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Marketing Operations Systems Architect

Building Go-To-Market engines that scale. I architect the complex logic behind modern marketing—from campaign standardization and AI integrations to predictive routing.

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Marketo Architecture Salesforce Flow Traction Complete AI Workflow Automation UTMs & Attribution Data Normalization

Working Style

Proven Leader (Captain) Systems-Thinker Caring Mentor Calm Transmission Highly Collaborative
Credentials & Certifications

Agentic Marketing

Salesforce

Apr 2026

Workflow Specialist

Asana

Apr 2026

Marketo Expert

Adobe

Sep 2023

Next-Gen Marketing

6sense

Jul 2023

Eloqua B2B Master

Oracle

Jul 2018

Inbound

HubSpot

Feb 2015

Email Deliverability

Blueshift

May 2022

Enterprise Course

Knak

Feb 2022

Conversational Mktg

Drift

Aug 2021
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Prospective Architectures & Solutions

A collection of proposed frameworks, conceptual models, and technical approaches to solving common Go-To-Market bottlenecks.

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Kind Words
"A marketing automation wizard! Chris excels with tools like Pardot, Eloqua, and Marketo, always staying ahead of the latest trends... If you're after someone who blends technical expertise with a fantastic team spirit, Chris is your go-to guy!"

Rommy Elabi

Demand Generation

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"His in-depth knowledge of tools like Marketo and Salesforce.com has allowed him to orchestrate highly efficient marketing campaigns... In challenging situations, Chris's calm transmission is a true asset, enabling him to think critically and make well-informed decisions."

Sunshine Agoo

Director of Marketing

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"Regularly jumping in at a moment's notice to find and execute on often-tricky marketing automation issues. His in-depth knowledge of Marketo has significantly improved many campaigns and processes."

Jon Spratt

Ops + Marketing

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"A caring mentor... Chris possesses strong leadership and project management skills. A true asset to any organization, an excellent team player, and an expert in the Marketo and Salesforce platforms."

Saad Jadoon

Chief Executive Officer

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"Chris has an exceptional eye for detail and the ability to think strategically while coordinating digital processes and building campaigns."

Waylen Miki

Content Marketing Manager

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"Chris has built the backbone processes and tools that let partner marketing run seamlessly. If a process didn't exist, he built it - and if it existed but was clunky, he fixed it. His work in MOPs has saved sales and marketing countless hours."

Elizabeth Peterson

Channel & Partner Marketing

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"Chris has exceptional Adobe Marketo Engage skills and a deep understanding of Marketing Operations best practices. His ability to combine technical expertise with well-structured operational processes is truly impressive."

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Head Marketing Operations & MarTech

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Areas of Expertise

Marketing Ops Architecture

Audits, naming/UTM frameworks, program templates, and reporting foundations across Marketo + SFDC.

Tech Stack Orchestration

Ensuring your auxiliary tools sync flawlessly with your core Marketo/SFDC GTM engine.

Creative & Process Systems

Bridging the gap between brand identity and marketing automation functionality.

Get in Touch

Looking for a systems architect to scale your revenue engine? I’d love to connect. Reach out below.

Or reach out on LinkedIn. I’m based in Hamilton, ON.

About Me

I’m a Marketing Operations leader who thrives at the intersection of Go-To-Market strategy, systems architecture, and technical execution. I specialize in building scalable frameworks across Adobe Marketo Engage and Salesforce—transforming complex logic into streamlined, governed processes.

With a background in competitive sports, I approach revenue operations the same way a captain approaches a game: with a calm transmission, a systems-thinking mindset, and an uncompromising focus on team alignment. Over the years, I’ve led global initiatives that modernized campaign operations, automated data normalization, and engineered rigorous attribution models. My focus is always the same: eliminate manual bottlenecks and empower GTM teams to execute flawlessly with pristine data.

