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Everything underneath the four builds.

The campaigns, systems, platforms and properties behind the work on the main pages — grouped by what they were for, not when they happened. This is the long version. The four build stories are the short one.

35Projects
6Capabilities
2015–25Span of the work

In focus

Marketing operations & platforms

First CRM and marketing database

Dicronite Southwest · 2018–2021

Built the contact database and stood it up on a working CRM, then ran segmented campaigns against it. There was no list and no system before this.

10,000+Contacts, from zero
Marketing operations & platforms

HubSpot instance ownership

DDI · 2021–2023

Ran the CRM and automation stack end to end — lifecycle email, nurture, lead capture, list hygiene and reporting for the sales and marketing teams.

7,000+Customers reached
Brand, content & communications

Perspectives article programme

DDI · Apr 2022 – Apr 2023

Launched and ran the thought-leadership section end to end, coordinating design, sales, legal, copywriting and distribution across two organisations for every piece.

13Articles shipped
Web & digital properties

Website build and redesign

Dicronite Southwest · 2018–2021

Managed design and development, installed analytics so performance could be measured at all, and sourced licensed imagery to replace what was there.

+172%Site users, YoY
Web & digital properties

LinkedIn audience programme

DDI · 2021–2023

Took the company page from a standing start past 1,000 followers in April 2022 and past 2,000 in April 2023, on consistent publishing rather than paid promotion.

2,000+Followers, organicSocial Media
Demand generation & campaigns

Pipeline built from nothing

BEMS · 2023–2025

No leads, no outreach and no structure on day one. Built the prospecting motion into a pipeline the business could forecast against.

Zero → oneQualified pipelineBusiness Development
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Marketing operations & platforms

6 projects

The infrastructure layer — the systems that existed after I left that did not exist before I arrived.

HubSpot to Salesforce Marketing Cloud migration

DDI / IAA · 2022–2023

Moved a live marketing operation between platforms — data and contact mapping, campaign and workflow rebuild, Email Studio and Automation Studio configuration, and the integrations that kept records in sync during the cutover.

Platform migrated liveNo campaign downtimePaper 03

Marketing dashboard

DDI · 2021–2023

One reporting surface pulling Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, HubSpot, Salesforce Marketing Cloud and the internal request form together, so campaign performance could be read in a single place instead of six.

6Sources unified

HubSpot instance ownership

DDI · 2021–2023

Ran the CRM and automation stack end to end — lifecycle email, nurture, lead capture, list hygiene and reporting for the sales and marketing teams.

7,000+Customers reached · 22% open

First CRM and marketing database

Dicronite Southwest · 2018–2021

Built the contact database and stood it up on a working CRM with Mailchimp, then ran segmented campaigns against it. There was no list and no system before this.

10,000+Contacts, from zero

Digital transformation programme

BEMS · 2023–2025

Implemented Asana, HubSpot automation and AI-assisted workflows across BEMS and its partner brands to standardise lead handling and cut manual coordination between teams.

Multi-brand rolloutOps · automation · PMIntegrated Marketing

Salesforce Help Center

DDI / IAA · 2022–2023

Built a customer-facing support hub inside Salesforce — articles, FAQs and product documentation — to take repeat questions out of the sales team's inbox.

Self-serve supportSalesforce admin · UX

Demand generation & campaigns

8 projects

Paid, email and outbound programmes — including the two playbooks that let other people run them without me.

Search engine marketing playbook

BEMS · 2023–2025

Wrote the standard for campaign setup, optimisation and performance tracking, then rolled it out across the client portfolio so every brand ran search the same way. Lifted lead generation and measurable project volume across the book.

Portfolio-wide standardWritten once, reused

Campaign planning playbook & project template

BEMS · 2023–2025

A reusable template covering steps, deliverables and timelines, used to align stakeholders and take campaigns from concept to launch consistently across multiple client brands.

Repeatable processPlanning · alignment

Pipeline built from nothing

BEMS · 2023–2025

No leads, no outreach and no structure on day one. Built the prospecting motion — targeted email, trade show engagement and consistent follow-up — into a pipeline the business could forecast against.

Zero → qualified pipelineDemand gen · BDPaper 01Business Development

Google Ads programme

DDI · 2021–2023

Ran paid search across four state markets — Wisconsin, West Virginia, Florida and Massachusetts — with keyword research, ad copy, competitor analysis, conversion tracking and continuous optimisation.

4State marketsGoogle Ads

Florida launch campaign

DDI · 2022

Integrated Google, email and social push into northern Florida dealerships around revised pricing, with A/B testing across both ads and email to find the message that moved them.

Integrated, 3 channelsPaid · email · socialMarketing Campaign

Wisconsin campaign

DDI · 2021–2022

Google and email programme introducing dealerships and banks to DDI's services and revised pricing, built around a value argument rather than a product feature list.

Paid + emailDealers & banksMarketing Campaign

West Virginia deadline campaign

DDI · 2022

Email programme built on a real deadline — impending DMV cutovers — using the urgency of the date rather than generic product messaging to get dealerships and banks to act.

Deadline-drivenHighest-urgency playMarketing Campaign

#CSOFTStrong campaign

CSOFT International · Feb–Apr 2020

Ran a global brand campaign across LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook through the opening months of the pandemic, balancing expansion messaging against genuine concern for the translator network on the ground.

