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Orlando, FL, US

• Leads content development and client relations for communications projects at Spur Reply, a strategic consulting firm for Microsoft, NetApp, Nvidia and other Fortune 500 tech companies.
• Consistently delivers high-quality work on a variety of project and content types, resulting in three promotions within 18 months.
• Drives successful outcomes as a leader and key contributor to communications and research projects that have brought in more than $1.4 million in revenue to date while consistently earning client renewals and new.
• Develops compelling content on advanced topics such as CloudOps and AI, helping clients to establish messaging, reach wider audiences and introduce new products through blog posts, e-books, case studies, newsletters.
• Leads client relations and project management for global teams with shifting priorities by providing clear communication, organization, an eye for detail and a flexible outlook.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Managed a project to develop case studies about customers' deployment of Microsoft Edge that more than doubled the number of stories produced, increased website page views, revamped the lead pipeline, and established a.
• Developed two e-books and an online article to introduce a new AI solution from NVIDIA and VMware, incorporating new research and use cases that would resonate with targeted industries.

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Columbus Monthly is the award-winning flagship magazine of the Dispatch Media Group
• Takes a leadership role in planning editorial content, helping establish the magazine among the industry’s best as a finalist for the top nationwide award at its circulation level each year on staff.
• Assigns and edits Arch City stories each month, staying within a small budget and collaborating with the art team to deliver a dynamic section about politics, development and entertainment.
• Manages staff and freelancers, providing consistent guidance to reporters to develop talent and improve the writing while continuously enhancing the section.
• Serves as editor of Best Driving Vacations, the magazine’s annual traveling guide, planning coverage for each issue, overseeing all of production, and supervising the budget.

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Collaborated across departments to produce nationally recognized magazines, helping the publication win the award for the country’s best at its circulation level for 2017.
• Produced long-form stories each month, in addition to managing, editing and writing annual reader-service packages.
• As the number of publications increased, contributed across new titles and took on additional responsibilities, including fact-checking, blogging and directing interns in their work.

Columbus, Ohio Area

• 614 Magazine is a city life and entertainment publication covering Columbus.
• As the first staff writer and copy editor, helped build the brand and editorial content, while also producing several quarterly and semiannual standalone publications.
• Collaborated with other staff to determine the editorial approach and design of Stock & Barrel, a food and drink quarterly that launched in summer of 2014.
• Created the media group’s first-ever style manual to set a standard of consistent, clear, creative copy among staff, freelancers, and interns.

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Fit Columbus was a quarterly magazine that covered the city's health and fitness scene.
• Helped establish the vision for coverage, sections, and design of the magazine in prelaunch planning sessions with colleagues.
• Revised and copy edited all stories before sending to design for layout, improving article structure, writing, and grammar and ensuring adherence to internal style.
• Proofread all pages to typos, design issues, and any mistakes before finalizing magazine.

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Reported and wrote about all things Columbus—arts, entertainment, food, nightlife, culture, politics, people, and irreverent takes on city life.

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Swig was a snightlife and cocktail publication covering Columbus
• Wrote and edited all copy for the advertorial section, which provided a guide to the bar, restaurant, and club scene in the city.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Firmani + Associates is a full-service, award-winning public relations and marketing firm.
• Coordinated the annual corporate meetings for the firm’s largest client, managing a budget of more than $100,000, creating branded design and messaging, drafting scripts for videos, sourcing and directing event.
• Drafted press materials and successfully pitched to print, TV, radio, and online media outlets, including The Seattle Times, the Golf Channel, and the Associated Press.
• Generated hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue during the successful completion of projects for more than a dozen clients.
• Tracked client social media activities, managed a Facebook page, helped implement new app pages, and reported metrics.

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Supported research in the midrise building construction, international development and renewable energy divisions for the specialty steel company, rising from an intern to an analyst role.
• Wrote significant portions of the annual marketing strategy report, as well as monthly market reports for residential and commercial construction markets.
• Studied the hotel, military, active-adult, assisted-living and multifamily steel framing construction markets, including projected revenue potential of each one.
• Drafted content and created PowerPoint presentations for international tradeshows and executive briefings on foreign markets.

Athens, Ohio

• The Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University works to improve the economic and social conditions of the people of Appalachian Ohio.
• Developed articles for the school website detailing current projects, the effects on the community, and the involvement of students.
• Wrote copy for public relations and communications documents and presentations.

Master Of Science, Journalism

Bachelor Of Business Administration, Marketing

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma Golden Key Honour Society Pi Kappa Alpha