Bowling Green State University

The Ohio State University

CSPO, Delivery Lead

Product owner of PMIstandards+ and PMI Picks.

Project Management Institute

Product Owner

- Manages cross-functional agile teams consisting of engineers, strategists, designers, and researchers to deliver digital products and services.  
- Collaborates with external client stakeholders to define product roadmaps. 
- Owns and manages the process of planning and refining the product backlog to ensure that the team is continuously delivering value. 
- Ushers clients through the early stages of product builds including strategy, project inceptions, and design sprints. 
- Handles delivery of strategic phase work in concert with Strategists and other team members engaged in this work.
- Acts as point of contact for clients to address relationship issues and seeks out new opportunities to expand the relationship or otherwise improve client services.

Business Development
-  Point of contact for new client opportunities, managing the response process across a variety of potential engagements.
- Researches new business prospects to qualify new opportunities and uncover client insights
to help drive Two Bulls' approach.
- Collaborates across the internal team to write, proofread, and format business development
materials, including pitch documents, presentation decks and case studies.

Two Bulls

Product Manager

- Leads successful product and brand engagements across  industries ranging from start-ups to large, established brands
- Partners with clients to establish thought leadership throughout engagements
- Conducts user research, user testing and stakeholder interviews 
- Leads business development activities for the New York studio and is the main client contact for in-bound new business opportunities and leads
- Manages RFP/pitch process with cross-discipline teams to ensure that our proposed approach matches the goals and needs of our clients
- Maintains Salesforce reporting workflows to ensure pipeline clarity and revenue reporting

Method

Project Management + Business Development Lead

- Lead successful brand and product development engagements with multiple large technology companies and start-ups
- Helped coordinate, prepare, and present new business responses and proposals
- Kept project schedules, and action item task-lists up-to-date
- Wrote intriguing presentation copy for client presentation documents
- Helps to manage, organize, and traffic assets (graphics, documents, files) that the team and the client develops and shares throughout the project
- Requested and followed up for necessary assets and documents between the client and the project team
- Managed and developed case studies when projects ended

Business Development Associate

- Managed activities and resources on brand, product and service design projects
- Fostered relationships between project teams and client in order to create a collaborative working relationship
- Kept project schedules and action item and task-lists 
- Coordinated studio and global resources

Client Services Coordinator - Project Manager

- Led a successful engagement with a chain of membership based workshops where we developed and delivered both brand strategy and new visual identity  
- Cooperatively lead an engagement with a leading search engine
- Helped coordinate and prepare new business responses and presentations
- Kept project schedules and action item and task-lists up to date
- Took meeting notes and distributed them to the team and clients
- Wrote intriguing presentation copy for client presentation documents
- Helped to manage, organize, and traffic assets (graphics, documents, files) that the team and the client develops and shares throughout the project
- Requested and followed up for necessary assets and documents between the client and the project team
- Helped to manage and develop case studies

Client Services Intern

- Create monthly media highlight reports for review by client. 
- Work with regional teams to ensure the success of co-branded events 
- Track mentions of products and brands to build a strong list of social media influencers 
- Write media alerts and press releases for public release
- Research potential outlets for consumer/brand interaction

Engauge (US)

Brand Experience Intern

- Oversee product and model photo-shoots to minimize costs
- Write engaging copy for product listings on website
- Prepare products for photography to ensure deadlines are accurately met 
- Research company product lines to make sure that Jackthreads properly represents each brand correctly
- Perform quality assurance to make certain all products are received and match descriptions
- Research future fashion trends and communicate information and recommendations to purchasing department

JackThreads

Studio Assistant

∙ Pioneer research on potential industries for business development
∙ Maintain client relationships to secure new business and promote communication
∙ Create proposals for websites and applications using Customer Relationship Management software
∙ Call current and potential clients regarding quote requests

Chepri Interactive

Business Development intern

∙ Developed and completed social media benchmarking project
∙ Created an outgoing social media calendar using project research that was implemented to enable more effective social media marketing for users
∙ Wrote copy for use by local media outlets promoting upcoming events

Wexner Center for the Arts

Communications Intern

∙ Oversaw site staff at three coffee shops
∙ Reconciled cash deposits of up to $500 after each shift
∙ Created and named new products to generate excitement among customers
∙ Checked in requisition orders to ensure proper quantities of each type of product were delivered

Patrick Ashmun