Strategic Account & Project Lead

•	Led the client experience on insights, strategy, and experience design projects for clients including Google Play, Google for Education, Melinda Gates' Executive Office, the Surfrider Foundation and NWEA.•	Cultivated relationships, opportunities and leads that generated new business with existing clients. Authored SOWs and negotiated as a partner.•	Led the client relationship for a project portfolio valued at $1M. Earned an above-average Net Promoter Score from clients and colleagues while maintaining an average profit margin of 57% - 65%.•	Leveraged project management savvy to navigate ambiguity with clients, stakeholders and colleagues using diplomatic, nurturing and direct communication and adapting approaches to the work.•	Designed and facilitated client workshops, meetings and work sessions for 2- 40 participants.
    
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About us

  Context Partners guides brands and causes to increase engagement with their most valuable customers and employees. With an approach grounded in Community Centered Design, we believe the people closest to a problem have the best solution, and we identify and reward the most active, connected and committed relationships within your brand community. We’ve strengthened millions of relationships for Microsoft, the Rockefeller Foundation, IKEA and UBS. Our work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Forbes and Rotman Management Magazine.

Context Partners

•	Led the scoping, resourcing, team management and creative process for insights, strategy, and experience design projects valued from $50K to $800K.•	Managed the successful delivery of over $1M in revenue with an average gross profit margin of 57% - 65%.•	Led the project management team to help junior staff advance in their careers and streamline processes to improve project delivery efficiencies.
    
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•	Led the scoping, resourcing, team management and creative process for insights, strategy, and experience design projects.•	Managed the successful delivery of over $750K in revenue with an average gross profit margin 57% - 65%.


Frida Steele is my company and the umbrella of which I have operated project-based work for the last 4 years. Clients include: Context PartnersUnder Solen Media CBS InteractiveTwo Parts ZIA for Buildings LONG Building TechnologiesUniversity of Utah
    
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• 	Logistics project manager for CNET’s marketing programming at the Consumer Electronics Show, North American International Auto Show and Mobile World Congress.•      Covered for two women on maternity leave.


About us

  We are the premier online content network for information and entertainment. Our brands dive deep into the things people care about across entertainment, tech, news, games, business and sports. With over 1 billion users visiting our properties every quarter, we are a global top 10 web property and the largest premium content network online. 

Included in our portfolio of leading brands are the official sites of CBS, CBS News and CBS Sports as well as some of the top native digital brands in the industry: CNET, Gamespot, Comicvine, Download.com, MaxPreps, TV Guide, last.fm, Metacritic, MetroLyrics, Chowhound, TechRepublic, TV.com, and more!

Truly premium content. At true scale. Only CBSi.

CBS Interactive

• 	Collaboratively built and executed the creative vision for events (pop-up, food, beer, wine and maker events).• 	Produced events for 10-25,000 guests.• 	Mentored event coordinators in both professional development and job performance, providing autonomy and opportunities.
    
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Two Parts Co

• 	Created content, marketing and training programs for the ZIA Facilities Management tool, a web-based software for the LEED/Green Building market.


• 	Produced proposals for K-12 schools interested in energy services work. Brought in $30,000 in sales during first month.• 	Led 7 green building certification projects, coordinating and organizing teams of engineers, architects, contractors to meet USGBC performance standards.


LONG Building Technologies

• 	Developed the website for the Foundry, a business accelerator at the University of Utah. Created a website that communicates their program’s method and related outcomes.• 	Produced the educational videos and provided administrative support.


The University of Utah is the state’s oldest and largest institution of higher education and is a major research university. The U offers over 100 undergraduate and more than 90 graduate degree programs to over 28,000 students.

The University of Utah is one of the state’s largest employers and is ranked as one of the top public research universities in the nation.  In 2002 the University of Utah hosted the Olympic Village as well as Winter Olympic events, including the opening and closing ceremonies.


      University of Utah Entrepreneur Club
  

The Global Energy Management program is a Masters of Science in the Business School at CU Denver. The degree is essentially an industry specific MBA or an "energy MBA". The degree included the classic MBA classes with an energy focus and additional science classes specific to the energy industry.


• 	Led two turnkey lighting retrofits (350K project value) for two Parks and Recreation Districts in Colorado.


• 	Created a green building certification program for 120 buildings with team of 6. Coordinated internal quality control process.• 	Developed and implemented a webinar training series for 150 participants in the LEED EB program.


About us

  The Cadmus Group, Inc. acquired CTG Energetics in December 2011. CTG’s team is now combined with the existing Cadmus team to form one of the most experienced sustainable design consulting practices in the world.

Founded in 1983, Cadmus is an energy and environmental consulting firm with approximately 400 professionals in offices across the country.  The Cadmus team combines expertise in fundamental disciplines such as energy modeling, commissioning, and environmental design with leading edge tools and capabilities in LEED® implementation, sustainable community modeling, greenhouse gas analysis, and carbon offset programs.  Cadmus team members are active in leadership and technical committee roles for many professional organizations, including the US Green Building Council, the Urban Land Institute, the Association of Energy Engineers, the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-conditioning Engineers, and the International Standards Organization.  

Cadmus' High Performance Building division has specialized experience with energy modeling and analysis, preparing climate action plans, implementing sustainable facilities programs for buildings and portfolios, crafting sustainability strategies for corporations, and supporting a variety of policy and protocol development. Cadmus has provided LEED support for more than 180 facilities worldwide, including 21 Platinum and 81 Gold facilities.

CTG Energetics, Inc.

BuyWell International was a fair trade coffee company started by some friends of mine in college. At BuyWell, I helped in early days by conducting market research, writing sections of the business plan and strategic planning for entering new market sectors.


Client Experience Lead at Context Partners

Context Partners

Client Experience Lead

Context Partners

Senior Project Manager

Context Partners

Project Manager

Frida Steele

Owner & Project Manager

CBS Interactive

Associate Marketing Manager

Two Parts Co

Event Director

Zia for Buildings

Green Building Specialist

LONG Building Technologies

Project Specialist

University of Utah Entrepreneur Club

Content Marketing / Project Manager

University of Colorado, Denver, Masters of Science in Global Energy Management

Candidate for MS Degree

Cleantech Solutions

Project Manager

CTG Energetics, Inc.

Green Building Specialist

BuyWell International

Research and Development Associate

University of Colorado at Denver

Global Energy Management

Masters of Science

Colorado College

International Political Economy

Bachelors