Beyond the Screen

When I’m not mapping lead lifecycles or troubleshooting CRM syncs, you can usually find me at a rink, on a field, or behind a grill. I played NCAA D3 men's lacrosse at SUNY Potsdam—where I was incredibly proud to captain the team my senior year—and walked on to the men's hockey team as well. Today, I still play in a local men's hockey league and help coach my eight-year-old son River's hockey and lacrosse teams here in Stoney Creek.

Weekend unwinding usually involves firing up my Oklahoma Joe Highlander offset BBQ to perfect my low-and-slow smoking techniques (especially dialing in the temperature for a foil-wrapped bone-in pork shoulder). If I’m not coaching, playing, or cooking—or just hanging out with my wife, Megan, and our Golden Retriever, Peaches—I’m probably watching sports. I’m a dedicated fan of the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Blue Jays, San Francisco 49ers, and Manchester United.

Scalability: Architecting for Global Growth

True scalability requires systems that enable people. I build indestructible architectural frameworks—from CSS-grid Knowledge Hubs that centralize MOPs documentation, to rigorous Campaign Naming Convention Builders that enforce global taxonomy. By transitioning legacy manual processes into automated frameworks, I empower regional marketing teams to execute autonomously without breaking the core engine.

Governance: Uncompromising Data Flow

A revenue engine is only as good as its data integrity. I design rigorous, self-healing governance systems—like the cascading Global Country & State Normalization Engine and the dynamic 6sense Geographic Privacy fork. Whether ensuring 100% SFDC picklist alignment, automatically suspending non-US records for GDPR/CASL compliance, or enforcing daily UTM clearance for perfect attribution, I build the guardrails that keep operations running legally and accurately.

Efficiency: AI-Native & Streamlined Operations

I believe in designing out friction. This means continually refining system topology to reduce processing strain—such as utilizing Marketo Executable Programs for data ingestion rather than heavy, bloated batch campaigns. It also means integrating cutting-edge tools into daily workflows, like using AI-driven prompt logic to instantly scrub and normalize unstructured CSV lists. By automating the tedious elements of MOPs, I reclaim countless hours for strategic execution.

MOPs Knowledge Hub

MOPs Knowledge Hub Preview

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The Challenge

Marketing Operations teams frequently struggle with fragmented documentation, decentralized SLAs, and siloed campaign instructions. This results in marketers building non-compliant campaigns, recurring data quality issues, and constant repetitive questions directed at the MOPs team. Attempts to build a centralized hub within our native Marketo landing page editor continually failed; the platform's aggressive rich-text wrappers and default CSS overrides shattered complex, modern web layouts, making the page impossible for non-technical stakeholders to maintain without breaking the code.

The Architecture

I architected a fully self-contained, CSS-grid-based web application built directly on top of Marketo's landing page framework. By decoupling the structural CSS from Marketo's rich-text editor using strict flexbox rules, native HTML paragraph wrappers, and !important overrides, I created an indestructible layout. I utilized Marketo String and Boolean variables (mktoString, mktoBoolean) to build a custom backend interface. This allows stakeholders to easily update SLAs, toggle over 20 dynamic custom sections, and manage resource links through a safe, restricted variables panel, while keeping the source code locked down. The hub also features native JavaScript URL hash routing for direct section sharing and dynamic sidebar navigation.

The Business Impact

  • The Knowledge Hub successfully centralized all MOPs documentation, architectural diagrams, and campaign creation checklists into a single, highly scalable source of truth.
  • It eliminated formatting breaks and drastically reduced maintenance time for the MOPs team.
  • By providing a frictionless, standardized reference point for lead touchpoints, funnel stages, and scoring architecture, we accelerated the onboarding of new marketers and established strict adherence to global data normalization and SFDC campaign alignment.
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6sense Orchestration & Compliance Engine

6sense Intent-to-Pipeline Flow Architecture

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The Challenge

Implementing an intent platform like 6sense often results in "data without action" if not properly wired into the execution layer. The organization needed a way to dynamically nurture target accounts showing early-stage intent, but faced a major roadblock: strict global privacy laws. We needed an engine that could automatically route leads into active campaigns while strictly enforcing the difference between US opt-out rules (CAN-SPAM) and international opt-in rules (GDPR/CASL) without requiring manual intervention.

