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Marketing Sales

Location:
Granada Hills, CA
Posted:
April 23, 2014

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SUMMARY

§ Over 19 years of crafting metric-led integrated marketing and product development strategies for Fortune 500

companies driving high CAGR and managing full customer acquisition, activation, retention and monetization

§ Tenacious, avid technologist and entrepreneur with solid track record of success building innovative platforms

and products in USA, LATAM, Asia and Europe

§ Builder of great teams. Currently building and optimizing a high-performing team of analysts, producers,

marketers, designers, and engineers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

9 /13 – P resent M attel, Inc., El Segundo, CA

Director, Head of Mattel Game and App Studio

Driving Mattel’s gaming and app strategy including product design, marketing, monetization, and retention on mobile,

online, cloud, social and console platforms.

Major Contributions:

Key decision maker for customer experience focused on intuitive UI/UX design that drives business results

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Exceeded financial targets by 375% and turned studio into a profit center within two quarters

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Instituted a culture of analytics-driven decision making, resulting in over 40 million downloads on a single title

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P&L responsibilities for global game and app studio

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Strategic driver of product features, roadmap, marketing and monetization strategies for Mattel’s portfolio of

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games and apps

Managing complex deal negotiations across multiple business owners, stakeholders, leading platforms,

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developers and publishers

Working globally to develop and execute integrated marketing and brand strategies

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1 0/09 – 8 /13 K onam i Digital Entertainm ent, El Segundo, CA

Sr. Director, Head of Online, Social Media & Mobile

Developed product and marketing strategy across digital and traditional media and platforms to maximize user

acquisition, retention and monetization driven by analytics for multiple regions for Konami - the largest Japanese

video game publisher.

Major Contributions:

§ Developed and optimized marketing campaigns that increased conversion on key metrics resulting in 120%

to 140% achievement of revenue goals for the last three years

§ In the first six months:

o Increased site traffic by 300 percent over previous year.

o Increased number of Twitter followers by 200 percent.

o Increased Facebook fans by 1,227 percent. Achieving over 12 million in 2 years.

o Increased YouTube views by 1,076 percent.

§ Responsible for P&L and strategic relationships for Konami’s mobile platform driving multi-million unit downloads

of iOS and Android apps

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Drove the strategy for international online, social and mobile marketing campaigns that increased sales and

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market share including specific executions in USA, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Argentina resulting in 1.2

million unit sales – outstripping all competition in LATAM

Identified and built two multi-million dollar ventures by building business cases and selling it to the executive

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board

Created a system of high-level analytics that drives higher business performance and decision making in all

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facets of the marketing execution.

Architected customer engagements and marketing campaigns on digital, social and mobile platforms including a

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gamified, global CRM system that leverages multiple social networks to better manage and increase lifetime

value of customers

1 2/98 – 0 9/09 i Savvy, Granada Hills, CA

Executive Director

Main business developer, marketer, project, and product manager at this web development and marketing company

focused on delivering results through rigorous analysis, testing and execution.

Major Contributions:

§ Orchestrated company start-up and growth in a highly competitive and fast-changing market

§ Created online marketing campaigns leveraging market and customer segmentation, social marketing, widgets,

video, and CRM

§ Set branding strategy and managed product development and lifecycle, and continuous improvement for

Fortune 500 and SMEs

§ Led the re-branding of EJA – a healthcare IT consulting group – that increased their visibility and brand

§ Crafted branding and marketing mix for CTX International’s – a computer display manufacturer – that helped

them establish a clear brand differentiation in a growing commoditized category

§ Creating a new revenue channel for eMemories – Online digital photo company – helping them realize 245

percent increase in conversions

§ Defined and rolled out an integrated information architecture for GRC – a imaging supply manufacturer – that

increased their operating efficiency and returned a high ROI

§ Led the development of an online channel for Seville Classics – a CPG company – and achieved high CAGR

using extensive data-driven metric and analysis tools for continuous product improvement

2/98 – 12/98 Envision Group, Torrance, CA

Senior Account Executive

Created strategic plans, led development, launched, and optimized online marketing for U.S West and Aerial at this

Internet agency.

Major Contributions:

§ Conceived, developed, implemented and managed Fortune 500 company B2C and B2B web projects with

multi-million dollar budgets

§ Created the business case, project definition, consumer testing and on-going improvement for a telecommuter

site for U.S. West that generated higher per account revenue and profit

§ Managed the online engagement program for Aerial – a regional mobile carrier – that increased subscriber sign-

up rate and retention

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3/95 – 1/98 Metropolis Entertainment, Los Angeles, CA

Associate Publisher, Head of Online Division

Launched and directed the online division of this publishing company with magazines ranging from video gaming to

style and design. Drove brand and product development, advertising, subscriber growth, client relations, internal

and external multi-disciplined teams.

Major Contributions:

§ Managed all phases of product lifecycle for online properties and grew site traffic to over one million unique visits

per month and established it as a popular destination for 13-34 age market

§ Gained a deep understanding of customers through focus group studies and database-driven analysis and

formulated these findings into strategy and development of editorial, creative, marketing and communication

programs for Metropolis’ network of web sites, and ensured that lessons learned were shared and capitalized

upon by other divisions

§ Increased advertising revenue by 250 percent by working closely with advertisers to create and implement

innovative online and traditional advertising and marketing campaigns

§ Developed technology, processes, methodologies and personnel to ensure continued growth in a rapidly-

evolving environment

EDUCATION

MBA, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Los Angeles, CA



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