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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Accomplished Data Management professional with a successful history in building cross functional teams creating solutions that drive insights from data. Excels at bridging the technical with the practical.  Thrives in a collaborative environment and continually exceeds expectations by building valuable partnerships.  Works well with people in cross functional teams at all levels of the organization.

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SALES AND MARKETING
BUSINESS REPORTING MANAGER

·   Cross-Functional Leadership & Change Management

·   Big Picture Development and Details

·   Data Management

·   Data Analysis and Visualizations

·   Business and Technical Liaison

·   Team Building

·   Analytical Problem Solving & Complex Analysis

·   Project Management

·   Training and Educating Teams

·   Sales and Marketing Data Driven Strategies

·   Business Intelligence and Reporting Solutions

·   Highly Adaptable & Technically Savvy

·   Excellent Verbal & Written Communication

·   Highly Collaborative and Relationship Driven

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RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

FOUNDER AND PRINCIPLE - DOWDY CONSULTING: FORT COLLINS, CO

07/1/20 - Present

SALES & MARKETING DATA MANAGER - GROUP PUBLISHING: LOVELAND, CO

01/2010 - 07/2020

  • Reported directly to the Chief Operating Officer, developed strategic partnerships with leaders.

  • Led analytic and business intelligence efforts for sales, customer service and marketing teams.

  • Designed and maintained actionable dashboards and data visualizations to answer busines questions.

  • Partnered with business teams to continually develop and prioritize reporting, analyses, and dashboard needs.

  • Proactively worked with business community to develop new KPIs and metrics to meet business strategies.

  • Managed Group’s marketing vendor relationships generating cost savings of $50K YOY.

  • Implemented Google Big Query as data warehouse with operational cost savings of $135K YOY. Member of design team to develop solution. Helped maintain ETL pipelines from multiple systems developed and maintained SQL reporting views for business intelligence needs. 

  • Developed standardized data collection processes from primary sources into Data Warehouse for customer information.

  • Created customer segmentation strategies that led to a 30% increase in customer retention with sales and marketing.

  • Educated marketing and sales teams to effectively utilize data in data warehouse for automation and metrics.

  • Business technical lead on Bronto Email solution. Reduced email sends by 3 million with increased revenue per email.

  • Created cross functional data governance team that increased sales and marketing data quality and consistency across multiple systems.

  • Proactively developing and implementing a common lead scoring methodology, increasing customer acquisition.

  • Developed customer segmentation for retention strategies, successfully increasing customer retention by 20%.

MANAGER, DATABASE MARKETING & RESEARCH SERVICES - GROUP PUBLISHING: LOVELAND, CO

2008 - 2010

Reported to Corporate Marketing Director

  • Business technical lead that implemented marketing database. Conducted analysis and created ROI reports that Increased direct mail marketing ROI by 25%.  Led a cross functional team that developed business and technical requirements.  Managed project milestones.

  • Trained business teams on how to leverage marketing database to best meet business objectives.

CRM & BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE MANAGER – GROUP PUBLISHING: LOVELAND, CO

2006 - 2008

Reported to Corporate Marketing Director

  • Business technical lead on 2 CRM implementations. Worked with business and technology teams to develop business requirements and processes to meet sales and marketing strategies. Developed holistic leads management process and metrics that yielded a 30% increase in lead conversions.

  • Developed metrics and KPI reporting for marketing and sales teams to evaluate effectiveness of strategies.

  • Oversaw standardized reporting efforts for sales and marketing teams. Created unified KPI measures.

MARKETING DATA & SYSTEMS ANALYST – GROUP PUBLISHING: LOVELAND, CO

2003 - 2006

Reported to Sales and Marketing Vice President

  • Business systems analyst with cross functional business and technology teams. Evaluated and provided input to processes and systems to support changing business strategies. Identified emerging technology opportunities.

  • Developed data warehouse for business. Worked with technical and business teams to develop data and system requirements to meet analysis and operational objectives. Helped manage project milestones.

  • Led cross functional team that Implemented address verification system.  Generated cost savings $20K YOY. Developed business and technical requirements and helped manage project milestones. Developed and led business team training.

MARKETING DATA ANALYST – GROUP PUBLISHING: LOVELAND, CO

1999 - 2003

Developed standardized reporting and analysis for sales and marketing teams from various systems to answer business questions.

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EDUCATION

PH.D IN SOCIOLOGY

Colorado State University

MASTER OF ARTS IN SOCIOLOGY

University of Missouri at Kansas City

BACHELOR OF ARTS IN SOCIOLOGY

University of Missouri at Kansas City

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