Ashley Curtis Email & Phone Number

Green Bay, Wi, Us

Green Bay, Wisconsin Metropolitan Area

• Lead internal team on development of marketing materials, including creative and web development teams• Maintain client relationships through creative problem solving, negotiation, progress tracking, andcommunication• Track project statuses for 30-80 clients per month for small and large scale tasks• Develop high level messaging and stories for use across communication platforms• Manage budgets, track project progress, create estimates, assist with billing for projects start to close• Organize current project tasks for team members to ensure positive client experience

Green Bay, Wisconsin Area

• Maintain client relationships through creative problem solving, negotiation, progress tracking, andcommunication• Track project statuses for 30-80 clients per month for small and large scale tasks• Develop high level messaging and stories for use across communication platforms• Manage budgets from project start to close• Lead internal team on development of marketing materials, including creative and web development teams• Organize current project tasks for team members to ensure positive client experience• Plan, write, edit, and distribute press releases, following AP Style, to appropriate media and industry outlets for clients across the nation

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Pitch agriculturally-related stories to the editor as topics fit with the feature section • Conduct phone interviews with producers, extension agents, professors and industry professionals to create well-rounded feature and research-related articles • Enhance time management skills by developing questions, interviewing and writing articles as assigned and submitting them in a timely manner to the editor for publication

Houghton, Mi

• Edit photos for publication in the Daily Mining Gazette• Interview local businesses and capture photography to prepare business feature stories• Cover beats in the Western Upper Peninsula and prepare for publication in the daily issue

Houghton, Mi

• Strengthen online presence by updating WUPPDR’s website, Facebook and Twitter • Develop press releases to create awareness and promote activities by working with local media • Create content to be used on the website and in grant applications• Assist in the organizational layout and design of the 2011 Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy for submission to the Economic Development Alliance

Oshkosh, Wisconsin Area

• Contacted exhibitors to display in the EAA Innovation Center during AirVenture • Increased the number of electric aircraft exhibits and forum topics by remaining in constant contact possible exhibitors and providing necessary enhancements • Organized the EAA Innovation Center forum and exhibits area for AirVenture independently • Organized the Learn to Fly Discovery Center volunteer and forum schedule as a special project handed down by management

River Falls, Wi

• Developed news stories to be featured in the UWRF weekly school newspaper • Established relationships with fellow UWRF students and faculty to keep up to date on current campus activities • Created weekly beat reports to inform the editors of the various events going on in beat coverage area • Worked with the River Falls Update, a web-based news show produced by River Falls Journalism students to report and create videos for the broadcast

River Falls, Wi

• Attend bi-weekly meetings to strengthen leadership skills and encourage cohesiveness among current group members resulting in successful promotion of UWRF • Promoted quality leadership of the campus by working with alumni to welcome incoming freshman and transfer students at move-in day• Assisted employers in booth set-up at the UWRF Career Fair, which gave them a positive first impression of successful UWRF students

River Falls, Wi

• Strengthened communication skills by working with other team members in mailing, scanning and cleaning surveys to help the Survey Research Center run efficiently • Improved multi-tasking skills through working on numerous projects and completing all necessary tasks in a timely manner • Reinforced responsibility by continuing to improve and learn about the various tasks completed within the Survey Research Center, including creating templates, running statistics and writing comments Analyzed data in order to develop written reports for our clients, including the CAFES New Student Survey Report and the Feeder Cattle Report

Baraboo, Wi

• Planned all aspects of the 2010 Wisconsin Holstein Futurity including sponsorship, exhibiting animals, exhibitors, royalty and the writing of press releases and wrap-up articles• Enhanced correspondence skills through written communications with exhibitors, sponsors and dignitaries for the Futurity in August• Strengthened writing and interviewing skills by developing multiple Breeder Profiles for our monthly magazine publication• Developed skills in InDesign, Photoshop and Dreamweaver for designing layout of our magazine, advertisements and website