Alvin Brown

Current

Founder and President at Ladder Jumpers, LLC
Principal at Brownstone Strategies (Self-employed)

Past

Marketing & Technology Developer at Smarter Solutions, Inc.
Marketing & Technology Manager at ACS Dataline
IT Business Analyst/Developer at Flowserve Corporation

Asst Mgr at The Buckle

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Education

Keller Graduate School of Management
University of Dallas
DeVry University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Alvin Brown’s Summary

Top performing professional providing innovative and strategic leadership in Fortune 1000 caliber and high growth entrepreneurial environments. A strong relationship builder, negotiator, and facilitator able to develop consensus with key internal and external decision makers. Fast-track, highly motivated, cross-functional, team oriented individual with a successful background in turnaround situations.

Alvin Brown’s Specialties:

Marketing Management, Information Technology Management, Telecommunications Management, Business Development/Sales Management,
Strategic Planning, Merger & Acquisition Integration, Cost Containment, Staff Management/Development, Brand Management,
Business Process Management/Improvement

Alvin Brown’s Experience

Founder and President

Ladder Jumpers, LLC

(Consumer Services industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

Ladder Jumpers is an Austin-based holding company for entrepreneurial ventures and start-up companies centered around providing the general public with high-quality solutions and services to make life more efficient.
Principal
Brownstone Strategies (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2000 — Present (9 years 9 months)

Brownstone Strategies is an interactive services firm offering full-service integration of traditional and electronic marketing techniques.

Providing premier integrated marketing services nationwide to small and medium-sized businesses, our robust capabilities of turning your marketing dreams into a perfect marketing reality are endless.
Marketing & Technology Developer

Smarter Solutions, Inc.

(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

2005 — 2007 (2 years )
Marketing & Technology Manager

ACS Dataline

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2004 — June 2005 (1 year )

Directed the overall marketing organization development and delivery of effective Marketing & Communications campaigns and programs, including managing and creating sales deliverables (collateral, sales enabling tools, presentations, demos, white papers, case studies and competitive write-ups); business forecasts including leading indicators; competitor intelligence; web site development; industry reports, and ad-hoc analysis and reports in support of business segment and corporate needs.
IT Business Analyst/Developer

Flowserve Corporation

(Public Company; FLS; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

2000 — 2004 (4 years )

Managed, budgeted, and forecasted annual telecommunications spending of $10.7M for three divisions and corporate office. Negotiated IT contracts and effectively managed IT telecommunications assets. Evaluated and recommended telecommunications principles, security, and associated company wide policies, standards, and guidelines. Served as account executive (technical and subject matter expert) within functional areas: Calling Cards, Wireless GSM & TDMA, Wireless, Remote Access Service (Dial Up), Data Network, Teleconferencing, Videoconferencing, VPN, VoIP and LAN/WAN Technologies. Designed, developed, and implemented strategic web initiatives and organizational information architecture towards telecommunications infrastructure (i.e. Portal projects, IT/HR web projects) – utilize IBM Websphere, Dreamweaver, Java, ASP, DHTML.
Asst Mgr

The Buckle

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BKE; Marketing and Advertising industry)

1997 — 2000 (3 years )

Supervised and managed up to 8 employees, demonstrating ability to multitask in the areas of hiring, scheduling, leading monthly and quarterly team meetings, opening and closing stores, ordering merchandise, and accounting for inventory as a team lead and assistant mgr. Trained employees in customer service program and annual sales leadership programs. Prioritized workload to meet customer service requirements and deadlines. Successfully managed annual retail sales budget having stores 186 and 187 listed in the top 25 (top 8%) stores 4 consecutive years for revenue obtained.

Alvin Brown’s Education

Keller Graduate School of Management

Masters , Business Administration , September 2002 — February 2004
University of Dallas

eMarketing Certification and Training Program May 2003 — June 2003
DeVry University

Bachelor of Science , Telecommunications Management , July 1999 — March 2002

Activities and Societies:

Graduated with Honors - Magna Cum Laude, Telecommunications Management & Associate President & Member