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Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Huntsville, Alabama Area

Building and managing websites and social media accounts for independent business owners,including educational, membership-based online businesses. Managing complete website rebuilds andrebranding efforts. Web graphic design, interface design, user experience design, and search engineoptimization. Creating and maintaining blogs, including editing submitted content.

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

Provided thought leadership, strategic planning, and oversight of a variety of interior remodelingprojects. Specified design selections, sourced materials and created realistic 3D renderings, detailedelevations, and construction plans. Coordinated with the production team to serve as the liaison between customers and management.

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

Guided retail customers toward appropriate materials with extensive product knowledge. Set-up andtake-down of showroom displays, as well as merchandising new products. Warehouse help as required.

Huntsville, Alabama Area

Provided oversight and management of design center for a custom home, build-on-your-land homebuilder. Managed trade show set-up/tear-down, attending shows to meet new customers and fostercommunity relations. Hosted design meetings with customers and assisted with choosing materials,colors, lighting and overall design.

Huntsville, Alabama Area

Collaborated with remote team members to craft and share the message of Provision Living, a senior living and memory care company based in St. Louis, MO. Generated informative and engaging content for more than 25 individual community locations. Created Facebook ads, including graphics, to advertise events, learning sessions and grand openings to the target audience (adult children caring for aging parents).Primary copywriter for re-branding initiative, as well as for advertising materials and communications vehicles including newsletters, website content, social media.Trained community employees on social media best practices, and served as the voice of communities that did not have social media managers.Assisted with large-scale event coordination and planning as well as business development activities and social media management in support of community openings.

Huntsville, Alabama

Provided essential business development duties and cross-functional support while maintaining flexibility in a rapidly changing, fast-paced environment. Supported all phases of the proposal process including capture plan development, graphics support, technical writing, and final proposal submission. Maintained corporate website and social media accounts.Designed, created and published quarterly company newsletter.Worked with team to develop internal SharePoint 2013 site for corporate and contract-driven programs.Utilized personal design and technical skills to create in-house graphics and media to reduce outsourcing costs.

Huntsville, Alabama Area

Supported 30+ R&D Department personnel in a wide variety of complex business and procurement-related activities focusing on defense technologies. Served as pivotal point of contact on issues related to resource allocation, business development, sales and operations planning, proposal generation, budget and project analysis, on- and offsite event planning, database management and purchasing. Managed reporting and record-keeping databases for the CGI Technical Programs Group Business Unit. Provided cross-functional liaison on common projects. Created reports, multimedia presentations and marketing materials for tradeshows. -- Improved efficiency and decision support by standardizing reporting formats for quarterly budgets, financial spreadsheets, meeting minutes, expense reports, organizational charts and performance documentation.-- Produced video illustrating future technology capabilities for U.S. Army decision makers. -- Recognized with “CGI Performance Award” for contribution in establishing ISO 9001-compliant SharePoint sites enabling compliance tracking and verification across the entirety of R&D programs.

Birmingham, Alabama Area

Assembled and coordinated filming, cast and crew schedules for Missing Pieces, an independent feature film produced over 110 days in a challenging micro budget environment. Scheduled shoot locations; assured props and actors were ready and available on time. -- Negotiated low-cost or free products and services (including helicopter, fireworks and fire suppression services) by carefully cultivating relationships with vendors and leveraging social media to recruit volunteers, crew members and resources. -- Attended film festivals to network and raise awareness among potential distributors/supporters. -- Held a vital role in bringing award-winning drama to the screen. Honors to date include “Director's Award,” Arizona Underground Film Festival; “Best Micro Budget Feature Film,” Las Vegas Indie Film Festival; Honorable Mention, “Ensemble Performance,” Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival; “Audience Choice Award,” George Lindsey Film Festival; “Merit Award,” Lucerne International Film Festival; and one of six films selected in Breakthru Screenings category, Melbourne International Film Festival 37oSouth Market, 2012.

Huntsville, Alabama Area

Provided administrative support for a multimillion-dollar, multisite, multi-brand automotive dealership. Impacted sales and operations planning, internal and external communications, budget tracking and advertising spend for high-volume Toyota, Ford, Hyundai and Suzuki operation Implemented corporate marketing initiatives. Developed proposals and other critical business documents. Coordinated executives’ domestic and international travel needs. -- Scripted and coordinated TV commercials that delivered record-breaking sales numbers and garnered international recognition by Suzuki North America. -- Coordinated and published company magazine and internal communications for 300+ personnel. -- Implemented marketing, customer referral and employee appreciation programs. -- Scheduled and guided monthly performance and planning meetings. -- Planned and executed company-wide conferences, celebrations and retreats, several of which were attended by C-level executives from American Suzuki Motor Corporation.

Huntsville, Alabama Area

Created course materials, lesson plans, testing tools and projects relating to basic web design principles, notably layout, design, color theory and markup language. Discussed technology and trends. Used real-world examples to make learning relevant, engaging and fun. Organized field trips to local businesses to help students envision future employment opportunities.

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Interior Design

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Web Page, Digital/Multimedia And Information Resources Design