Andy Bartlett Email & Phone Number

Bemidji, MN, US

Bemidji, Minnesota, United States

Bemidji, Minn.

Bemidji, Minn.

• Manage full-time staff
• Direct BSU’s Athletic Media Relations office, which includes a director, assistant director, a graduate assistant, and approximately nine student workers (2007-2017).
• Oversee news and social media support activities for 3-4 student workers (2012-present). Tell the institution’s story
• Plan, organize and implement a coordinated, timely information program that generates and disseminates news and information about BSU and NTC to a variety of media, local, regional and beyond.
• Coordinate hometown news release program, which focuses on campus involvement and academic achievement by BSU students. Program has distributed approximately 6,800 news releases since June 2007.
• Editor and content producer for BSU Today, the online outlet for university news.

Bemidji, Minn.

• Manage full-time staff
• As interim director, direct staff of seven, including interim associate director; communication designer; photographer; office manager; and BSU’s Athletic Media Relations office, which includes a director, assistant.
• As interim director, editor for Horizons, BSU’s alumni magazine. Horizons was published three times per year with a circulation of approximately 42,000 copies per issue.Oversee BSU’s logo licensing, trademark and.
• Direct University’s logo licensing and royalty programs as BSU’s primary contact with Licensing Resource Group, LLC, and with licensed vendors (2007-present).
• Royalty program has generated approximately $225,000 in revenue for BSU since 2005.
• Participated in review of 2011 RFP to seek BSU partner for licensing and royalty program. Participate in university-level strategic planning initiatives

• Sports Information DirectorApril 2001 - April 2007
• Managed all public and media relations functions for a 17-sport intercollegiate athletics program, with 15 sports at the NCAA Division II level and NCAA Division I men’s and women’s ice hockey.
• Supervised staff of one assistant sports information director, one graduate assistant and four to six student workers.
• Primary media contact for NCAA Division I men’s ice hockey and NCAA Division II football and baseball. Direct all media activities involving BSU football and hockey, including weekly contact with regional and national.
• Also: primary media contact for women’s hockey (2001-02) and men’s & women’s golf (2001-02); secondary contact for women’s hockey (2002-03).
• Designed, wrote and published annual media guides for football and men’s ice hockey from 2001-07. Also designed, wrote and published women’s ice hockey media guide in 2001 and 2002.

Manhattan, KS

• Assistant Sports Information Director / Internet CoordinatorJune 1999 - May 2001
• Assistant Sports Information DirectorAugust 1997 - May 1999
• Graduate InternAugust 1995 - July 1997
• Student VolunteerAugust 1994 - May 1995
• Assisted with all public and media relations functions for a 15-sport NCAA Division I athletic program in the Big 12 Conference.
• Primary media contact and sports information director for tennis (1996, 1997), volleyball and women’s rowing (1997, 1998), and baseball (1998, 1999).

Ms, Educational Leadership, Emphasis Area: Sport Management

4.0 GPA

Bs, Journalism, Emphasis Area: Public Relations

outside concentration: mechanical engineering