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St. Paul, Mn

Coordinate sorting and recycling of hundreds of clothing, linen and footwear donations contributed weekly, inspecting each item to ensure quality condition, before assessing value, pricing individually, and racking. Maintain organized daily work space while boxing and labeling out-of-season items and other to-be-stored inventory. Follow detailed and timely multi-step process for large shoe sale area.

St. Paul, Mn

Provided assistance and curated styling advice to customers and consigners at busy 2-floor boutique resale shop with inventory of 80,000 new and gently-used items, including clothing, shoes, home décor, vintage items and cosmetics. Maintained orderly racks, shelves and display areas, including large clearance level. Schedule consigner appointments through ConsignPro software. Wrote and uploaded inventory descriptions onto Poshmark for online sales. Assisted with floor and window displays. Ensured items are cleared immediately from dressing rooms and put-back racks and returned to original display areas.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Directed all incoming callers who contacted the four branches of full-service Twin Cities bank. Assisted with bank open and close procedures; conducted all safety deposit box opening, viewing and closing processes; supported staff with special communications, mailing, promotional and marketing projects. Coordinated routing of multiple and often sizeable daily incoming and outgoing mail runs, both internal and external. Wrote and distributed step-by-step procedures for supply ordering, safety deposit box operations, mail routing, board meeting preparation and other processes. Wrote website content as well as internal and external communications, including staff newsletters and specialized mailings for bank customers.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Front desk scheduling and service representative at a St. Paul salon and spa with an experienced, seasoned staff of 20 specializing in hair, skin, nails and wellness.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

30-year-old firm specializing in helping people with job search and career transitions. Personally recruited by founder-president to write career search materials for professionals, tradespeople and other job-seeking clients. Responsibilities include resume, consulting bio and cover letter creation and curriculum vitae review.NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTCritiqued 50+ resumes from neurologists seeking professional positions after completing medical residencies. Documents ranged from 2 to 30+ pages and included detailed information on education, post-doctoral training, research, presentations, licensure and service. Critiquing included specific recommendations to improve layout, formatting, content and ordering (Prototype).

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

30-year-old firm specializing in helping people with job search and career transitions. Personally recruited by founder-president to write career search materials for professionals, tradespeople and other job-seeking clients. Responsibilities include resume, consulting bio and cover letter creation and curriculum vitae review.Schedule appointments via email and telephone in busy 6-person office while explaining and promoting specialized services and products to a diverse group of clients seeking job search and career strategies. Maintain and update digital database and hard copy files of 10,000+ clients. Compose detailed daily office status reports to inform staff of pending and scheduled appointments and projects. As needed, assist in writing LinkedIn profiles, resumes, cover letters, and physician CV critiques.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Developer of appointment-based, free personal wardrobe shopping and styling service for chain of Twin Cities-based upscale consignment stores—the first service of its kind in the U.S. Regularly strategize with company vice president, store operations manager and social media and graphics consultants to develop branding, including signage, postcards and other promotional materials. Developed social media following and promoted business by writing weekly theme-based posts for 3 Facebook pages with total of 14,500 followers. Average per-client sales are 31 percent over goal, with many return clients and referrals. Style and model for seasonal digital look books.

St. Louis Park, Mn

An organization of insurance carriers and marketing/administrative affiliates providing life, health, disability, dental, vision and medical stop-loss insurance to groups and individuals for 30+ years. Using SEO, developed content and strategy for B2B and B2C materials. ● Responsibilities included writing bi-weeklyinformational emails sent to 13,000 brokerage and telebrokerage agents, 3 to 4 industry-relevant articles weekly for Healthedeals.com website, promotional materials for agents, and 3 to 4 social posts weekly for Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn social posts. ● Wrote and edited copy for website landing pages, banners and headlines.● Developed scripts and provided voiceovers for insurance service videos.NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTLanded meeting with Harold Pollack, Ph.D., Helen Ross Professor at The University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration and one of the nation’s foremost authorities on health care policy and the Affordable Care Act, for web article on the effects of Obamacare subsidies ending in the case of Supreme Court ruling (The IHC Group).

Mendota Heights, Mn

Personal history-writing business producing first-person narrative books and custom mini-biographies commemorating life milestones.Interview and record clients during multiple one-one-one sessions.Transcribe interviews; construct chronological chaptered first-person narrative books or article-style pieces.NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTWrote What the Lord Wanted, an 80-page first-person narrative history profiling Sr. Mary Regina McCabe of Visitation Monastery and Convent; St. Paul Pioneer Press reporter Don Boxmeyer profiled the personal history in both his column and his book A Knack for Knowing Things: Stories from St. Paul Neighborhoods and Beyond.

St. Paul, Mn

Twin Cities' oldest and largest neighborhood newspaper. Circulation 60,000, readership 105,000. Self-directed features and news reporter on hundreds of assigned topics. Researched, investigated and conducted face-to-face and phone interviews. Wrote 1,000-word articles, adhering to strict publication deadlines; byline often on front page. Beat included schools (public and private), business, crime, politics, fine and performing arts, recreation and leisure, books, seniors, health/wellness, fitness.NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTHandpicked by editors from among 20+ freelancers to report on apprehension of longtime fugitive Sara Jane Olson (fka Kathleen Soliah). Cold-called neighbors; interviewed friends, including St. Paul city councilman (and now mayor) Chris Coleman.

South St. Paul, Mn

$350M internet and catalog retailer of outdoor sports and leisure products.Web, catalog and video copywriter with extensive SEO focus. Products responsible for include hunting/fishing/camping equipment, clothing, footwear, home furnishings, jewelry and military.

South St. Paul, Mn

$350M internet and catalog retailer of outdoor sports and leisure products. Web and catalog copywriter. Products responsible for include hunting/fishing/camping equipment, clothing, footwear, home furnishings, jewelry and military.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Speech Communication And Rhetoric

Activities and Societies: University of Minnesota-Morris Concert Choir (4 years), Resident Adviser (2 years), Speech Communication.

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