FORENSIC RECOVERY: FIXING THE BLACK BOX
How "Surgical Intervention" resolved a $250k compliance crisis in 7 days and slashed operational overhead by 90%.
$250k Saved in development costs
90% Reduction in DB & Campaign costs
60% Faster ITIL identification & response
“Tim has a superpower. He can go into a situation that is broken, get up to speed and begin presenting solutions in a remarkably short time... fixing things that had previously confounded others.”
FRICTION vs. ARCHITECTURE
The Problem: Scaling Friction. Systemic Fragility. A major insurance client was facing a CAN-SPAM violation that would take 6 months to fix. Meanwhile, their "Affinity Database" was a manual bottleneck that only one person knew how to operate.
EXECUTION: Designed and deployed a surgical SQL solution that bypassed the 6-month dev cycle and achieved compliance in one week.
STRUCTURE: Migrated the "Single-Point-of-Failure" human model to a 24/7 Syndicated Operations Model, increasing support coverage by 200%.
VISION: Redesigned the ETL and data models to align with business objectives rather than just "maintaining the status quo."
“Complexity is often a mask for inefficiency. When you simplify the architecture, the ‘impossible’ problems usually solve themselves.”
CAN-SPAM Compliance Fix originally scoped ay 6 months and $250,00 was rearchitected to be 1 week and $2250.
Monthly Internal Cost to Operate Solution went from $1,000,000 a month was reduced by 95%.
Incident Response went from Reactive and slow to 60% faster detection and fix with 24/7 coverage for a quarter the cost.
Support labor went from 100% manual to 25% manual with 75% automated.
Margin went from negative to 60% (positive.)
By syndicating the operations model, moved from a "Hero-based" culture to a System-based culture, allowing the client to maintain 100% uptime even during leadership transitions.
“Tim sets high standards... to deliver solutions that are less about the tools and more about the value they offer to our accounts.”
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Harte Hanks: Affinity Database & Delivery Transformation
Fractional delivery leadership engagement that reduced Affinity Marketing costs by 90%, saved $250K with rapid CAN‑SPAM compliance fixes, and restructured operations into a 24x7 syndicated model that cut support costs and accelerated incident response.
Tim’s Big Results:
Reduced Affinity Marketing Database and Campaign Management costs by 90% through ETL, data model, and CDI redesign, delivering major efficiency gains ahead of client leadership changes.
Saved $250,000 with a rapid SQL solution that resolved CAN‑SPAM compliance issues, eliminating the need for a six‑month internal development project.
Transformed operations and incident response, migrating to a 24x7 syndicated model that cut support costs by $150,000, reduced time‑to‑identify incidents by 60%, and lowered support hours by 75%.
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Decreased costs for Affinity Marketing Database and Campaign Management by 90% by leading ETL, data model, systems architecture, process improvement, and CDI redesign in advance of new C-level leadership changes at the client that reduced importance of Affinity marketing in the clients' marketing portfolio.
Created a SQL query and process that saved the need for a 6-month internal development project to align email data storage and campaign management data rules in violation of CAN-SPAM. Saved Harte Hanks $250,000 with my focused, quick turnaround solution.
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Delivery lead for Insurance Client Affinity Marketing Database, Campaigns, Analytics, and an automotive leads amalgamator, translator, processor, and distributor database/system. Overseeing Requirements Analysis, Data Engineering, Data Analysis, QA Testing, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and Campaign Operations.
Led design work to improve speed and tracking of Facebook (Meta) leads from digital forms and ads.
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Migrated data validation, data governance, system monitoring, and incident response from a single, senior person to a 24x7 syndicated operations model. This resulted in a 200% increase in the time-of-day support window and a 60% reduction in the time to identify an incident. While simultaneously reducing costs by $150,000.
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Developed new operations team to support the Affinity database and Leads database solutions at 75% lower cost with faster turnaround times.
Coached analytics team on better segmentation and audience building protocols to create better distribution for separating into test cells.
Provided clients with thought leadership on CCPA and ITIL standards in addition to coaching on better alignment with SAFe protocols.
“Tim is a strong partner and collaborator - an approachable leader very willing to contribute to the team and help uncover opportunities for sales growth. He sets high standards for himself and his team to deliver solutions that are less about the tools but more about the value they offer to our accounts.”
“Tim is extremely intelligent, creative, innovative, and an overall pleasure to work with. He does not shy away from challenges and often drives the brainstorming and solution development to overcome those challenges. Tim is a unique individual who can bring ideas to the table and is very proficient at client/customer interaction. He’s a great asset to any organization that values talent.”
Hart Hanks
Delivery Consulting
Fractional consulting engagement to redesign delivery and client success across marketing, database, and automation.
Growth Spectrum’s Big Results:
Cut lead times for Eloqua automation creation in half while reducing errors.
Stabilized Affinity Marketing database ETL, CDI, and PCOA process in alignment with bespoke campaign processing within a week of taking charge.
Able to quickly reduce development and infrastructure cost overheads and streamline by 50% and double QA test case throughput.
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While Growth Spectrum was in its initial development phase, Tim contracted as a fractional delivery consultant for Harte Hanks for two years. He worked as a lead on healthcare marketing (Email, Web, OOH, DRTV), Eloqua MarTech delivery leadership for a global electronics company, and fixing processes and systems for an Affinity Marketing Database and Campaign Solution for a major US insurance client.
Tim’s database and digital marketing knowledge were critical in defining test plans, cleaning up targeting and segmentation, and ensuring campaign controls were structured for proper testing.
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Tim was responsible for a small team of project managers, account managers, and operations specialists. He created global synergies between Romanian and US counterparts to ensure the processes could flow easily during disparate working hours. He employed changes to Wrike, WorkZone, GitHub, and JIRA to get better control over operations, development, QA, and release management.
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Development of customized dashboards in PM tools to identify problems proactively and keep tickets flowing in a prioritized and rapid fashion.
Had to educate the president of the reason why I was blocking the release of a systems change “due to 2 bugs.” Program and product management was clinging to that KPI instead of the “0 test cases of 185 were able to be tested” KPI. The two bugs were major blockers that prevent QA from happening at all.
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Mentored junior PMs and operations staff on developing their action skill and how to inform leadership with facts and persuasion.
“As far as I’m concerned, Tim has a superpower. He can go into a situation that is broken, get up to speed and begin presenting process improvements and solutions in a remarkably short time. I’ve witnessed his ability to evaluate a team in the digital marketing space, taking a broad view of business intelligence, operations and systems integration and fix things that had previously confounded others, all in the span of a month. As another no-nonsense, ‘get it done’, customer-centric person, I found Tim refreshing and impressive as a colleague and would work with him again anytime, anywhere.”
“Simply put, Tim is incredible at what he does. His ability to come into a difficult situation, process what is happening, and get up to speed very quickly is remarkable. He can also bring levity to these situations to help ease tension and boost team morale. Tim is also very good at looking at problems holistically and treating the root cause versus just the symptoms. He is also very personable, and I have learned quite a bit from him regarding client interfacing and management.”