I love being behind the camera!Photography is a part time job that allows me to do what I enjoy most -- taking pictures. I photograph weddings, family portraits, birthday parties, anniversaries, reunions, children's photos, pageants, sports, retirement parties and just about any other event. I love a challenge. There is no such thing as an event being too large or too small. I have always taken "people" pictures. But recently, inspired by a friend and other photographers, I tried something different and discovered that I also enjoy taking photos of landscapes, birds and other creatures of nature, and even products for advertising.

Working with area businesses to create marketing plans for radio and print advertising; writing radio ad scripts; creating ad copy for print ads; collections; cold calling,

Advertising Manager at a group of Community Weekly Newsprint Publications covering a two-parish area in Southeast Louisiana, as well as a local radio station.

office management, coordinated daily shipping and receiving activities, including tracking inventory, working closely with carriers, brokers, transportation coordinators, and internal branch managers.Maintained records of all shipping and receiving transactions, completed all transactions in Oracle system, responsible for replenishment of retail products, monthly reports.Answered phone, filed, maintained office equipment, and other general office duties

Editor of a weekly smalltown newspaper, covering local government, community, civic, church and school events.This is where my passion is - taking photos, covering events, keeping people informed, putting it all together in newsprint each week. This is me. I bleed ink.I am definitely a people person and work well with both the public and government officials and love to be a part of my community, participating in any capacity at every opportunity.

Customer Service, Typing legal documents, organizing individual client files, and other general law office duties

Advertising representative for fast-growing news website. Photography and Reporting on local events.

Manager of new establishment, ordering, scheduling, bookkeeping, training of employees

I was advertising and production manager of two groups of Louisiana State Newspapers. The Zachary Group (La Suburban Press) publishes five publications and The Amite Group publishes five publications. I supervised, managed, instructed and coordinated duties of as many as 6 employees at each locations.I worked in many positions at the Amite Group including customer service representative, photographer, reporter, editor, production assistant, sales representative, and advertising manager.Most of these jobs require being aggressive, taking prompt action, making quick decisions, and using my own judgement as well as handling an abundance of paperwork.I enjoyed learning all aspects of what it takes to publish a newspaper.

create advertising campaigns; supervise sales representatives, classified sales, and production department; budgeting; planning advertising strategies for businesses and political candidates; collections; invoicing; creating/presenting proposals for corporate businesses;

Maintaining current advertising accounts, soliciting advertising from area businesses

reporting, writing, photographing news/events; posting incoming payments; layout and design of the newspapers; working with government officials/agencies

scheduling, ordering, supervising employees,

Coordinated meal sites, home delivered meals, housekeeping services, commodity distribution, and other services for senior citizens at four locations.