DIGITAL MARKETING PROFESSIONAL with over 14 years of agency and client-side experience blending business strategy with technical and creative insight. Rooted from early experience on creative and technical teams, and grown from managing client accounts and marketing business management.
SPECIALIZATION
- Social media strategy
- Mobile, tablet and application strategy
- Information Architecture/User Experience (IA/UX)
- System integration
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Web metrics, mapping, reporting and analysis
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Increased 200+% Interactive hard ROI for a regional medical center
- Improved 150+% qualified and engaged visitors for a hospital web site
- Raised 180+% direct email response rates for a financial software developer – company record
- Saved $300K+ in production costs of a software application for an electronics CPG manufacturer
- Project management, capital and operating annual budgets of approximately $1MM
- Conference speaker/presenter of social media case studies, insights and successes
EXPERIENCE
DIGITAL MARKETING CONSULTANT
INDEPENDENT
August 2011 – Present
INTERNET MARKETING MANAGER
WESTERN CONNECTICUT HEALTH NETWORK
Formerly Danbury Health Systems/Danbury Hospital and New Milford Hospital. Nonprofit; almost 4000 employees; Regional Medical Center, Academic University Teaching Hospital; Danbury, CT
December 2007 – July 2011 (3 years 8 months)
- Directed and managed all Internet marketing initiatives across the Health Network
- Primary developer of two RFP’s for vendor and technology platform selection
- Strategy development and project management of a major enterprise-level Sitecore® Content Management System (CMS) implementation web site redesign (IA/UX) and rewrite of 3K content pages to rebrand and launch with system integration, social media integration, SEO and mobile. Phases in development and production to release account-based experiences for four major stakeholder groups
DanburyHospital.org, WesternConnecticutHealthNetwork.org - Development of iPad and Facebook applications
INTERACTIVE ACCOUNT MANAGER
IMC2
Interactive Marketing Agency; Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Clients: Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Pharmaceutical
April 2007 – October 2007 (7 months)
- Interactive Agency of Record to Pfizer for LIPITOR®
Lipitor.com - Interactive Agency of Record to Schering-Plough for Claritin®, Dr.Scholls® and Coricidin®
Claritin.com, DrScholls.com and Coricidin.com
INTERACTIVE ACCOUNT SUPERVISOR
COLANGELO SYNERGY MARKETING
Interactive Marketing Agency; Omnicom Group Inc; Darien, CT
Client: Consumer Packaged Goods
September 2006 – April 2007 (8 months)
- Interactive Agency of Record to Church & Dwight for approximately 30 national, well known brands, including Arm & Hammer®, Trojan Condoms®, First Response®, Mentadent® and Nair®
TrojanCondoms.com, FirstResponse.com, Nair.com, SpinBrush.com, ArmandHammer.com
ACCOUNT MANAGER
THE WORX GROUP
Traditional and Interactive Marketing Agency; Prospect, CT
Accounts: CPG, B2B, B2C, Manufacturing, Education, Entertainment, Healthcare
July 2004 – August 2006 (2 years 2 months)
- Client relationship building, project management, IA/UX, wireframes and sitemaps of many on and off-line marketing accounts, including Alinabal, Dr. Henry Lee, FedEx Racing, G. Sergeant Antiques, NVRA, Productivity Inc., Jim Koplik and Reed Exhibitions
SENIOR WEB DEVELOPER / SENIOR TECHNICAL LEAD FOR SHOCKWAVE FLASH
BREAKAWAY SOLUTIONS
Application Service Provider; 1200 employees/14 locations; Branding and User Experience Division; New York, NY
Clients: B2B, B2C, B2G
February 1999 – April 2001 (2 years 3 months)
DESIGNER / ANIMATOR
i3, INFORMATION AND IMAGINATION, INC.
Traditional and Interactive Marketing Agency; Westport, CT
Clients: Pharmaceutical, Education, Entertainment, Financial
Mar 1999 – Dec 2000 (1 year 9 months)
- Design, animation, user interface design (UX) for many brands, including AT&T®, Bayer Pharmaceuticals®, Deloitte and Touché®, ESPN®, Melard Technologies®, PanAmSat®, and Purdue Pharmaceuticals®
EDUCATION
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA)
Fall 2002 – Spring 2004 (Graduated 2 years)
Member of Beta Gamma Sigma (ΒΓΣ) [http://www.betagammasigma.org], international honor society serving business programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB)
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD; THE HARTFORD ART SCHOOL
BACHELOR OF FINE ART (BFA), MAJOR: ILLUSTRATION
Fall 1988 – Spring 1992 (Graduated 4 years)
EXPERIENCE WHILE ATTENDING GRADUATE SCHOOL
MARKETING ASSOCIATE
SS&C TECHNOLOGIES
Financial Computer Software; South Windsor, CT
Oct 2003 – Jul 2004 (9 months)
FREELANCE PACKAGING DESIGN/ILLUSTRATION
FREELANCE WINDOWS APPLICATION PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
REMINGTON PRODUCTS COMPANY
Electronic CPG Manufacturer; Bridgeport, CT
Sept 2001 – Oct 2004 (2 years 11 months)
SOFTWARE / TECHNOLOGY
PHP, ASP, MySQL, Javascript, CSS, HTML, WordPress,
Adobe CS 5, Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premier, Soundbooth,
MS Office 2007, Excel, Access, Project, Visio