FLYING Finance

Lead go-to-market and operations for the financial group including leading the teams responsible sales, marketing, and operations.

Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)

FLYING Magazine

Responsible for day-to-day operations of all media production and commercialization.

While maintaining day-to-say, also lead the integration team as we acquired 28 aviation media brands.

Chief Operating Officer

Building upon a legacy started in 1927, Flying Magazine is the go-to source for current pilots and aspiring pilots in General Aviation, Commercial Aviation, and Future aviation (eVTOl and electric flying). 

Responsible for the build out and commercialization of new digital media products leading a team to develop attractive new offerings.

Vice President Of Product Development

101 Mobility

-Responsible for day-to-day operations and overall market development of the East Tennessee region.
-Lead a 100% YOY growth effort
-Supplier management, responsible for inventory levels, inventory turn, and vendor selection.
-Responsible for commercial prospecting, cradle to grave deal flow, and project management of completion.
-Train employees on new technologies to help foster growth and efficiency
-Manage direct reports to create efficiency processes and maintaining quality control

Business Development Manager

-Top 3 sales consultant nationwide within first year of the role.
-Sell complex custom commercial solutions through need evaluation, regulatory environment assessment, and product fit.
-42% sales growth over an 8 month period.
-100% Year over year growth 
-Prospect and develop strong B2B relationships with the purpose of referral or collaboration on use cases.
-Establish sales goal for the team and create a roadmap for execution and evaluate based off KPIs.
-Create sales process for multiple product verticals.
-Write engaging lead nurturing email copy and followup process to help turn more prospective leads in to sales.

Sales Consultant

Rock Point Church

-Create ad sets through targeted campaigns to drive traffic to events.
-Create content and copy for social media, email campaigns, and web traffic.
-Build and maintain relationships with internal and external graphic designers and photographers.
-Lead purchaser for social media management tools and software.
-Generate relevant copy for web traffic, social media, print media, and distribution.
-Use Google Analytics, pivot tables, Google Sheets, and data sources to present data in the form of a dashboard to analyze communications effectiveness across platforms.

Communications Director

-Responsible to recruit new production staff and volunteers.
-Establish and maintain relationships with volunteers while providing innovative training and development courses.
-Strengthened key dealer relationships to leverage better material pricing.
-Manage a team of 40 direct reports comprised of both volunteers and contract workers.

Production Director

Life Care Centers of America

-Developed over 500 courses for multi-discipline training for local, regional, and national use.
-Technical Support Manager for Life Care University, an internal continuing education service.
-Online Training Library Administration encompassing over 1,500 learning courses and 40,000 learners.
-Collaborated with VP of Business Development to create and improve innovative learning management strategies and content.
-Maintained the relationship between Human Resources and IS/IT.
-Established a strategy that allowed for cohesive training with complex subjects
-Proficient in Camtasia and Articulate softwares

Learning Management System Developer and Designer

Rock Creek Informatics

-Lead a lean six sigma project using innovative technologies, increasing production volume at Brown Stove.
-Established relationships with "C" level and upper management teams, helping redirect their focus to improve processes.
-Was responsible to locate areas of inefficiency and redundancy, generate flow charts and record a digital work sample of the manufacturing process to streamline and maximize profits.
-Increased efficiency by 4% by presenting weekly deliverables to the management team.
-Presented a final project summary to Volkswagen America Lean Management team to aid in future improvements to the manufacturing process for Brown Stove.

Junior Consultant

Wilderness Trail, Inc.

-Directly responsible for the management of a group of hiking staff, focusing on their leadership development and personal development.
-Wrote engaging copy for grant proposals and other donor communications.
-Cleaned the SQL database that maintained donor records, seeing a data redundancy reduction of 30%.
-Managed social media presence and established a new strategy for reaching donors

Assistant Director

Experienced executive with a demonstrated history of building and leading teams. A forever student of industries and people. Currently leading a product development team in the niche media space focused on aerospace and aviation.

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