Gene Carbine
Fair Lawn, N.J. ****0
Home: 201-***-****
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Project Manager with over 10 years of experience managing third party
database vendors and internal development teams, building complex high-
volume direct mail, phone and email marketing initiatives across a wide
variety of industry verticals, with specialization within the
pharmaceutical industry. Consulted clientele (Advertising Agencies,
external and internal marketing/product managers) regarding CRM/direct
marketing best practices and strategies including: Requirement gathering
and documentation, design of testing matrices, segmentation strategy and
implementation., interpreting campaign results, list selection and data
extraction, campaign development, merge-purge, CAN-Spam/HIPPA compliance,
list and vendor price negotiation.
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Professional Experience:
Medco Health Solutions, Franklin Lakes, N.J.
1/2009 - Current
Database Marketing Operations Project Manager
. Managed multiple teams of developers, overseeing the delivery of
campaign output files with mandatory mail dates, overall process
management and compliance with established SOPs and data processing
best practices
. Served as liaison to internal marketing managers, providing project
status, capturing and documenting business and functional requirements
of new campaign development and change controls of existing campaigns
. Charged with development resource management, prioritizing project
deliverables dates with business owners and departmental project
managers
. Authored and presented functional requirement documents for direct
marketing campaigns leveraging transactional claims data to identify
patient behaviors, triggering a variety of weekly marketing
communications based on transaction and medication type
. Acted as lead project manager for multiple organizational database
change controls, identifying efficiency gains, impacts and risks
across Medco's database marketing operations portfolio of marketing
programs and data systems. Authored requirement documentation, SOPs,
mapping of operational and data processes, and overseeing department
implementation and QC validation
. Selected as project lead for high-visibility new product launch,
consulting with business owners to craft business
requirements/marketing objectives, answering to various departments
across the organization providing database marketing team functional
requirements, capabilities, identification and management of project
risks, coordinating deliverables for development team, and
communicating project progress to core team
Database Network Associates, Pompton Lakes N.J.
6/2002 - 12/2008
Director of Sales & Marketing
. Primary marketing strategist, and program manager for high-volume
email, direct mail clientele including: Met Life, The Internal Revenue
Service, Hewlett-Packard, Qwest, Motorola and the New York Times
. Supervised staff of two assistants and a junior sales executive
responsible for servicing existing accounts, developing marketing
plans, and establishing new accounts
. Consulted with advertising agency clientele formulating direct
mail/email/CRM strategies for their clients including top 10
pharmaceutical brands NEXIUM, CRESTOR and ELLIDEL
. Made high level presentations to marketing mangers, and advertising
agency clients closing sales, presenting CRM strategy recommendations,
direct marketing industry insights, campaign results, and privacy
compliance
. Managed third party data processing vendors for database marketing
clients, negotiating cost, implementing data strategy, producing
required merge purge, segmentation, and tracking/results reports
. Authored test matrix design and campaign analytics reports to
marketing managers, identifying winning offer, demographic targets,
and creative tactics for Motorola email CRM initiative
. Assisted clients in the development of database marketing/CRM
practices managing initial procedures including: data cleansing, NCOA,
data standardization, data enhancement, model development,
segmentation design, record scoring
Foote, Cone & Belding, New York, N.Y.
5/2000 - 6/2002
Media Planner
. Acted as agency's email marketing and direct mail expert within media
department, managing all direct marketing media functions
. Managed large scale email and direct mail campaigns for the United
States Postal Service, Chase Manhattan, AT&T, Compaq Computer, E-
stamp, and Kraft foods
. Consulted agency's account management staff on email campaign
tracking, execution and database coordination
. Headed FCB's eCRM vendor evaluation project for Compaq Computer and
Clairol
. Authored winning lifestage database marketing RFP response for AT&T's
Worldnet product initiative
. Acted as privacy expert within media department consulting with
client's marketing and legal officers
Edith Roman Associates, Pearl River, N.Y 2/1997 -
4/2000
Account Executive/Marketing Research Executive
. Promoted to account executive with short junior executive tenure in
recognition of outstanding performance, understanding of strategy and
list industry/sales acumen
. Planned and executed large email marketing research efforts for
Nortel Networks
. Responsible for list research operations of firm's high profile
database mailers, including outlining perspective test
recommendations and selections
. Managed list vendors insuring compliance with deadlines and client
data requirements
. Performed QC analysis of incoming marketing records to database
against database requirements specifications for data integrity,
accuracy, and segmentation analysis
. Developed segmentation structure for Digi-Key Electronics' 2.5 million
record marketing database
. Successfully prospected for new accounts including Office Depot, Tyco
Int'l, and PC Connection exceeding yearly quota by 75%
Education:
. University of Maryland, B.A. - Marketing 1996
Skills:
. Trained in Six-Sigma process improvement methodology & project
management
. Versed in the use of Unica Affinium Plan, Cognos reporting, MS Word,
Excel, Access, Power Point, Doubleclick DART for advertisers,
Sharepoint