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Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Lead all marketing project efforts for Griffin interval funds.
• Plan, organize, and coordinate projects to ensure accomplishment of marketing objectives, financial/budgetary goals and optimum allocation of resources.
• Work closely with executive, sales and corporate events partners to develop marketing programs, messaging and communication strategies, and initiatives that drive new business value.
• Develop marketing and product launch plans including segmented email and direct mail campaigns.
• Act as liaison for key internal and external constituents to effectively market Griffin interval fund products.
• Assist in the execution of strategic marketing plans for interval fund products, as well as merchandising collateral that delivers increased awareness, profitability and competitiveness.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Responsibilities:
• Develop, implement, and execute communication plans for the wealth management division of the nation’s second-largest network of independent broker-dealers, which includes approximately 9,100 affiliated financial.
• Manage projects for major marketing initiatives, including launches of fee-based products and RIAs.
• Supervise and manage contract copywriters, graphic designers and technical writers on a project basis.
• Lead development of key deliverables (brochures, sales kits, communications, webcasts, conference/meetings materials), from writing content to driving all milestones to final delivery.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (sales, meetings/events, legal, and compliance) within a highly-matrixed organization to drive execution of project deliverables.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Responsibilities:
• Drove wealth management communications, authoring over 400 communications in a calendar year.
• Authored promotional banners, direct mailers/postcards, brochures, emails, and websites.
• Wrote scripts for video promotions and tutorials.
• Created turnkey marketing resources, such as phone scripts, seminars, and letter templates.
• Maintained an online catalog of marketing resources for advisors.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Responsibilities:
• Wrote comprehensive documentation suites: user guides, reference sheets, online help, and FAQs.
• Designed templates and single sourcing solutions for technical publications.
• Authored and maintained operations manuals (Written Supervisory Procedures).
• Participated on User Experience Team, offering suggestions for usability enhancements.Key Accomplishment:
• Designed and authored user acceptance test scripts that were recognized as a corporate best practice for ING’s U.S. business units.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Responsibilities:
• Updated and maintained end user documentation for HTML-based, enterprise workflow software, including user guides, release notes, and XML layer reference guides.
• Updated and maintained relational database schema diagrams.
• Conducted software enhancement presentations for implementation staff.

Johnstown, Pennsylvania Area

• Responsibilities:
• Authored service proposals to the U.S. Department of Defense for unmanned reconnaissance vehicles.
• Wrote design for manufacturability (DFMA) reports for a U.S. Army drone vehicle development program.
• Performed substantive script edits of the company promotional video and marketing collateral.Key Accomplishment:
• Authored service proposals resulting in $55M of U.S. Navy contract rewards.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Responsibilities:
• Produced interactive, video-based training software.
• Researched and wrote television-documentary-style scripts for use in training software.
• Identified and interviewed experts on camera for use in training software.
• Wrote National Institutes of Health (NIH) SBIR grant proposals.

Johnstown, Pennsylvania Area

• Responsibilities:
• Produced a live, daily, two-hour newscast for an NBC affiliate in a top 100 market.
• Wrote television scripts.
• Directed live newscasts.Key Accomplishment:
• Won two Nielsen ratings (“sweeps” ratings periods) in the local television news market.

Johnstown, Pennsylvania Area

• (Summer employment as a full-time undergraduate student)
• Prepared bacteriology specimens for culture
• Read bacteriology cultures, gram stains, and sensitivities
• Certified and reported lab test results to physicians and other health care staff
• Performed inpatient and outpatient phlebotomy
• Assisted on autopsies

Master Of Technical And Professional Writing

Bachelor Of Arts, English

Activities and Societies: Sigma Tau Delta (International English Honor Society)

Junior Year Abroad (From Washington & Jefferson College), English Language And Literature, General