Scott Ivester Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

As COO, I drive strategic initiatives to optimize operations, maximize productivity, and foster growth for our legal and regulatory consulting firm. My role encompasses: • Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement plans to achieve firm-wide objectives; advise CEO on operational matters • IT Management: Lead digital transformation efforts, modernizing infrastructure to boost productivity and security • Financial Oversight: Drive performance through strategic budgeting; enhance reporting for improved decision-making • HR & Operations: Foster high-performance culture; oversee talent management and streamline processes • Marketing & Client Engagement: Lead initiatives to strengthen brand presence and client communicationsKey Achievements: • Led IT infrastructure upgrade, enhancing security and efficiency • Implemented marketing automation tools, improving client engagement • Optimized financial reporting and reduced operational costs while improving service qualityI combine strategic vision with hands-on expertise to drive firm-wide excellence in the competitive legal and regulatory consulting landscape.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Blaine, Mn

At Imagewerks, Scott plays a key leadership role setting the vision and developing digital strategies through innovative and creative uses of current and emerging web technologies.As the Business Development Executive, I provide daily direction and supervision for the Web Development team and for all mobile and web-related initiatives. I develop growth strategies for web services and identify/map business strengths and customer needs. I successfully manage the data center, cloud storage, and website hosting services; digital tactics including website design and development; HTML emails, banner ads, ESP set-up, and pay-per-click programs; AdWords; Google Analytics; and SEO. As a true professional, I effectively direct website builds ranging from $5 - $150.000.

Maplewood, Mn

As a highly skilled and successful Operations Director with key experience driving successful business strategies and initiatives, I proficiently supervised and managed 15,000 square foot company buildout (2007-2008). In this position, I was responsible for researching, purchasing, and installing AV equipment for IW Research (sister company); for recording onsite focus group sessions; and for making significant contributions to project proposal development. I realized consistent improvements in productivity, efficiency, and performance through effective relationship management, negotiating and managing contracts with vendors, and overseeing department budgets. I also created a standardized uniform format for presentation documents. Besides, I successfully moved, upgraded, and installed the server room and equipment.

Maplewood, Mn

In this position, I managed all aspects of the development and implementation of assigned projects. I successfully coordinated workflow for graphic designers, copywriters and web team, and collaborated with outside print vendors for the flawless execution of projects. I also managed collateral development, print advertising, package design, and trade show materials. I proficiently organized various project reviews and account manager meetings to ensure knowledge of all aspects of each project. I created and maintained comprehensive project documentation and assisted in developing departmental plans, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures. In addition, I succeeded to create custom company-wide project tracking application (Filemaker Pro) based on agency traffic flow.

Maplewood, Mn | Arden Hills, Mn

Working as the Director of IT/IS, I held responsible for the procurement, installation, and maintenance of all office computer-related equipment including servers, desktop and laptop computers, AV equipment, SmartBoard, Projectors, Web Conferencing setup. In this position, I provided leadership, vision, and management to department managers and employees when managed all digital asset archival, assisted and trained design staff with file preparation for print production, digital and video production. While working for this company, I gained comprehensive experience with prepress, color proofing/management and overall print project workflow. I significantly contributed to the company when built and managed the company-wide infrastructure and network management such as the installation/management of servers, X-Serve RAID, Pegasus RAID, Windows Server 2008, Watchguard Firewall, CrashPlan Pro backup software, Asura PDF workflow for prepress environments, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Universal Type Server/Client Font management within design and print environments.

Saint Paul, Mn

Mm (Summa Cum Laude), Music Performance

Bm (Cum Laude), Music Performance