
Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area
I currently work in a primarily business-focused role at Buzzd; a real time, location sensitive, mobile city guide. I run our Business Development initiatives, as well as managing delivery on all of our ad campaigns.
Previously, I have experience on the product side, where I was Project manager on our BlackBerry application.
Before buzzd, I worked as a financial analyst. My experience at JPMorgan includes both deal origination and execution, as well as macro capital markets analysis.
Monetizing local content, ad server management; market, financial and competitive analysis; project management.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
November 2009 — Present (1 month)
Driving local listings monetization strategy at buzzd. I also run our Ad Operations.
We are building a network of local listings companies to better monetize location-based-services. These sponsored listings can also be resyndicated. Please reach out to me to find out more at: michael@buzzd.com
(Non-Profit; Internet industry)
September 2009 — Present (3 months)
Working with some of the members of our team at buzzd, I created HashCeratops.org - an open submission community project for venue hashtags. More on the genesis of this project is available on my blog: http://bit.ly/2E4wsu
If you're still wondering what John Hammond means, see here: http://bit.ly/4fCXgE
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
December 2008 — October 2009 (11 months)
Business Development - Manage relationships and outreach with content partners, affiliates, and distribution channels.
Advertising Operations - Trafficking ad inventory and executing campaigns for our ad sales effort.
Product - Project management for the BlackBerry platform.
(Public Company; JPM; Investment Banking industry)
June 2006 — May 2008 (2 years )
New York, NY
I worked in Equity Capital Markets, in the Diversified Industrials group.
Previoulsy, I worked in the Syndicated and Leveraged Finance group in Loan Capital Markets.
(Privately Held; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
November 2005 — April 2006 (6 months)
Primarily taught children ages 7-16. Achieved certification with the Professional Ski Instructors Association of America.
(Privately Held; Law Practice industry)
June 2005 — July 2005 (2 months)
Taught English to corporate lawyers and paralegals in the Shanghai office.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MER; Investment Banking industry)
June 2004 — August 2004 (3 months)
Equity Capital Markets in London, UK
Recieved full time offer upon completion of the program
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DB; Banking industry)
June 2003 — July 2003 (2 months)
High Yield Research in New York, NY
(Public Company; Marketing and Advertising industry)
July 2002 — August 2002 (2 months)
Summer intern in the Account Service department
BA , Sociology, Business , 2001 — 2005
Web 2.0, Software, Information Technology, Music, Hockey, Skiing, creating Linkedin profiles