Established marketing firm that develops website landing pages and SEO for small businesses.• Founded and currently leading a marketing agency specializing in digital strategies, including website development and SEO optimizations tailored for a client base in the construction, hospitality, and real estate sectors.• Demonstrated operational excellence in nurturing client relationships and securing long- term contracts through strategic marketing and sales initiatives, utilizing tools such as HubSpot CRM for client management.• Secured client contracts quickly by leveraging Chat GPT prompting and training for strategy and copywriting, Midjourney for design direction, and ClickUp AI for project management.

Independent consultancy, helping businesses navigate operational and marketing challenges.• Coordinated stakeholders for a private contractor and wrote a proposal that secured $462,000 in funding for a federal prison contract focused on job training and skill development.• Helped businesses go from zero to securing funding within a couple of months by crafting and implementing strategic plans, competitive analysis, project management systems, and comprehensive financial models.• Secured multiple 501(c)3 designations by leading a variety of stakeholders through the application requirements. These organizations include event organizations, churches, and community development nonprofits.

Leader of product development and company operations for AI real estate startup.• Planned product strategy, defined the MVP, created and prioritized ideas for the product roadmap, tracked product development outcomes, and competitive analysis while directing a technical team of 10 developers through iterations of the product.• Created dashboards to present quantitative data with analysis and solutions to leadership, ensuring alignment with company vision and goals.• Built all corporate operations and implemented processes across org including creating the 3-year financial forecast, scoping pitch decks for Series A funding (raising $600K in Seed funding within 1-year) and onboarding new contractors and employees.• Prepared, drafted, and reviewed content for internal and external communications, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.

A consultancy that brokered partnerships between venture capital, incubators, and startups.• Co-founded a consultancy firm and implemented strategic sales and marketing initiatives, significantly enhancing client capacity for market reach using branded startup pitch events.• Pioneered the ACTIVATE entrepreneur program, fostering startups and validating business ideas through strategic networking and innovative community-focused events, showcasing and tracking over 100 startups to venture capital, angel investor groups, and the public.• Secured consultation on large-scale projects, delivering strategic insights and operational support to executive leaders and stakeholders. This includes a large-scale 6-month project for the "Innovation Days" for Premera Blue Cross by developing a technology roadshow across the 3 different campuses, showcasing 13 internal projects and programs to executive leaders and stakeholders with over 2,500 employees in attendance.

Inaugural leader for downtown public space redevelopment project with a focus on placemaking.• Oversaw the strategic redevelopment of a major public space, leading to a substantial increase in community engagement, and an $800K annual P&L in partnership with the City of Jacksonville, exceeding fundraising objectives by 126% and 276% in visitors.• Defined the strategic direction of operations, marketing, sales, and community engagement, successfully coordinating 1,025 events and programs within to create new revenue streams from events, donations, and merchandise to support new park developments, generating $1.13M in contributions. • Spearheaded the recruitment and management of the Board of Directors, facilitating monthly meetings to analyze strategy documents, revenue, and the P&L, ensuring attainment of the contract terms and conditions.

Spearheaded initial operations, financials, and stakeholder engagement for a city-wide business innovation initiative.• Hired as the 1st member for a key city initiative to build a large stakeholder group for an international crowdfunding festival to connect startups and venture capital, impacting an attendance of 130K in 2013 and 260K in 2014.• Tracked startup idea intake using a proprietary online registration system, analyzed the ideas that were validated using votes and dollars raised as measurements, and provided analysis to the executive team.• Onboarded an external Auditing and Accounting team for the annual event to validate voting and individual financial contributions, reconciling a yearly $350K crowdfunded prize payout among 1,500 startup projects.• Launched and expanded 3 commercial offices in Jacksonville and supported an international office in Berlin by coordinating and maintaining the IT, data systems, human resources, legal contracts, product inventory, vendor agreements, insurance, billing systems, sensitive and confidential information, and financial and legal compliance.