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A senior marketing leader with over 11 years of experience developing initiative-based and strategic content across digital channels, and branding while driving awareness and engagement. Demonstrates expertise in creative thinking, planning, and execution of marketing plans and promotions. With expertise in event organization both large scale and community.
Skills/Software
Adobe Suites
InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop
Google & Microsoft Suites
SOCI & Lava Surf
Digital listening tools
Monday & Slack
Enterprise Social Platforms
Work​
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Vice President of Digital Marketing- REBNY
January ’22- Present / New York, NY
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Oversee the execution of content design, social media, and paid media strategy. Built a full report tracking system to monitor results.
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Spearheaded the website redesign, including the management of the agency, and content strategy; establish processes and procedures to ensure successful delivery and ongoing functionality of websites.
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Redeveloped branding to make a cleaner more modern feel for the company while showcasing the 127 years of history.
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Identify new opportunities within email marketing to streamline and produce content that would get higher open and click rates.
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Increased company culture through internal marketing.
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Oversaw and developed the yearly membership campaign to bring in company dues sooner.
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Marketing Director - Dinosaur Bar-B-Que
January ’17- December '21 / Syracuse, NY
Responsible for development and execution of integrated marketing campaign plans and related budget; hired, trained, and managed marketing and support teams for a multimillion company.
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Implemented full digital strategy campaigns while looking outside traditional platforms and incorporating new techniques to increase all traffic and presence online.
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Grew customer relations through the development of chatbots and a customer retention plan.
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Instrumental in all design and expression of culture/brand identity both internally and externally, including company rebrand.
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Developed weekly and monthly reporting summarizing analytics for hits and misses for future development.
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Oversee partnership with major brands to expand awareness and gain new customers.
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Launched community events focusing on charity and inclusion.
Adjunct Professor - Syracuse University
January ’19- January '22 / Syracuse, NY
The goal of my class ‘Social Media in the Organization” is to provide a broad overview of “social media” – and how its use has changed organizations, and ways to strategically, effectively communicate through different social platforms within and beyond the organization to achieve organizational goals.
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Focus on “Listening” and “Talking” to your customers.
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Tracking ROI, sentiment and provided social currency for a company.
Marketing and Social Media Manager -
The Great New York State Fair
July ‘09-December ’16 / Syracuse, NY
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Instrumental in the design and creation of all digital, print, and social media advertising for one of the oldest and largest state fairs in the United States, reaching 1.2 million people over 12 days.
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Responsibilities include management, maintenance, and insights of all social media platforms.
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Development and construction of all digital marketing ads
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Maintained a million-dollar marketing budget while increasing customer year over year.
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Lead in creating inclusive events and campaigns to redefine what a State Fair of New York looks like.
Honors/Awards
Hand Model
Featured Guest Speaker
1st Place Overall Social Media Campaign
International Association of Fairs and Expos (IAFE), 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015
Speaker at Pulp
Syracuse University Marketing Club
2018, 2019, & 2021
40 Under 40
Panelist
PLANTING YOUR ROOTS IN 'CUSE
#keepingitsalty ERIE21 2021
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College Diversity Summit 2015
Masterclassing
Keynote Speaker 2021
Volunteering
Vice President, Board of Managers
2019-present
Board Member
2018-present
Board Member
Le Moyne College Alumni Board
2017-present
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Education
Le Moyne College
​2006 - 2010
Majored in Marketing with a Minor in Applied Management Analysis​
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