MarlonDavidSias.com                                                                              612-390-7083. mdsias@gmail.com 

 

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

 

As a US Congressional Campaign Manager, brought together Jews, Mormons, Evangelicals, Catholics, Muslims, mentally disabled, and deaf into a dynamic team.  As a Congressional Campaign Manager coordinated a media blitz with TV, online, radio, outdoor, print and earned media to win 23,000 more votes than any previous MN GOP 8^th Congressional candidate.

 

Co-managed Family Foundation hiring and firing for voter guide distribution, doubled The Family Foundation’s social media, producing first ever value voters YouTube video, receiving 83% of Evangelical Christian vote for VA values candidates and winning the 2010 Family Champion Award from Focus on the Family.

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Capella University (Minneapolis, MN) (2013)

Degree: Masters of Science

Major: Information Technology

 

Regent University (Virginia Beach, VA) (2009)

Degree: Master of Arts

Major: Political Management with emphasis in National Security and Counseling

 

Thomas Edison State College (Trenton, NJ) (2004)

Degree: Bachelor of Arts

Major: Communications

 

ADDITIONAL TRAINING & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

 

·                      Known as “MD the fix-it-doctor” for willingness and ability to “fix anything,” from vehicles to PC’s

 

·                      Coordinated volunteers and supported calls for over 80,000 unique web-viewers for The Response Day of Prayer.

 

·                      Conceived a new media strategy including You Tube Video Voter Guide with 89% of target audience block voting.

 

·                      Systems Administration, Research and Budgeting classes, US House Training Center, DC.

 

·                      Leadership Institute: Technology, Writing, Public Relations, Advanced Public Speaking Training, VA.

 

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

Mark Scherer   

Personal Assistant                                                                                                                                 Cambridge, MN                                                    

                                                                                                                                                             June 2013 – Present

·                      Computer and automotive technical assistance.

·                      Designing and developing InternationalBlessing.com while completing degree.

 

Faith and Freedom Coalition                                                                                                                Richmond, VA                                                    

Virginia Political Director                                                                                                  April 2013 – June 2013

·                      Coordinated volunteers to interactively distribute nearly 5000 voter guides and invitations in one day.

·                      Nearly doubled the social media outreach for the Road to Majority Conference.

 

 

Allen for US Senate and Romney for President                                                                                    Richmond, VA                                                    

IT and Social Conservative Director                                                                         February 2012 –December 2012

                                                                                                                                           

·                      Recruited over 700 volunteers, pastors, and ethnic leaders for voter registration, phone banking and door knocking.

·                      Trained employees and interns on data-mining, CiviCRM, Drupal, Google Refine, and Microsoft Mappoint.

·                      Spearheaded the translation of Spanish, Korean, and also made key inroads into the Vietnamese outreach

·                      Produced walklists, tele-townhall lists and de-duped big data with open source ETL tools like Talend.

·                      From the Virginia Chicken Festival to the Williamsburg Pastors Association, energized with banjo and violin. 

 

Family Foundation                                                                                                                            Richmond, VA                                   

Technology and Pastor Outreach Coordinator                                                              June 2009 – December 2011

 

·                      Responsible for new media outreach as while as help desk and database maintenance.

·                      Co-managed pastor outreach in Tidewater, Fredericksburg, and Northern Virginia in three elections.

·                      Conceived a new media strategy: You Tube Video Voter Guide, 89% of target audience block voted in 2009.

·                      Tripled social media membership with techniques including new media ads.

 

Williamsburg Christian Academy                                                                                          Williamsburg, VA

Director of IT Department and Trainer                                                                         August 2010 – December 2011

 

·                      Facilitator for faculty and student training on networking, security, and collaborative innovation.

·                      Refurbished and maintained over 140 Microsoft, Apple and Linux computers for over 325 users. .

·                      Performing a complete network overhaul at a cost savings of $2000 as compared to the school’s contractor.

·                      Researching organizational value chain analysis for long term interactive education planning.                 

 

 

Sias Graphics and Sias Family Limited Partnership                                                                          Grandy, MN

Technical Assistant                                                                                                          January 1990 – June 2009

                                                                                                                  

·                      Technician trained to travel to over 14 nations and 48 states for family’s used equipment repair business.

·                      As part of part of homeschooling and 8 years of Spanish tutoring, marketed printing presses from the age of 10.

·                      Mentored to replace the system administrator and built high performance stock trading computer suite.

·                      Known as ‘MD the fix-it-doctor/ for willingness/ability to fix anything in construction, wiring, etc.

 

Act for America                                                                                                                                             Pensacola, FL     

System Administrator                                                                                                      March 2008 – September 2008

 

·                      New York Times best-selling author and terrorism survivor, Brigitte Gabriel, recruited me to move an office from Virginia to Florida. Moved existing computer system and set it up with the latest security technologies for fighting terrorism.  Worked AFA through a complete system transformation—from a new website and secure forum to creating a SalesForce secure IP and total CRM cloud solution.

 

Senator Nick Rerras                                                                                                                                      Norfolk, VA

Systems Administrator and Volunteer Recruiter                                                        November 2007 – January 2008

 

·         “I highly recommend Mr. Marlon-David Sias for any campaign or marketing related position.  He has an outstanding work ethic, is very dependable, and has a high level of integrity.  He understands political campaigns very well and performs well under pressure.  Mr. Sias is a team player and works well with people.  The more you get to know Mr. Sias, the more you will find that he is a man of many talents.”

 

Center for Excellence in Education                                                                                                       Mclean, VA

Technology and Research Coordinator                                                                              January 2008 – March 2008

 

·                      Developed a Firefox web-browser research application suite.

·                      Created a Technical Manual for fundraising researchers.

·                      Repaired social media presence and developed the perimeters for website redesign. 

 

US House of Representatives                                                                                                                Washington, DC   

Director’s Assistant and IT Researcher                                                                             February 2005 – August 2007

 

·                      District Director’s Assistant, trained staff and interns on use of computers and communications equipment.

·                      Surrogate speaker and field coordinator with US Senate Campaign, defined by violin/banjo inspiration and GOTV record.

·                      Educated by the US House of Representatives Training Office in Systems Administration, Budgeting and Research.

·                      The best at defusing and fielding phone calls in the district, US Rep Kennedy’s Director said. 

·                      Acquired, reformatted and networked all equipment staff, between two locations, saving taxpayers more than $10,000.

 

Groettum for Congress                                                                                                                                  Hibbing, MN                       

Congressional Campaign Manager                                                                           August 2004 – December 2004          

 

·                      Earned BA while serving as the Congressional Campaign Manager, improved media blitzes with TV, radio, outdoor, print and earned media. campaign set the record for fundraising, received 23,000 more votes than any previous MN-8th GOP Candidate, PC and email account repair, developed an email and self-dialing database.