Recommendations
Internal Credibility
Colleagues & Teammates
"He is the consummate team player. It doesn't matter to him whether or not it's part of the job description. If it helps the team succeed, you will always see him rolling up his sleeves and digging in. I can't recommend him enough."
Director of Transformation & Retail Buying Experience
Audi of America
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"Mark was such an incredible asset to our team when working through our largest project over multiple teams. What I think Mark did that was so exceptional was that no one asked him to put in the work he did. When Mark started to dig a little deeper in the project, he found a large gap in our project and worked hard to fill the void and keep us organized."
Sr. Manager of Customer Centricity
Audi of America
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"Mark was the driving force behind the team leveraging Robotic Process Automation... The process sped up our acquisition of data from the web much faster than running and downloading reports. I appreciated Mark's innovation."
Digital Retail Consultant
Audi of America
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"Mark and I worked for Audi of America. From the day I met Mark, I could tell he was very passionate about the brand and about the domain. Mark is very approachable, friendly, and filled with amazing knowledge. Mark has the ability to adopt processes quickly and he's very good at sharing innovative ideas."
Sr. Program Manager - Audi Digital Business
Audi of America
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"Over the last several years at Audi and VW I have worked with Mark on many projects. He is well organized and detail oriented and is an asset to any program trying to tease out and organize requirements as well as manage the implementations."
Dealer Process Integration Manager
Volkswagen Group of America
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"Mark is one of the most strategic and data-driven professionals I've worked with. His approach to both sales and marketing is extremely impressive... This data-driven approach is even more powerful when combined with his background in the automotive industry."
Global Director of Human Resources
GreenTech Automotive
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"Mark is one of the most hard working and meticulous individuals I have ever been associated with. He has a unique ability to grasp the 'Big picture' and articulate how day to day activities effect outcomes down the road."
Sr. Talent Acquisition Leader
GreenTech Automotive
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"Mark was excellent to work with! He has an amazing business mind as well as a firm grasp of how technology fits into the whole equation and how it can and should be used to accomplish the goals of any business, especially ours."
Software Development Lead
Overstock.com
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"Mark is a capable leader who motivates those around him to accomplish their goals. He always ensured we met our deadlines and often with time to spare. His expectations for the team were ambitious but still realistic. He was a very approachable boss."
Java Developer
Overstock.com
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"Mark makes well-informed, well thought out decisions. For example, he's done an incredible amount of research into the local commerce space and has emerged from it with vivid insights."
Software Architect
Overstock.com
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"Mark was an extremely effective and hard-working business manager and worked extremely well with the team to make sure everyone could share their opinions and keep us working effectively. I would happily work with Mark again."
Programmer
Overstock.com
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"Mark is detail oriented professional with strong sense of commitment. His positive attitude and systematic approach has resulted in success. I remember Mark would give everyone a fun activity which would involve a real time experience related to the project as a end user which I found very unique and great approach."
Senior Software Engineer
Overstock.com
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"I had the great pleasure of working with Mark in the social media department at Overstock.com. His mentorship helped open my eyes to many new possibilities in social media marketing. He also helped our team identify enterprise-level solutions that have taken our social strategy to the next level."
Social Media Marketing Manager
Overstock.com
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"Mark has an unusually sharp business sense. He is very skilled at looking at something large and complex and breaking it down to its individual (and manageable) parts, and then creating plans for dealing with them. If I were going to create a new business or improve an existing one, I'd want to have Mark on my team."
Director of Communications & Social Media
Overstock.com
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"Mark was instrumental in developing a cohesive, hands-on and ROI-based training... program for a Major Big-Box client of ours. Finally, Mark's work was so exemplary that once our project was finalized, our key customer hired Mark on to ensure that he could expand the Best Practices he developed."
General Manager
Ultra Motor USA (Acquired by HERO ECOTECH LTD)
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"I worked with Mark on an Electric Vehicle initiative at Best Buy... Mark was a key asset in ensuring the field (Best Buy stores) were fully trained and had the critical information to succeed... I would work for/with Mark any day and fully recommend him for any title as he is truly a team player."
Logistics Business Specialist
Best Buy
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"Mark is one of the most meticulous, hard-working people that I have ever worked with. He takes great pride in a job well-done and has a lot of passion for the job he does. He is an intelligent person that works both smarter and harder."
Vice President of Sales
Ultra Motor USA (Acquired by HERO ECOTECH LTD)
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"Mark was one of the Road Producers for Toyota's Highway to the Future... Mark demonstrated that he is extremely capable in adverse conditions and can keep a very complicated and lengthy show on track and running smoothly."
Producer
George P. Johnson
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