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Experience

Manies Marketing Consulting Corporate Strategy & Development
Principal
8/2007 - Present
Boutique Exec Recruiting Firm: Project manage new online customer-facing business.

EdTech Start-up: Strategic Advisor to select partner and structure project plan and build for fall 2018 beta.

PepsiCo: Provided scenario-planning workshop for LATAM leadership team; co-led regional strategic initiatives prioritization workshop.

Belk: Managed Org Capabilities Audit: advised exec leadership on capabilities gaps.

Meetup.com: Trained team of 20 on end-to-end qualitative research.

CEMACO Marketing
Director or E-commerce and Digital Marketing
9/2012 - 4/2016
As a member of executive team, reporting to CEO, designed and built first eCommerce site: wrote RFP, selected platform and implementation partners, developed requirements, designed user experience and managed integration with back-end systems to deliver eCommerce and online bridal registry.

Implemented programmatic ad buying, online video, animations, compelling copy and contests in advertising, resulting in #1 social media position in four key retail verticals.

Wells Fargo Bank Management Consulting
Business Strategist & Consultant
11/2003 - 4/2006
One of 5 MBAs recruited rotational consulting program in the Internet Services Group.

• Designed and co-led first-ever consumer ethnographic research across Wells Fargo’s retail financial services products.

• Raised an additional $35K in funding to broaden research scope to include bankers and additional geographic areas.

• Developed new online customer products and services that resolved unmet customer needs resulting in a sizeable revenue increase during the first year.


Wireless Generation (now Amplify Education) Management Consulting
Consultant and Summer MBA Associate in Marketing, Strategy and Product Management
6/2002 - 8/2003
Advised founders that digital assessments be built on mobile devices, not PCs.

Interviewed teachers and reading experts about methods to improve reading comprehension in order to design hand-held assessment software.

Managed 7-person team to develop and deliver new software in 12 weeks to 120 elementary school classrooms.

Initiated negotiations with reading assessment publisher resulting in a 300% increase in sales leads for product which accounted for 15% annual sales.

Creative Good Management Consulting
Senior Consultant
12/1999 - 12/2000

Facilitated one-on-one customer usability studies for executives in order to uncover customer needs.

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Clique (closed in 2001) Start-Up
Project Manager
5/1998 - 11/1999
Retail consultancy specializing in branded e-commerce websites for media properties

Led cross-functional team to deliver e-commerce websites for Forbes and Ski magazines

Managed and conducted all website usability projects and quality assurance testing for site roll-outs


Accenture Management Consulting
Consultant in Technology Americas-Internet Applications Group
8/1995 - 4/1998
Transformed HMO's paper referral process into an instantaneous web-based approval system; first of its kind in the US, used by over 4000 medical professionals in 1998.

Programmed custom software applications in Java and C, resolved a critical timeline conflict between user interface design and application development.

Identified and proposed a physician's office-readiness-assessment project to the client CTO that resulted in an additional $120K in revenue for Accenture.