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This position evolved from Internet marketing and client systems design/ sales into a critical role responsible for driving sales, defining new applications for existing products and primary responsibility for client relationships.

Crafting incentive programs, loyalty campaigns and promotions using the Internet as the communications and management mechanism and stored value cards as the reward vehicle was the underlying "product" beneath these applications.  Pioneers in the use of promotional debit cards (AKA prepaid cards), through PSG I worked with a wide range of client industries to best leverage "branded cash" to achieve sales targets, launch new products and reinforce brands with consumers and internal/ external salespeople.

Senior eCommerce Project Manager through Kforce

Senior project manager for SaaS ecommerce platform, I delivered enterprise-level retail ecommerce websites.  Customized order management systems to interface with clients' warehouse workflow and 3rd party applications.  Leveraged social media integrations to promote repeat consumer engagement with the products and brands.   Highly customized online store features include product bundles, quantity discounts, gift card platform integrations, shipping and tracking feature integrations.

Product Specialist

ECommerce project manager responsible for operations and maintenance of retail consumer websites.

Product Owner

Project management for a wide variety of Internet websites, including ecommerce, B2B, real estate and non-profit organizations.  Duties include client management, site architecture/ interface design, management of creative and technical team members, client training, ongoing upgrades and maintenance as well as creative direction for internal marketing initiatives.  

Since 2009 we've built over 200 websites using WordPress as the CMS with fully custom themes with a variety of plugins to offer client-manageable slideshows, tables, galleries and other advanced elements.

Program Manager

Ecommerce website development project manager, marketing and SEO for internal applications as well as those of clients building an online brand.

Senior Digital Project Manager/ Agile Lead

Parent company of PSG, I supported both sides of the organization in development of websites to market and manage corporate incentive programs.

Senior Project Manager and Team Lead

A contractor, I basically act as a client relations manager, project manager, event coordinator for CTO of the Year Awards, and copywriter.

Senior Digital Project Manager

The Kellen Company is the world's second-largest association management organization.  Kellen provides accounting and membership management, event management, public relations, communications (electronic and print) and other professional services to its association clients as well as external companies.  I work with the digital and print creative teams and their clients as the liaison managing all traffic, production and delivery.  

On the digital side of the company, project management includes gathering specifications and defining project scope for websites rendering on all types of devices (responsive designs), working with designers to create prototypes and managing technical builds.  Websites use a variety of CMS, including Drupal and WordPress.

For Kellen Creative, I act as traffic manager of print projects, which includes the many types of collateral needed for large annual meetings, conferences and trade shows.  I work with local and remote printers to delivery everything fro

Technical Project Manager

Freelance website development company.  As the Internet gained traction in commerce and culture, we responded to the needs of small and medium sized companies to design and develop their first generation online presence.  I later became the in-house web resource for our largest client.

Senior Project Manager

Senior project manager delivering enterprise WordPress CMS deployments for publishers and global public relations efforts.  Managed a distributed team of 9 engineers, designers and UX professionals.  Led discovery and strategy for projects, scoped all facets of projects and managed execution using Agile Scrum methodology. 3rd party integrations included DFP, LiveFyre, Elasticsearch, streaming media.

Strategy Manager, Orchestration | Retail Media +

Strategy Manager, Orchestration | Retail Media+

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