3 months, globalBrand · social · contentMarketing Campaign

Brand, content & communications

10 projects

Publishing programmes run on a schedule, and the co-marketing that required two companies' brand teams to agree.

Perspectives article programme

DDI · Apr 2022 – Apr 2023

Launched and ran the thought-leadership section end to end, coordinating design, sales, legal, copywriting and distribution across two organisations for every piece.

13Articles shipped

State newsletter programme

DDI · 2021–2023

Owned seven separate newsletters — Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Minneapolis, Wisconsin, Indiana and ELT — each with its own audience, regulatory context and publishing rhythm.

7Concurrent newsletters

Market entry press releases

DDI / IAA · 2022–2023

Four announcements — the corporate office expansion, Massachusetts EVR, and electronic lien and title launches in Indiana and West Virginia — each requiring legal review, stakeholder sign-off and coordinated distribution.

4Market launches

IAA × USAA infographic

IAA · 2021–2023

Managed the partnership infographic with the Texas business development team, coordinating a graphic designer through review cycles on both the IAA and USAA sides.

Two brand teamsPartner co-marketing

IAA × Enterprise Holdings infographic

IAA · 2021–2023

Led brand strategy, information design and delivery for the Enterprise partnership piece, working across two organisations' business development teams.

Two organisationsBrand · info design

IAA client newsletter

IAA · 2021–2023

Developed and ran the client newsletter, curating the content and building the backlink and social distribution that fed traffic back to the site.

Owned end to endContent · distribution

IAA legislative updates

IAA · 2022–2023

Led the design team on a regulatory update programme for the insurance auto auction sector, plus the backlink and social channel work that gave it reach beyond the existing list.

Sector authority playEditorial · SEO

DDI legislative updates

DDI · 2022–2023

Managed release of regulatory updates across visual content, publication scheduling and coordination with legal, copywriters and internal stakeholders.

Legal-reviewed cadenceCompliance content

Campaign collateral system

DDI / IAA · 2021–2023

Directed the design and print production behind every campaign — managing the creative resource rather than making the assets, and keeping output consistent across two brands.

Two brands, one lookCreative directionMarketing Collateral

Regional brand identity

Dicronite Southwest · 2018–2021

Repositioned the mark during the site redesign to make the regional connection explicit and give the Southwest operation a visual identity distinct from the parent brand.

Identity refreshBrand management

Events & field marketing

2 projects

Three years of trade show programmes run as a measured channel, not a line item.

Trade show programme

DDI · 2021–2023

Owned the full cycle — strategic planning, booth design and layout, pre-show promotion, on-floor lead capture, post-show follow-up and ROI measurement against spend.

Measured end to endPlan → follow-up → ROIPaper 05Trade Shows

Cross-branded trade show strategy

IAA & DDI · 2021–2023

Ran the joint floor presence for two brands under one strategy, developing booth design and promotional material that let each keep its identity while sharing the stand.

Two brands, one floorField strategyTrade Shows

Web & digital properties

6 projects

Sites, product pages and channels — several of them the first digital presence the company had.

Website build and redesign

Dicronite Southwest · 2018–2021

Managed design and development, installed analytics so performance could be measured at all, and sourced licensed imagery to replace what was there.

+172%Site users, YoY

Website, SEO and content programme

Eco Refill Systems · 2017–2018

Led the build alongside a developer and owned everything on top of it — search, content and analytics — for a San Francisco tech brand with essentially no digital footprint.

First presenceZero → one

Website chatbot

Dicronite Southwest · 2018–2021

Introduced conversational support to answer common questions instantly and route quote requests, turning a static site into something that captured intent.

Quote captureSupport · lead gen

LinkedIn product pages

DDI · 2022–2023

Rebuilt the product presence on LinkedIn with the marketing team — clearer descriptions, better visuals — and turned a static page into a channel that generated demand.

13xAudience growthLinkedIn Product Pages

LinkedIn audience programme

DDI · 2021–2023

Took the company page from a standing start past 1,000 followers in April 2022 and past 2,000 in April 2023, on consistent publishing rather than paid promotion.

2,000+Followers, organicSocial Media

Social channels established

Dicronite Southwest & Eco Refill · 2017–2021

Launched and ran LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook for two companies that had none — used for employer brand and recruiting as much as demand, and followed by industry names including Space Tech Expo USA and Ceramics Expo.

5Channels, from zeroSocial Media

Community & cross-functional

3 projects

Marketing work done outside a marketing department — and the workflow that held creative teams together.

Creative production workflow

BEMS · 2023–2025

Built the working process that let photographers, graphic designers, marketers and web developers deliver integrated assets together instead of in sequence.

4 disciplines, one flowCross-functional PMProcess Modernization

Stitching Russell City Stories

Hayward Area Historical Society · 2015

Collaborated on the digital exhibit for Marion Coleman's story quilts — conducted the interviews and designed the site that carried the exhibit online.

Digital exhibitInterviews · web

The History of Russell City

Hayward Area Historical Society · 2015

Produced a short documentary from the Society's photo collection and Oakland Tribune and Daily Review archives, with an interactive companion piece for the source newspapers.

Archive filmResearch · production

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