about me

Over the course of the last year, I've begun to understand more completely that my core skill isn't in just creating communities as I though it once was. It's my ability to naturally tell stories and get people to tell me their story.

Whether it's the story of a product, a business, an event or even what your own story should read like, I can help craft that. For some engagements that includes the production of a newsletter or brochure. For another it can require podcast production, website design, community management and many other skills.

Stories, while extremely powerful on their own, can be aligned to achieve goals made easier by the products or services you and your company already have available. This is where my very strong business sense comes alive. If you're running a business you need to be finding a clear way to provide your customers what they want and more importantly do so at a profit. By aligning the story people tell themselves about your brand you can charge higher prices and achieve greater results.

I love stories and I am passionate about business. This what I try to bring to any opportunity presented to me.

Both of my passions require me to be innovative, intelligent and well aware of how the existing pieces can be recombined and realigned to achieve more than what they currently have. That being the case, I very much live in business and social media. Upon meeting me several people wonder if I have any hobbies away from my work. The answer is yes (I enjoy watching English Premier League Football and live music) but that a lot of my time is spent reading books (over 150 in the last 3 years), blogs (actively subscribed to over 400) and the social web. These things are the highway for information and opportunity and I view it as my job to know what's going on, how it will affect your business and ultimately how we can use the opportunities presented to us to allow you to achieve your business objectives.

Now for the part where I list all my accomplishments and sound like a boastful ass:

• Graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in marketing in 2005. Graduated in 33 months.
• Worked for GoDaddy for over 4 years in a range of capacities but the majority of that time was inside their Spam and Abuse Department.
• GoDaddy sought two patents on an idea I had and titled those patent applications "Providing website hosting overage protection by transference to an overflow server" and "Providing website hosting overage protection by storage on an independent data server". Short version: I came up with a way to dynamically re-route internet traffic at peak server loads without the use of a standard router.
• Went back for my master's degree in information management from Arizona State and was the youngest person to ever complete the program at 24 years, 351 days of age. My master's thesis on Revision3 was nominated for being the best of all those in my graduating class.
• Helped several brands whose audience either did not understand the value of social media or operated in industries that are highly regulated. After servicing these companies and foundations they have proceeded to gain more than 10,000 social media followers/fan/subscribers and have successfully executed toward their larger goals.
• Launched a podcast and within 90 days had over 2,000 episode downloads from 40 countries.