Chief Business Development Officer (CBDO) at talentPOD
July 2010 - October 2010
talentPOD is a social media marketing company that specializes in the development and ongoing administration of proprietary social networks for the nonprofit and community focused organization sectors utilizing the full capacity of cutting edge, emerging technologies benefiting local, state, national and international communities. Social relevance and impact are the cornerstones of our inspiration. Through skillful use of emerging technologies within the social media and public relations industries we hope to assist the nonprofit and other community welfare organizations develop and deliver their message to their targeted constituencies in a manor consistent with the current industry standards and best practices for the greater welfare and enrichment of the communities they serve. Proprietary social network development and administration and public relations services for the nonprofit and community services focused sectors.
* Elaborated business development plans, design and implemented processes to support business growth, through customer and market definition.
* Facilitated business growth by working together with clients as well as business partners (suppliers, subcontractors, JV partners, technology providers, etc.).
* Built and maintained high-level contacts with current and prospective customer and other business and project partners.
* Drove prospects through to contract award (including identifying new customers and markets, developing approaches to the market, identifying prospects, proposal preparation, etc.)
* Developed marketing strategy, managed proposal teams and client account managers.
I was brought in to help develop and launch a custom social network platform for a specific client that had been in development for over two years. The final product was not approved by the client.
Director of Social Media at GiveClicks.com
October 2008 - September 2009
GiveClicks is an online shopping program designed to help you support your favorite charity while doing your every day shopping on the Internet. The nonprofit of your choice will receive a small donation with each purchase you make online within the GiveClick's merchant network. While there I developed the corporate social media strategy and built out, populated and maintained campaigns on Twitter and Facebook as well as initiated and maintained the corporate blog on Wordpress. I reported to the CEO directly as well as interfaced with channel partners, IT department and various political and community leaders.
As Social Media Director I was responsible for overseeing the Company's Social Media Strategy and Social Media team across all internal brands and platforms . The role coordinated with the internal PR, Editorial, Marketing, Legal and Production Directors and Board Members to support the Company's mission. The position involved ensuring our social boradcasting was fully integrated with all other efforts across the Company's portfolio, as well as managing the Central Social Media budget.
Fellow at Center for Progressive Leadership
January 2009 - September 2009
The CPL State Political Leaders Fellowship is a nine-month, part-time leadership development program for a select group of organizational leaders, future candidates, community organizers, and progressive activists across the state. Through training, coaching, project-based work and mentoring, the program gives up-and-coming leaders the skills and networks they need to advance progressive political change in their communities.
The Fellowship is designed to fit the schedules of working professionals through five main components:
* Five Weekend Workshops
* Regular One-on-one and Small Group Coaching
* Project-based Learning
* Mentorship
* Political Networking
Committee Chairman at Draft Al Gore; State of Arizona
June 2006 - February 2008
Worked within the State of Arizona to initiate a draft referendum to elect Al Gore for President of The United States of America in the 2008 Presidential elections. In 2002-03 Draft Gore mounted a large-scale effort to draft Al Gore for the Democratic nomination in 2004. Thousands of people in every state worked actively in support of that campaign, which received considerable attention from the media. At the end of 2003, out of respect for Vice President Gore's wishes when he endorsed Howard Dean, we brought our effort to an end.
Since then, the crises facing our country and the world have only worsened. Democrats, both at the grassroots level and in elected office, told us that Al Gore's voice and vision offer us the best chance to reclaim our country and to fight again for the values our party has historically stood for. That's why we restarted the campaign in early 2006 and mounted a historic effort to try to draft Gore for 2008.
Owner & Community Manager at Vintage Bass Trading Co. & The Dudepit Forum
December 1998 - January 2007
Owner of VBTC, an online retail outlet for bass guitars and related accessories and host of The Dude Pit online bass guitar discussion forum and social network. Retailer for fifteen musical instrument manufacturers. Co-designer of three limited edition bass guitars manufactured by Lakland Basses. Importer and exclusive US Distributor of the J-Retro onboard preamplifiers.
As Founder and Community Manager of "The Dudepit" online forum for bass players worldwide I managed an early example of a "Proprietary" as well as a "Niche" social network that at it's peak was averaging an average of 3 million visits per month in a threaded forum style format. The forum became quite popular and I successfully "branded" myself as "The Dude" and became a noted "thought leader" within the demographic with an international following.
