goals. As IBM Client Reference team social lead:
• Created and managed the global team’s first internal community – used to increase reference usage and awareness, house team education and resource materials.

For Themis Media I was responsible for managing corporate communication between magazine contributors and directors while also working with clients to help build their media exposure and internal projects.As a board member of the Triangle Game Initiative for the last 3 years: - Helped organize the East Coast Game Conference in 2010, 2011 and 2012. - Event.

Supported the IBM Client Reference Team, providing sales teams with the materials that they need to close perspective business. I have experience working with both the IBM Tivoli and IBM WebSphere software brands around client references.- Work with sales teams to gather reference prospects and get them published internally.- Handled reference use requests.

• Gained familiarity with PR/media activities
• Responsible for sending press releases for existing accounts
• Worked with marketing on building new accounts
• Assisted with event development and management for Global Water Foundation
• Participated in new Business Development and Research for potential clients and many current clients
• Worked with the NC Beer and Wine Association on event coordination and exposure