American Honda Motor Company, Inc.

Helping bring new digital products to market for Honda.

Sr. Product Development Lead - Digital Services

Senior Analyst in Business Operations helping with the launch of the connected services for the Honda Prologue and Acura ZDX.

Focused on:
-Telematics 
-Mobile Applications 
-Analytics 
-Customer Support
-OTAs

Business Operations - Sustainability and Business Development

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Account Executive

Delaware Area Career Center

-Taught Three Levels of Adult Welding at Delaware Career Center’s premier welding lab
-Utilized advanced welding equipment to teach SMAW, GMAW, and GTAW processes
-Developed adult welding curriculum from scratch
-4.9 out of 5 NPS rating from anonymous student evaluations

Adult Welding Instructor

Mureti

Helped grow the business with new sales processes and clients. Developed CRM protocols, Sales and Marketing material, and growth markets.  Focused on developing a healthy framework to grow and scale young organization.

Sales Business Development

Gecko Robotics, Inc.

Helping develop effective sales training to better equip the Industrial Inspection Industry.

Sales Trainer

Lincoln Electric

Supported industries including: automotive, heavy fabrication, furniture fabrication, and pipe fabrication; involving robotic gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, gas tungsten arc, and submerged arc welding. 

Continually added value to the customer base using product technology and thought leading process improvements. Challenged the industry with new ideas and ways to improve efficiency, lower downtime, and increase safety mainly with the PowerWave platform and robotic welding automation. 

Key Highlights:

-All time sales record for Grand Rapids Territory in 2017
-Great Lakes Region Salesman of the Year 2017
-National Salesman of the Year Runner-Up 2017
-Continual top performer in key product categories and initiatives 
-Frequent Beta Tester for new products 
-Early adopter of new innovative technology for the industry
-Chairman of Michigan SkillsUSA Welding Committee for 6 years 
-Active member of American Welding Society West Michigan Committee

Sales Engineer-Grand Rapids

The Technical Sales position at Lincoln Electric includes nine months of exhaustive training: hands on welding, and a technical education in the fields of safety, welding, fume, and automation. The sales engineer must have a blend of interpersonal and technical skills to excel in their position. The position requires an engineer to build clientele, maintain the customer base, as well as support industry internationally.

Provided productivity increases and cost reductions to customers using advanced welding consumables, technology, and support. 

Support industries including: pipe fab and pipeline, heavy fabrication, mining equipment, oil and gas, and nuclear; involving shielded metal arc, gas metal arc, gas tungsten arc, flux-cored arc, and submerged arc welding.

Provided key insights and growth in the pipe welding industry during the Marcellus Shale boom. Became a local thought leading on pipe welding solutions as well as channeled feedback to help with product development with application engineering.

Sales Engineer-Pittsburgh

Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corporation

BMPC is the prime contractor for the Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program. As an intern, I was exposed to the project management perspective of electrical engineering. Experience consisting of:
-Reviewed fuse evaluations to ensure the proper fuse was       installed in rod position indication equipment.
-Analyzed fuse data sheets and utilized circuit analysis to aid in the selection process.
-Composed a failure analysis of power conversion equipment.   Trended data using Excel spreadsheets. Helped create a template for a failure database and populated the database with failed components.
-Wrote an article for the company newsletter, a newsletter that is distributed to over 800 employees

Electrical Engineering Intern

Greetings! 

I currently "Bring the Future" at Honda in the Digital Services and Marketing Division as a Senior Product Development Lead. 

I have the unique opportunity at Honda to see digital products go from an idea to production.

Thing that I talk about: 

-Honda Culture
-Honda Products
-Agile Methodology
-Product Management
-Project Management
-Things that I am learning 
-Books that I am reading

Jon Althausen

M. Taffer Consulting

Consulting practice with a focus on fractional project management, project management consulting, and content development (long-form blog posts, landing pages, and eCommerce products). 

Recent successes include: 

Managing over $3M in project budgets in 2024. (WordPress, Drupal, custom software, branding, SEO/PPC, organic and paid social & analytics)

Created a project management process and set up appropriate technology to run a busy marketing department with 25 people across 4 different disciplines that interact and depend on each other. 

