Tony Spear, M.S., G.C.M. Email & Phone Number

Tucson, Az, Us

Tucson, Arizona, United States

Member Board of Directors, Advocacy Committee

Tucson, Arizona, United States

Wholly Cats Swing Club are a Swing Band located in Tucson, Arizona. We are ambassadors of the Music of The Great Swing Era, specializing in the music of the Benny Goodman Sextet featuring America’s first Guitar Hero, Charlie Christian. We have quickly gained a following as Tucson’s premier Swing Band and have been performing at several dance and jazz venues in the area while helping give rise to the live local dance scene.

Tucson, Arizona, United States

At Catalina Rotary, we are Changing the Lives of Young People in Need

Greater Tucson Area

Tucson, Arizona Area

- Responsible to grow profitable sales volume for Otek Corporation by placing our patented line of low-cost, low-power, highly-reliable New Technology Meters to Instrument & Control Rooms throughout the world. Key Market segments include: Power Generation, Water Treatment, Process Control, and Defense including end users, OEM's and system integrators.- Grow, train and manage inside and outside sales organization.- Manage marketing and advertising activity in print, web, social, and trade show.- Curate web and social media presenceKey Accomplishments:- Increased sales over 148% as of first 7 months of current fiscal year compared to previous fiscal year.- Increased sales 219% 2nd half of previous fiscal year (after arrival) compared to 1st half of previous fiscal year.- 30% increase in year to date sales as of April 2017 compared to previous fiscal year.- Co-authored an article on digital cyber security for a prestigious national trade publication, December 2016.- Interviewed for a published feature article on company product and sales strategy for special Instrumentation and Control Issue in an national trade journal, January 2017.

Tucson, Az

• Create comprehensive Strategic Marketing plans including SWOTT analysis, current marketing audits, actionable Promotion plans that contain both Digital and Traditional marketing channels.• Create Search Engine campaigns which may include goal / conversion setting, comprehensive SEO actions, Social Media and Content Marketing, Pay-Per-Click Advertising.• Create social media presence through multi-channel campaign including Wordpress, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, resulting in significant increase in followers, site visits, number of pages visited, and duration of visits.• Outside sales force goal setting, training and management programs.• Ongoing consultations on website performance, search engine results and conversion performance.

Tucson, Arizona Area

- Led organization-wide Strategic Planning effort resulting in a Strategic Marketing Plan for the Fox Theatre Foundation.- Launched re-branding of The Fox as "The Crown Jewel of Downtown."- Developing measurement communication processes between Fox staff, Advertising Agency and Marketing Committee to track effectiveness of website and social media activities as well as event promotion activities (in process).- Participate in various Development activities for The Fox Tucson Theatre Foundation including securing Concert Sponsorships, Gala Sponsorships, Raffle Ticket Sales and other Development events and programs.

Tucson, Arizona Area

Responsible for generating increase in profitable lead growth in American Openings residential market. Manage all marketing activities including new Website, Social Media, PPC, SEO, TV, radio and print.Key accomplishments:- Increased total lead volume for residential window and door market by over 36% in first 8 months of 2014 compared to same period the previous year.- Designed and launched new Wordpress-based company website, including Google Analytics.- Completely restructured company Pay-Per-Click Search Engine Marketing campaign, increased paid web traffic over 500% with no increase in PPC spend.- Managed Advanced SEO program including On-page Optimization, Blogging, and Social Media to increase overall Web traffic from 1000 to over 2300 visitors per month and moved Search engine results for several key search terms to first position- Designed monitoring system for performance of all marketing channels resulting in significant increases to overall ROI of marketing/advertising spend.

Oro Valley, Az

• Conceived, designed and executed communications plans for critical employee-engagement initiatives and events in consultation with executive leadership team• Wrote and directed video presentations for internal and external audiences• Wrote and edited articles and news releases for internal and external distribution

Tucson, Arizona Area

Member of Marketing Faculty responsible for teaching upper-level undergraduate courses in Professional Sales Process and Management of Sales Operations

Tucson, Az

• Grew the business from ground zero to more than 700 clients in the technology, healthcare, construction, hospitality and services sectors• Designed and implemented numerous B2B marketing campaigns across a wide range of channels: integrated direct response, email, website, public relations, media buys, search engine, trade show and telemarketing• Positioned company competitively with early adoption of “web-to-print” technology that streamlined client procurement cycles and minimized total cost of operations

Graduate Certificate, Marketing, Awarded With Distinction

Completed December 2012

Master Of Science (Ms), Electrical And Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Attended as an Honors Co-op Student while employed at IBM.Emphasis in Computer Design and Architecture.

Bsee, Electrical Engineering, Awarded With Distinction

Activities and Societies: Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honorary, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honorary (Corresponding Secretary).