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Chicago, IL, US

Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

• Media Subject Matter Expert for CPG vertical and internal Access UI platform.
• Oversaw targeting and media strategy for assigned client accounts, advising both sales team and account managers on most effective spend strategies.
• Managed day-to-day delivery on accounts to ensure delivery and meet client performance benchmarks.
• Media knowledge source on cross-functional teams collaborating to build product solutions designed to optimize and automate daily workload.
• Forecasted expected campaign results to identify areas of growth and new program opportunities.

Champaign

• Served as the primary media relations contact for the men's tennis and women's gymnastics varsity athletic programs.
• Secondary media relations contact for football and women's basketball.
• Wrote and distributed press releases, feature stories and game notes for Fighting Illini Athletics.
• Developed and maintained content for the University’s athletic website, FIGHTINGILLINI.com.
• Facilitated media training and interview preparation for coaches and athletes.
• Produced and designed media guides, programs and other DIA publications using Adobe Photoshop and InDesign software.

Champaign, IL

• Primary media relations contact for the Illinois Swimming and Diving team for the 2013-14 season.
• Assisted in coordinating publicity for women’s basketball and men’s and women’s tennis with duties of writing press releases, attending to media during games and keeping statistics.
• Assisted with in-game media responsibilities for football and men's basketball.
• Named Student Employee of the Semester for Fall 2013.

Champaign, Ill.

• Graded student assignments for Journalism 200, Introduction to Journalism.
• Held weekly coaching sessions for students who sought assistance with assignments and writing skills. Worked individually with approximately 15 students per week to provide an understanding of the essential elements of.

Skokie, IL

• Coordinated publicity and generated content by writing and editing press releases, game stories and features for the website.
• Assisted with coordination of media interviews before, during and after games, while also conducting interviews with coaches and players for website content.
• Compiled game notes on a weekly basis and researched media impression data at the end of the season.

Champaign, Illinois

• Covered softball, women’s soccer, men’s track, and club sports for the Daily Illini, the independent student newspaper of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Wrote over 50 published articles including game previews, game recaps and feature stories. Contributed to on-air broadcast stories, previews and recaps.

Libertyville, Illinois

Spent seven summers as as caddie, carrying the golf clubs and providing expert advice for club members on the course. Worked my way from a B Caddie, the starting level, to an Honor Caddie, the highest level. This job helped me gain strong interpersonal and communication skills as well as organization skills.

Champaign, Illinois

Using knowledge of html and java, I designed multiple graphical summaries of crime data in the Champaign Urbana area for a student run news website titled campuscrime.net. The site won a Society of Professional Journalists' national Mark of Excellence competition for best online news reporting by a four-year college or university in 2011.Assembly Hall

Master'S Degree, Sport Management

Bachelor'S Degree, News-Editorial Journalism; Certificate In Public Relations

Activities and Societies: Phi Delta Theta

Graduate

Activities and Societies: 4 years Honor Roll, National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta math club