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Independent communications consultant, offering a range of skills to small and medium-sized businesses who need an agency-level solution in a single-person package.

In this capacity, I work both on a project basis, and in Director of Marketing roles for various small business clients.

Services:

• Analysis & Brainstorming

• Project Organization & Management

• Modern Integrated Marketing

• Web Design & Development

• Communications Strategy & Design

• Copywriting & Editing

• Creative Direction

• Technological Consulting

Responsible for global marketing support and strategic planning for international banking IT consulting firm SOFGEN.

SOFGEN is an IT consulting group specialized in private, commercial and retail banking. From its 18 offices on 5 continents, the SOFGEN group employs 450 staff, serving over 200 clients and providing solutions and products that cover every aspect of IT development, from requirements definition and system selection to system implementation and on-going support.

Marketing director for fast-growing telecom business in the prepaid mobile industry.

Prepay Nation creates a mobile ecosystem by connecting retail distribution channels and international mobile network operators, allowing prepaid airtime refills for phones on those networks to be sold at retail outlets in other nations, where expatriates often seek to support their loved ones back home by sending money or minutes. This ecosystem can be leveraged in a host of other mobile services as well, such as microinsurance, m-wallets, and more, creating exciting opportunities for Prepay Nation's offering expansion as it continues to grow.

BarCamp Philly is an annual user-generated conference dedicated to educating, inspiring and empowering emerging talent in the creative, technology, and entrepreneurial spaces in Philadelphia and beyond. BarCamp Philly is recognized as one of the top BarCamp events in the country and attracts attendees from around the country.

In 2011 and 2012, we were proud to be featured on the BarCamp Tour, an endeavor developed by a coalition of top technology brands to sponsor select BarCamp events nationwide.

I served as one of four organizers for the 2010 and 2011 events, and lead organizer for the 2012 event. Responsibilities have included design (logo, print materials, website, t-shirt), web development, content creation (website, blog, social media updates, email updates), volunteer corps recruitment and management, fundraising/sponsorship enrollment and brand relationship management, stakeholder communications, vendor qualification/selection and management, party and event planning, ticket sales, advertisement and PR, and general event coordination.

Guide for largest adventure club in Philadelphia. Responsibilities include event brainstorming; vendor identification, development, and management; financial negotiation; logistical organization; event management; member guidance and management.

Position involves creatively constructing events that will engage our 3000+ strong membership, devising a way to carry out the event at a reasonable cost, and doing all the work necessary to arrange, prepare for, and carry out the event. Events take place every weekend.

My events have included skydiving, hanggliding, camping, wilderness navigation training, firearms training, archery, horseback riding, fire-spinning, knife-throwing, professional stunt school, powered paragliding, whitewater rafting and kayaking, motorcycle lessons, falconry introduction, deep sea fishing, sailing lessons, and more.

All guides possess current training/certification in CPR, Wilderness First Aid, Wilderness Survival, and Wilderness Search and Rescue.

Creative director for a small strategic business development and communications agency.

Responsibilities include:

• Developing business, marketing, and communications strategies and roadmaps

• Creating, refining, presenting, and producing designs for identity branding, websites, collateral, reports, proposals, and signage, as well as print, digital, and outdoor advertisements

• Copywriting for websites, collateral, proposals, press releases, analytics reports, market opportunity analyses, and advertisements

• All creative and technical direction for strategic, branding, marketing, market expansion, and analytical projects for a wide range of clients

• Technical development and support expertise, coding, and management

• Comprehensive integration of social media strategies and execution into marketing efforts

• Managing agency operations

• Recruiting and managing all technical and creative resources

• Managing accounts and projects

Provided phone, email, and serverside support for College faculty, staff, and student email accounts.

Provided comprehensive technical support for multiple administrative and academic departments within the College, including machine staging, deskside support, serverside and account support, and training as needed. Co-created and led College-wide pre-upgrade software training programs for faculty and staff.

Served as member of the core computing group for the College, in providing centralized managerial and maintenance functions, determining policies and best practices, and recording/promulgating protocols to the distributed IT staff. Maintained core computing webpages, including creation of a validated HTML/CSS template for new pages and migration of active pages to that template. Took part in planning and action groups responsible for several major technical upgrade/migration initiatives.

Preliminary primary research on genetic homology between gammaherpes viruses and yeast gene sequences associated with autophagic control, towards the question of carcinogenesis.

Also responsible for designing, creating, populating, and maintaining comprehensive inventory database for all products created in prestigious, high publishing, multi-million dollar lab over a 13 year time span, and ongoing. Created protocol for individual record maintenance for each researcher in the lab, and provided basic training in inventory usage.

Phase I research on the effects of somitic mesoderm and epidermis on neurogenesis and neural differentiation in embryonic chickens. Research involved micro surgery, embryonic cultivation and staging, paraffin mounting, BrdU labeling, immunohistochemistry, slide creation and interpretation, protocol creation and refinement, and all other aspects of laboratory and stock maintenance.

Collaborative work also involved development of a protocol for the TUNEL Assay for apoptosis in chick and squid embryos.

Provided phone, onsite computing lab, and deskside support for faculty, staff, and students of the College. Basic UNIX server administration, user account creation and maintenance, assistance with server setup and upgrades; assisted Novell Netware admins with drive backups; assisted webmaster with departmental template creation and basic front end work.

Managed, trained, and scheduled 50+ student technicians in phone, lab, and deskside support. Served as key facilitator between student technicians and full-time technical staff. On-call status with student technicians at all times. Spearheaded community initiatives centered on the computing center. Helped coordinate 24-hour campus-wide technical response to extensive virus outbreaks. Took part in hiring panels for student and full-time staff technical positions.