Development Seed Blog

Meet Our Metrics and Strategy Ninja

A couple weeks Steve Olson officially joined the Development Seed team and boy are we excited. Steve will be helping us build smarter communications solutions. He’ll spend most of his time measuring the success of the online tools we build and helping us to maximize their impact. He’ll also be using this knowledge come up with creative, results driven communications approaches that we know our clients will love.

And Steve is very well qualified for the job. He began his career as a field organizer and quickly picked up coding skills to help get his candidates online where they could rally more supporters. Over the years Steve has led some incredible online community building projects. While at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, he helped grow their email list from 25,000 to more than 250,000 active email addresses and increase fundraising by 1,600% in the lead up to the 2004 election. Most recently at Planned Parenthood he managed their DataMart, which holds information on 3.9 million individuals and has more than a half million active email addresses.

Steve lives in New York City with his girlfriend Melissa and his dog, but we’ll bringing him down to DC as much as we can and will definitely get him to come out for a DC Drupal Meetup soon. In the meantime, Steve will be blogging here about his most exciting findings.