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Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Transformed the structure of the department. Met development, cost efficiency, and expansion goals while driving economies of scale through calculated creative changes and constructive leadership.Developed effective teams. Supported executives, directors, peers, people managers, program managers, specialists, and contractors. Worked closely with subject matter experts to gain insight, provide guidance, and encourage individual autonomy and professional growth of team members.Accelerated team member promotions. Motivated team members through personal development projects and individualized mentorship that helped to increase productivity and achieve department goals.Cross-Department Collaborator. Interim Director and Marketing emissary who worked across varied departments in collaborative efforts to identify, communicate, escalate, and resolve complex department support efforts and company-wide challenges. Analytical & Creative. Observant to the innate functionality and interconnectivity of systems and tools with a developed and proven ability to build analytical data-based solutions to help resolve conflicts and form agile strategies to deliver impactful solutions. Focused organization. Scheduling and managing multiple projects with overlapping stakeholders, deliverables, resources, finances, and blockers while delivering on time and meeting or exceeding department goals.Autonomously Resourceful. Proactive analytical and relational reconnaissance to help identify and redirect resources to maintain the initiative and confront issues while driving projects and goals to completion. Knows the Audience. Succinct communication of complex department operations while altering the message for various levels of leadership that provides actionable information.

Greater Seattle Area

Continued to develop a world-class affiliate marketing program that cooperated internally with every department, and externally with every kind of affiliate.Nurtured and developed new affiliates into top performers.Migrated affiliate networks in Q4 to accommodate new technologies to change the affiliate ecosystem while never losing revenue. Built, developed, and lead a world-class affiliate team of specialists, managers, analysts and OPM agencies. Meticulous planning and long term vision of success with the ability to communicate and validate efforts to Executives.Clear and concise communication with product managers and IT development teams to guide and large interconnected system development.Industry thought leader on commission structuring, attribution modeling, report structures, and the effects of branding through affiliate.Business development enabler working across departments to provide support, guidance, leverage, tools, programs, and insight into new and emerging marketing partnerships and methods.B2B partnership development for cross promotional marketing, brand association, and building consumer trust.Influencer marketing program management and ambassador program development integrated into affiliate for ease of management, accounting, and analytical reporting.Public relations efforts in communications with and resolving complicated, heated, and critical issues in the public eye.Development of highly advanced and automated program analytics to give total insight into internal, external, programmatic, categorical, and individual partner performance.Training & enabling managers to use analytics to handle portfolios beyond normal capacity and make impactful changes and relationship improvements weekly.Continued to grok Blue Nile as a business entity, its functions, capabilities, technical advantages and limitations, future collective marketing and executive objectives through the hardest of times.

Greater Seattle Area

Complete restructuring of the affiliate partnerships to align with a long term content partnership strategy.Development of dashboards of combined complex data from several separate databases for accurate attribution assessments of affiliate efforts.Aggressive and creative commission restructuring to incentivise top and mid-funnel activities Focused efforts to correct negative SERP brand ratings.Mediated, negotiated, and repaired lost partnerships to develop massive revenue streams.Responcible stewardship over multi-million dollar annual budgets.Testing and learning from every activity and increased CMAM, ROAS, effeciency to exceed all other marketing channels.

Greater Seattle Area

Managed the development of creating the Geek Chic website for Shark Tank. Project started from scratch, completed in 120 days, and experienced no technical difficulties despite heavy traffic during the show.Managed the development of electronic data collection systems, with an eye towards creating robust data analysis systems for sales forecasts and marketing.Managed the movement of the company onto the Magento e-Commerce platform.Managed the workflow refinement project and translated strategic multi-department plans into tactical elements and lead them to alpha testing of new interface removing hours of extra work and human error.

Built a sales forecasting system for gross US sales to analyze all data information, including customer, product, and performance data. Forecast accuracy based on the system was 95% for next-month forecasts and 80% for four-month forecasts. Created an affiliate program data analysis tool that analyzed affiliate program activity (clicks, sales, participation, conversion, etc.). Used this system to increase monthly sales 13x (from $40K a month to $550K a month) over five years, using targeted marketing approaches based on the data.Created a tool to track individual product performance to help JensonUSA’s purchasing department implement a just-in-time inventory model.Created a customer history analysis tool to create customer-centric marketing campaigns to increase long-term customer retention.

Torrance, Ca

Increased Profitability of a multi-Million dollar Program by over 62%Redesigned complex individual business assessment letters for membersDeveloped Marketing materials to better inform our representatives and membership of upcoming programsDeveloped and Maintained a customized reporting system to track inventory shipped and accounts receivable to membersTracked members inventory in six states using up to five different distributors Analyzed data and created reports identifying market trends and participation to better visualize, and improve aspects of our business performanceHandled the organizing, tracking, and monitoring of membership accountsHandled accounts receivable from vendor community Calculated and Distributed accounts payable to the member community

Signal Hill, Ca

- Customized and Managed Salesforce.com CRM application for an active ACH eCheck Processing organization. - Created Reports & Analyzed sales and worked on improving customer retention.- Our Team increased sales nearly 5x in one calendar year.

Buena Park, Ca

- Gold National Sales Qualifier for overall yearly production - 3rd place finish in a Hartford national sales competition- Licensed Life and Annuity Sales Agent