Supporting the Director of Sales and Marketing, duties include creating and updating the yearly marketing calendar for multiple brands to include schedule of weekly emails, industry events, and seasonal promotions; create and manage social media accounts with relevant photo and video content; create marketing materials including brochures and flyers for multiple brands; create content for and manage updates of corporate website; create press releases and contact media for appropriate press coverage; attend industry trade shows representing our brands.

As a freelance writer for Kansas City area newspapers, I write stories about current events, human interest, local politics, school happenings and anything else local residents would be interested in reading. Currently cover stories in Kansas for Shawnee, Bonner Springs and Basehor.

Tour guide, DUI checkpoint processor, community event staff, PD newsletter contributing writer, parade traffic security detail, role player, president of Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association.

Dog walker, pet food pantry, laundry, special events.

Volunteering in my hometown for special community projects including Flags for Freedom, Shawnee KS Rocks!, local park clean-up, senior citizen home upkeep, local special events including Shawnee Great Grillers BBQ event.

As a tour guide for several cities in the area, I work to develop historical scripts as well as gather information through personal interviews. Also identify marketing opportunities to promote tours with local media news outlets by providing personal interviews.

Manage local marketing efforts for over 120 Westlake Ace Hardware stores within their communities to further awareness and drive traffic; plan and execute in-store special events for new Westlake department additions, grand re-openings and ladies night to drive traffic and transactions; manage niche category marketing efforts and training/store communication for Hallmark Gold Crown and U.S. Cellular departments within Westlake stores; manage vendors; create content and coordinate store manager appearances at weekly two hour Kansas City area local radio show; create training plans and conduct training with various business partners for in-store events, demonstrations, and niche category knowledge transfer.

As part of the Customer Solutions Team, support the Gold Crown, Chain Drug, National Accounts, and Walmart channels for card and specialty programs to ensure accurate order writing and flawless retail execution. - Training material development and presentation to order writing team to ensure timely, accurate information for upcoming and current programs; - Work with team to develop new and on-going end-to-end program and project management methodologies to ensure successful retail execution;

Planned, coordinate and implemented local club programs, national and in-store events and direct-to-consumer communications to maintain and/or increase Keepsake Ornament purchases from Hallmark's most profitable consumer groups. - Wrote/edited newsletter for local club audience and developed a refined and cost-effective local club program that is credited with maintaining collector interest in a time of overall decline in the collectibles industry; - Developed and presented strategic plans for national conventions held around the US. Managed multiple vendor teams to deliver an exciting convention experience within budget. Represented Hallmark at various collector events with consumers and media; - Researched, developed and implemented a broad-based training program for call center representatives who answer calls from Hallmark Keepsake Ornament consumers. Maintained measurable levels of consumer service excellence; - Planned and wrote content for Hallmark.com to encourage consumer engagement and purchases. Designed and constructed decorating projects to showcase creative Keepsake Ornament uses, including conducting seminars with consumers; - Assisted with one-to-one consumer loyalty marketing including creating and writing content for e-mail newsletter campaigns targeted to Hallmark's most valuable consumers.