Experience
Creative Director, Marketing & Demand Generation
PowerDMS, Inc. (powerdms.com) — Orlando, FL 2016 2016 - 2018
- Lead, manage, and art direct an in-house creative team of designers and developers to produce a range of marketing collateral, guidelines, and creative assets to drive lead generating efforts to meet business goals. Projects and responsibilities included: web, email, ads (digital and print), campaigns, and brand strategy/identity.
- Responsible for completing on time hundreds of creative requests/projects between 2016-2018, which directly impacted the department’s key performance indicators (KPIs) by increasing marketing qualified prospects (MQPs) from 40 to 150 monthly — resulting in an increase of opportunity dollars (monthly) from $150,000 to $650,000.
- Translate demand generating objectives into clear creative strategies while actively participating in planning sessions with VP of marketing, content marketing team, and key stakeholders.
- Create and pitch visual campaigns to support departmental and company goals.
- Manage the PowerDMS brand while working cross-functionally with other internal teams to ensure brand look, feel, and messaging is consistently communicating the company’s brand promise throughout all marketing channels.
- Develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) and processes for task management, workflows, reviews and approvals, project requests, and creative briefs.
- Hire, train, mentor, and supervise creative staff while overseeing execution of all creative work to ensure they are on brand, on strategy, on budget, and on schedule.
- Establish and lead a budget of creative agencies and freelancers to provide capacity.
Web Developer & Marketing Analyst
PowerDMS, Inc. (powerdms.com) Orlando, FL 2015 - 2016
- Manage key marketing funnel conversion points, including landing pages, website calls-to-actions (CTAs), and lead-generating forms.
- Design, develop, and maintain company website. (Includes: editing and developing custom templates in Wordpress to support various landing page layouts.)
- A/B test and continually measure the performance of conversion assets.
- Design, develop, and integrate email templates to be used in Marketo’s marketing automation platform.
- Design company marketing and communication material for both offline and online properties,as well as promotional items. Materials include: infographics, ebooks, landing pages, print and online ads, white papers, email templates, one pagers, case studies, photo manipulation, custom illustration, typography, swag, and more.
Front-End Web Developer
Cru Global (cru.org) — Orlando, FL 2014 - 2015
- Design, develop, and maintain company website.
- Develop reusable custom and fully responsive components to be used in CMS (Adobe Experience Manager), using Bootstrap’s framework, CSS3 (Sass), and HTML5.
- Create wireframe mockups (high and low fidelity) to conceptualize and test UI/UX before development.
- Translate wireframes into high-performing web pages, while testing all new development for cross-browser compatibility. (Includes: IE8 and mobile devices.)
Director of Media & Communications
Cru Global in partnership with Nuova Vita Church Salerno, Italy 2011 - 2014
- Lead all aspects of brand development for Nuova Vita.
- Design and develop all graphics and photography for marketing (includes: web and print media formats).
- Design, develop, and maintain ministry website using Sqarespace’s CMS (nuovavitasalerno.com).
- Film and edit promo videos and short-films promoting the ministry and sermon topics of the week.
- Create email and social media marketing strategies.
Fund Development
Cru Global in partnership with Nuova Vita Church Salerno, Italy 2009 - 2014
- Raised over $465,000, while cultivating relationships with potential investors while clearly articulating the vision, scope, and purpose of the initiative.
- Create different fundraising strategies to meet required financial goals.
- Produce bi-monthly newsletter and email communication informing financial donors of the accomplishments of the organization.
Graphic & Web Designer / Web Developer
PowerDMS, Inc. (powerdms.com) Orlando, FL 2006 - 2010
- Design, develop, and maintain company website.
- Design and develop all company graphics, including company logo, product logos, and icon sets for marketing and software purposes. (Includes web and print media formats.)
- Design rich and intuitive UI/UX for web applications.
- Create high and low fidelity mockups to conceptualize UI/UX before development.
- Test/debug all new development for cross-browser compatibility. (Includes IE6.)
- Develop product demos using Adobe Flash.
Graphic & Web Designer / Web Developer
Alinean, Inc. (alinean.com) Orlando, FL 2003 - 2006
- Design, develop, and maintain company website.
- Design and develop all company graphics for marketing and software purposes. (Includes web and print media formats.)
- Design and develop web applications using Adobe Flash and ActionScript.
Skills / Software
- Design: Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Sketch
- Prototyping & Wireframing: Balsamiq, Axure, InVision
- Web: HTML5, CSS3 (Sass), Bootstrap, Mobile-First / Responsive Design, GitHub, Tower, Cross-Browser Compatibility, Google Chrome DevTools, Firebug, CodeKit, Working Knowledge (jQuery/JavaScript, PHP, MySQL)
- CMS Platforms: WordPress, Squarespace, Shopify, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)
- Marketing Automation Platforms: Marketo, MailChimp
- Video Editing: Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere
- Project Management & Automation: Trello, Wrike, Basecamp, Asana, Flow, Zapier
- Office Tools: Google G Suite, Apple iWork Suite, Microsoft Office Suite
- Other Skills: Fund development, strategic planning, four years international experience, language proficiency in Italian, work great with teams, can handle multiple tasks, strong interpersonal, organizational, and analytical skills, work well with rigid deadlines and fast-paced environments