The Architecture

I configured the core 6sense-to-Marketo integration and established the foundational segmentations and workflows, before formally training stakeholders to take ownership of ongoing segment management. Once a segment triggers, the architecture relies on a highly dynamic compliance and routing engine:

  • Dynamic Nurture Entry: 6sense workflows automatically add qualifying contacts to a specific Marketo list, which serves as a dynamic entry point into the dedicated 6sense Marketo nurture program.
  • Geographic Compliance Routing: Upon entry, a routing layer evaluates the record's location. Cold US records are allowed to proceed through the active nurture. All international (non-US) records are immediately stamped as Marketing Suspended to ensure compliance with strict opt-in regulations.
  • Suspension Lift Triggers: International records remain suspended until they provide implicit or explicit consent. I built operational triggers that automatically lift the suspension only when the prospect engages with the website or interacts with a BDR.
  • Omnichannel Air Cover: To ensure marketing alignment even for suspended records, these dynamic 6sense segments are pushed directly to LinkedIn Matched Audiences, providing compliant ad cover while BDRs work the accounts.

The Business Impact

  • Automated & Compliant Pipeline: Created a zero-friction intent engine that safely nurtures US records while entirely eliminating the risk of GDPR/CASL violations for international records.
  • Stakeholder Enablement: Shifted the burden of segment creation off MOPs by empowering the marketing team to own their 6sense audiences.
  • Aligned GTM Motion: Ensured that even when direct email is legally restricted, target accounts still receive coordinated LinkedIn air cover and BDR outreach.

Marketo-Native Country & State Normalization Engine

Please watch the video I created explaining the Marketo-Native Country & State Normalization Engine

The Challenge

Inconsistent geographical data entry—whether from unstandardized forms, list uploads, or API integrations—wreaks havoc on Salesforce territory routing, compliance enforcement, and segmentation accuracy. The database was polluted with dozens of variations of the same country (e.g., "US", "U.S.A", "United States") and fragmented state/province abbreviations (e.g., "QC", "QUE", vs. "Quebec"), preventing proper lead assignment and causing CRM sync failures.

The Architecture

I built a highly efficient, multi-tiered cascading normalization engine utilizing Marketo Executable Programs to prevent system bloat and ensure instantaneous data scrubbing upon record creation:

  • Tier 1: Enrichment. New records immediately attempt to enrich via ZoomInfo. If the Country field remains unpopulated or uses an unaccepted value, the record moves to Tier 2.
  • Tier 2: Alphabetic Executable Programs. To bypass Marketo's choice limit constraints, the central trigger parses unaccepted values into four alphabetic executable programs (A-C, D-K, L-Q, R-Z). These programs clean known spelling errors and ISO codes (e.g., "AFG" or "afghanistan" becomes "Afghanistan").
  • Tier 3: Billing Country Fallback. If standard Country is blank, the system automatically checks and normalizes against the SFDC Billing Country field.
  • Tier 4: Top-Level Domain (TLD) Inference. If both fields are blank, a flow evaluates the record's email address domain. Using a library of 98 distinct choices, it infers the country based on the TLD (e.g., a .co.uk email is stamped as United Kingdom).
  • Tier 5: Edge Cases & IP Inference. A catch-all utilizes {{lead.Inferred Country}} (IP Address data) to attempt a final stamp, alongside distinct logic for complex geopolitical naming conventions.
  • Tier 6: State & Province Normalization. Once the Country is standardized, region-specific operational triggers fire. By explicitly targeting known unstandardized abbreviation arrays (e.g., "PEI; PE", "ACT; NSW", "AR-B; AR-K") and excluding records already in the "Accepted" Smart List, a Change Data Value flow maps the abbreviation to its strict SFDC-compliant full name (e.g., "ACT" to "Australian Capital Territory").
  • Tier 7: Reverse Country Inference. When a record enters with a populated State/Province but an empty Country, a reverse-lookup operator fires. It cross-references the State value against 22 distinct regional Smart Lists. Because some states share names globally, the flow utilizes strict exclusion logic and granular choice conditions (verifying against massive arrays of unique states/provinces) before safely executing a sub-campaign to stamp the correct Country.
  • Tier 8: Misplaced Field Data (State Mapped as Country). In scenarios where user error or broken integrations mistakenly map a State or Province into the Country field, a specialized trigger intercepts the record. It executes a localized sub-campaign that shifts the misplaced value into the proper State field, and then correctly stamps the overarching Country to restore data hierarchy.

