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- Account Supervisor at Kruskopf CoontzMarketing and Advertising | Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area, USSummaryI have ten years of hands-on experience planning and executing marketing plans in support of strategic growth. My expertise includes the successful quarterbacking of brand identity, re-brands, print, video and digital projects – from conception to completion – that differentiate brands and build market share. I combine a breadth of client-side and agency experience with an orientation towards service and fun, and solving business problems through strategic design and technology.Specialties: Executing strategic and marketing planning, positioning, branding, identity, product launches, and re-brands Fostering best-in-class creative solutions through learning, teaching and collaboration Facilitating decision-making between key stakeholders, cross-functional teams and vendors Med device, non-profit, professional/consulting and financial services industries Companies in transition through mergers/acquisitions, re-branding, or change management initiativesExperience
- Jun 2010 - PresentAccount Supervisor / Kruskopf CoontzAmeriprise Financial
Cargill SBD
Columbia Management
Fuji Ya
I See Me!
RJF Agencies
Transamerica Retirement Management - Dec 2006 - Jun 2009Manager, Client Services / Modern ClimateServed as primary point of contact between clients and agency with responsibility for ensuring highly integrated B2B and direct-to-consumer campaigns, re-brands and product launches were on-brand and exceeded expectations within requirements.
St. Jude Medical
Empi Recovery Sciences
The City of Minneapolis - Clean City Minneapolis
Styled Simple
Harland Clarke/Liberty Enterprises - Oct 2005 - Nov 2006Marketing Communications Manager / Minnesota Diversified IndustriesRecruited to $40M non-profit to define and strategically communicate value proposition through a re-brand and communications plan consistent with aggressive growth and diversification strategy in support of mission to create jobs for people with disabilities.
- Jul 2002 - Oct 2005Marketing Manager / Manchester CompaniesDeveloped and executed integrated marketing plan to increase turnaround management engagements for companies in distress and build investment banking offering.
JUUT Salonspa
AGA Medical
Fair Isaac - 2000 - 2002Marketing Manager / Nuvolution
Education-
1996 - 2000Loyola College in MarylandBA in Communications, Specializing in Advertising
Activities: Loyola College Swimming -
1998 - 1998Scuola Lorenzo deMedici - The Art Institute of Florence (Fairfield Program)art, history
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1992 - 1996Benilde-St. Margaret's
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- My brush with blogging fame
Posted on Wednesday, December 28, 2005 at 11:36AM. Picked up by kottke.org January 4, 2006.
Buzz
Buzzwords compiled (on a spreadsheet, no less) by my niece, the new consultant on a project at a local big-box retailer:
* = never heard before
bold = my favorites- action items
- apples to oranges/apples
- as-is
- at a high level
- at the end of the day…
- bandwidth
- best practice
- big pole in the tent*
- bounce the server*
- build a straw dog*
- business process model
- can you hit the ground running?
- chasing our own tails
- check point
- chinese firedrill
- chinese menu*
- circle back
- circle the wagons
- concentrate on the big rocks*
- connect
- crank out
- crunch time
- decision point
- deck
- delegate
- deliverables
- do another rev of the deliverable
- dog and pony show
- don't boil the ocean*
- dove tailing into that
- downtime
- drain this slide*
- driver
- driving the project
- drop-dead date
- ducks in a row
- due diligence
- email traffic
- EOD
- escalate
- execute
- extra time not burned*
- flesh out
- flush out
- for your review
- forecast
- from a functional standpoint…
- get my arms around it
- get the monkey off my back
- get under the covers
- getting thrown under the bus
- going forward
- going off the deep end
- golden
- go-live date
- grass-roots
- hammer out
- high visibility / raise the visibility
- if you have a few extra cycles, can you…?*
- in terms of
- in the model
- issue log*
- it’s a different slice of turkey*
- key stakeholders
- lambs to the slaughter
- let me take a step back
- let me tell you what I just heard you say…
- let's take this out to the parking lot* [sounds violent?]
- leverage
- light a fire under them
- logistics
- long pole in the tent*
- low hanging fruit
- make sure we're on the same page
- methodology
- on board
- on the bench
- on the same page
- out of pocket
- out of the box
- outstanding issues
- outstanding items
- park that question
- per your request
- ping him/her
- pipeline
- please advise
- proactive
- process/process flow
- punt
- push back on that one
- quick win
- radar
- ramp it up
- reach out
- re-boot
- red/yellow/green
- refine
- reinvigorating
- replicate
- rolling off
- run it up the flagpole*
- run/ran with it
- sanity check
- seeing eye to eye
- send me an octel
- set expectations
- shake out
- shoot him/her an email
- slam dunk
- SME
- soft/hard copy
- step up to the plate
- streamline
- surge*
- synergy
- take the 30,000 foot view
- take this offline
- task at hand
- throw you in the water to see if you can swim
- to-be
- touch base
- transformational change
- up-to-date
- value-add
- value-driven
- verbiage*
- vis-à-vis
- war-room
- wasted effort
- we are off plates and onto platters*
- we can't be spinning our wheels
- what are the risks?
- what's in the pipeline?
- what's on your plate?
- what's the status
- whole other type of animal
- within scope
- work effort
- workflow
See original post and comments here.
