Executive Summary
Digital media entrepreneur and financial services professional specializing
as advisor in personal and small business planning. Founding member and
partner at New Media Combination, Inc. an Internet digital media group, and
SpiralFrog, Inc., the first ad supported online media company to provide
free and legal music and videos with the support and licensing of both
music industry major recording groups and publishers. Technology Officer
and software manager and specialist for major financial services
corporations specializing in business integration of emerging and legacy
technologies, data administration, database, and data modeling
Core Competencies
New business development Strategic alliances Mergers and acquisitions
Equity management Visionary leadership Project management
Entrepreneurship Online Advertising Team leadership
Professional Experience
Vice President and Corporate Secretary
April 2009 to Present
New Media Combination, Inc.
. Financial amalgam of Internet entertainment entities with
inherent synergies specializing in mergers and acquisitions of
global media properties .
. Properties include Internet holdings from fashion, music,
celebrity, music lyric, and web television companies.
. Development of seminal BtoC Internet music database that
integrates lyrics, artist and song metadata with dynamic and
interactive user experience
o Corporate Secretary
. Business requirements, development, and administration
including
Strategic and tactical planning including identification,
due diligence and research of targeted enterprises
Development and administration of shareholder database and
reporting, corporate employment agreements and content
licensing
Development and administration of capitalization tables and
reporting procedures
Development of Private Placement Memorandums (PPMs)
Development of Engagement agreements
Human resources
. Development and administration of Employment
agreements
. Development and administration of consulting
agreements
. Management of Board of Directors and Shareholders
communications
. Management of holding company due diligence and
documentation.
. Management and transition of accounting systems and
processes
o Media Analysis and Development
. Manage and perform content analysis
. Manage and perform digital and campaign measurements
. Development of functional and technical requirements
Internet music database
Social media interfaces
. Integration of lyrics and music metadata databases
. Management and development and of User Interface
Technical, functional, and user requirements
Financial Services Professional - Agent
February 2012 to February 2013
New York Life Insurance Company,
. Financial consultant and advisor to consumers and small
businesses, specializing in the New York Life suite of products
and services. Specialist in:
o Life insurance and annuities
o Retirement planning
o Tax diversification
o Estate planning
o Small business succession planning
o Executive bonus and key personnel planning and management
Vice President and Corporate Secretary
October 2003 to March 2009
SpiralFrog, Inc
. First totally advertiser supported music service with goal to
solve music piracy by giving away music free and legally with
the support and licensing of entertainment industry's music
owners and publishers. Accomplished by selling advertising
space to marketers who want to reach young people and share the
advertising revenue with the music owners. The website was
launched September 2007 in the United States and Canada.
o Corporate Secretary
. Business requirements, development, and administration
including
Developed corporate equity management processes.
Development and management of capitalization tables and
reporting procedures
Development of shareholder database and reporting
Development of Restricted Stock and Stock Option
documentation and processes
Development of Engagement agreements
Human resources requirements
. Development and administration of employee
agreements
. Development and administration of consulting
agreements
Corporate due diligence requirements and development
Business plan development
Pro formas development
Administration of corporate concepts, practices, and
procedures.
. Liaison to Board of Directors and Shareholders as well as
all corporate departments and external communications
between legal, accounting, licensing, sales and human
resource areas
. Management of corporate reporting processes including board
of director minutes and resolutions, and shareholder
meetings. Administration Board of Directors elections.
. Management of shareholder relations and directories of
holding companies, officers, and directors
o Music Programming
. Line of business development
Management of independent artist program and managed
interfaces and independent record label licensing
Research and development of new artists and entertainment
programming
Data Administrator / Project Manager
May 1996 to October 2003
TIAA-CREF
. New Technology and Product Development
o Management, development, installation, and maintenance of
TIAA-CREF Predict mainframe data dictionaries including:
Technical, functional, and user requirements
Metadata administration
o Development and management of web based and mainframe
interfaces and project groups
. Financial Services
o Installation. management, and maintenance of TIAA-CREF
mainframe Software AG ADABAS database and Natural development
software
o Project Manager of financial services legacy systems
.
Technology Officer / Data Administrator / Project Manager
April 1986 to May 1996
JP Morgan Chase f/d/b/a Chemical Bank
. Demand Deposit Systems: Return Items and Chargeback
o Installation, management, development and maintenance of
Software AG Natural and Predict software including
Project initiation requirements
Technical, functional, and user requirements
Metadata administration
o Project Manager and Lead developer of ADABAS/Natural Demand
Deposit Account systems and back office areas
o Project Manager
Internal and external merger related interfaces and processes
for JP Morgan Chase, et. al: Texas Commerce Bank, Princeton
Bank and Trust, Manufacturers Hanover Trust and Chemical
Bank
.
Database Analyst
October 1983 to April 1986
Depository Trust Corporation
Database maintenance, product testing and development, and installation
of ADABAS database via utilities and related software.
Technical Proficiencies
Web
. Analysis
o Google Analytics - Comscore
. Development
o HTML5/CSS3 - JavaScript - .Net
Legacy/Mainframe
. Software AG
o NATURAL - NATURAL Security - NATURAL Utilities
o PREDICT
o ADABAS Utilities - ADABAS Security
. IBM
o COBOL - JCL - TSO - IBM Utilities - IDCAMS - BAL
. Syncsort
Desktop
. Microsoft Office Suite - MS Project - Intuit Quickbooks -
VISIO - Smartdraw
Education
Morgan State University
Baltimore, Maryland 1976- 1979
Major: Biology Minor: Chemistry
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland 1974 -1976
Major: Chemistry