Creative, fast-paced, high-energy photographer producing premium-quality photos in the studio and off-site settings. Manage and organize all facets of shoots including scheduling, designing sets, photography, and photo post-editing. Collaborating with clients, and closing add-on sales. Maintaining and managing photography and lighting equipment. Ensuring proper time management from initial conversations to final sign-off and delivery of finalized assets.Digital/technical skills; using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Complete event and studio photography assignments, from family portraits to weddings, engagements, sporting events, corporate headshots, pets, and holiday theme photo shoots. Leverage interpersonal skills to quickly build rapport with subjects.

Responsible for creating and publishing content on all social media platforms to grow an audience, including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Building brand awareness by identifying opportunities to influence public perception through audience engagement, and boosting sales. Monitoring online activity and site metrics across geographical areas of brand interest. Interacting with readers/viewers to develop and implement social media strategy.

Planning and implementing project management strategies, based on templates and toolsets. Ensuring project parameters meet clients' agreed-upon needs and expectations. Monitoring existing projects to ensure timely execution and completion. Gathering and analyzing project data to identify its weaknesses and resolve any time-related or budgetary snags. Liaising with project team members and providing suggestions or solutions to unforeseen issues when needed. Preparing project status reports for management review. Communicating with clients about the status and progress of their projects. Ensuring all project strategies comply with company standards, as well as federal laws and regulations when applicable.Responsible for assisting and supporting the IT department by executing many of the tactical elements of project management. Management of multiple spreadsheet submittals and maintaining a master spreadsheet. Presentation of the information contained in the spreadsheet in various formats/reports based on the audience at a variety of management levels. Communicating project status via monthly summaries and serving as a point person for project questions, managing, scheduling, and following up on project-related meetings. Facilitating new development requests by prioritizing and communicating priorities to teams, maintaining project tracking for current and upcoming projects, and administrative support responsibilities if necessary.

Defined project scope, requirements, and resource needs by collaborating with internal departments. Collaborated with other Project Managers, Product Managers, and Business Analysts to ensure standards were met. Worked with Business, Vendors, in planning, design, development, and implementation stages to ensure that the scope and budget of projects are met successfully. Raised escalations to the executive leadership team when a project was anticipated or identified as being off track by scope, budget, schedule, or feasibility. Worked directly with business stakeholders. Reviewed and help create business requirement documentation, project charters, timelines, and other project-specific documentation. Identified risk and worked to mitigate risk with the appropriate teams. Reports project status to the business and executive leadership team. Coordination with systems and infrastructure development. Operational quality control and internal audit projects and reporting. Database interaction, data integrity maintenance, reporting, and research.

Promoted to a business analyst from an executive assistant with additional responsibilities, including database validation and financial modeling & reporting. Determined operational objectives by studying business functions; gathering information; evaluating output requirements and formats. Creating a detailed business analysis, outlining problems, opportunities, and solutions for a business. Enhance data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems. Processed, cleansed, and verified the integrity of data used for analysis. Carried out ad-hoc analysis and presented the results. Collaborated with business units and engineering teams to understand and prioritize company needs and devise possible solutions based on business use cases. Constructed workflow charts and diagrams; studied system capabilities; wrote specifications Improved systems by studying current practices; designed modifications; recommend controls by identifying problems; wrote improved procedures; defined project requirements by identifying project milestones, phases, and elements; forming a project team; establishing a project budget Monitored project progress by tracking activity; resolving problems; publishing progress reports and recommending actions. Assist the CEO, COO, CFO, and executive team. Managed an extremely active and dynamic calendar; completed expense reports; composed and prepared correspondence that was often confidential; arranged complex and detailed travel plans, itineraries, and agendas; and compiled documents for travel and related meetings. In the first quarter of 2016, successfully researched, tested, and implemented a video conferencing solution saving the corporation over $100K in travel expenses. Served as the CEO’s administrative liaison to the Board of Directors, assisting Board members with travel arrangements, and lodging as needed.

