Robert Kostin

Current

Director of Marketing at BlueLine IT Group, Inc.

Past

Director of Marketing at Callfinity
Manager, Product Planning at Xerox
Marketing Manager at Xerox

Product Delivery Manager at Xerox

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Education

Rochester Institute of Technology
Syracuse University
McQuaid Jesuit High School

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Industry

Marketing and Advertising

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Robert Kostin’s Summary

I'm an award-winning Marketing Manager with Web development experience, a Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma, and a Masters of IT degree from RIT.

Currently, I'm looking for a position where I can help people integrate Information Technology with Marketing as a means to maximize profit and growth in a company or organization that, in some way, improves the human condition ...a company with a mission I can believe in.

Robert Kostin’s Specialties:

Web 2.0: Web sites, Blogs, Wikis, Webinars, online survey tools

Hiring and managing third-party solution providers

Cross-functional team leadership

Several programming and database languages

Ability to summarize and present technical information using appropriate language and level of detail

Expert user of all Microsoft Office applications

Proficiency with Project Planning tools and advanced features of MS Project

Robert Kostin’s Experience

Director of Marketing

BlueLine IT Group, Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2009 — Present (3 months)

Marketing (and often selling) IT managed services, web sites, and sometimes making recommendations to our staffing line of business.
Director of Marketing

Callfinity

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

October 2008 — May 2009 (8 months)
Manager, Product Planning

Xerox

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; XRX; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1994 — May 2008 (13 years 10 months)

Responsible for a cross-functional team of nine employees

Gathered customer requirements and worked with the development community to ensure that future products kept the company competitive

Developed a company-wide Blog for the purpose of gathering field input and validating requirements; received reward and recognition for results

Facilitated staff-to-staff program team meetings between the business team and engineers | ensured product specifications delighted customers and met business financial goals
Marketing Manager

Xerox

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; XRX; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1997 — August 2003 (6 years 8 months)

Hired and managed vendors to deliver marketing solutions

Increased customer awareness by creating subscriber-based email newsletters; built, hosted and maintained a combo-Web/Email/Hardcopy distribution system

Hired third-party vendors to deliver attention-grabbing marketing collateral | managed vendors through the development process to deliver on-time and within budget
Product Delivery Manager

Xerox

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; XRX; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1994 — January 1997 (2 years 5 months)

Built and maintained customer tracking databases

Built and maintained a centralized relational database to track product installations and updates for faster turn-around time to customer issues

Facilitated weekly team meetings with value chain partners (manufacturing, distribution, documentation, others) | increased team productivity

Robert Kostin’s Education

Rochester Institute of Technology

MS , 2008
Syracuse University

B.S. , Information Studies , 1987 — 1991

GPA: 3.74
McQuaid Jesuit High School

Class of '79

Additional Information

Robert Kostin’s Websites:

Robert Kostin’s Interests:

Freemasonry, Boy Scouts, new technology, Web development, blogs, wikis

Robert Kostin’s Groups:

Mason at East Rochester Ancient Craft (ERAC) Lodge 163, Assistant Scoutmaster at Boy Scouts of America Troop 195 in the Otetiana Council Lighthouse District