The Business Impact

  • Flawless CRM Routing & Syncing: Achieved near-100% compliance with strict Salesforce Country and State picklist values, eliminating sync failures and ensuring zero leads fall into unassigned territories.
  • Massive Data Cleansing Scale: Successfully cleaned and updated over 90,000 Country records and precisely normalized 27,000+ State & Province records across the global database.
  • System Efficiency: Utilizing Executable Programs and exclusion guardrails vastly improved Marketo's processing speed and reduced campaign backlog.
  • Global Scalability: Guaranteed accurate geographic stamping, which is critical for enforcing CASL and GDPR consent boundaries, while providing a universal template that easily scales to any localized subdivision.

Industry & Localization Normalization Engine

The Challenge

Inconsistent industry data—stemming from manual entry, list uploads, or unstandardized API integrations—prevents accurate lead routing, skews ABM segmentation, and causes Salesforce sync errors. Our SFDC instance required strict alignment to a 34-item picklist, but inbound records frequently contained hundreds of unstandardized variations, highly specific sub-sectors, and localized foreign languages (e.g., Japanese kanji) that stranded leads in the database.

The Architecture

I architected a multi-stage normalization engine utilizing Marketo Executable Programs to enforce strict industry taxonomy:

  • Tier 1: Enrichment First. New records immediately attempt to enrich via ZoomInfo to capture standardized firmographic data. If the Industry field remains unaccepted, it moves to Tier 2.
  • Tier 2: Smart List Exclusion. An operational trigger evaluates the record. If the Industry is not empty and NOT in the "Accepted Industries" Smart List (an exact match list of 34 approved industries like Technology, Healthcare, Finance), it fires the executable program.
  • Tier 3: Granular Translation Flow. A massive Change Data Value flow step maps hundreds of known variations to their parent industry. For example, "Banks" or "Credit" maps to Banking; "Business services" maps to Other. This step requires ongoing maintenance to catch new variations.
  • Tier 4: Localized Language Translation (Japan). A dedicated operational flow isolates records where Country is Japan. It utilizes a massive array of mapped choice conditions to translate localized kanji and katakana inputs (e.g., "農業" to Agriculture, "銀行業" to **Banking**) directly into our English SFDC standard, rescuing records from being orphaned.
  • Tier 5: NAICS Code Inference for Government Routing. To solve complex routing requirements for the public sector, the system evaluates NAICS codes (e.g., 921110, 922120). If these specific codes are present, the system automatically overrides the fields, stamping Industry as Government and Sub-Industry as Federal, triggering immediate specialized routing.
  • Tier 6: SFDC Sync. Once perfectly formatted, the record is synced to Salesforce via active auto-assignment rules.

The Business Impact

  • Massive Data Cleansing: Successfully corrected and updated just under 25,000 records across the global database.
  • Localized Data Recovery: Translated and rescued 5,000 Japanese records that were previously sitting idle, allowing them to route correctly to regional sales teams.
  • Precision Routing: Unlocked highly specialized public sector routing by automatically inferring parent and sub-industries directly from raw NAICS codes.
  • Flawless CRM Syncing: Guaranteed 100% compliance with strict Salesforce Industry picklist values, eliminating data-related sync failures.

