Chicago Tech News
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Chicago Tech News
Owner/Publisher/Primary Writer
Chicago Tech News was a news website and newsletter about the Chicago technology scene with 2400 subscribers.
- Created news brand from whole cloth
- Recruited government and legal columnists
- Recruited ad sales representative
- Profiled local companies and wrote news coverage
- Compiled comprehensive “Chicago Tech Companies List”
- Formatted and sent weekly newsletter using Constant Contact
- Indexed by Google News
Columbia College Chicago
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Columbia College Chicago
Adjunct Professor
Columbia College Chicago is a private college in Chicago’s South Loop region. I taught up to 3 sections per semester (3 sections being the same teaching load as a full professor or lecturer) in the Arts, Entertainment & Media Management Department for 5 years.
- Teach "eBusiness I"
- Teach "Computer Uses for Managers"
- Lead independent study in topics like interactive marketing and digital music
- Reasearched proposal for making eBusiness a formal concentration in the AEMM Department
Fathom Communications
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Consultant/Project Manager
Fathom Communications is a full-service marketing agency with offices in NYC and Chicago.
(See Major Client: Navistar)
I was brought in to manage the content migration for InternationalTrucks off of the Navistar corporate site and onto its own domain.
- Manage content migration for a Fortune 500 firm’s movement of a product line to an independent web site.
- Identify relevant content on the original site and tag it for migration.
- Identify content gaps.
- Identify format and online applications issues prior to migration.
- Manual migration of content to a Vignette system.
DEVDirection
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Consultant
DEVDirection is an e-commerce development boutique that also operates its own electronic storefronts.
DEVDirection has been a serial client since 2000. I’ve consulted on both external clients and DEVDirection’s own internal eCommerce sites. Perhaps the most unusual project was an e-mail/content marketing project for TopMassageTables.com centered around Hurricane Katrina volunteer efforts.
- Full lifecycle business/marketing planning and implementation for e-commerce storefront sites.
- Marketing / Create strategies to drive web traffic.
- Competitive Intelligence.
- Create traffic reports and analyze existing traffic for web sites.
- Newsletter copywriting.
- SEO
- Q/A.
Matrix Exhibits
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“Internet Producer” (Hybrid role combining Product Manager and Product Manager)
Matrex Exhibits creates trade show booths and promotions for Global 500 clients (2 Engagements)
Conceptualize, pitch and develop in-booth attractions for tradeshow promotions, including: casual video games, live action components, giveaway premiums and food. The only job I’ve ever had that involved interviewing magicians and dealing with In ‘N’ Out Burger on a professional basis.
See Astellas Pharmas (major end-client)
- Managed technical aspects of booth production, project schedule and budget for Global 500 Pharmaceutical products
- Hired and managed vendors
- Coordinated deliverables with Account Rep and Client
- Supervised creative development
- Supervised technical aspects of booth and facilitator staff during convention
- Generated proposals for new business
- Generated creative briefs
- Selected premiums for in-booth giveaways
