M LASHAWN GUIDRY
Las Vegas, Nevada ***** (C) 310-***-**** ********@****.***
Professional Summary
Dedicated Advertising Media/Marketing executive with more than 15 years experience in advertising
agency, marketing management, and consulting. Areas of expertise include brand building, media
planning, and client service. I have been very successful at building brands and sales for the following
categories: Automotive, Airline, Consumer Electronics, Travel (Hotel, Airline & Destination), Entertainment
(Theme Parks), Subscription Services, Financial (Consumer Banking), Direct Response, Health & Fitness and
others
Skills
Client Management
Marketing plan development
E-mail and direct mail marketing campaigns Brand Building
Media Buying / Planning Strategic thinker
Strong time management
Budget development and management
Digital marketing Sales strategies
Market research ROI analysis
Online and mobile consumer marketing Quantitative and qualitative market research
Strategic marketing
Work History
01/2014 to Current
Advertising Agency Executive
Confidential – Las Vegas, NV
Manage local advertising agency print and digital media strategies
Direct and coordinate marketing plans and policies to promote clients products and services.
Initiated market research studies and analyzed findings.
Analyze business developments and monitored sales trends.
Investigate and secure revenue from dormant accounts
Prepare monthly and quarterly sales forecasting and monthly revenue reviews.
Direct sales coordinators, training and performance evaluations for marketing and sales staff and
supervised their daily activities.
Develop and implemented media campaigns for print, email, online advertising, search engines and
direct mail.
Define and track campaign effectiveness and optimize strategies accordingly.
Results: Increased sales revenue by trend 10%, and YOY 20%, increased client digital spend from monthly $5k
to $30k monthly.
VP, Consulting 08/2005 to 12/2013
MEDIA Consultants – Beverly Hills, CA
Participated in the development of online marketing strategy.
Plan and prepare marketing/media recommendations to increase brand awareness of clients products
and services, working with company officials, sales departments and marketing departments.
Develop & present online and offline media campaigns to marketing executives.
Evaluation and negotiate national media contracts and sponsorships.
Evaluate and recommend online marketing initiatives, including paid ad placement, affiliate programs,
sponsorship programs, email promotions, and viral marketing campaigns.
Prepare and present budgets with rationale for campaign costs as part of campaign plan
development.
Prepare and negotiate advertising and sales contracts.
Track campaign budgets, expenses and overall campaign response rates and optimize each campaign
based on campaign objectives and findings.
Develop transactional Web applications, using Web programming software and knowledge of
programming languages, such as hypertext markup language (HTML) and extensible markup language
( XML).
Results: Grew clients national sales to #1 in 14 months, increased clients profitability, assist with
proprietary software development
09/2003 to 08/2005
Director Online Media,
Media Partners Worldwide – Long Beach, CA
Directed and coordinated the media department relating to all client/media efforts.
Trained and directed staff engaged in all media planning and media buying.
Participate in the development of online marketing strategy.
Directed and managed the preparation of all marketing/media recommendations Presented online
media campaigns to client executives.
Evaluated and negotiated national media contracts and sponsorships (MSN, Yahoo!, ESPN, Sirius & XM
Satellite).
Managed and supervised online marketing initiatives, including paid ad placement, affiliate programs,
sponsorship programs, and opt-in email promotional campaigns.
Prepared and presented budgets for recommended campaigns.
Project managed proprietary software development for agency and clients.
Meet with clients to provide weekly status reports, and to address needs.
Prepared and negotiated advertising and sales contracts.
Coordinated activities of departments, such as sales, graphic arts, media, finance, and research.
Tracked campaign performance and campaign response rates and recommended and executed
optimization strategies Monitor and analyze sales promotion results to determine cost effectiveness
of campaigns.
Contact potential clients to explain services offered in effort to acquire new accounts.
Results Assist with landing national consumer electronics account, developed proprietary software to
reduce agency overall expenditures and better serve all clients.
Media Director Online Media & Advertising 07/2002 to 07/2003
Mercury Media – Mercury Media
Aggressively pitch and acquire client's
Effectively increased client and agency profitability.
Presented weekly P/L reports at client and agency level.
Determined profitability metrics by client, meet and surpassed client profit projections.
Analyzed usage patterns to understand ways in which customers used company products and
services.
Directed product development using in-depth knowledge of vendor landscape and industry insight.
Directed and coordinated marketing activities and policies to promote products and services.
Developed and implemented campaigns for email, online advertising, search engines and direct mail.
Managed search engine optimization and CPA campaigns
Defined and tracked campaign effectiveness and optimized campaigns accordingly.
Results: Grew client base from 2 to 13 clients, Exceeded client profit projections