2020-2025
Five years running marketing at an IT community of 5 million developers.
Experts Exchange hired me to lead marketing for a community product in a crowded developer tools market. I inherited a dead email list under 10% open rate. In eight months I built ByteSize to 200K subscribers at 60% open. $1.65M projected ARR.
From there the scope kept widening. I led an SEO overhaul that upgraded 71,000 URLs and drove 135% traffic growth. Implemented Amplitude from scratch, found the activation moment via A/B test, lifted trial signups 30%. Shipped a gamification system end to end, PRD through Figma through GTM. Ran positioning on the April Dunford methodology and rebuilt the full messaging hierarchy.
Somewhere in there I bought a one-way ticket to Chicago without knowing a single person and built a life here. Finished an MBA from Lee while working full time. Four years in, Chicago is home.