Provided project management training and support for a nonprofit through pilots of the tool and the creation of cross-functional teams. 

Supported a digital agency owner with process optimization and the creation of a project manager role. 

Created advertising for a client that got 3x the national CTR average for ads on a news site resulting in increased brand awareness and event participation.
 
Created a new product for a custom app and software development company that increased leads by 100% week over week
 
Implemented a new proposal structure for an outlet offering advertising and media partnerships that made creating proposals 10x faster for sales professionals

Raised over $30,000 for local journalism via a new awards show sponsorships

Managed process for digital marketing campaigns around mental health-related to COVID-19 pandemic

Create content to boost SEO for clients in pet food and career/professional development industries

Founder & President 

She Steps Up

Empowering women, trans, and non-binary folks to take their next steps--personally and professionally. Creating community, resources, and local support by hosting [online] events that focus on self-advocacy at work, self-growth, and more. Where we're not experts, we'll lift up others who are and help foster connections within our community so you can take your next step.

Co-Founder

From The Future

I oversaw project management process for the entire agency. I worked with subject matter experts to create project plans that support clients SEO, Design, Development, Social Media and general marketing needs. In this role I drew from project management methodologies including waterfall and agile. 
I lead PM through two mergers with Webris and True Voice Media in January of 2018.

Project Manager

Billy Penn

I was responsible for creating event sponsorship packages and selling display, native and daily newsletter advertising for Billy Penn. During my time there I expanded the Who's Next series of networking happy hours and took them out of the offices and into the city. I created new strategic partnerships with a local brewery and distillery to provide unique beverage offerings to our attendees and allow our partners to promote their products. I developed a new product offering with the editorial team - giving businesses the ability to create sponsored email content in conjunction with Billy Penn. Additional responsibilities included supporting the Billy Penn 2017 Bash, event management for other local partnerships including Philly Loves Beer, and managing and reporting on a full sales pipeline.

Manager, Sales & Events

Aramark

I started with Global Sales as their Communications Manager and was tasked with creating a communications plan to keep all stakeholders (business unit and corporate) informed of the work the team was producing, results and interdependencies. My work expanded during my time there to include project management. I was a key member of the Salesforce.com implementation team as well as managed a project to standardize Client Business Reviews across the company. I supported the Business Resource Center team as they transitioned to a single location from a co-located operation. Through that project the team was able to promote several members into leadership roles and their employee engagement scores improved 20 points from the previous survey cycle. I was trained in Challenger Selling, Challenger Teaching Messaging, Miller Hieman Strategic Selling and LAMP and an Aramark specific process for winning or retaining the largest and most strategic accounts. I had the pleasure of leading the Aramark Young Professionals Philadelphia  Hub in 2014 and being a member of the Women's Business Resource Network.

Manager, Global Sales Enablement (Growth Center of Excellence)

Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau

Sales Systems & Lead Coordinator

I started my career with the PHLCVB as a Sales Coordinator supporting sales directors who sold Philadelphia as a site for conventions and meetings. In this role I learned account management, research and prospecting skills and how to keep a CRM system updated. I planned events for clients and coordinated their site visits and promotional materials. I helped manage tradeshows from coordination of booth displays to creating post show reports and analyzing ROI. I collaborated with Marketing and Communications to launch the Simpleview online bid book generator and served as a member of the cross functional internal marketing team. I managed vendors and oversaw purchasing of branded promotional items with a budget of over $20,000 annually.

Sales Coordinator

Need help with projects and processes? I am an experienced highly trained project manager. I hold a PMP from Project Management Institute, A-CSM from the Scrum Alliance, and served as an Asana Services Partner until Summer 2023. 

I help digital agencies, marketing teams, and creatives spend more time doing what they do best - creating for their clients. 

Looking to tell your story and grow your business? I help clients tell their stories and get found through engaging long-form blog posts and SEO content. 

KEY COMPETENCIES

Content Development 
Large Account Strategy and Client Retention
Sales Effectiveness and Enablement
Challenger Selling and Insights Messaging 
Business and Center of Excellence Collaboration
Communication Management 
Project Management with an emphasis on Change Management 
Service Excellence 
Employee Engagement

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