Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

About Me

More than five years of experience managing projects for corporate, Fortune 100, and nonprofit, international organizations, I am a team player with strong initiative, passionate, creative, persuasive and articulate skills. Able to put together people and ideas to generate projects and achieve results others believed to be impossible. Experienced in corporate and brand marketing, public relations and communications projects, partnership building.

Demonstrated success record in:
 Initiating or picking up “already in works” project, delivering and closing
 Branding, managing and positioning
 Distilling value, overcoming objections
 Experienced with both ad agency and in-house project management.
 Designing creative product marketing campaigns
 Motivating staff to peak performance levels
 Proven record of initiative and success in project management, C-level relationship development, writing, and project management within environments from small local projects to large-scale international

CORE COMPETENCIES
• Project Management
• Multi-media Marketing
• Account Development
• Market Research
• Competitive/Strategic Planning
• Budgeting
• Prospecting/ Client Cultivation
• Direct Mail Marketing
• Positioning / Closing

Work History

• Self employed
• Marketing and Sales Consulting
• August 2007 to Present

• mktg and sales consulting

• Hewlett-Packard
• marketing-communications manager
• March 2004 to July 2007

• • Marketing Department Management – Marketing communications and events manager for Hewlett-Packard Russia partner organization, re-established procedures for marketing department communication and project management within the company. Increased productivity by 85%, ROI, effectiveness of collaboration within the company’s departments and marketing agencies, servicing HP. The model was then accepted by the main marketing team of corporate marketing. Generated and drove an internal and external PR-campaign for a partner organization and channel partners. This project was referred to as an ‘excellent’ sample (case study) for international board of EMEA region and received additional central funding. Within three years spent with the Corporation, I was promoted three times. Finished employment with the company in the position of the Leading Marketing and Communications Specialist. (2007)