Operations Manager at Sable Ridge Vineyards
1996 - 2001
General manager of this family owned, boutique vineyard and winery in Sonoma County, CA. Managed all day to day operations including vineyard and cellar labor, facilities and equipment. Participated in final tasting, blending and bottling of all wines which have received multiple gold, silver & bronze medals in international competition.
One of the founding vineyards of The Bennett Valley AVA, an American Viticultural Area located in Sonoma County, California. The boundaries of this appellation lie completely within the North Coast AVA, almost completely within the Sonoma Valley AVA and overlaps into some areas of the Sonoma Coast AVA and Sonoma Mountain AVA. The region was granted AVA status on December 23, 2003 following the petition of Matanzas Creek Winery. The AVA is surrounded to the south, east and west by the Sonoma Mountains and to the north by the city of Santa Rosa, California. The region receives a moderating effect on its climate from Pacific Ocean through the cool coastal fogs and breeze that creep into the area from the southwest through Crane Canyon between Sonoma Mountain and Taylor Mountain. Barbera, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Chardonnay, Grenache, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc and Syrah are the leading grape varieties planted.
PRODUCTION
Estate Syrah
Sonoma Valley Meritage
Russian River Valley Viognier
Russian River Valley Petite Sirah
Russian River Valley Zinfandel
Sonoma County Zinfandel
Sonoma Valley Syrah and Red Blends
Lodi Zinfandel, Syrah and Red Blends
President & CEO at American Residential Appraisers
April 1991 - November 1997
Founder, President and CEO of this SW regional appraisal & consulting firm with as many as 7 branch locations in CA & NV. Oversees all real estate appraisal administration business operations including day-to-day operational management including ordering and reviewing appraisal reports, vetting and maintaining a panel of approved appraisers and environmental consultants, establishment of bank appraisal and environmental policies and development of department procedures, quality control including USPAP, Federal and state banking regulatory compliance, providing counsel to lenders and underwriters regarding real estate related issues, supervision and guidance of staff, and providing customer service to internal and external clientele.
* Over 400 hours of courtroom testimony experience with over an 80% win ratio.
* Golf course design, development and residential subdivision specialist.
* High end, celebrity owned residential specialist within a 7 county area of Southern CA
* Certified review appraiser
* Early tester and adopter of digital photography and data transmission technologies.
District Appraisal Manager at Citibank
April 1989 - April 1991
Senior management position at this federally chartered savings bank. Managed desk and fields appraisers with workload adjustments and job performance including, estimating, customer service skills, and time management.
Responsibilities:
Managed Appraiser dispatch processes.
Oversaw quality of appraisal handling
Managed internal quality control program including accuracy to detail, tracking results, and ensuring general quality control and USPAP compliance.
Ensured proper employee training, use and maintenance of all department computer hardware and software systems,
Monitored and reported unit performance against established metrics standards.
Worked closely with staff to ensure fair, accurate, and timely appraisals.
Keeps current on state/territory regulations and issues as well as industry activity and trends.
Provided technical support to appraisal staff as well as completing reviewed an ongoing random sampling of field work..
Participated in the establishment of department goals and for implementing procedures and performance standards to achieve these goals;
Responsible for the employment, promotion, associate performance evaluation, training, motivation, counseling, and discipline of assigned associates.
President & CEO at Axiel Research Group, Ltd.
November 1985 - October 1988
Founded and served as Pres & CEO of this real estate appraisal and consulting firm with emphasis on developing emerging technology within the field utilizing advanced statistical modeling, digitized forms, time and motion studies and digital photography years before any peer groups. Regional appraisal review and fee panel management services for Norstar Bank & Fleet Financial.
Sales Manager at Scott E. Cohen Realty
January 1983 - November 1985
Managed a sales force of 6-10 real estate sales people and brokers under Mr.Cohen. Recipient of the 1984 "Sales Master Award" from the Real Estate Board of Rochester for being the top selling Realtor Associate with 164 closed sale transactions. Trained one on one under the mentorship of Mr. Cohen who went on to participating in 4 notable IPOs including LivePerson and 24/7 Real Media.