GTM Lifecycle, Scoring & Attribution Engine

The Collaborative Challenge

Aligning marketing execution with sales routing requires a seamless data taxonomy. The organization needed a robust engine to track attribution, score behavioral intent, and manage funnel stages. I collaborated closely with Director-level leadership to build, implement, and continuously manage this enterprise Campaign-to-Pipeline architecture.

The Architecture & Execution

Working from strategic blueprints, I helped operationalize the following core components:

  • Granular Behavioral Scoring: Implemented a complex scoring matrix using Marketo My Tokens (e.g., {{my.Webinar - Attended Hot}}), assigning variable point values based on specific engagement types.
  • Auto-MQL & Demographic Fast-Tracking: Wired high-intent "Hand Raiser" actions—such as Demo Requests or Web Chat meetings—to instantly trigger an Auto-MQL status. Additionally, specific demographic criteria, like a Job Title of "CISO", automatically trigger MQL fast-tracking.
  • Score Decay & Lifecycle Reset: Managed the logic that automatically reduces a lead's behavioral score by 25 points if they remain inactive for over 6 months. I also configured the reset triggers for "Recycled" leads to return them to a safe baseline for re-nurturing.
  • Funnel Stage Management: Executed the flow logic that transitions records through defined operational stages—from Suspect and Prospect, through Engaged, and ultimately to MQL—ensuring sales only receives validated records (e.g., checking that Behavioral Score is > 99 while filtering out embargoed regions and current customers).
  • Multi-Touch Attribution Tracking: Configured data capture flows to stamp critical attribution fields. These fields include "First Conversion", "Campaign At MQL", and "Most Recent Campaign".

Enterprise CRM Copilot

Please watch the video I created explaining what the Enterprise CRM Copilot is, what it does, and how I built it.

The Challenge

Sales and executive teams require immediate insights into a prospect’s CRM history, but navigating enterprise MarTech platforms is often too technical for non-operators. This creates a persistent bottleneck of support tickets for the Marketing Operations team, slowing down sales velocity.

The Architecture

A serverless, pull-based query engine connecting a front-end UI (Slack/Web), Make.com, the Marketo REST API, and Google Gemini.

How It Works

Users submit a natural language query regarding a specific prospect. The middleware uses the Marketo API to search the database and extract the prospect's raw, complex JSON activity logs, scoring metrics, and firmographics. The LLM acts as a synthesis engine, translating the timestamped system events into a natural, human-readable intelligence brief containing recent web visits, MQL status, and campaign engagement, delivering it straight back to the user's chat window.

Security Posture

  • Zero-Retention Middleware: Because querying the CRM requires passing PII (email addresses), the middleware operates in strict volatile RAM. The data is processed and permanently vaporized the millisecond the run completes, ensuring no corporate data is ever written to third-party server logs.
  • Training Exemption: AI synthesis is conducted exclusively via enterprise API endpoints, ensuring proprietary CRM data is contractually isolated and never used to train foundational LLM models.

Business Impact

Securely democratizes CRM intelligence across the entire organization, eliminating internal MOPS support bottlenecks while giving revenue teams instant, actionable prospect data.

Self-Healing Data Normalization Agent

Please watch the video I created explaining the Self-Healing Data Normalization architecture.

The Challenge

Traditional CRM data normalization relies on massive, fragile smart campaigns that require constant maintenance. A simple user typo in a job title or country field can cause strict lead routing models to fail, resulting in dropped records, delayed outreach, and lost revenue.

The Architecture

A serverless, push-based synchronous webhook pipeline connecting Marketo, Make.com, and Google Gemini.

How It Works

When a lead enters messy data (e.g., entering "us of a" for Country and "cheif awesome marketing officer" for Job Title), Marketo fires an instantaneous webhook to the middleware. The LLM cross-references the CRM's strict restricted picklists, standardizes the input to exact ISO formats, spell-checks the title, and derives complex routing demographics like Job Level and Job Function. The clean JSON payload is routed directly back to Marketo's native response mappings in under two seconds.

