Mike Valente

• Ushered restaurants into the Eat24 network, integrating new clients into all facets of the business • Fostered relationships with restaurants to generate more sales, including implementing Eat24 interface on 3rd-party websites • Trained and mentored new hires in account management, accounting and support departments • Designed new protocols that enhanced operations, such as upgrading the way in which Eat24 recorded restaurant ownership changes & payment schedules

• Organized work flow for content, sales and invoicing for weekly wine auctions • Orchestrated weekly email campaigns for online wine auctions

• Copyedited Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma’s Military Regime (edited by Maggie Lemere and Zoe West), Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post- 9/11 Injustice (edited by Alia Malek), A Moment in the Sun (John Sayles), Creative Accounting (Believer Books), McSweeney’s Issue 37, McSweeney’s Issue 38

• Designed process for imaging wine bottles, inventorying of cellars and archiving work orders • Collaborated with Engineering Team to improve functionality, customer interface, and portfolio display • Managed team of professionals to inventory expansive collections of wine, as well as the workflow between storage facilities and data specialists • Worked with Sales Team to acquire wines, identify target markets, and streamline product marketing and fulfillment process

• Created and developed database of over 25,000 contacts of senior-level executives of public companies, telecommunication firms, and major private enterprises • Initiated the marketing efforts of Internet data centers from Exodus Communications, Switch & Data, Teligent, and Colo.com

• Coordinated logistics of tradeshows, including preparing marketing pamphlets, designing promotional items and creating backdrop for company booth • Conducted market research on independent broker-dealers and custodians

Intensive German language courses (A1 to C1.2)

Fiction