Experience

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  Violator management

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2005

  Executive assistant to the president
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  Warner music group

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2007

  Digital sales & marketing national account manager

  E-COMMERCE MANAGER • Responsible for relationships with several premiere aggregator accounts and national MVNO’sincluding 9squared Inc., Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile USA, Source Mobile, and Moderati• Campaigned internally to secure deal approval, then launched first ever alert tones in the mobilemarket with Virgin Mobile, USA• Managed day-to-day servicing and maintenance of all D2C backend services to drive revenue forWMG collectively including set up, content ingestion, and reporting financials and monthly salesfigures to content owners• Consulted with label partners to create artist mobile content to increase mobile catalog and maximizeprofitability for WMG Show less

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  Universal music group

  Jul 2007 - Oct 2010

  Account director, sales

  • Lead the New York online/mobile account management team responsible for conceiving and executing strategic creative marketing campaigns. Aggressively monetized UMG’s music content in the digital space in cooperation with multiple high-profile accounts• Responsible for the oversight of approximately $85MM in annual revenue through partnerships with mobile carriers and subscription services, online video partners, full track audio download and streaming services and backend service providers• Individually contributed $65MM in annual revenue through partnerships with Verizon, eMusic, Ericsson, AOL Music, and MediaNet• Brought Verizon from 4th ranking mobile partner to largest revenue generating mobile partner and maintained top revenue for three years SAMPLE CLIENT LIST: Verizon, Viacom, Clear Channel, CBS Interactive, Last FM, eMusic, Hip Digital, Thumbplay Mobile, Dada Mobile, Music Choice, AOL, Hip Digital, Daily Motion, 7 Digital, Ericsson Show less

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  Daily burn an iac company

  Nov 2010 - Aug 2011

  Director, business development

  DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT • Sought out revenue-generating opportunities with the ultimate result of an increased customer base• Augmented sales revenue through development and implementation of innovative partnerships withdigital hardware distributors and mobile aggregators such as Nokia, Qualcomm and Verizon• Pitched and secured DailyBurn as the Healthy Living partner of The American Diabetes Associationendorsed as the Tour De Cure sponsor• Structured strategic proposals, negotiated business terms and closed sales transactions with newclients such as The Founder’s Card, Groupon, AVON, and The Healthy Weight CommitmentFoundation. Show less

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  Equinox

  Oct 2011 - Aug 2012

  Personal trainer

  NASM CERTIFIED PERSONAL TRAINER • Acquired and trained a monthly average of 15+ clients with goals ranging from weight loss toperformance enhancement• Promoted to Top Tier Trainer status within a 7-month period and named one of the top three revenue generatingin-house trainers

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  Bcl fitness

  Aug 2012 - Apr 2015

  Founder, precision nutrition food coach - certified personal trainer - lululemon ambassador

  http://www.bclfitness.com/my-transformation/

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  Www.ignitewithmelissa.com

  Apr 2015 - now

  Holistic life coach & mindfulness speaker/teacher

  • Develop and deliver mindfulness-based curricula for corporations, universities, communities andindividuals based on the unique needs of each client to offer higher valued service, balanced companymorale, collaboration and increased individual performance• Identify strengths and performance gaps in company culture and collaborate with management teamsto set goals and timelines for collaborative change• Facilitate unique and interactive team-building workshops based on intuitive listening, consciouscommunication and mindful self-care practices• Mentor individual executives looking to cultivate spiritual and mindfulness-based practices (e.g.meditation and conscious breath work techniques)• Create, market, enroll and facilitate two 6-month personal development groups for up to 20 to 30women at a time• Distribute video and writing assignments, monthly group coaching calls and 1-on-1 monthly coachingcalls as well as monitor and encourage communication through daily prompts and engagementSAMPLE CLIENT LIST: Lululemon Athletica, Center for Social Change – Miami, Holistic Chamber of Commerce –Miami, Prism Creative Group, Florida International University College of Medicine Show less

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  New york university

  Jan 2019 - now

  • Head of Mindfulness Education and Innovation

    Jan 2019 - now

  • Associate Director, Global Spiritual Life at New York University - Head of Mindfulness Education

    Jan 2019 - Sept 2020
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  Nyu silver school of social work

  Jan 2019 - now

  Adjunct faculty
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  New york university

  Sept 2020 - now

  • Senior Director, Global Spiritual Life/Head of Mindfulness Education & Programming

    Sept 2021 - now

  • Interim Senior Director, Global Spiritual Life at New York Univeristy

    Sept 2020 - now
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  Nyu robert f. wagner graduate school of public service

  Jan 2023 - now

  Adjunct professor