Elizabeth Winters Email & Phone Number

Pregnancy, birth and postpartum support

Portland, Oregon Area

•Coordinate several daily internal and external on-campus activities.•Advise in the planning and execution of major annual events for 500 to 5000 attendees, such as Commencement, New Student Orientation, Weekend on the Bluff and the annual Christmas gala. •Act as a liaison between clients and university departments including: catering, facilities, and media services, to ensure correct event set-up and execution. •Craft and create content for departmental website and Commencement pamphlets, in addition to drafting various letters and emails on behalf of the department to students, university employees and community members.•Supervise student staff and oversee hiring, scheduling, and delegating projects. •Implemented, and currently manage, the first ticketing software used for UP commencement activities, in an effort to improve office efficiency.

Portland, Oregon Area

- Help coordinate a cooking group at Village Market in partnership with Kitchen Commons and Village Gardens.- Responsible for planning, facilitating and evaluating six monthly cooking group sessions inAugust, September, January, February, March, and April.- Evaluate the project and create a plan for continuing the cooking group based on interest and support- Assess and prepare the kitchen, including inventory, equipment and planning recipe-team work locations.- Help with recipe selection and adapting recipes to prepare large quantities, keeping in mind potential dietary restrictions.- Prepare a plan for each monthly cooking group session that includes the number of people to be assigned to each recipe, additional equipment/supplies needed, a cooking timeline for shared use of oven and burner space, and an overall session timeline that includes set up, clean up, etc.- At the sessions: welcome and sign in participants, lead an introduction that includes a safety and sanitation overview, assign participants to recipe stations and help ensure participants have information and support for a successful cooking experience.- Facilitate focused discussion around food justice, farming, security and health.

•Wrote feature stories for internal news publications including: online newsletter, weekly online digest and monthly print publications, reaching more than 2,600 employees. •Collaborated with small team on web development project to update employee intranet. Developed organizational structure, as well as drafted and edited content, ensuring consistent PGE brand management for more than 25 departments, company wide. •Assisted with event production and volunteer coordination for Rose Festival, SOLV partnerships and other community events.

•Executed store operations during scheduled shifts, including inventory management and profitability analysis. •Created a projected food sales worksheet to eliminate waste and boost sales. Reduced the discard rate from 12% to 5%, while simultaneously increasing food sales, within two weeks of implementation. •Deployed partners and delegated tasks to create the Starbucks Experience for customers by providing outstanding customer service, quality beverages and products, and maintaining a clean and comfortable store environment.•Managed cash and opening/closing store procedures.

•Served as marketing and public relations intern for non-profit theatre company. •Conducted production research and copy writing for Artist Repertory Theatre’s website and production programs. •Developed relationships with neighboring performance groups to increase season subscribers.•Captured new audience members by expanding social media presence through Facebook and Twitter.

Seasonal supervisor for Seattle area event production company, Festivals INC. Over the past five summers, has held a variety of supervisory positions. Youngest in company history to be promoted to Supervisor and did so after one summer with the company. Currently acts as a liaison between restaurant and vendor representatives, event administrative staff, and patrons.

Bba, Marketing And Management, Music

Activities and Societies: American Marketing Association, Alpha Kappa Psi, UP Theatre, University Singers, University Jazz Ensemble.

Master Of Public Health (M.P.H.), Public Health

Nutritional Therapy Practioner (Ntp), Holistic Health