Cole White Email & Phone Number

Eau Claire, Wisconsin Area

The Communications Specialist position involves a variety of duties, including responding to legislative inquiries, preparing briefings, articles, newsletters and updates, streamlining internal communications and record-keeping, web development, and social media content generation. Throughout my employment with the Department of Transportation, I have:-Designed and hosted two Media Spokesmanship training seminars-Organized two legislative outreach meeting with many state senators/assembly members in attendance-Edited and published a weekly press release which informs the public about how construction projects will impact traffic-Managed and updated 20+ project websites-Built 1 project website from the ground up-Created 3 tracking spreadsheets to document legislative correspondence, constituent correspondence, and employee information-Wrote and published 3 articles for our internal newsletter-Edited our 2018 Annual Report-Facilitated 2 social media campaigns which highlighted state employees

Eau Claire, Wisconsin Area

Mancino's is a regional chain restaurant that serves sandwiches and pizza at affordable prices. While working there, I had the opportunity to build relationships with customers in the community and experience the fast-paced environment of a popular local business. The location where I was employed often saw up to 150 customers per hour during weekends and dinnertime hours.Working with Mancino's helped me to improve time-management skills, use strategic thinking to serve orders at a fast pace, and trained me to become an excellent customer service representative.

Eau Claire

As an Academic Apprentice in the CJ 105 course at UW-Eau Claire, I have accumulated experience working with my professors and understanding the organizational environment of higher education. Since the class had over 200 enrolled students, this academic apprenticeship was more demanding than most. This position has afforded me opportunities to mentor and provide guidance to students, prepare educational review sessions, refine my public speaking skills, and improve my ability to work in an academic setting.

Eau Claire, Wisconsin Area

I undertook the position of VP of Web Communication for the Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization to cultivate my graphic design, strategic messaging and social media management skills. Throughout my time working for the organization, I managed 3 social media accounts, published a weekly newsletter, helped organize organizational events, and used graphic design software to create promotional materials.Examples of my work are provided below.

Eau Claire, Wisconsin Area

During my time with College Works, I managed my own painting crew, taking care of daily tasks such as purchasing materials, managing equipment and performing the physical labor involved with painting a home. Here, I learned the value of hard work, spending many days working 8+ hours with my crew. This also taught me managerial skills, time management, task delegation, multitasking, and short-term planning strategies.

Eau Claire, Wisconsin Area

I was previously employed at Sodexo as a Student Manager, a position which helped me to accumulate experience in managerial skills, task delegation, and communication skills in general.