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BRITT EAST

Digital Marketing, Sales, and Technology Executive

Digital Marketing, Sales, and Technology Executive

Digital marketing, sales, and technology executive with 25+ years of designing, implementing, managing, and transforming a wide variety of systems that delight customers, drive revenue, and reduce costs by aligning technology solutions to business goals. Dynamic, hands-on leader with large breadth of experience in multiple business sectors.

 

Deep understanding in the planning, implementation, management, and transformation of all digital tools that form the central nervous system of every company, in a way that drives efficiency, scale, and leverage. Strong ability to build relationships and facilitate discussions with internal stakeholders in a way that successfully fosters collaboration, while exchanging and extracting the requisite information to make smart choices and protect the core business. The CIO must also manage a portfolio of complex projects that results in a cohesive flywheel of product development and sales to reduce complexity, while increasing speed and agility among the staff and a wide array of customer types.

About

SKILLS

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Digital Asset Management (DAM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Information Management (PIM), Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ), Content Management Systems (CMS), E-commerce Platforms, Rep Portals, Analytics and Data Visualization, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Customer Experience (CX), and Solutions Delivery

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Image by Alvaro Reyes
Specialties

WORK EXPERIENCE

April 2016 - Present

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DIRECTOR OF IT AND DIGITAL SOLUTIONS,
GREENHECK GROUP

Plan, launch, and optimize a wide variety of complex, large-scale e-commerce and content marketing websites, sales rep portals, and all associated digital tools for the entire enterprise (both internal and external facing). Create and drive the e-commerce and digital marketing road map from the business analyst, technology, developer, business process improvement (BPI), project management, and solutions delivery perspective. Lead a team of 12, across the U.S. and India, and manage strategic relationships with key vendors and partners.

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Select portfolio of e-commerce and content marketing websites:

greenheckgroup.com | greenheck.com | shop.greenheck.com | accurex.com | airolite.com | valentair.com | innoventair.com 

July 2011 - April 2016

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DIRECTOR OF IT AND E-COMMERCE, ZONES

Served as general manager for the e-commerce department of Zones, with over 300k marketplace products online -- representing multiple top technology brands and $550M annual e-commerce revenue. Planned, launched, and optimized a large-scale e-commerce and content marketing website, multiple client purchasing portals and custom catalogs, as well as all associated reporting functions. Included design and development direction, business analysis, project management, solutions delivery, transformation, and analysis. Created and drove e-commerce and digital marketing budget. Led a team of 15, across the U.S. and India.

June 2009 - July 2011

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DIRECTOR OF IT & E-COMMERCE,
THE 5TH AVENUE THEATRE

Led development, implementation, operation, monitoring, and evaluation of all digital marketing and e-commerce initiatives, campaigns, and assets in a PCI-compliant environment of 25+ servers and 200 users, with an annual operating budget of $24M. Created and drove $2M e-commerce budget. Led planning and architecting of new systems, developing IT policies and procedures, hardware and software procurement, and maintaining technology systems to the highest level of operational efficiency. Led a team of 7.

Work Experience

Certifications

Professional certificates I have earned in the last year.

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Universal Analytics

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Creative

Mobile Experience

Display & Video 360

Campaign Manager 360

Search Ads 360

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Measurement

Search

Display

Shopping

AI (Artificial Intelligence)

Creative

Apps

Video

Offline Sales

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Microsoft Advertising Shopping Certification

Microsoft Advertising Search Certification

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Marketing Software

Digital Marketing

Digital Advertising

SEO I

SEO II

Content Marketing

Contextual Marketing

Inbound Marketing

Inbound Marketing Optimization

Email Marketing

Social Media Marketing

Certifications

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Education

To learn more about my education and skills, contact me today.

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MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA)

University of Washington, Foster School of Business

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MASTER OF MUSIC (MM)

University of Illinois

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BACHELOR OF ARTS (BA)

Virginia Tech

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