Communications Specialist
Admired Communications & PR, LLC
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :27 years, 11 أشهر
Successfully enhanced SEO by 40% for a real-estate brokerage firm by applying PR 2.0 strategies.
•Spear-headed and created an annual event fund-raiser for national ballet company, raising 25000 USD
•Responsible for SEO audit for a personnel company: implemented strategy, increasing web presence by 200%.
•Awarded an “Outstanding Innovative Corporate Management Solution” scholarship by the President of Walt Disney Company under WDW Resort Internship, Fla.
•Published (paid) writer for Yahoo! as a contributing freelancer to their editorial network as a fashion consultant.
•Awarded national honors for outstanding work in alumnae relations: founded the first Utah Alumnae Panhellenic.
•First choice among 3, 000 candidates for 30 corporate site liaison representative positions at JetBlue Airways.
•Selected by university president to represent student populous on university’s 10-year strategic planning task force.
•Selected for prestigious “Who’s Who among American Colleges and Universities” publication for two years.
Used various mediums of social media to promote the pageant, as well as my own representation as a competitor representing the State of Colorado. Wrote and issued press releases, made several promotional appearances, motivational speaking, speech writing, copy writing and editor for news releases and press kits. Increased business presence on Twitter during the week of competition by 500%.
Responsible in promoting Miss America Pageant through appearances, speaking engagements, and PR specialist:
•Served as social media specialist during the pageant week, increase SEO via Twitter.
Represented a national ballet company as an Ambassador for purposes of PR and fundraising.
•Strong marketing abilities attributed 20% of their fundraising event donations.
•Assisted in event planning and coordination
•Was a public presence with donor interests and collaborated with other ambassadors in fundraising efforts.
Chosen as a first choice from 3, 000 candidates for one of 30 positions as an inter-corporate liaison for the “JetBlue Values Committee.”
•Presented executive management summarizing the needs of JetBlue employees
•Produced all inter-corporate leisure travel requests for 18, 000 employees throughout the company nationally.
•Took customer calls for reservations and problem-solving.
Produced all documentation and legal papers to verify legitimate travel privileges for business and leisure benefits of 12, 000 employees of JetBlue.
•Solely responsible for activating flight benefits for dependents in which employees applied for legitimization.
Successfully chartered the first National Panhellenic Conference Alumnae Panhellenic in Utah and served as president to 2009 (Members included from all 26 NPC national sororities: the Utah Alumnae Panhellenic focuses on philanthropy, scholarship and networking).
Radio and TV Broadcast Talent and Advertising Agent
Held numerous positions during an 8-year of broadcast radio and television career, including working as on-air personality, journalist, copywriter and editor, voice-over talent, product representative, and brand manager.
Office Manager and Account Representative/Executive carrying out the entire gamet of selling an advertizing campaign to bring innovative advertizing, marketing, public relations, and event coordination for the business planning of locaaly-based companies. CLients ranged from a state-wide bank, to the Ballet Company and theatre in the salt Lake City and Wasatch Front Metro area. Copywritinf, editing, press-releases, billboard design, research, sample surveys, phone call-campaigns, negotiation, sales presentations using Power point, management of resources in Microspft Excel, and other mediums popular at the time of employ (mid-90's.)
Performed all essential functions as required by a corporate retail store: display/tangible marketing in storefronts, merchandising, sales and goals for sales on a daily and weekly basis, store competitions between other store locations within both the district and the company, inventory, payroll weekly, delegation of tasks, maintenance within the store, reports to corporate for daily financial actuals, goal-setting, employee incentive programs, achievements, motivational management techniques, banking and financial deliveries, shipment ordering and receiving, establishing positive repour with a bevy of customer relations.
Completed an accelerated program for a degree in Cardiopulmonary Care and Respiratory Therapy. Required courses included components of physics, medical terminology, anatomy, disease processes, neonatal and pediatric diseases and complications, the latest in modern treatment and diagnostics, and 1,000 hours of required hospital clinical hours at 6 different hospitals. Additionally, I was selected by the director of the Respiratory Program to be the student program president, representing the college at a state-wide organization called the Colorado Society of respiratory Care. I coordinated fundraising collection and efforts, informational and public education event planning and execution, and reporting back to the various class levels the information I received when attending the monthly meetings as the college representative.
My collective experience at Weber State University included several courses in organizational communication, Public Relations, corporate sociology and multicultural communication, including international business communication. I received top honors in writing and rhetoric assignments, receiving a perfect score on my senior thesis, which analyzed a speech made infamously during the Second World War (II). Additionally, I resumed post-graduate coursework at the same University for becoming current in modern PR 2.0, social media strategies (Have certification from HubSpot in Massachusetts, USA,) and advertising and marketing techniques post-2010. While completing my undergraduate degree I was elected to the position of Traditional Student-body Vice President, representing the core of students to an elected body of students who worked closely with faculty and staff on a multitude of projects and affairs. I was selected as the only student to represent and contribute the university's Strategic Planning Task Force, a once every ten-year large committee of select faculty and staff; this committee reviews every facet of the prism in the University's budget and image, reworking the trajectory and goals for the upcoming decade.