Blending creativity, communications & tech while transforming a unique newspaper group into a modern media company.
Greater Chicago Area
- Current
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- Director of Interactive Media Services & Production at Sun-Times News Group
- Self-Propelled Board of Directors at Chicago Music Commission
- Past
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- Centerstage Director at Sun-Times News Group
- Co-Founder, President at CenterstageChicago.com
- Business Development Manager at TechSoup.org
- Business Development Manager at CompuMentor
- Technical Producer, Project Engineer at iXL
- Education
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- Northwestern University
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Mark Roth’s Summary
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Centerstage was acquired by the Chicago Sun-Times Media Group in July 2006 and I became a Director in New Media in order to provide continuity and expand Centerstage within the market of Chicago.
As a Creative Communications Consultant, my most recent launch was as a blended CTO & Dir. of Communications role. www.ChannelG.tv is a media startup that is piloting a new philanthropic video/television format showcasing the work of non-profit organizations and raising donations for those profiled.
My diverse experiences with both the "science" and the "art" of communications, provides my clients with the understanding of considerably different scales and scopes that can be implemented when producing a vision that involves the internet and media, for profit or not.
Mark Roth’s Specialties:
Internet Communications Consulting, Web Design, Media Producer, Business Development, Non-profit Fundraiser, recruiting, design, small business bootstrapping, strategic communications technology direction.
Mark Roth’s Experience
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Director of Interactive Media Services & Production
Sun-Times News Group
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Recently took on the role of managing our department of developers, operations, creative and production staff to deliver Interactive Media products for the company. In addition to managing the production of over 70+ websites for various stakeholders in different business units, I am also working with teams across the company to identify and launch strategic initiatives and new product development.
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Self-Propelled Board of Directors
Chicago Music Commission
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Music industry)
October 2004 — Present (5 years 2 months)
www.Chicago-Music.org
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Centerstage Director
Sun-Times News Group
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)
July 2006 — August 2008 (2 years 2 months)
My role is Director of Centerstage for the Sun-Times News Group.
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Co-Founder, President
CenterstageChicago.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)
November 1995 — June 2006 (10 years 8 months)
New Business Development, Marketing, Brand development, web site traffic growth, web site UI production and building new sources of advertising revenue. Manage editorial staff and content syndication as well as general web site management.
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Business Development Manager
TechSoup.org
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
September 2000 — May 2001 (9 months)
Worked for CompuMentor.org and their recently launched non-profit technology portal, Techsoup.org. My role was to raise new sponsorships for Techsoup.org and to develop new relationships with software companies and to expand the offerings of discounted software.
Before moving back to the Midwest, I envisioned and produced a very successful advertising campaign that leveraged donated ad banner creative and impressions to raise traffic to TechSoup 3000% in the first month. -
Business Development Manager
CompuMentor
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
September 2000 — May 2001 (9 months)
see techsoup.org above.
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Technical Producer, Project Engineer
iXL
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1997 — October 1998 (1 year 2 months)
I joined a firm known as CCG://Online in Denver that was acquired by iXL just months before I departed the ".com nightmare" that it was quickly becoming to work there.
My team role was being responsible for the technical web development of the Colorado Rockies first web site on NT with IIS 3.0, ASP, MSSql and Cold Fusion. (www.coloradorockies.com)
On another project team, I managed the technical aspects of web design for a complete overhaul and redesign of Universal Studios Florida's flagship web site as well as the creation of the new branding initiatives of the day, Universal Orlando. We used Solaris, Perl, and Informix Universal Server and at the time, this was one of the fist mainstream implementatins of Macromeda Flash for primary site content. (www.usf.com)
During the iXL acquisition period I took on more managerial responsibilities and managed the technology department as well as acted as technical liason with the parent company until a CTO could be hired.
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