BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT – Founded, Developed and Managed:
- Successful consulting practice serving hundreds of clients with a valuation over $30M in business interests in the corporate, media, entertainment, finance and real estate industries and focusing on start-up design, fundraising, legal considerations, employee relations, growth management and business processes
- Profitable real estate investment companies with $10M+ in transactions including securing private funds, conducting market research & profitability analyses, and acquiring, rehabilitating, managing & disposing of residential and commercial properties
- Novel web-based media company with pre-financing valuation of $2M that redesigned distribution access for independent film creators through online platforms and social networking while supporting traditional independent theatrical outlets
PROJECT MANAGEMENT – Successfully Managed:
- Dozens of employees, independent contractors, vendors & sales agents to effectively manage numerous real estate projects, including market research, fundraising, budgeting and rehabilitation for multiple real estate investment and property management companies
- Technology, web design & programming and marketing departments as well as, finance and sales staff for media company
- Academic support program for university coordinating administration and faculty with academic & counseling departments to recruit, train and organize hundreds of volunteers to assist thousands of students on academic probation
- State-wide athletic events for public school district including the coordination of dozens of teams & officials and thousands of athletes as well as leading corporate sponsorship drives
STRATEGIC INNOVATION – Creatively designed:
- Novel solution to independent film distribution issues incorporating an online platform with proprietary business model into traditional brick-and-mortar outlets
- Successful strategy to lobby local and state governments to support and develop a film and media arts center for multiple organizations
- Salient talking points for major healthcare-related public campaign balancing sensitive political considerations with organizational goals regarding federal and state funding sources and use
- Sensitive policy to guide nonprofit organization through initial stage growth and development hurdles leading to a functional and stable mid-size organization that included an advisory board and development committee
LEADERSHIP & COMMUNICATION:
- Led successful relationship building and collaborative efforts of three competitive and personality-divisive nonprofit organizations resulting in a memorandum of understanding to further joint goal of developing and supporting mixed-media
- Wrote press releases, talking points, strategy documents, business plans and corporate communiqués for stakeholders, officials and community organizations to further lobbying efforts in the real estate, health care and film-arts industries
- Successful professional author and editor: Published historical-fiction work titled “Saints and Soldiers” (2003); edited and researched numerous professional texts and journal articles for doctors at Georgetown University and National Institutes of Health
- Accomplished professional event speaker and lecturer on corporate structure, small business finance, real estate investment and asset protection before hundreds of students, clients, professionals and stakeholders