The Speaker Sisterhood provides a community for women who want to increase confidence, boost public speaking skills, have fun, and maybe even change the world. Women who come to Speaker Sisterhood clubs and programs want to be better presenters at work, better salespeople, better leaders, or better advocates for a cause. Women of all ages and backgrounds join together to practice public speaking, grow new skills and cheer each other on!

• Provide website services to small businesses and self-employed individuals. Samples of full design/develop sites include: ili.edu, melindablau.com and berkshirenatural.com• Collaborate with graphic designers to convert their website mockups into responsive Wordpress themes. Samples of developed sites include: gillespiecorp.com, thecreativemarketing.net, sunshine.us, and valleyventurementors.org• Offer website consultations to small business owners looking to enhance their online presence• Present Wordpress tutorial sessions for clients one-on-one and in small groups (staff/interns)

• Created local awareness in and around Western MA to reduce waste by opening a creative reuse center (concept to implementation)• Responsible for the creation, setup and integration of all online assets (website, social media, merchant services, etc.)• Worked with special education student volunteers to help them acquire valuable job skills in a real-world environment• Featured more than a dozen times on MassAppeal, a local TV show, demonstrating creative reuse projects with everyday household waste• Successfully sold the business to a dedicated community member that shares the vision and is continuing the mission

• Built new features and enhancements for college website• Liaison between marketing, IT, and design departments• Assisted content editors using Content Management System (currently Drupal 7; formerly RedDot)• Led training workshops for content editors to learn CMS• Provided web analytics support & reporting to college community• Designed & implemented html email campaigns for Admission officeSpecial Projects• Collaborated with the College Web Team on transition to new CMS, Drupal 7 (Site building & theming)• Site builder & project manager for 175th Anniversary website, https://www.mtholyoke.edu/175/• Member of the Wellness Subcommittee for Work/Life Balance; project manager for 6-week lifestyle challenge program

• Designed and developed medical practice websites• Maintained and updated 30 patient education "healthchannels" in a dynamic platform.• Managed Medical Advisor Program.• Supervised one part-time employee.• Oversaw all interactive components and user generated content.• Assisted Marketing Department in advertising and e-mail marketing efforts.• Handled ad server duties, technical liaison for advertising contacts.• Researched best practices and new technologies for web standards and SEO guidelines.

Successfully trained waitstaff for high-end and extremely busy bar/restaurant.

• Performed graphic production and coordinated team of co-workers on an educational and interactive Internet project.• Worked on creating solutions for interface problems, prototypes for interface designs and communicated these issues between the programmers and the QA department.

Maintained and updated existing website for the Center for Portuguese Studies