Experience

Analytics Consulting LLC

• United States
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Market Research

  • Apr 2015 - Present

  Analytics provides consulting and administration services for class action and mass tort settlements. Analytics provides consulting and administration services for class action and mass tort settlements.



Rust Consulting

• United States
• Legal Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Director of Market Research

  • Feb 2007 - Jun 2014

  Rust Consulting is a 550 employee organization that serves the legal and public sectors in the areas of class action and mass tort settlement notice and administration.My role as the Director of Market Research was to determine departmental strategy and direction for a six-member research team that collaborated with executive sales leaders to drive revenue for the company through targeted lead generation efforts and in-depth market and competitor analysis. Responsibilities and Accomplishments:•Transformed a national market research department that doubled in size due to the overwhelmingly successful execution of our corporate marketing goals.•Set strategic direction for research and data analysis across 12 different practice areas and business units.•Oversaw and created reports and initiatives that identified and determined practice area trends, targets and strategies, providing actionable information to the sales team resulting in consistent year over year revenue growth.•Maintained excellent internal client relationships, ensuring that the lines of communication between the client and market research team remained open and that client expectations were managed and met. •Collaborated with our Salesforce.com Administrator to continually streamline departmental and Salesforce.com protocols ensuring more accurate, sophisticated and targeted reports.•Identified, negotiated and managed multiple resources that provided the team with the necessary tools to drive strategy and revenue, including timely industry and competitor news and analysis.•Hired, trained, and mentored a multi-faceted team that executed at the highest levels.



Minnesota Film and TV Board

• Manager of Production

  • Jul 2004 - Jan 2005

  Minnesota Film and TV Board is a nonprofit professional services organization specializing in identifying Minnesota film and TV talent and film locations, and providing referrals for local production crews, equipment, permitting referrals and state based incentives.Responsibilities and Accomplishments:•Responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Minnesota Film and TV Board which included responding to television, film and commercial production inquires as well as managing 44,000 location files.•Introduced film and TV producers and directors to the Minnesota production community to make sure that out-of-state productions found the right unique combination of homegrown production talent so important to a successful project.•Contributed to the development and implementation of marketing and promotional materials to encourage film and TV production in Minnesota.•Spoke to the value of the Minnesota rebate program to entice film and TV producers, directors and advertising agencies to bring their productions to our state.



Wyse Advertising

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Broadcast Producer

  • 1996 - 2003

  Wyse Advertising is a full service agency with a diversified national and international client group. As Executive Broadcast Producer, my role was to manage all aspects of television and radio production for a select group of national and international clients including American Greetings, Applebee's International, Stoffer Hotels and Resorts, Sherwin Williams, Sterns & Foster Mattress Co., Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Co. and MeadWestvaco.Responsibilities and Accomplishments:•Created and managed multiple TV and radio production schedules under tight deadlines.•Managed external client relationships by ensuring communication remained open, constructive and positive between the account management team, the creative team and production teams to ensure that expectations were met.•Successfully broke down large complex productions into a series of manageable tasks.•Evaluated the best vendors for each project based on research, experience and carefully maintained long term relationships.•Built and lead production teams with varied perspectives and agendas that included directors, editors, music producers, and special effects houses to form a coalition with a single objective and kept the team focused on that objective.•Secured the best possible price for a project through a multiple bidding process and strong negotiation skills.•Achieved client buy-off on production budget, and every aspect of the production process including the choice of director, editor, music house and talent.•Managed multi-million dollar productions to guarantee that projects came in on budget and met immovable air dates.

• Senior Broadcast Producer

  • 1988 - 1996

• Broadcast Producer

  • 1982 - 1988