Directly supervises the Social Media Content & Accounts team who works to manage social media for electric cooperatives across the nation.Oversees content execution and client services for electric cooperatives.Ensures excellent professional relationships with electric cooperative clients.Collaborates with teams across ARC Media, Pioneer Utility Resources, and WordSouth.

Certified Cooperative Communicator (CCC) through the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.Responsible for member relations planning, communications strategy, annual meeting planning and execution, and budget management. Manages all internal communications through email marketing campaigns, trainings, internal messaging, and newsletter.Maintains the cooperative’s website, intranet, consumer-facing app, and social media outlets. Manages the cooperative’s community, grassroots, and economic participation in central Iowa.Creates, purchases, and disseminates all media advertising such public benefit announcements, press releases, newspaper articles, radio broadcasts, direct mailing, and bill inserts.Maintains relationships with key accounts, local media outlets and other key stakeholders in the local community.

Certified Cooperative Communicator (CCC) through the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.Responsible for creative strategy, media strategy, annual meeting planning and execution, budget management, message development, creative production and advertising for brand advertising. Manages all internal communications through email marketing campaigns, internal messaging, video and newsletter.Works across all departments of the organization to maintain brand awareness.Responsible for creating and implementing an annual media, marketing, and grassroots plan based off the cooperative’s strategic plan. Maintains the cooperative’s website, intranet, consumer-facing app, and social media outlets. Responsible for supervising the cooperative’s community and economic participation in Northern Colorado.Creates, purchases, and disseminates all media advertising such public benefit announcements, press releases, newspaper articles, radio broadcasts, direct mailing, and bill inserts.Maintains relationships with local media outlets and other public relations individuals in the local community.Serves on an internal software steering committee, which works to effectively and efficiently deploy software features, and trains respective employees.Completes quarterly supervisor training and various leadership training courses.Previously served as officer positions on the Colorado Rural Electric Cooperative Member Services Group.

Wrote news, editorial and feature articles for various media outlets and companies on a freelance basis.

Developed internal and external company newsletters. Wrote and published/broadcast public benefit announcements such as press releases, newspaper articles, radio broadcasts, direct mailing, and bill inserts. Responsible for the maintenance and content of the co-op website. Coordinated the company's annual meeting. Maintained a communications budget and constructed a strategic plan on an annual basis. Engaged in legislative activity relating to the electric utility industry. Served as Executive Administrator to the CEO and Board of Directors.

Managed after-service projects in the company's Lighting Services division and more specifically domestic and international cellular projects with telecom companies. Worked with end users and contractors on a daily basis to explain instructions for the installation of the product and project specifications. Worked with Sales Representatives to define project scopes and specifications to develop proper equipment and installation quotes. Worked with Musco's international office locations for projects in other countries. Provided feature stories for the company's internal newsletters and aided in writing case studies for the marketing team.

Responsible for the management and publication of the bi-weekly campus newspaper. Lead a staff of around 7-10 students along with the university's professor. Wrote and proofread feature, news and editorial articles to AP standards. Created and assigned articles and deadlines for students. Designed the newspaper with the Adobe Creative Suite.

Designed graduation invitations, wedding Invitations, event programs and other print media with the use of Adobe Creative Suite and Quark. Built relationships with customers to determine how to provide the services they requested and managed projects.