Andrea Cortez Email and Phone Number

Oversee and implement all brand guidelines. Run all department-wide social media accounts. Create and develop all social, digital, print, environmental and marketing designs. Direct all photo and video shoots. Create the deparment-wide look/theme, yearly.

• Implement and manage publicity and media strategies for 17 Division I athletic programs, while serving as primary contact to local and national media outlets for volleyball, women’s basketball, softball and secondary contact for football. • Assist in design and approval for (three) new University Athletic Department logos, while leading creative staff in re-branding week-long campaign, including new department-wide theme (#PreyTogeher) and visual identity. Also leading the efforts on BCUAthletics.com official web-page redesign and provider switch (NeuLion to SIDEARM; launching August 2016).• Manage and oversee all social media content. During first full year in department saw 30 percent growth in Twitter followers for @BCUAthletics, 50 percent for @BCUGridiron (Football), 54 percent @BCUWBB (Women’s Basketball), 52 percent @BCUSoftball (Softball), 62 percent @BCUVolleyball (Volleyball) and a 53 percent growth on @BCUAthletics Official Instagram account. • Assist in coordination of all local, regional, and national public relations and game day operations for Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) softball tournament (2015, 2016), including pre-tournament, in-tournament and post-tournament coverage in Ormond Beach, Florida.• Update, edit and release all pre-game and post-game coverage for primary sports including serving as official NCAA statistician for home events to be used on BCUAthletics.com.• Serve as primary designer for volleyball, women’s basketball, softball and baseball, while responsible for addition of graphic design intern. Designed two top-30 schedule posters according to PosterSwag (baseball and softball 2016).• Promoted from Assistant Communications Director to Associate Director in Feb. 2015.

PRIOR TO THE EVENT- Attend site visits, as requested- Work with ESPN EVENTS and ESPN PR on all press releases- Manage all credentialing of media- Work with Sports Systems to setup online credential system- Provide event media materials to each participating team’s athletic media relations office aswell as to local media and participating school markets- Compile, create and edit content for the game program- Work with ESPN EVENTS and participating schools for the selection of the Walter Payton Award- Work with ESPN EVENTS, Bethune-Cookman, and Alcorn State to secure game day media- Work with the Municipal Stadium Dayton Beach staff to oversee the set-up of the mediaworkroom and interview areas- Conduct a media teleconference featuring participating head coaches, if necessaryDURING THE EVENT- Work with participating teams’ athletic media relations representatives on interview requestsand press conference appearances- Oversee the distribution of game information to media members in attendance (game notes,statistics, rosters, records, history, etc.)- Assign media and scout seating, both in stadium and in the media work room- Oversee statistics operations during the game- Manage a staff of media relations assistants- Oversee the compilation of the Offensive and Defensive Most Valuable Player- Work with ESPN Events to provide content to update event website and social media with gameinformation as applicableAFTER THE EVENT- Maintain event statistics, records and photo archives- Develop post-event recap with suggestions for future events

• Implement and manage publicity and media strategies for 5 Division I athletic programs: volleyball, women’s basketball, softball, men’s tennis, women’s tennis.• Served as primary graphic designer for all social media accounts. • Responsible for all official statistics for football, volleyball, men’s/women’s basketball, softball and men’s/women’s tennis.• Produce and distribute all pre and post-game press releases to local and national media outlets for primary covered sports.• Served as the media coordinator for the 2014 NCCU Hall of Fame committee. Designed all artwork and event program.