Serving as the first African American member of the Gower School District Board of Education, serving the Burr Ridge and Willowbrook communities. • Collaborate with fellow board members to shape policies, set goals, and oversee the district’s strategic vision for academic excellence. • Advocate for equitable education initiatives, ensuring all students have access to high-quality learning opportunities. • Provide governance and fiscal oversight for district operations, budgeting, and resource allocation. • Act as a liaison between the district and community stakeholders, fostering transparency and trust. • Support special education programs and inclusive practices, drawing from personal experience as a special needs family advocate. • Engage in professional development to stay informed on educational trends, legislative updates, and best practices for governance.

• Secure and sustain relationships with media outlets included but not limited to print media, social media and bloggers.• Executed publicity driven campaigns with an emphasis on media outreach, the elevation of online visibility for brands, enhanced brand awareness through editorial placement and interviews.• Oversee the creation of promotional items• Utilize UX (User Experience) evaluation methods for the assessment of web content and usability for potential clients and customers. • Proactively research all pertinent media outlets that are relative to the current target demographic of the client, to assure that all media channels are utilize to radiate information to the desired audiences. • Converse with newspaper representatives, magazine representatives and television broadcast networks regarding any information about the client that will generate exposure to their presence in the media. • Conceptualized innovative ideas to create new product packaging for client.• Created digital newsletters distributed to client email subscriber• Ensure project lifecycles are completed in a timely fashion.• Conceptualize and write press releases while soliciting media contacts for media placement.• Increased brand recognition with campaigns.• Managed and created digital campaigns to reach clients target audiences; utilizing various social media platforms.• Ensure the discretion and indemnity of project content and fine points.• Managed and created web content pages for clients• Conceptualized client events supplying a team of professionals to assist with event planning details and execution (included but not limited to décor and catering services.

Sharing tips and research for parents of the special needs community in an effort to inspire and educate.

Coordinate and moderate webinars.

• Contribute to a new corporate instant messaging communications platform used to communicate interdepartmental and across departments of the organization. • Developed direct marketing media recommendations utilizing various innovative methods including sales, scoring, traffic patterns, competition, and local market insight and advanced demographic profiling.• Create Print Media Plans utilizing prominent newspapers available in clients desirable DMA.• Utilized industry research tools to aid in vendor/media selection for media plans.• Created quantity summary reports by manipulating various analysis application data to provide a POV for a client. • Assisted in implementation of new media buys through exportation of analysis data and/or seasonal updates.• Finalize maps by exporting files, completing paperwork and proofing final output.

Created publicity tools for charitable eventsTrack all media news related to the organization and maintain a record of those findings. These would consist of newspaper clipping and or blog entries.Maintain positive relationships with donorsConverse with prospective organizations and individuals interested in the organization.

Perform inter-organization transfers and sub-inventory transfers of inventory Assist engineers with the layout of the warehouse to provide a high quality in performance for repairing locomotives. Responsible for generating customer requested quotes and orders.Responsible for generating freight quotes as requested by customers.Work closely with Sales Team to provide profiles, reports, sales projections and other documentation as requested.Support Sales & Marketing in enabling growth for the Residential & Commercial business (i.e. channels to market, support industry meetings, trade shows, and company events).Communicates customer needs to the appropriate departments and actively participates in the resolution of any customer problems.Maintain regular, proactive customer contact that allows for the development and increased sales of new and/or existing dealers as defined by sales management.Work with cross-functional groups including Applications Engineering, Order Fulfillment, Marketing, Sourcing, Credit, & Production to fulfill customer requests timely.Support new product launches & pricing initiatives.Communicate and facilitate process to resolve quality issues presented by a customer.Expedite parts to customersRegulate the order in which engineers receive inventor Responsible for the upkeep of database run sheets that provided information on daily location of inventory.