Dustin Luther

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry

January 2008 – October 2011 (3 years 10 months) Santa Monica, CA

I've been fortunate to help a broad array of companies tell better stories including:
* Technology/Startups: Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp, Funk Ventures, CyberRain, & Hilton Hotels
* Real Estate: National Association of REALTORS, Zillow, Top Producer, Relocation.com, Trulia, MortgageOutreach.org & Diverse Solutions
* News/Media/Entertainment: Participant Media, Venture County Star, Inman News, Magnolia Pictures, Zune, Mpower Pictures, Whole Foods & The Discovery Channel

I'm an accomplished speaker often asked to present to some of the largest and most influential audiences in real estate including:
* National Association of REALTORS (NAR) Annual Event: 4 years running
* Inman News' Real Estate Connect: 7 semi-annual events running
* Toronto Real Estate Boards' RealtorQuest: Twice featured speaker
* Keller Williams' Mega TechCamp

In addition to my consulting/speaking company, I own and operate these two ventures:
* Rain City Guide: One of the first business blogs, the RCG community is not only the leading source of real estate information for the Seattle market, but continues to be extremely influential to real estate professionals all over the country
* Spinnio: Marketing and technology solution within Facebook that uses live video and chat betweens stars and their fans to generate huge buzz events around movie launches. Projects have included: Participant Media (for The Cove and Food Inc), Magnolia Pictures (Humpday), and Mpower Pictures (for The Stoning of Soraya M)

In addition, I've helped numerous startups develop stories that will both resonate with investors and consumers. Currently, I'm an advisor to:
* Project X: Stealth social network targeting entertainment professionals
* Aumnia: Real estate mobile solution provider

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MOVE; Internet industry

November 2006 – December 2007 (1 year 2 months)

Led a marketing staff to build products and develop outreach strategies to better reach real estate consumers and professionals for all the company's brands including Realtor.com, Top Producer, and Move.com.

Just some of the highlights of his time at Move include:
* Building and managing a team of 16 members that implemented company's outreach initiatives
* building a database of celebrity homes that allowed his team to push "exclusives" on celebrity moves to leading news sites and thereby generate large influxes of visitors and links to the Realtor.com website
* working directly with the product teams to develop a blogging platform by creating and operating dozens of niche blogs on issues ranging from green housing to new construction
* developing outreach strategies for product launches for a blogging platform, a social networking website and mobile applications
* earning an excellent reputation as a speaker who has been asked to regularly speak on blogging and social media strategy at many of the largest real estate conferences
* working closely with the biz dev team on many partner and acquisition opportunities

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MOVE; Internet industry

May 2006 – November 2006 (7 months)

Within the consumer products division, Dustin managed the development of innovative technologies that pushed Move's current technology. Just some of the projects he built at this time included a GIS-based overlay mapping tool much of which has been integrated into Realtor.com Neighborhoods project, a corporate blog which has evolved into the current Move Trends, and a listings bookmarking tool that would allow users to save listings from anywhere on the web back into the realtor.com database.

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Civil Engineering industry

August 2003 – April 2006 (2 years 9 months)

Moved to Seattle to start a transportation planning group at DKS Associates. Manged and expanded the group to play a pivotal role as a project manager in answering some of the regions most difficult transportation questions.
* Evaluated potential conversion configuration for the I-90 corridor including the conversion to high capacity transit
* Created the 24 Seattle emergency detour plans as part of a Homeland Security grant as well as an associated GIS Toolkit
* Managed the simulation modeling for the 3rd Avenue conversion project to accommodate a major increase in transit service during the Downtown Tunnel Closure
* Built the TDM Estimation and Evaluations Model (TEEM) to measure the effectiveness of transportation demand management strategies
* Created the Bellevue and Northwest Washington DOT Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Plans

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Civil Engineering industry

August 1999 – August 2003 (4 years 1 month)

Developed management, marketing and technical skills related to being a successful transportation engineer:
* Developed management skills necessary to work with and lead a variety of individuals (principles, government employees, support staff, and sub-consultants) to complete complex and often contentious projects
* Developed marketing skills to advertise technical abilities, write proposals and create engaging presentations that win projects
* Developed technical sills in graphical information systems (GIS), travel demand forecasting, simulation modeling, traffic operations, database management and user-interface design.