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Portland, Or, Us

Lake Oswego, Or, Us

The 82nd Avenue Business Association supports businesses on and around 82nd Avenue in Portland, Oregon. As Board Secretary I am responsible for...- Facilitating annual community events to drive new membership and community engagement on 82nd Avenue.- Acting as lead project manager for recurring restaurant events driving new business to food/beverage district members. - Grant writing and community partner development, recently raising $41,500+ in grants, sponsorships, and in-kind contributions for our restaurant event, highlighting 30 food/beverage locations on 82nd.- Taking and distributing meeting minutes during board meetings.

Portland, Oregon, Us

At Foodi Menus we’re in the business of connecting communities over food. We help food and beverage businesses bring people out to eat, create collaborative menus, and enable amazing events. In my position with Foodi Menus I'm responsible for...- Leading marketing for a hospitality SaaS startup that optimizes marketing for restaurants and events.- Leading product management with an external development team, overseeing all user story creation, UX/UI, and Quality Assurance needed to bring a new web-app product to market.- Crafting a go-to-market plan and associated marketing assets, strategy, and hiring.- Raising investment. - Collaborating with event partners on successful food-related experiences resulting in 6000+ attendees. - Optimizing project management using Slack, Asana, Monday.com, Hubspot, Google Analytics, and more.

Utilizing my 7 years of experience in marketing operations, go-to-market strategy, and project management, I offer marketing consulting services. As a freelance marketing consultant I've optimized marketing efforts for numerous clients including social media management, website development, and event organizing for TBB’s Tap House, Springwater Cart Park, E&E Vending, and Precious Photo Booths.I also provide grant writing and sponsor engagement services for nonprofits and event organizers. Recurring clients include the 82 Roses Community Enrichment Coalition, HeadUp events, and the Washington Men's Gymnastics Foundation.

Chanhassen, Mn, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

Leading Retirement Solutions (LRS) is a financial services company that helps businesses of all kinds provide their employees with retirement planning tools and tax shelters.- Leading a team of 3, I optimized the B2B channel-marketing strategy, partner-marketing strategy, and sales enablement at LRS via buyer journey mapping and cross-functional collaboration with client relations, sales, and strategic partners.- I was responsible for vetting and implementing a new CRM tool (Hubspot) department wide.- I implemented marketing strategies to achieve revenue goals for 2022, including successful product launches into new markets and company brand updates.

Seattle, Washington, Us

- I optimized marketing efforts including campaign strategy, social media content development and strategy, website development and maintenance, lead generation, SEO, and data analysis. - I developed and managed overall marketing strategy and $100,000+ marketing budget, including prioritizing and delegating department-wide initiatives.- Hired, trained, and managed 4 new marketing interns.- Collaborated with department leads and CEO on company-wide business development and innovation strategies.- Created standard operating procedures and oversaw the implementation of new marketing tools and platforms. - Completely reworked our client survey analysis process and optimized feedback delivery for all departments.- Outside of the marketing department I also contributed to partnership strategy development, assisted with company-wide hiring strategy support, and collaborated with other departments on company-wide process improvement. - Reevaluated and restructured the overall sales and marketing funnel in collaboration with sales team leads.- The biggest accomplishment during my time as a marketing associate at Leading Retirement Solutions was successfully bringing a new product to market that increased company revenue by 100% within 2 years.

Seattle, Washington, Us

- Created social media content and managed Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter - increasing followers by 50%, engagement by 700% on Facebook and 1900% on LinkedIn, and CTR +1425%.- Handled data analytics for social media channels and website.- Managed marketing campaigns and digital strategy including developing written and visual digital marketing assets.- Developed and oversaw the creation and launch of a new company website, increasing search engine traffic 469% and pageviews 829% within 1 year.- Utilized Microsoft Office suite, Canva, and AgileCRM for effective digital marketing.

In my position as Marketing Committee Chair, I was responsible for the initial formation and structure of the committee, I organized and led recurring committee meetings, I delegated action items to committee members and team members alike, and I developed a functional method of marketing collaboration between the members of the WMGF board, gymnastics team, and the marketing committee. I also developed our marketing strategy and brand guidelines, implemented new tools and processes across all three of the involved groups to more effectively execute our marketing strategy, planned and outlined our annual campaign efforts, developed standard operating procedures, created and organized our database and database management practices, ran additional key stakeholder meetings, and researched and implemented new fundraising tools to drive donations.The end result: $145,000 in donations during a 1.5 year period, a 95% increase in donations compared to the prior 1.5 year period.

In my elected position as Vice President of the Washington Men's Gymnastics Foundation I was responsible for board meeting agenda development, leading our monthly board meetings, marketing strategy, garnering external funding including donations and grants, event management, donation opportunity research, updating our mission vision and values, developing our official brand guidelines, consistent outreach and engagement with board members, coordinating all 9 of our committees, and foundation guideline updates.

While I devoted my time as an athlete on the Washington Men's Gymnastics (WMG) team and as a fundraising member for the program, that wasn't enough for me. Between 2017 and 2022 I was a contributing member of the WMGF board, both as a team representative and, once my athletic career was over, as a volunteer. During my time serving on the WMGF Board we've hosted Collegiate Nationals, Junior Olympic Regionals for the Men's Gymnastics programs in Region 2 (Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana), Junior Olympic State (Washington), sponsored a trip for the WMG team to Japan, and fund-raised over $1.3M (as of Dec 2021).

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

During the 2017-18 gymnastics season I was elected Collegiate Athlete Representative by my peers at Collegiate Nationals, to represent them in decisions made by USA Gymnastics. I was reelected to the position during the 2018-19 gymnastics season as well. In my position I acted as the voice of all Junior Varsity and self-funded Men's Gymnastics teams across the United States during meetings between Senior Varsity coaches, Junior Varsity coaches, and USA Gymnastics.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Helping children learn about plants, animals, and the environment through the Zoomazium program.

As a Party host I spent time Monitoring children, Hosting birthday parties, and Cleaning/Setting up equipment.As a Summer Camp Coach I spent time Teaching children gymnastics, Coordinating schedules, Coming up with group activities, Managing group activities, and Working with peers.

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Bachelor'S Degree, Business

High School Diploma

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