Christopher Keimling Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx

Responsibilities include managing the front desk, assigning tasks to volunteers, opening and closing the register, selling memberships, ensuring proper security / lock-up procedures, helping with major events, etc.Skills used: extensive customer service experience. Helped revise / rewrite grant applications.

Northcross Mall

Event Manager for the annual Austin Book, Paper & Photo Show (January 2015 and 2016). Responsibilities include obtaining contracts and payment, arranging radio and print advertising, emceeing the show, serving as a point of contact and troubleshooter for 50 vendors. I also work occasional weekends for 12th Street books, which sells rare, scholarly, and antiquarian books. Work closely with owner Luke Bilberry, President of the Texas Booksellers Association, learning the details of the trade, the history of printing, etc. Accomplishments Oversaw a modest advertising budget of $3,000. Boosted attendance by 25% from previous shows. All compliments, no complaints reported from vendors. The Texas Booksellers Association, after considering my proposal, unanimously selected me to be their event manager for 2016, based on my first job performance for the 2015 show. Skills Used Ability to assist multiple vendors and trouble shoot problems as they come up during the day. Booksellers can be eccentric and particular about their table set-up requirements, requiring patience and exceptional customer service skills.

Austin, Tx

Provided in-depth tours for visitors to the Elisabet Ney Museum, located in the original studio of the German artist, who met and sculpted portraits of many notables of 19th-century Europe (Schopenhauer, Otto von Bismarck, Garibaldi, King Ludwig II), before coming to Texas and sculpting the likenesses of Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin, and others.Skills used: Provided tours for a vast variety of customers, including the visually impaired, children (elementary school field trips of 20+ students), elderly, and international tourists (with whom I could speak German, and some Spanish).Helped with major events, and took for photos for social media.

Austin

Primary responsibility: to train election workers to properly process voters, and to follow state laws subject to change. Different types of elections (early voting, general election, joint primary) result in minor changes in procedures that need to be properly pointed out and explained. Poll workers have varied levels of experience. Trainers must be organized in their presentation and take charge to maximize limited time available, and identify weaknesses in poll worker knowledge and abilities. Accomplishments Performed extensive quality control in the Ballot By Mail Department, preventing potential errors (preventing voters from receiving incorrect ballots, for example). Helped expedite and improve service at Highland Mall, a high-volume location, by taking initiative and identifying slowdowns in the process. Skills Used Ability to handle stressful situations during a 12-14 hour election day. Helped assist a high volume of voters during the 2012 presidential election (over 700 people in line, with waiting times up to 2 hours). Routinely address the concerns of voters, and assist potentially dissatisfied voters exercise their right to vote provisionally (in the event their names can't be found in the database of registered Travis County voters, etc.).

Austin

Responsibilities include writing detailed summaries of committee meetings and public hearings during legislative sessions and interims. Lengthy meetings (some lasting over 12 hours), require attention to detail, a familiarity with public policy and agencies, and the ability to succinctly summarize proceedings under daily deadline pressures. Conducted interviews with freshman legislators that were featured prominently on the company’s website, Telicon.com. (TLS provides lobbyists, state agencies and associations with up-to-date information about the Legislature, tools for tracking bills, etc.) Accomplishments Oversaw work on the Blue Book (a guide to Texas legislators and their staff members). Proofread entire text. For the first time in memory, no minor errors of any kind were reported (82nd session / 2011). Skills Used Written and oral communication skills. Ability to stay focused for prolonged periods, and complete reports under deadline pressures.

Based In Round Rock

Instructor for a comedy defensive driving school, teaching groups of up to 40 people by employing humor and developing rapport with customers, drawing on six years of experience hosting and headlining in various Texas clubs. Appeared on NBC’s Last Comic Standing Season 2 and 4. Accomplishments Developed an original and ever-evolving presentation to promote driving safety. Incorporated current, up-to-date information on driving safety topics and changes in the law from mainstream newspapers and publications. Skills Used Ability to gain emotional rapport with audiences; helping them make the best of a negatively viewed situation by demonstrating enthusiasm and comedic competence. Patiently and skillfully won over customers who were clearly disgruntled, sleepy, or indifferent about attending a required class to dismiss their tickets.

Austin

Wrote and edited feature articles. Managed the Letters to the Editor column. Wrote articles for the TEC report, a monthly newsletter for co-op managers, and ghost wrote columns. Served as a reporter and photographer for co-op annual meetings across West Texas. Revised and wrote Touchstone Energy ad copy, as part of a nationwide co-op branding effort. (Texas Co-op Power is the largest statewide magazine in Texas with a paid circulation of 1 million households, published by TEC, a nonprofit organization. TCP features human interest stories about people and places in Texas, along with updates on industry developments, etc.) Accomplishments Started out as a proofreader/clerk and moved on to edit and write articles. Skills Used Writing, editing and proofreading skills.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Political Science And Government

Political Science