Sue Schmitz

Current

• Product Marketing Manager, Partner Community at T-Mobile
• Skater and PR consultant at Rat City Rollergirls

Recommended

23 people have recommended Sue

Connections

191 connections

Industry

Public Relations and Communications

Websites

• My Blog
• My RSS feed

Sue Schmitz’s Summary

Creative, energetic and fun PR/Marketing professional in the tech industry for over 10 years. Geek at heart with strong experience in product reviews programs, tours, workshops and industry trade shows. My current role has been to build and foster community for Zumobi, a startup in the mobile/tech industry. I've facilitated user surveys, participated, solicited and monitored forum discussions as well as resolved user problems with the product.

I have strong agency skills working with multiple clients and was a core resource for product reviews, blogging and online media strategies, with a strong emphasis on building and responding to the core community at large.

My goal is simply to love my job! In general, I enjoy keeping a pulse on how consumers get their information and how companies can leverage online strategies to get in front of their core audience. Connecting people and building relationships is what I do very well.

Sue Schmitz’s Specialties:

Product reviews, awards, messaging and strategy creation, community building, product launches and promotional events, fielding surveys and analyzing data, trade shows, hosting interviews, debriefing, trend analysis, social networking, blogging and podcasting

Sue Schmitz’s Experience

• Product Marketing Manager, Partner Community

  T-Mobile

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DT; Telecommunications industry)

  July 2008 — Present (3 months)

  Marketing, PR and Events for Dev/Partner Community

• Skater and PR consultant

  Rat City Rollergirls

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Public Relations and Communications industry)

  2004 — Present (4 years)

  I skate as Darth Skater on the Throttle Rockets, one of the individual teams within Seattle's flat track roller derby league, Rat City Rollergirls. As a part of my other role within the league, I serve as a consultant for our overall communications efforts, both externally and internally.
  
  Recently, I am also serving as PR for a non-profit organization RCRG has partnered with others in organizing to stop the privitization of a public space that we and other community organizations use. The organization is called H27O, for Hangar 27 Organization (http://hangar27.org/) and we are trying to work with the local government officials to not privatize the Hangar space at Sandpoint Magnuson Park.
  
  Additionally, RCRG is also a member of the Woman's Flat Track Derby Association, the governing body of this resurgence set up to standardize on many aspects of our sport, and I help communication efforts on a national level with other member organizations and to the WFTDA as well.

Additional Information

Sue Schmitz’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My RSS feed

Sue Schmitz’s Interests:

technology, trends, consumer PR, motorcycles, roller derby, extreme sports, photography, bioscience, quantum physics (really!), reading, Gnomedex

Sue Schmitz’s Groups:

•    Wireless Industry Partnership (WIP)
•    LinkedSeattle
•    Mobile Applications 'n' Design
•    Mobile Content
•    mobile
•    Social Network Solutions

Sue Schmitz’s Honors:

Bulldog Award for Excellence in Media Relations and Publicity; Website, Consumer Silver Award, 2007
PRSA Award for excellence 2007, HTC Wiki
7 internal Waggener Edstrom awards within different categories throughout career.

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