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Here you'll get a glimpse of my professional career, skills, and more. Take your time and be sure to contact me when you see something that interests you! This site is a work-in-progress, just like me.

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Passionate About Creating Excellent Experiences

I help organizations define priorities, refine processes, and establish new systems in order to exceed performance goals by identifying business challenges and alternate solutions that can be solved through technology, then leading conversations between business and technical teams to ensure solutions are implemented effectively, on schedule, and on budget.

With a solid background in communication and planning, IT systems, and digital environments, along with a respect for people and mission, I will be a strong asset to your organization.

If you're looking for someone with a solid background in communication and planning, IT systems, and digital innovation, along with a respect for people and mission, contact me today!

Here are a few links to some of my work:
UMUC Project in GitHub: Relational DB (in SQL) ,
Research paper about using new technology and UI to help people,
more to come.

Professional Experience

Contractor for Marriott International: Bethesda, MD January 2020 to Present

Senior Business Systems Analyst

Providing clarity and support for business and development teams by identifying new opportunities, platform capabilities, business requirements, and technical considerations.

Pentagon Federal Credit Union (PenFed): Tysons, VA December 2016 to January 2020

Business Analyst, Platforms

Identifying and communicating product roadmaps, objectives, requirements, use cases, user stories, and acceptance criteria to cross-functional teams in order to complete projects on time and on budget.

  • Implemented major CMS platform enhancement and delivered system architecture diagrams, risk assessment, user stories, acceptance criteria, code review, bug fixes, and implementation workflows. Platform: Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) 6.2 to 6.4
  • Integrated onsite search tool with CMS, by providing business and technical rules, process flows, and custom tools to improve onsite search and user experience. Platform: Adobe Search and Promote
  • Provided risk analysis, contract review, contract negotiation, and implementation plan for customer voice/online survey product. Platform: Usabilla
  • Ongoing product analysis, monitoring and optimization leading to improved processes, workflows, and features for website averaging over 3 million visitors per month. Platform: Penfed.org
  • Provide governance, process workflows, taxonomy, user/group permissions, business presentations, and training for Digital Asset Manager optimization.Platform: Adobe Digital Asset Manager
  • Provided training for Adobe Digital Asset Management, AEM Authoring, AEM Development, SEO, and AEM mobile authoring training provided to Marketing, Mobile App Development team, Corporate Communications, QA, UI, and AEM development teams. Role: Trainer and Subject Matter Expert
  • Advise senior leadership on platform performance, challenges, upcoming improvements and provide infrastructure recommendations in order to enhance and scale system capabilities.

Senior UX Strategist

Improved user experiences by creating strategic and tactical roadmaps, project plans, milestones, and governance frameworks by working with stakeholders across the organization.

  • Implemented over 1,100 pages for PenFed.org and microservices from old CMS to AEM by creating product roadmap, department workflows, implementation plans, detailed work breakdown structures, and publication schedules. Project: Content Management System Replatforming
  • Acquired and implemented SEO software after negotiating a 50% discount as part of optimization strategies leading to 10% and higher conversion rates and SEO improvements (222% increased organic traffic from December 2018 to June 2019). Project: SEO/BrightEdge
  • Developed governance frameworks, communication plans, and intake process to gathering input and requirements from stakeholders across the organization. Project: Business and Team Processes
  • Created proposal, SOW, and roadmap to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA compliance, including vendor acquisition, contract negotiation, business validation, and process workflows. Project: Accessibility
  • Identified and disseminated platform requirements - including information architecture, site architecture, authoring environment, micro-service integrations, and more.

Branded Holdings LLC: Tampa, FL September 2014 to October 2016

Director - Content Strategy

Increased brand value and revenue through leadership, strategic initiatives, team and vendor management, process improvements, and information architecture for three lead-generation domains using a combination of analytical and creative thinking.

