OVERVIEW & REFERENCES
Mark Milazzo, PMP®
I am an experienced Business Designer and Strategist with a demonstrated history of success in both the professional automotive/motorsports industry and the music/electronics industry.
With the help of many talented team members, I have provided many end-to-end solutions across a variety of digital and analog domains.
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EMAIL: mark@racingpro.net
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ORGANIZED
Trained in Project Management using predictive, and Agile approaches.
PMP certified by PMI.
I love Kanban and live Kaizen.
CREATIVE
Trained in Web Development and Graphic Design from the International Web Association.
The real training came with the hundreds of sites that I have designed and deployed. I am autodidactic, and learn best by rolling my sleeves up and doing the work.
TEAM FOCUSED
Field tested in the high pressure field of Professional Motorsports.
In racing our work is not time sensitive, it is time CERTAIN. If you’re late to one event, you have lost the entire season.
Building teams, and helping everyone work towards a common goal is something that I enjoy (and am also skilled at!)
I worked with Mark for a number of years as the team manager for the Russell Racing School.
Mark was exceptional in every way. While being more than good at his job, he was a great leader, a great teammate, worked independently and well with others.
Beyond that, Mark was an inspiration to the rest of the team. Ever optimistic, Mark was a beacon of light and joy and made sure that everyone on the team enjoyed coming to work.
We have gone on different paths but I would hire him back in a minute if I had the chance.
I would like to put in a positive recommendation for Mark, who I have collaborated on PR efforts around several World Challenge racing events since I started in the media relations department at Sonoma Raceway in 2006.
Mark has been a pleasure to work with, always responsive to PR requests and helpful in providing timely information for the track PR department and media.
I mostly worked with Mark on the communications piece of his job, but he wore many different hats at World Speed and was able to juggle it all while providing excellent service. Mark has been a great person to work with and an employer would certainly be lucky to have him as part of their team.
I first met Mark in 1993 when I attended the Jim Russell Racing School. I was reunited with him in the late 90’s when I raced in the Russell series, then again when racing for World Speed Motorsports. Mark is a tremendously capable and exceptional human being. One minute he’s my race engineer helping to optimize my aerodynamic and suspension setup, the next minute he’s designing and marketing a new race car (the FormulaSpeed), and then the next minute he’s leading communications and operations for the race team.
To say he’s a jack of all trades wouldn’t be accurate because it implies that he knows a little about a lot of things. The reality is that Mark knows a lot about a lot of things, and when combined with his incredible work ethic, sense of humor and good nature, it’s a pretty lethal combination! He’s honestly one of my favorite people in the world and one of the few people I know who can jump into an unknown situation, quickly assess the issues, and make things happen – all the while being an absolute delight to work with and be around.
I first worked with Mark while he was in charge of the sales team and I was his sales assistant at Russell Racing School. He was always looking for new opportunities and successfully developed and implemented additional revenue streams for the business.
We subsequently worked together on additional motorsports programs where his professionalism, attention to detail, communication skills and innovation led to multiple on-track victories and off-track growth initiatives for the teams he’s worked with through the years.
I’ve had the opportunity to regularly work with Mark as a client and customer in the Formula Car Challenge racing series, which lends a great deal of its success to his efforts. I competed in the series for about five years, then built my own race team to run clients in the same series. Throughout my decade of involvement in this series, Mark has been communicative and hard-working to ensure that all participants are able to compete fairly and safely, and have a lot of fun doing it.
The publicity and positive atmosphere that he’s brought to the series made it possible for me to secure sponsorships and branding deals for my racing team. His knowledge, experience, and positivity play essential roles on two fronts: ensuring the success of the inner workings of his business, and providing an experience that keeps customers continually coming back.
Mark and everyone at World Speed were fantastic to work with. Mark always worked hard to make sure that the team overdelivered to customers, clients, partners, and pretty much anyone within the motorsports ecosystem.
References from current employment is available upon request.
EMAIL: mark@racingpro.net