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Marietta, Georgia, United States

Atlanta, Ga

Performed as The Chick-fil-A Cow in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game and Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl during Parade, FanFest, and in-game a combined 12 game days.Provided entertainment at various game day events by interacting with fans, cheerleaders, band members, and team mascots; participating in FanFest games; and assisting with in-game giveaways.

Atlanta, Ga

Chick-fil-A (www.chick-fil-a.com) is the nation’s largest quick-service chicken restaurant chain with over 1,900 locations. In 2018, they exceeded $10 billion in total gross sales.1. As a contractor, led the execution of 44 packaging tests that included a significant packaging refresh for both hot and cold packaging as well as new environmentally-friendly packaging for those locations that require it.2. Measured 83 used oil samples from Kansas City market leading to the sourcing of an oil testing kit that was provided to every Operator during their Checkpoint training in order to provide Restaurants a more objective measurement of oil quality3. Participated in and then led in-restaurant Waffle Fry customer intercepts and lean Waffle Fry test. The results led to a chain-wide change from iodine to sea salt and the addition of two smallwares designed to improve fry quality.4. Assisted Senior Developer and production design in fryer cooking process change, oil improvement project, lean waffle fry module and grilled platform work

Atlanta, Ga

1. As a contractor, assisted Team Members, Managers and Operators across the entire chain resolving over 1,300 hardware and software issues for all Restaurant IT equipment including POS, KPS, POS servers, Chick-fil-A PCs, Micr printers, iPads, and third party printers and switches.2. Underwent additional training to become a part of the iPOS/KPS/Aloha online ordering team that provided more advanced troubleshooting for all three areas, including resolving Aloha problem tickets formerly resolved by Level II agents.3. Edited existing knowledge base articles used by all Help Desk agents.

Atlanta, Georgia

Founded in 1930, Harry Norman, REALTORS® (www.harrynorman.com) is Atlanta’s oldest and largest residential real estate firm with 12 sales offices, various franchise and satellite offices, and more than 1,000 real estate professionals. In 2012 they had $2 billion in gross sales.1. In this temporary assignment, created press releases for local publication including a press release on the home used in The Blind Side that was picked up by The Huffington Post, The Atlanta Business Chronicle and led to a news story on 11alive evening news featuring the listing agent.2. Compiled a complete corporate print advertising schedule for 2013 calendar year that included over 30 print ads.3. Created a full page listing ad in the Northside Neighbor that included over 20 listings from multiple sales offices.4. Placed print ads with newspaper ad reps in local print publications for agents.

Atlanta, Ga

1. As a contractor, coordinated with 300 restaurants and 28 manufacturers on over 30 unique pieces of equipment helping to guide the restaurants in repair verses replace decisions, additional equipment requests, and invoice resolution, resolving over 1,800 equipment issues in the last twelve months in the position.2. Guided seven locations in installing trash compactors that saved an average of over $500 a month with an average ROI of less than four months.3. Identified and helped correct 28 incorrect plugs and receptacles at 12 restaurants that presented life safety risks.4. Worked with beverage tower manufacturer and service agents to save Chick-fil-A, Inc. over $10,000 in a single quarter.5. Worked with five distinct groups to coordinate a $100,000 reinvestment at a single restaurant, converting the location simultaneously to dual line kitchen and a lean location while also adding ice and pressure fryer capacity.

Atlanta, Ga

Grizzard Communications (www.grizzard.com) is a direct response marketing firm that in its 93-year history has helped raise billions of dollars for nonprofits such as The Salvation Army, The Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity. 1. Input information into TABS system resulting in the creation of up to 1,400 unique appeal letters per month for 90 different Salvation Army corps across five states.2. Customized over 50% of corps’ letters each month to enhance their fundraising ability.3. Assisted in the proofing of letter text for 300 Salvation Army corps.4. Helped company transition from green screen to Windows based application for all data entry.

Fayetteville, Ga

Prior to closing, CornerStone was an independently owned firm that provided civil engineering and land surveying services for customers across south metro Atlanta.1. Located as-builts, staked boundaries and provided topo points2. Relieved engineer of administrative duties.

Atlanta, Ga

The Home Depot (www.homedepot.com) is the country’s fourth-largest retailer with more than 2,200 stores.1. Worked in Store Support Center coordinating information between merchandising and advertising.2. Entered all collected information into IBM system, proofed and revised ad copy for national ads.3. Worked with IT team to cut eight hours of data entry down to five minutes (96 times faster) for water heater ads.

Fayetteville, Ga

Fayetteville First Baptist (www.fayettevillefbc.org) was founded in 1829 and now has approximately 1,500 members.1. Created and published a variety of publications including the weekly bulletin and monthly newsletter with a circulation of 1,200.2. Created presentation slides, wrote articles for newsletter and other communication pieces.3. Added to job description with graphic design work, press releases, video presentations, and website maintenance.4. Created brand by achieving visual consistency across all publications.

Fayetteville, Ga

Fayetteville Dwarf House (www.chickfila.com) is consistently the highest grossing of the 1,600 Chick-fil-A units. 1. Supervised 25 team members, created weekly schedule, assigned nightly positions, and supervised closing.2. Worked as a Team Member for seven months. Operated all positions in self-serve and grill area, assembled a variety of food products, cooked a variety of food products, and worked the Chick-fil-A Charity Championship.

Tucker, Ga

Georgia EMC (www.georgiaemc.com) is the statewide trade association representing the state’s 42 EMCs. 1. Wrote press releases, wrote copy for newsletters, assisted with media relations and created media contact list, updated website content, database entry in this 20-hour per week 16 week internship.2. Organized and mailed-out marketing materials to all electrical co-ops to make them aware of materials available to them resulting in the co-ops having the right number and right type of marketing materials. 3. Assisted vice president of communications with special assignments.

Atlanta, Ga

AGL Resources (www.aglr.com), an Atlanta-based energy services holding company, serves 4.5 million customers in seven states through its utility subsidiaries. 1. Wrote copy for internal newsletters, created brochures, updated management profiles, planned and coordinated employee events, created photo layouts for website in this 20-hour per week 12 week internship.

Fayetteville, Ga

Seals Communications (www.sealsco.com) is a post production house focusing on outdoor and motor sports programming for such networks as ABC, ESPN and FOX Sports Net. 1. Coordinated productions, booked travel, created purchase orders, created production books, provided catering for productions, created travel policy.2. First production coordinator to produce on-line production books which led to freelance staff being able to more easily access information prior to arrival on site.3. Hired freelancers, secured equipment and handled travel for 13 weekly events with $10K budgets, and Daytona Bike Week, a $100K, 13-day event.4. Started as a Production Assistant; maintained tape library, wrote articles for MotoWorld Network website, edited video highlights, filled dub requests, shot-sheeted raw video.

Newnan, Ga

The Times-Herald (www.times-herald.com) is a daily newspaper and official legal organ with a circulation of 12,000. 1. Wrote sports articles, designed sports front and inside pages, edited copy, photographed sporting events 2. Designed feature pages that helped the paper earn General Excellence award from the Georgia Press Association.