  • Structural improvements were made by:
    • Championing information architecture best practices to engineering and development teams.
    • Defining project requirements, expectations, roadmaps, and budget.
    • Structuring data, prototyping user interfaces, and optimize the user experience.
    • Creating and documenting taxonomy, schema, relational engine design, API design and user interface roadmap for 400K+ quote SQL database and app.
    • Translating app concept into executable project, including creating design specifications, information architecture, logic flow charts and user interfaces.
  • Exceeded KPI’s and improved revenue through::
    • Leading and serving as editor for content creation teams.
    • Managing and optimized media and email campaigns from inception to completion with usability studies, analytic data, and A/B testing.
      • li>Creating personas, buyer journey maps and buying cycles, identifying target markets, and filling content gaps.
  • Secured funding by collaborating with founder by:
    • Creating executive presentations, white papers, flowcharts, and prototypes that spoke to company investors.
    • Translated detailed technical information into language investors could understand and act on.
    • Identifying and explaining best practices, creative processes, and workflows.

MaxQ Group, Oldsmar, FL May 2014 to Present

Web Development and Consulting

Current projects include information architecture, web development, back-end system administration, DB management, and front-end development.

  • Migrated and redesigned local business site using NGINX/PHP configuration for Wordpress.
  • Created various mobile-first landing pages and websites using Bootstrap and Django frameworks.

AAMP of America, Clearwater, FL March 2014 to September 2014

Social Media and Content Strategist

Improved e-commerce business and increased B2B and B2C sales using digital and traditional marketing, including in-store displays, traditional advertising, digital campaigns, and website improvements.

  • Created and improved KPI’s for digital marketing by building, analyzing and translating web metrics into usable design improvements.
  • Improved site navigation by defining taxonomies, structure, and process flow for various product lines.
  • Improved in-store displays by integrating taxonomies across marketing channels.
  • Was the primary liaison between business units, vendors, and technology.
  • Increased e-commerce revenue by 80% by successfully migrated site to Magento platform, including rebuilding information architecture, payment solutions, and inventory management.
  • Successfully lead an effort to upgrade Windows IIS server with Linux - Apache - MySQL - PHP stack.
  • Integrated global distributors into social media campaigns.

Branded Holdings LLC: Tampa, FL May 2013 to January 2014

Content Strategist

Improved overall site performance through integrated content strategy and improved site structure and navigation.

Content improvements included:

  • Launching major content upgrades resulting in increased user interaction, more time-on-page, decreased bounce rates and improved conversion rates.
  • Managing and editing remote teams of creatives and content producers.
  • Providing comprehensive site audits competitive intelligence and market research.
  • Completing website redesign project, including upgrading the information architecture, improving site navigation, and improving the admin user experience.
  • Improving user engagement as measured by time-on-page, bounce rates, and social shares.
  • Reduced annual content creation costs by over $125,000 and lead-time through effectively building freelancer/contractor network, contract negotiation, and management, and creative problem solving.

Universal Health Care, St. Petersburg, FL 2010 to March 2013

Senior Copywriter

Developed and wrote a wide variety of content following CMS’ guidelines - with a focus on user-centered design and conversion rates including:

  • Direct mail campaigns
  • Medicare newsletters
  • Medicaid-focused articles
  • Landing pages
  • Corporate messaging
  • Press releases
  • and more

Marketing objectives met through collaboration with various departments, including sales, pharmacy, member services, provider services, legal and others.

  • Increased direct mail response rates over 50% from 2011 to 2012 on several campaigns.
  • Successfully collaborated with various departments to update and improve sales training manuals and presentations.

Horizon Bay Retirement Living, Tampa, FL 2009 to 2010

Marketing Strategist/Copywriter

Responsible for developing and writing sales material, print ads, and numerous community flyers as well as designing and updating numerous ROP ads.

Developed targeted and unique copy for regional communities.

Developed corporate communications and corporate profile pieces.

Western Reserve Life/AEGON, St. Petersburg, FL 1997 to 2009

Marketing Strategist/Copywriter (2002 – Feb. 2009)

Developed a wide variety of printed and digital media for Registered Investment Advisors, Financial Planners, CPA’s and other investment professionals (and their clients) including product brochures, newsletters, digital content, email marketing, sales and prospecting material, advanced training courses, presentations and much more.

Successfully managed new life insurance product releases, advanced sales concepts and training programs for WRL’s strategic partners while working closely with C-level executives, actuaries, and other project stakeholders.

Remember: This only highlights some of my experience. Call me today and let's discuss how I can improve your business.