Relaunched marksmeritt.com as an interactive resume and biography website

Founder, Webmaster; MarkSMeritt.com

  • Founded this web site to serve as a central hub for information about my pursuits and background, including an innovative WordPress/database-driven interactive resume.
  • Webmaster for marksmeritt.com.

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Launched potluckcreativearts.com

  • Launched potluckcreativearts.com, using WordPress publishing platform and customized programming with PHP, HTML and plugins.
  • Launched multiple podcasts, plus Resources section to help visitors learn about creativity and how to express themselves through their own lives.

Founder, Editor; Potluck Creative Arts’ YouTube Channel

Founded this YouTube channel to present original content via Potluck, Potluck Creative Arts and other sites.
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Relaunched arts.potluck.com

Relaunched arts.potluck.com, adding services including composition, lyric-writing, musical arrangements and production, as well as writing and directing for motion pictures and theatre.

Founder, Principal, Webmaster; Potluck Creative Arts

Potluck Creative Arts, Red Hook, NY

  • Promoting my activities as a musician, songwriter, composer, lyricist, arranger, music producer, pianist/keyboardist, music/arts/creativity educator/facilitator and writer/director for motion pictures and theatre.
  • Services offered include Songwriting Workshops; Singalong Workshops; Custom Songs; Custom Instrumentals; Custom Writing; Creativity Coaching; Music Lessons; Piano/Keyboard Performance; Musical Arrangements and Production; Directing for Motion Pictures and Theatre.
  • Webmaster for potluckcreativearts.com.

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Founder, Principal, Webmaster; Potluck Arts

  • Created this business to promote my arts performances and educational efforts, including concerts, singalongs and music lessons.
  • Webmaster for arts.potluck.com, using custom HTML programming.

Founder, Principal Contributor, Webmaster; Potluck

  • Founded this web site to present original works, including many that explore familiar topics from a systems perspective.
  • Webmaster for potluck.com.

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Founder, Editor, Webmaster; Mosaic: A Magazine of Arts, Sciences & Everything in Between

  • Founded this online magazine to explore familiar topics from a systems perspective. Subsequently relaunched as Potluck.
  • Webmaster for www.mosaic.permaculture.net, using custom HTML programming.

Read at potluck.com.

Founder, Editor, Webmaster; Sostenuto: The Systems-Thinking Magazine of Arts & Sciences

  • Founded this online magazine to explore familiar topics friom a systems perspective. Subsequently relaunched as Mosaic: A Magazine of Arts, Sciences & Everything in Between.
  • Webmaster for www.sostenuto.permaculture.net, using custom HTML programming.

Read at potluck.com.

Founder, Editor, Webmaster; permaCulture: The Systems-Thinking Magazine of Arts & Sciences

  • Founded this online magazine to explore familiar topics from a systems perspective. Subsequently relaunched as Sostenuto: The Systems-Thinking Magazine of Arts & Sciences.
  • Webmaster for home.hvc.rr.com/worldtrade, using custom HTML programming.

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Business Consultant

Business consulting specializing in Microsoft Excel, creation of databases and other information management tools, project management, data analysis, forecasting, quality control, research, and both technical and academic writing.
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Marketing Analyst, Doctors Without Borders

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), New York, NY

  • Created numerous inventive and dynamic tools in MS Excel, MS Access and propriety systems to support the Development department in planning, implementing, analyzing and growing its fundraising program.
  • Managed departmental budgeting. Innovated effective methods for forecasting fundraising performance up to $138 million and expenses up to $15 million across diverse efforts and multiple budget iterations.
  • Managed acquisition and renewal efforts in mail, telemarketing, web, toll-free number and other media, including acquisitions up to 17 million contacts annually and renewals up to 9 million contacts annually.
    • Led implementation of and collaborated on strategy for creative treatment testing, population segmentation, data quality control, production coordination, acquisition list selection, merge-purge processing and all other campaign management activities.
    • Achieved strong performance in all marketing efforts, including an average profit of about 65% for acquisition mail, growing the database from 178,000 to over 1 million donors.
    • Assisted in maintenance of www.doctorswithoutborders.org Web site.
  • Produced in-depth, insightful narrative and numerical analyses with actionable results that repeatedly improved performance as well as efficiencies in cost and operations.
  • Oversaw a massive transition to Target Software’s industry-leading Team Approach database, including development of comprehensive new coding systems and detailed mapping of thousands of legacy codes to integrate historical results for analysis on the new platform.
  • Supervised several staff members and volunteers in Marketing and Donor Services.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
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