Security Posture

  • Anonymized Payload: All Personally Identifiable Information (PII), such as email addresses, is stripped at the source.
  • Safe Observability: Because the payload contains only generic text strings, middleware execution logging remains active, allowing the operations team to safely maintain a diagnostic audit trail without risking PII exposure.

Business Impact

Delivers a zero-maintenance normalization engine that guarantees data integrity for global routing pipelines while keeping the CRM lightweight and free of bloated operational smart campaigns.

Engineering This Portfolio

Please watch the demonstration of the Serverless AI Portfolio Assistant

This static site serves as a live demonstration of modern, AI-assisted development and serverless architecture.

Development & Hosting

  • AI Pair-Programming: The entire codebase (raw HTML, CSS, and Vanilla JavaScript) was engineered through specific, iterative prompting utilizing Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT. No bloated frameworks or CMS platforms were used.
  • Static Delivery: The site is hosted on Neocities to ensure ultra-fast load times, complete frontend control, and a zero-maintenance infrastructure.

Serverless Form Processing

  • Formspree Integration: Form submissions are handled completely server-side via Formspree.
  • Cross-Origin Bypass: To navigate around strict static-site browser security and CORS blocking, the functional form is hosted externally on GitHub Pages and injected into the site using a seamless, transparent iframe.

The AI Chatbot Architecture

  • Model & API: Powered by the Gemini 1.5 Flash model via Google AI Studio.
  • Secure Proxy: Because static sites cannot safely expose API keys in the frontend HTML, a Cloudflare Worker was deployed as a serverless backend proxy to securely handle the API handshakes out of sight.
  • Widget Injection: Similar to the contact form, the chatbot UI is hosted on GitHub Pages and embedded via a responsive, custom-scripted iframe.
  • Strict Governance: The model is constrained by a rigorous system prompt injected with my specific professional context. It is explicitly instructed to only answer questions pertaining to my architectures, case studies, certifications, and working style, preventing hallucinations or off-topic interactions.

The Automated "Marketo-Ready" List Cleanser

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The Challenge

Event rosters, third-party content syndication, and webinar attendee exports are notoriously chaotic. Importing raw CSVs directly into Marketo introduces duplicate records, triggers Salesforce sync errors, and breaks strict lead routing rules. This traditionally forces Marketing Operations to spend hours manually running VLOOKUPs and scrubbing spreadsheets before every campaign launch.

The Architecture

A staging and automation environment built natively within Google Sheets, utilizing advanced Regex arrays, Google Apps Script logic, and dynamic data validation rules.

How It Works

The user pastes a raw, unformatted list into the tool's staging tab. The engine immediately goes to work processing the data:

  • Header Mapping: Automatically translates unrecognized or messy column headers (e.g., "Job Title/Role") to Marketo's exact API field names (title).
  • Data Standardization: Normalizes Country and State values to strict ISO formats to ensure they pass CRM validation rules, and properly proper-cases names.
  • Data Hygiene: Flags invalid email syntax, highlights toxic or role-based email addresses (like info@ or sales@), and standardizes phone number formatting.
  • The Output: The engine isolates the sanitized data into a locked, export-ready tab that perfectly matches Marketo’s static list import requirements.

Business Impact

Acts as a strict data firewall that protects the CRM from database degradation. It eliminates hours of manual data manipulation per campaign and empowers field marketing teams to process and upload their own event lists safely without requiring deep technical oversight.

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AI-Driven Data Normalization for List Uploads

The Challenge: The Manual Scrubbing Bottleneck

A persistent friction point in Marketing Operations is the intake of third-party, partner, and field event lists. Stakeholders frequently submit raw CSVs containing highly unstructured data—inconsistent country and state formats, uncapitalized names, and messy job titles.

The Proposed Architecture: An AI-Native Intake Workflow

To eliminate this bottleneck, I proposed an automated, AI-driven list normalization process. Instead of manual scrubbing, the raw CSVs are passed through a structured LLM prompt engineered specifically for GTM data governance. The AI standardizes geography to exact SFDC ISO picklist values, applies Proper Case, and normalizes job titles into seniority buckets.