Imagery Interpreter Specialist AFSC 20650 at USAF
June 1976 - May 1979
Graduated US Millitary Intelligence School, Lowry AFB, Served with the 548th RTG Hickam AFB, HI, Honorable Discharge. Top Secret Security Clearance (inactive). USAF Tested at the 98th percentile level and scheduled for classified international military intelligence service. Permanant assignment to he Pacific Air Command. +SERVICE RECORD CLASSIFIED+
Content Committee Chairman at National CrowdFunding Association
September 2012
The mission of the National Crowdfunding Association is to support, educate, and protect the American crowdfunding market. We represent the interests of both the investor and the entrepreneur in every crowdfunding transaction, whether it is an investment or a donation crowdfund offering. The NLCFA was formed in March, 2012, prior to the passage of the JOBS Act of 2012 authorizing investment crowdfunding in America. We provide our members with opportunities to shape the industry, learn the details of the marketplace, stay informed and stay ahead, and the opportunity to network with others involved in this revolutionary new way of financing. According to the JOBS Act of 2012, the SEC has until approximately Jan 1, 2013 to issue regulations governing investment crowdfunding. It must also register crowdfunding portals and approve self-regulatory organization (SRO) rules governing those portals. We are a collection of SEC attorneys and crowdfunding portals and venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, seeking to influence the regulatory authorities for the betterment of crowdfunding. Currently the SEC is inviting the expression of views on the regulations it will propose, and we are seeking to help the SEC Staff in their work on their regulations with a primary goal of protecting investors while not over-regulating the nascent market.
Specific Duties as Content Committee Chair include:
- Recruit Committee members in line with role profiles and recruitment procedures.
- Ensure that Committee members understand the Department/Committee Terms of Reference, the role of the Chair and Officer and the work of the committee.
- Ensure that the Committee members receive the training and support they need to help them carry out their roles.
- Convene and facilitate scheduled committee meetings in a manor to ensure delivery of the committee's assigned task(s) to the Board of Directors.
CEO & Group Publisher at SGB Media Group(TM)
November 2006
SGB Media Group(TM) is a social media marketing and digital publishing firm specializing in social media marketing campaigns, eCommerce solutions, brand development initiatives, public relations and digital content production, publication and syndication.CRM solutions. It's publishing arm, Barr Publications(TM) currently publishes and syndicates 45 in-house publications of mixed content generally related to startups, crowdfunding, affiliate marketing, social media & niche social media development.
- Publishing Rositer:
*The Social Media Marketing Report(TM)
*The Crowdfunding Times(TM)
*The Southwestern Real Estate Report(TM)
*Boardroom Advisory Services Blog(TM)
*The Affiliate Marketing Publisher's Report(TM)
*The Transpartisan Times(TM)
*The Social Circuit on Amplify.com(TM) (formerly)
*Social Views on Google's Blogger(TM)
*The Social Media Observer on WordPress(TM)
*The Software Solution Network(TM)
*The Hard Drive Journal(TM)
*Erotomania(TM)
*The Startup Review Journal(TM)
*Strategic Alliance Management & Social Media(TM)
*Here's Your Seat(TM)
*A Divine Catharsis(TM)
*A Caregiver's Silence(TM)
*Jew?el?ry(TM)
*Black Friday Big Deals(TM)
*The Adult Affiliate Network(TM)
*The Reverse Mortgage News(TM)
*Premium Value Club(TM)
*Net Values Club(TM)
*The Solitudinal Extrovert(TM)
Products & Services:
* Crowdfunding Consulting
* Social Network Profiles & Fan Pages
* Business Plan Development
* Blogs
* Niche Social Networks
* Static Websites
* Portal Sites
* eCommerce solutions
* eMail/Newsletter Campaigns
* Event Planning & Production
* Website Analytics & SEO
* Affiliate Marketing
* Strategic Alliance Management
* Business Development
Founder & Chairman at Boardroom Advisory Services(TM)
January 2011
Fee based consulting services for emerging technology for profit and nonprofit start up advisory and directorial boards.
Boardroom Advisory Services(TM) was founded by veteran entrepreneur Stephen G. Barr with the mission to assist emerging technology start ups from conception through IPO, merger or sale by serving, guiding, advising and governing their advisory & director's boards on a fee based consulting basis with a focus on current best practices, ethics and prudent leadership principles.
- Services Include but not Limited to;
* Board Formation and Staffing
* Mission Development
* Seed Funding Acquisition
* Board Administration & Governance
* Investor Reporting
* Procedural Implementation
* External Reporting and Compliance
* Media and Public Relations
* IPO, Merger or Sale Negotiations
-- Expert Market Study and Business plan preparation, review and evaluations.