Specializing in research and clip reporting for press releases, produced presentation materials for monthly/annual global summary meetings. Provided a full complement of communications services, full-service public relations, investor relations, and marketing ad hoc.Fielded inquiries from the media, coordinated projects, and developed briefing materials. Assisted in writing, editing, and proofreading communication materials (i.e., press releases, media advisories, and client correspondence). Provided support in researching, compiling, and analyzing media coverage for clients. Compiled and summarized client PR activity through internal weekly and monthly reports. Created and built media distribution with media outreach. Ensure that account managers are kept fully informed regarding the activities of client plans. Initiated new media relationships

Coordinated all facets of operations for the Doubletree Brand Marketing team. Developed strategic marketing initiatives and activities. Implemented marketing plans that included print, broadcast, and online content. Created branded advertising campaigns, and supported the marketing and design teams by coordinating and collating content. Set up tracking systems for marketing campaigns and online activities. Traffic all advertising efforts to appropriate channels. Developed and managed all internal communication systems. Created, maintained, and strengthened the organization’s overall brand through all media avenues. Simplified complex data into user-friendly formats such as graphs, charts, and other visual aids for clients and management. Managed marketing team efforts as needed for various projects and deadlines. Assisted with Public Relations campaigns, community service projects, and customer service reparation. Prioritized and managed multiple projects simultaneously.Coordination of: Invoice coding and management of the marketing team budget including analysis and forecasting. On and offsite team meetings and annual brand conferences. Communications via e-mail distribution, internal website updates, and industry trade publications. Prize/gifting fulfillment for brand marketing promotions.Assisted with Public Relations campaigns, community service projects, and customer service reparation. Spearheaded the turn-key production of the Doubletree Hotel Directory, Meeting and Facilities Guides, New Hotels landing page, and other landing pages and micro-sites related to the Doubletree Brand; proof, edited hotel and approve property level advertising and collateral via online marketing toolkit to help generate revenue for hotels; various other duties and projects as requested.

Effectively assist Vice President Brand Marketing; Sr. Director of Marketing and Director of Marketing for the Doubletree Brand. Duties included scheduling and maintenance of daily appointments and calendar including travel; scheduling of on and offsite meetings; communicate and handled incoming and outgoing electronic and hard communications; assist with preparation of presentation materials; assist marketing team as needed for various projects; proof read and edit hotel advertising and collateral via invoice coding and tracking; and various other administrative tasks as needed.

Key member of a 3-person Operations/Human Resources team. Responsibilities included maintenance of employee files, W-2, I-9, and EEO forms, database maintenance and input, implementation of background checks, new hire orientation, contract coordination, purchasing, payroll processing, termination, benefits administration, COBRA, employee recruitment, and all aspects of Human Resources including initiating background checks, policy adherence, employee counseling for 80 employees.

Successfully managed a large group of off-site contract consultants in a wide variety of IT positions. Qualified candidates by conducting pre-interview resume screening, completing resume formatting, and reference checks. Responsibilities included maintenance of employee files, W-2, I-9, and EEO forms, database maintenance and input, implementation of background checks, new hire orientation, contract coordination, purchasing, payroll processing, termination of consultants, and all necessary Human Resource responsibilities and procedures at the branch level. Maintained job postings on the AdvectA.com website using HTML formatting. Phone screened inquiries from individuals interested in posted positions as well as other potential contract candidates.

Excelled at compiling and reporting financial experience of Pension Benefit plans for 35 clients of MetLife, including fortune 100 and 500 companies. Compiled, wrote and implemented procedures and documentation for new RacF reporting and inquiry system. Worked closely with Actuaries to ensure proper expense and billing calculations for services rendered as well as tax reporting, general ledger entries, funds transfer processing, audited accounting and monthly maintenance of annuities for retirees.

Instrumental in the smooth day-to-day operations of the data-center. Successfully built, maintained and implemented a Capacity Limitations research study. Acted as a back-up when necessary for all phases of data-center operations including data entry, image based research, print operations, MICR encoding and LAN/WAN back-up and maintenance. Other responsibilities included customer billing, accounts payable, meeting plans, all aspects of human resources including initiating background checks, policy adherence, employee counseling, payroll processing, maintenance of attendance records, new hire orientation, and termination procedures. Sat on the corporate communications advisory board and was a vital member of the Disaster recovery team. Authored and maintained the Disaster Recovery manual that was published and distributed branch wide.