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Experience

2004-present

Self-employed

Philadelphia, PA

Consultant

  • Supporting various clients with a variety of business services including: website design, electronic newsletters, grant writing, bookkeeping and financial projections, facilities relocation


1999-2003

The Other Side, Inc

Philadelphia, PA

Publisher

  • Supervised 3 staff, co-managed staff of 10. Led organization to its first strategic plan. Redeveloped the board of directors.
  • Chief Financial Officer. Reorganized financial operations, including bookkeeping, budgeting, reporting, policies and procedures for a $700,000 budget. Oversaw implementation of $100,000 grant from the Lilly Foundation.
  • Developed organizational database and bridge data structures between house files; installed and maintained peer-to-peer PC network and related hardware; developed daily data backups and related systems.
  • Managed direct mail marketing program. Led expansion into relationship-based marketing efforts.


1996-1999

The Other Side, Inc

Philadelphia, PA

Circulation Director

  • Reorganized the company's direct mail marketing program for financial sustainability, thus stablizing oscillating circulation levels. Developed quantitative performance indicators. Established tracking system for on-going reference to evaluative indicators.
  • Migrated fundamental vendor operation (fulfillment house) on one-month's notice from the vendor. Managed core outsourcing relationships (fulfillment house, printer, list broker) and related in-house operations; produced list rentals (magnetic tape); provided analytical support for marketing department. Maintained customer service operations.


1994-1996

The Other Side, Inc

Philadelphia, PA

Assistant Publisher

  • Reorganized and maintained customer service operations.
  • Developed organization's first website  www.theotherside.org (drawing first place in the Associated Church Press).
  • Upgraded computer systems; installed basic network and email capacity, within budgetary constraints.
  • Managed core outsourcing relationships (fulfillment house, printer, list broker) and related in-house operations; produced list rentals (magnetic tape); provided analytical support for marketing department.


Summers 1989-1992

Creative Associates International

Washington, DC

Programmer

  • Developed database applications in Dbase III-IV and FoxPro.

Education

1989-1994

Mary Washington College

Fredericksburg, VA

  • B.S., Math, Computer Science (honors), Religion (honors) (full triple major).
  • Graduated Summa Cum Laude. Phi Beta Kappa. Pi Mu Epsilon (Math honor society). Chi Beta Phi (Science honor society).

References

Available on request.

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Chris Paige
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215-840-2858
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chris@ready-set-go.biz
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