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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

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 advisors, 10 broker-dealers, and $35 billion in fee-based AUM.• 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.• Plan and execute marketing campaigns designed to generate leads, sales, and product adoption.• Produce materials for executive leadership, including communications and keynote presentations.• Partner with product sponsor companies to identify and pursue cross-selling opportunities.Key Accomplishments:• Managing a project to rebrand an RIA registered in all 50 states—from scratch—with a 6-week timeline.• Singlehandedly conceptualizing, building, and delivering a monthly email newsletter to advisors with an open rate up to 80 percent.• Authoring the nomination to the Money Management Institute that helped Cetera Financial Group capture the Advisory Solutions Sponsor Firm of the Year award in 2014.• Assuming interim leadership of the wealth management marketing team and managing it to a $100,000+ budget surplus.

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.• Created presentations, marketing handouts and educational materials for national sales conferences.• Served on the Teambuilding Committee, planning activities to foster departmental camaraderie.Key Accomplishments:• Authored and published over 400 field-facing communications in a single calendar year.• Designed, wrote, and executed the Charge What You’re Worth! email campaign, which resulted in a 390 percent monthly increase in fee schedule increases on advisory accounts.• Recognized twice as a top performer on annual reviews from different managers.

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