The Targeted Business Impact

  • Zero-Friction Governance: Protect the databases from unstructured data pollution.
  • Accelerated SLAs: Reduce turnaround time for List Upload campaigns from days to minutes.
  • Reallocated MOps Resources: Reclaim countless hours of manual spreadsheet work.

Global GDPR & Opt-In Architecture

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The Challenge

Managing fragmented consent data across complex global regions (GDPR, CASL, CAN-SPAM) often results in accidental compliance violations and frustrated prospects. The organization needed a centralized "single source of truth" that could seamlessly handle regional opt-in/opt-out laws, track exact legal consent versions, and automate data retention policies without manual oversight.

The Architecture

I architected a comprehensive master consent framework designed using Marketo Executable Programs:

  • Data Architecture & Consent Tracking: Engineered a master consent architecture using Marketo Executable Programs. It establishes a true single source of truth for Marketing Opt-In, seamlessly syncing with Salesforce.
  • Source-Specific Processing & "No Country" Logic: Engineered dedicated Smart Campaigns to handle different ingestion sources (Import/Form, Salesforce, APIs, and Other) with unique processing rules, including a "No Country Yet" holding pen that safely suspends records until they can be geographically enriched.
  • Inactivity & Re-Permissioning Engine: Built a sophisticated 24-month inactivity flow that automatically triggers a Re-Permission campaign. If a user fails to engage within exactly 14 days, the system flips Marketing Suspended to True, actively protecting email deliverability alongside compliance.
  • Compliance Auditing & Versioning: The system logs an immutable audit trail of every change. It also stamps the exact version of the legal wording the user agreed to via Marketo My Tokens (e.g., {{my.GDPR-Consent-Version}}) to future-proof against legal language changes.
  • The 30-Minute Deletion Safeguard & Dynamic Alerts: For records requiring legal erasure, an automated workflow triggers a 30-minute pause and sends an alert to the MOps team. Admin routing is managed via a {{my.TeamAlert}} token, meaning team changes require updating just one token rather than dozens of flow steps. If a record must be retained, a human can flag "Abort from Deletion".
  • Universal Campaign Suppression: Eliminated manual suppression lists by enforcing a universal evaluation block on all emails: Opt In = True AND Not Unsubscribed AND Valid Email AND Not Deleted AND Not Suspended.

The Targeted Business Impact

  • Ironclad Compliance: Completely eliminates the risk of accidental GDPR, CASL, or CAN-SPAM violations by hardcoding legal guardrails directly into the routing architecture.
  • Data Integrity: Establishes a true single source of truth that safely bidirectionally syncs with Salesforce without risk of CRM list uploads overwriting user preferences.
  • Operational Safety: Protects the database with automated deletion workflows while ensuring human oversight retains the final say on erasing potential revenue-tied records.

Campaign Naming Convention Builder

The Challenge

Disjointed and ad-hoc naming conventions across global marketing teams create fragmented tracking, breaking attribution models and making cross-region reporting impossible.

The Tool

This interactive cheat sheet forces standardized inputs across all regions. It establishes a rigorous taxonomy for different campaign types, automatically generating perfectly formatted campaign names for Marketo and Salesforce.

The Business Impact

  • Ensures 100% taxonomy alignment across global teams.
  • Eliminates human error in campaign creation.
  • Lays the foundation for flawless ROI reporting and analytics.
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Unified Universal List Import Template

The Challenge

Messy, unstructured CSV uploads from field events or third-party vendors corrupt database hygiene, break routing rules, and cause Marketo-to-Salesforce sync failures.

The Tool

A master Excel-based ingestion engine designed to enforce CRM data governance before data ever touches the system. It features strict data validation, dropdown constraints for Country/State ISO codes, and predefined Campaign Status definitions.