-Founded, built and ran multiple corporations in the
Founding Adviser at The Entrepreneurial Advisory Network
July 2011
The Entrepreneurial Advisory Network is a growing team of individuals (not affiliated with AngelList) who are volunteering time to help nascent entrepreneurs. The advisors listed below have committed to helping by offering a small amount of time per week to offer advice and assist. We are always hoping to find more volunteers, so please get involved if interested!
We do offer: advice, perspective, links to information, moral support. We do not promise intros, endorsements or money!
- Advisory Board Chairman at Sensual Steals, Inc.(TM)
- Advisory Board Member at ZEVO.tv(TM)
- Advisory Board Member at MyKidzKonnection.com(TM)
- Advisory Board Chairman at Golden Seeds Game Company, Inc.(TM)
- Advisory Board at Spillnow.com (TM)
- Advisory Board at AFFGrow.com (TM)
- Advisory Board at Bling Jeans Company (TM)
- Advisory Board at Media Alliance Group (TM)
- Advisory Board at PaintAcquaint.com (TM)
- Advisory Board at Coworking Florida (TM)
- Advisory Board at Caffine.me (TM)
Chief Information Officer (CIO) at American Realty Housing Group(TM)
July 2012
American Realty Housing Group(TM) is a newly formed collaborative project between many longtime business associates within the Southern, CA market area who's purpose is to provide affordable housing within the urban core of America's cities by developing vacant infill lots.
With the ongoing recession and high unemployment rates we've seen in the past few years coupled with increasing offshore manufacturing competition the urban core of American cities has become blighted and peppered with vacant infill residential lots. We will specialize in redeveloping these lots with sustainable, energy efficient residential homes and provide reasonable financing for those of moderate means in order to revitalize the hubs of our cities.
We will also facilitate a renewed sense of community and neighborhood pride of ownership by only selling to owner occupied buyers. Each submarket or neighborhood that we develop in we will create and launch a niche social network in conjunction with that district's city councilman, police, fire, school and public works departments and establish a program of monthly "town hall" resident meetings and annual block party.
We are rebuilding communities.
Approved Startup Company at Startup America Partnership
September 2012
Mr. Barr's Boardroom Advisory Services is the first of several strategically launched companies he has in development to be utilizing this program but there are several more in development that will be complimentary in scope and nature to the others so as one gets off the ground it can help the next ones to be launched which will in turn do the same for the next. Areas of special interest would be those revolving around urban redevelopment in order to utilize the combined expertise of BAS as well as those of his other firm American Realty Housing Group and will be utilizing the affiliation benefits package, sharing the same initial management group to cut expenses, unify management style as well as using multiple crowdfunding platforms for funding.
Founder & Managing Partner at Startup Hive(TM)
October 2012
Startup Hive(TM) is a proposed startup incubator and coworking location project in development by noted publisher, startup adviser and publicist Stephen G. Barr to be located within the Phoenix, AZ, Las Vegas, NV and Southern, CA market areas and supported by Barr's other established companies SGB Media Group, Boardroom Advisory Services and Barr Publications. The primary mission is to assist emerging technology start ups from conception through IPO, merger or sale by serving, guiding, advising and governing their advisory & director's boards on a fee or equity consulting basis with a focus on current best practices, ethics and prudent leadership principles.
Seed funding procurement assistance through the use of a series of niche market, equity based crowdfunding sites currently in development and to begin alpha testing in January 2013 as a result of the changing investor regulations as part of the Jobs Act as well as through traditional venture capital sources.
** Currently seeking joint venture partners, vendors, subcontractors, web developers and investors for this next generation startup incubator. Contact Stephen G. Barr directly at [email protected]
Services provided will include but are not limited to:
- Help with business basics
- Networking activities
- Marketing assistance
- High-speed Internet access
- Help with accounting/financial management
- Access to bank loans, loan funds and guarantee programs
- Help with presentation skills
- Links to higher education resources
- Links to strategic partners
- Access to angel investors or venture capital
- Comprehensive business training programs
- Advisory boards and mentors
- Management team identification
- Help with business etiquette
- Technology commercialization assistance
- Help with regulatory compliance
- Intellectual property management
- Reputation Management
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