Plan, develop, and implement marketing strategies, communications, and community engagement initiatives for Belger Cartage Service, Inc., sister company Oklahoma Territory Construction Equipment, and affiliate Belger Arts. Direct marketing, social media, content creation, and graphic design at the strategic and tactical levels with the goal of increasing awareness and partnerships.

Promoted economic impact awareness of metro arts sector by connecting artists and arts organizations to civic, nonprofit, government sectors and neighborhoods. Implemented arts and cultural marketing strategies to improve residents’ access to information and messaging. Assessed, prioritized, and monitored each sector to identify challenges and implement solutions. Wrote press releases and served as media contact for press inquiries.

Managed community relations and marketing strategies for crane and heavy haul company. Collaborated with leadership and staff to create and maintain communications including websites, marketing materials, media and social media. Coordinated targeted special events. Created business development plan identifying growth opportunities.

Oversaw marketing and community engagement efforts for exhibitions and exhibition-related programming. Worked with Executive Director and staff to lead, develop and implement marketing plan. Cultivated partnerships, promoting organization priorities of community engagement, arts education and community development. Teamed with staff to create and maintain relationships with media sources, identifying and securing representation opportunities via television, web, radio and print.

Taught credit Spanish courses to classes with up to 30 adult students.

Marketing and community engagement, project management, language interpretting and instruction services for arts, culture and educational organizations. Clients included Belger Arts Center-Red Star Studios, the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City and Legal Language Services.

Taught Spanish continuing education courses and provided professional interpreting services.

Directed, oversaw and implemented all fundraising activities, including annual fund, special events, grants, corporate and individual donors. Worked directly with President/CEO and Board of Directors to achieve fundraising goals and to build and maintain a strong development program to fund agency programs and priorities. Responsible for media communications and presentations to the community.

Created and implemented business plan that resulted in a positive financial position within the first 18 months of implementation. Partnered with Kansas City, Missouri School District to develop and implement a new cultural arts after school program. Oversaw acquisition of 1000-piece folk art collection, resulting in new educational program offerings, new curatorial and collections policies and a move to a more accessible storage and exhibit space. Developed collaborations and partnerships with other cultural institutions, resulting in enhanced program offerings and new exhibits. Partnerships included the Mexican Consulate, Chicago Mexican Fine Arts Museum, American Jazz Museum and Kansas City Young Audiences.

Managed fundraising strategies for individual and corporate donors, resulting in a 100% increase in revenues in this donor category. Created system and tools to track foundation, corporate, and individual donor activity.

Created, developed, implemented and oversaw new team and processes to ensure financial profitability and persistency of new niche market segment. Collaborated and negotiated with internal partners to ensure successful roll-out of product line. Championed team which increased segment sales 390%, witnessing a profit of 30% within two years.