The Business Impact

  • Acts as a single source of truth for all bulk data ingestion.
  • Pre-scrubs data to eliminate routing errors and sync failures.
  • Saves MOPs countless hours of manual spreadsheet formatting.
Open Excel Template

The UTM Matrix

The Challenge

Inconsistent tracking parameters create "dark traffic," obscuring the true ROI of channels and making it difficult to tie pipeline revenue back to specific marketing touchpoints.

The Tool

A multi-tab matrix segmented by channel (Paid Digital, Organic Social, Events, Webinars, Email & Nurture, etc.). It automatically concatenates tracking URLs, enforces standard utm_source and utm_medium values, and ties them directly to SFDC Child Campaigns.

The Business Impact

  • Delivers perfect attribution and drastically reduces dark traffic.
  • Streamlines tracking link generation for field and digital marketers.
  • Ensures seamless alignment between top-of-funnel clicks and bottom-of-funnel CRM data.
Open Excel Template

Partner Account Mapping Creation

The Challenge

Generating target lists for co-marketing motions and channel partners is traditionally a highly manual, error-prone process that slows down campaign velocity.

The Tool

An automated creation tool built to bridge the gap between partner data and internal CRM systems. It standardizes the intake process, instantly aligning external partner targets with internal account records.

The Business Impact

  • Accelerates co-sell motions and partner outreach execution.
  • Eliminates hours of manual VLOOKUPs and spreadsheet manipulation.
  • Improves the data accuracy of joint-marketing campaigns.
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UTM Attribution & Storing Engine

The Challenge

Stale UTM parameters often linger in hidden fields long after a prospect's initial click. If a lead returns organically months later and engages with a new asset, legacy tracking data can be incorrectly passed to the new campaign. This results in false-positive attribution, misattributing current revenue to an old ad spend.

The Architecture

I architected a 3-part Marketo operational program to strictly govern UTM lifecycles and session data:

  • First Touch Stamping: Listens for record creation or new form fills. If "First Touch" (FT) UTMs are empty, it permanently stamps them using the incoming "Most Recent" (MR) data.
  • Time Stamping: Monitors any data value changes to MR UTM fields and immediately stamps a system date field (UTM Storing Time Stamp).
  • Daily Clearance: A scheduled batch campaign runs daily to identify any records with a timestamp of "Yesterday." It systematically clears (nullifies) all MR UTM parameters and resets the timestamp.

The Business Impact

  • Eliminates false attribution by ensuring stale parameters are never attached to future campaigns.
  • Provides pristine, session-specific data required for accurate multi-touch attribution modeling.
  • Maintains database hygiene by keeping lead records reflective of real-time behavior.

MOPs Playbooks & SLAs

The Challenge

Decentralized instructions and tribal knowledge lead to frequent campaign execution errors, rogue builds, and repetitive questions directed at the MOPs team.

The Tool

A consolidated suite of operational guardrails that act as the law of the land for the marketing department. This documentation covers everything from baseline Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to strict pre-flight checklists.

The Business Impact

  • Radically reduces deployment errors and brand-damaging mistakes.
  • Empowers field and regional marketers to build and self-serve safely.
  • Protects MOPs bandwidth by providing a definitive source of truth.
MOPs SLAs Standard Campaign Creation Partner Campaign Creation Email Execution QA Process

MOPs Intake & Workflow Management

The Challenge

Ad-hoc requests via Slack, email, and passing conversations inevitably lead to scope creep, missed deadlines, and severe MOps burnout. Marketing Operations teams require an air-tight intake funnel to prioritize work and scale globally.

The Architecture

I engineered a centralized Asana intake engine to act as the single source of truth for all operational requests. Stakeholders are required to submit detailed forms containing enforced custom fields. Upon submission, automated rules dynamically route the request to the correct triage board based on the campaign type, instantly assign strict SLA deadlines, and tag the appropriate MOps architect for execution.

The Business Impact

  • Eliminated "shadow IT" and rogue campaign builds.
  • Provided executive visibility into team velocity and project bottlenecks.
  • Protected MOps bandwidth by turning unstructured chaos into a predictable, governed pipeline.