Experience

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  Mothers'​ Milk Bank Northeast

  • Director of Hospital Relations and Community Education

    • Jan 2023 - Present

    Mothers’ Milk Bank Northeast, a nonprofit community milk bank accredited by the Human Milk Banking Association of North America (HMBANA), provides pasteurized donor human milk to babies in fragile health throughout the Northeastern United States.• Serve as the primary point of contact for 100+ ho...

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  Brownmed

  • United States
  • Medical Device
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • President

    • Jan 2017 - Jan 2023

    Establish and communicate strategic direction of privately held medical device manufacturing company. Manage cross-functional team of finance, product development, marketing, human resources and sales staff. Drive innovation efforts in multi-channel organization that includes e-commerce, retail, med-surge, and international call points, including chain drug clients in the United States and internationally. • Led company through the COVID-19 pandemic, including a successful pivot to PPE manufacturing that made it possible for the company to achieve 96% of 2020 sales forecast at a time when industry average was down 25%. • Retained high performing staff beyond industry average.

  • VP Clinical Innovation

    • Jan 2015 - Dec 2016

    • Launched new maternal and child health device and products into NICU and mother/baby units. • Managed sales and clinical liaison staff. • Exhibited at Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN), Partner’s in Perinatal Health conferences. • Worked with clinical staff to develop and implement skin-to-skin best practices in their units to increase breastfeeding rates and reduce time to discharge in NICU, optimizing health outcomes for mothers and babies along with improving hospital profit margins.

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  Boston University School of Public Health

  • Maternal and Child Health Fellow

    • Nov 2013 - Dec 2014

    As an MCH fellow, I was tasked with projects relating to the Birth by the Numbers project. We investigated childbirth trends both domestically and internationally, using ArcGIS to map changes. I was also involved in maintaining the blog and general website maintenance in collaboration with the ...

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  Primary Care Progress

  • Development Intern

    • May 2014 - Oct 2014

    In this role, I searched for open RFPs as well as identified potential individual donors. I assisted with grant writing, editing, and donor correspondence. I utilized Salesforce for donor relationship management.

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  Boston Medical Center (BMC)

  • Breastfeeding Center

  • Practicum Student

    • May 2014 - Sep 2014
    • Breastfeeding Center

    I worked on the American Indian/Alaska Native breastfeeding promotion and support program and the CHAMPS (Communities and Hospitals Advancing Maternity Practices) quality improvement project. I prepared webinar slides, reviewed and documented hospital site visit reports and created materials nee...

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  Choices in Childbirth

  • Greater Boston Area

  • Regional Representative

    • Jan 2014 - Jun 2014
    • Greater Boston Area

    In this role, I worked with Choices in Childbirth to present the film "The Business of Being Born: Classroom Edition" to several universities in the Boston area. I facilitated conversations in undergraduate classrooms about the film and provided resources for students who wanted to obt...

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  Brownmed

  • Marketing Director

    • 2009 - Jul 2013

    • Direct brand identity of a global medical device company with annual sales of $11 million and portfolio of 110 products• Supervise customer service representatives and graphic designers• Complete annual FDA Medical Device Manufacturer Registration and maintain individual Class I Medical Device listings• Oversee submission of HCPCS coding applications to Noridian• Research the annual DMEPOS fee schedule released by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and identify changes in reimbursement and coding to relevant orthopaedic soft goods• Coordinate product testing for Ease of Use program with Georgia Tech Research Institute• Work with both the national and local Arthritis Foundation to increase awareness of arthritis, the Ease of Use program and Brownmed commended products • Ensure private label packaging for Walgreens and CVS is in alignment with brand standards • Additional responsibilities as listed under manager role below

  • Marketing Manager

    • 2007 - 2009

    • Supervise customer service representatives and graphic designers• Manage content for three database-driven websites• Write and proof copy for brochures, web, Brandpoint articles and external press releases• Set and maintain marketing, tradeshow and co-op budgets totaling $686,000 annually• Evaluate new product concepts and complete marketing studies• Ensure marketing processes comply with ISO 9001 certification requirements• Develop and manage multi-national print and web marketing campaigns targeting retail, med-surge, private label and consumer markets• Promote and monitor positive public relations for company • Integrated marketing materials and products following $4 million acquisition (largest in company history)

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  Matrix Medical

  • Kansas City, Missouri Area

  • Customer Service / Sales

    • 2005 - 2007
    • Kansas City, Missouri Area

    • Presented to doctors, hospitals and chain drug accounts• Responded to and resolved customer complaints and feedback• Managed customer service department and trained new employees• Received and processed sales orders for customers