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Chief of Staff - “Right hand” to SVP Marketing and Communications, directing department operations and staff relations.

 

Organizational Development - Built award-winning marketing and communications department from the ground up for Pre-IPO start-up company, receiving accolades from Ad Age, Adweek, and the Sundance Film Festival.  

 

Transformational Change - Reinvented creative service departments into in-house agencies, successfully opening creative boundaries and improving morale to create award-winning design, while advancing three months ahead of schedule from two months behind. Saved over $100,000 annually in production costs.

 

Project Management - Orchestrated the development and execution for six years of the second largest single company pavilion at the San Diego International Comic-con, the annual premier global pop-culture celebration, with over 130,000 global visitors. Strategically integrated visual messaging, floorplan, and product displays to create an iconic landmark exhibit while ensuring a positive interactive guest experience.

 

Global Business - Managed product development cycle with in-house, contract, and overseas teams, including travel to overseas factories.

 

Leadership - Oversaw a division with 150 employees including ten direct reports, including recruiting, training, and mentoring all staff levels.

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Q Concepts | Sarasota, FL​ / Huntsville, AL

 

Advertising, Marketing, Photography, and Consulting for Fortune 500 companies to small businesses, and government agencies.

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• Earned and serviced over two dozen accounts with the longest account running over nine years. 

• Inspired 65,000+ letters to the CA Governor political awareness campaign resulting in vetoes of legislation. Pitched, planned, and executed campaign within seven days.

• Repositioned client’s brand to penetrate the outdoors apparel industry from the defense industry with a cohesive brand statement in print, digital, and trade show spaces.

• Rebuilt client photography operations, increasing overall image quality, while reducing photography and post-processing time by 75%, and established procedures to eliminate outside vendor costs.

• Serve as marketing and advertising subject matter expert for clients’ internal teams.

• Campaign Ideation and Strategy

• Marketing Strategy

• Full-Spectrum Consulting

 

Sideshow Inc. | Thousand Oaks, CA

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Operational and creative direction for customer-facing visual presentation and global marketing for the premier fine-art pop culture collectibles manufacturer and distributor.

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• Developed company-wide project management system unifying efforts of 3D product development, 2D graphics, photography, marketing, e-commerce, and overseas vendors, reducing workflow delays, miscommunication, and missed deadlines. Achieved 60% reduction in missed shipping dates.

• Conceived and pitched rebranding initiative to company partners/owners and successfully spearheaded the creative process to design a new logo and align branding and messaging with the prominence and sophistication of the growing company and high-end prestige products.  

• Directed integrated visual messaging through print, digital advertising, photography, trade shows, and promotional events.

• Creative/Brand Strategy and Customer Relationship Management

• Product and Program Development

• Multi-Department Integration and Operations

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Homestore Inc. / Move Inc. | Westlake Village, CA

 

Control of the look and feel of all corporate communications and brand statements to business partners, acquisitions, and consumers from start-up through two IPO phases. 

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• Handled staff relations, and provided key sounding board for concepts.

• Controlled brand look + feel through corporate growth stages: Pre-IPO, IPO, Secondary IPO.

• Planned/executed all domestic + international corporate and C-suite events.

• Managed staff of graphic designers, presentation designers, event planners, external contractors, and support staff. 

• Corporate Marketing and Communications

• Internal/External staff relations

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KB Home Corp. | Los Angeles, CA

 

Special Assistant to the Chief Marketing Officer.

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• Bridged communications between MarComm and Executive team with daily media reports.

• Planned/ executed corporate and division events.

• Media Analysis

• Vendor Management

• Scheduling and Resource Management

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University of California Police | Los Angeles, CA

 

Personnel and resource management for a 150-person bureau within the Police Department. Maintain positive relations with campus staff and students. 

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• Coordinated deployments and operations of 150 personnel in all campus geographic areas.

• Developed and implemented department policies, procedures, and campus-wide disaster plans. 

• Supervised bureau operations during the 1994 Northridge earthquake emergency response.

• Operational Policies and Procedures

• Strategic Planning and Deployment

• Training and Presenting

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Thousand Oaks Police / Ventura County Sheriff | Thousand Oaks, CA

 

Proactively patrol and respond to calls for service for a city of approximately 128,000 residents and 55 square miles. Emergency on-call response to major incidents within the 2,208 square mile county. 

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• Public Relations

• Multitasking

• Incident Command