Chris Turner Email & Phone Number

Parsippany, New Jersey

Primarily responsible for facilitating accurate and timely payments to vendors on behalf of Tangoe’s clients. Having the ability to extract information and process transactions and reporting within various internal software applications and external banking portals. • Quickly, accurately, and completely processes high volumes of payments using system provided information to designated vendors and/or clients, via online or phone interaction with vendors on behalf of Tangoe’s clients• Documents payment success or failure with internal payment system defined outcomes• Maintains high levels of accuracy of payments processed ensuring exact alignment to the specified payment due amounts within the internal payment system• Communicates payment details with vendors directly in a professional and courteous manner in order to facilitate completion of payments• Escalates any errors encountered to management in a detailed, timely and accurate fashion

•Working directly with partners and supervising attorneys to meet over 60 clients individual needs•Relaying client directives, while ensuring staff is trained and has complete understanding of them•Enforcing, implementing and producing policies for staff to ensure compliance with client requirements as well as federal and state laws•Providing client with status reports, scorecard rebuttals, action plans and remediation’s, audit information and being the general liaison between the firm and each client•Review legal publications and perform database searches to identify laws and court decisions relevant to pending cases

Denville, Nj

•Responsible for keeping the store up to standards, returns, exchanges, purchases from other stores, fitting rooms, processing shipments, and online orders.•Ensuring customer experience is superior every visit. •Training and developing new employees

• Balance four different accounts ranging from toys to licensing• Craft pitches for distribution to targeted media• Compile clippings of placements in a Microsoft Word and PowerPoint form• Brainstorm initiatives for current and prospective clients• Create agendas/recaps for conference calls• Compile detailed media lists and fact sheets• Distribute product to media and secure placements in top tier outlets• Edit and design monthly reports for clients• Create organized tracking documents for clients

•Assist full-time staff with media monitoring and reporting to clients •Build media lists tailored to account specifics; pitched media contacts from these lists via email and phone•Performed media audits & built trackers to compile results; analyzed and interpreted findings•Brainstorm and come up with ideas for potential campaigns and events for current clients as well as pitches for potential clients•Perform research for clients to aid campaigns and future events for clients•Provide social media presence for clients via Facebook and Twitter•Assist in major campaigns and openings for clients

Boonton, Nj

•Assisted full-time staff at boutique firm with media monitoring and reporting to clients •Built media lists tailored to account specifics; pitched media contacts from these lists via email and phone•Performed media audits & built trackers to compile results; analyzed and interpreted findings•Responsible for performing research for clients and helping in the process of creating Power Point decks for client presentations•Proofread press kits, media releases, and pitches •Assisted in major campaign in the fight against childhood obesity

•Worked 25-30 hours per week to help finance my education while balancing out a full course load PR Capstone•Developed a website/blog/vlog critiquing the world of politics in a user friendly format while also producing a PR plan for the website.Corporate Social Responsibility• Discussed, critiqued, contrasted companies and their CSR initiatives while coming up with ways to fix companies currently struggling to find a CSR image.Intro to Public Relations: William Paterson IPhone App. •Created an entire public relations plan for a potential William Paterson IPhone app including strategies, tactics, and overall promotion of the application. •Was able to compile a budget, ways to counteract adversities, and an overall business plan for the app.PR Workshop: Yankees Stadium Ticket Sales•Created a comprehensive public relations plan to increase ticket sales at Yankee Stadium including a SWOT analysis, budget, tactics, strategies, and partnerships with organizations to promote goodwill and community outreach within the Yankee organization.•Found new, creative, and diverse ways to improve Yankees organization’s reputation through several outlets.PR Case Studies: Case Analysis and Community Relations Analysis•Studied several public relations cases analyzing the positives and negatives as well as coming up with new and innovative ideas to improve the negative public relations ordeals. •Looked into Community Relations as a whole and developed an in-depth analysis on how they affect corporate sales and reputationJournalism•Wrote original articles including political activity, movie reviews, and obituaries.TV News and Editing•In charge of running a weekly TV news show shown to the William Paterson campus•In charge of editing down clips from CNN, writing stories for TV, and using software to produce the TV show as well as being the talent.

•Figured out ways to get the candidates name out there and garner the most votes possible•Scheduling and suggesting appearances for the candidate to garner the most exposure.•Created, managed, and promoted a website, Facebook page, and Twitter page for candidate on a day-to-day basis

•Member in charge of organizing and contacting fellow members for meetings and discussions about events on the County College campus•Responsible for receiving press releases and proofreading and editing them for publication

•Wrote several opinion pieces for the 2008 presidential election•Responsible for proofreading, editing, and writing articles

Rockaway, Nj

•Personal shopping assistant •Responsible for returns, exchanges, purchases, and setting up customer with payment plans and other services.•Knowledgeable in every department in the store and was able to explain benefits of merchandise, services, and product plans offered by the company.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Public Relations, Advertising, And Applied Communication

Activities and Societies: Public Relations Club

Communication And Media Studies

Activities and Societies: Public Relations Club