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Long Beach, California, United States

I value the opportunity to work alongside my Halbert Hargrove colleagues as a guru, guide and gladiator for our clients. My overarching focus is on helping clients continue to meet their financial goals—and ensuring that their experience of the entire process is supportive and positive. I work as a part of a collaborative team, with responsibilities that range from responding to clients’ questions and concerns about their finances, to preparing proprietary HH reviews, analytics, and other client presentations, to creating, delivering, and monitoring financial plans.

Los Angeles County, California, United States

• Engage clients in a comprehensive financial planning process to clarify their vision of freedom and fulfillment and bring that vision to life in the most efficient way possible. • Conduct in-depth analysis of client’s financial lives, including cash flow, balance sheets, investment & real estate portfolios, estate and charitable giving. • Prepare and present comprehensive financial and investment plans utilizing NM proprietary tools.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Identified prospective investors, drafted investment memorandum and formed an LLC to invest in single-family properties.• Raised $7.5 million in equity financing from two portfolio managers at Oaktree Capital Management and acquired properties in prime LA neighborhoods.• Managed all LLC functions including: development of target property profiles and valuations; drafting and negotiating purchase offers; conducting due diligence and property inspection; design, materials and finish selection for remodeling; preparation of remodeling budgets; managing remodeling work; and re-leasing of units.

Pasadena, Ca

Goldstar is the largest seller of excess tickets to live entertainment through unique discounting relationships with Live Nation/Ticketmaster, AXS, Major League Baseball, Cirque du Soleil, venues like the Hollywood Bowl and Lincoln Center, and 5,000 other premier event providers.• Sourced and negotiated strategic distribution partnerships via distributed-commerce API implementations with Google, Groupon and Yelp to drive ticket sales and new member acquisitions.• Managed major API-based supplier relationships with Ticketmaster, Eventbrite, AXS and others.• Built and managed performance-based partner and affiliate channel that produced more than 35% of gross ticket sales.

Pasadena, Ca

• Managed all paid acquisition marketing programs including distributed-commerce partnerships, affiliates and SEM.• Managed migration of affiliate base to API-based integrations and dynamic tools like the WordPress Plugin to increase traffic quality and raise conversion rates.• Responsible for 25% annual marketing channel growth while achieving cost and revenue targets.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Offering business development and market analysis consulting services for new product launches and early-stage growth. Services to assist startups and large companies to develop and launch new products with a small team by temporarily providing key services: market analysis and entry strategy (embodied by a business plan and associated financial model); management of product development; and performance of essential business development and marketing functions. Sample engagements:• Experian: sourced, negotiated and developed partnerships with major online sites including Yahoo! and NADA Guides which drove sales volume.• Internet Brands: developed new product market entry strategy; drafted Product Requirements Document; structured RFP and managed vendor responses; negotiated nationwide data license.• Bank of America: analytics engagements to measure lead quality by source and recommend improvements in online customer acquisition strategy.• Trulia.com: drafted RFP and managed vendor responses; negotiated nationwide data license.• Realogy: analytics projects to develop and evaluate Internet lead conversion and quality metrics.• LendingTree: analytics projects to guide online customer acquisition strategy.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Led business development for a joint venture with Experian in both consumer and business channels.• Developed partnerships with major corporate clients that resulted in more than 75% of division revenues.• Managed all advertising functions for both print and online campaigns: messaging, collateral, advertising creative development, placement and metrics tracking.

Mba, Marketing

M.A., Telecommunications Policy

B.A., Plan Ii Honors Liberal Arts - Economics