Claire Ford, M.Ed. Email & Phone Number

Webster, Texas, United States

League City, Texas, United States

Pullout small-group literacy intervention in the Amplify literacy program for K-1st grade students, trained in administering and assessing literacy development for below-level learners.

League City, Tx

Substitute teacher for grades K-12 in excellent standing with the district.

League City, Tx

Plan and lead practices for three youth swim teams, ages 5-15, mentoring and educating swimmers of unique levels of development in skill progress, stroke refinement, competition etiquette and association rules and regulations. Work with Aquatics Director to communicate with fellow association teams and participate in association duo and championship swim meets. Communicate schedules and expectations to parents, maintaining relationship with team stakeholders and community to ensure fluidity of season events. Skilled in using HyTek Meet Manager and HyTek Team Manager databases.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Assisted Account Directors and Managers with the strategic messaging and brand placement of midsize and large B2B and B2C tech companies including Avnet, General Imaging (GE Digital Cameras,) and Research in Motion (RIM). B2B responsibilities included:• Constructing internal and external messages for movement in management• Coordination and placement of contributed articles and editorials in industry publications, tracking, analyzing and reporting media hits, and developing relationships with industry reporters in both electronics marketing and technology solutions pubs to engage stakeholders and gauge strategic success• Competitive intelligenceB2C responsibilities included• Organize booths at PEPCOM, CES, and BlackBerry World including media meetings and product demos, including briefing books and room prep• Product placement in seasonal gift guides requiring relationship development with industry reporters which resulted in placement in Newsday, Time Out New York, and several other pubs with circulation over 500k• Product announcements and launches including press release construction, direct pitching and release distribution as well as reporting

Glendale, Arizona

Assisted Senior Director of Communications in achieving strategic goals including increasing media hits and improving stakeholder relationships.• Increased total media hits by 21% and target media hits by 16% over previous FY• Draft and distribute press releases via traditional and social media tools to national and international contacts• Maintain and develop new relationships with target media• Responsible for writing, editing and distributing newsletters for faculty, staff and Board of Trustees, as well as alumni• Create and edit content for external website including marketing stories• Daily use of Vocus PR media tool including news hit tracking, media relations, news release distribution• Interactive with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and alumni database

Beaverton, Oregon

Independent PR consultant for the fabless semiconductor start-up, focusing on financial organization and communications facilitation.• Document and presentation editing including partnership presentation to Logitech stabilizing $40 million relationship• Assisted CEO and Finance Controller with 2008 audit and 2009 cost accounting; prepared results to communicate to board of directors• Auxiliary duties included events organization, media tracking and executive assistance

Provo, Utah Area

Helped develop the first long-term strategic communication strategy for the new startup:• Viral marketing scheme using social media, worked with sales directors to manage corporate reputation through Facebook, Twitter and YouTube• Creating, conducting and reporting results of quarterly human interest survey• Client relationship development including case study creation with clients like Ricoh, Orlando Magic, Raymond James, U.C. Berkeley, Wharton and Kellogg

Master Of Education - Med, Curriculum And Instruction

Bachelor Of Arts, Public Relations