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Portland, OR, US

Vancouver, Washington, US

Portland, Oregon, US

My passion project allows me to use storytelling to raise awareness of social issues and prompt the viewer to consider hidden biases.

A passion project built to empower the local community to engage and participate in the beautiful game in ways that matter most - human to human. I implemented an automated account creation and onboarding process using Typeform, Zapier, Brevo, and Slack.

I express ideas and portray characters in theater, film, television, social media, and other media. I interpret a script to bring my vision of a character to life to entertain or inform an audience. 🎭Management: Actors in Action

Copywriter and website designer for a local soccer non-profit organization that provides a space and opportunity for women in the community to come together to play soccer, promote sportsmanship, and facilitate travel for competitive and recreational purposes.

San Jose, CA, US

Improved course completion rates from ~20% to just over 50%.Researched and write badging scripts and courses to increase monthly active use of Adobe Elements and other Adobe products.Contributeed to thought leadership blogs.

San Francisco, California, US

Produced and recorded on-camera videos to support and engage with Blaze.ai users, and raise awareness of product capabilities.

Portland, OR, US

• I worked with Fortune 500 companies to develop strategies and materials to enable teams to get the most out of Opal, a planning calendar for marketing & comms teams, to develop and manage campaigns and.
• Customer Experience - I worked with customers to learn their needs and pain points. I documented user sentiment and shared it with the development team to improve the user experience and application.
• Product Marketing - I collaborated with internal teams to develop value-based content, such as customer use cases, product videos, website content, and webinars, to increase awareness, adoption, and usage.
• User Knowledge Development - I improved usage by implementing onboarding tools, writing how-to and best practices articles, creating learning center courses, and producing new release videos.
• UX Improvements - I observed a language discrepancy causing training, onboarding, usage, and support issues. I interviewed colleagues to understand how they spoke about the application. I collated this information into.

Portland, OR, US

• Seeing team and user needs, I created and maintained training and education materials including animated GIFs, audio & video, Learning Center courses, Help Center articles, and other requests.
• Created and launched a hands-on experience using Sketch and InVision for users to learn by doing without impacting a live space resulting in reduced support tickets and increased feature use
• Collaborated with Skilljar to create the Opal + Skilljar Case Study
• Initiated and led a company wide effort to standardize UI terminology to reduce UX confusion

Portland, OR, US

In-person and remote, I worked with Customer Success Managers help teams at top brands, including Microsoft, Intel, GM, NASA, and more, customize onboarding and product training sessions.

I secured the WordPress site, expanded search engine reach, improved SEO, and created organic social content.

I organized, synchronized, and labeled footage in Final Cut Pro X.

• I worked with the team to establish and implement an email marketing system, live tweeted events, created, curated, and posted content to social media platforms, and produced custom video content.
• Created website using WordPress
• Created MailChimp email templates and a drip-campaign before the festival began to reduce time improve attendee's experiences at the festival
• Created, curated, and posted organic content to Facebook and Twitter

Bronxville, NY, US

• SLC is based in NY and offers a unique, multidisciplinary liberal arts education for an inclusive and intellectually curious community with a one-on-one student-faculty setup. I managed Reference Librarians, Music.
• Established social media brand standards, and trained student Project Managers to create content
• Initiated the standardization and migration of all student employee job descriptions to the SLC Learning Management System (LMS)
• Shot and edited 60 Faculty Pre-Interview videos to improve the student interview experience by saving faculty members time, improve discussions, and create a historical record of the course and professor
• Managed five staff members and three student Project Managers

Bronxville, NY, US

• Managed the daily operations of Academic Computing and the Help Desk
• Managed two student Project Managers
• Collaborated with Student Employment and student Project Managers to standardize and migrate all student employee job descriptions onto MySLC
• Initiated and managed the migration of student email from Squirrel Mail to Google Apps

Bronxville, NY, US

• I spent time with students, faculty, and staff answering questions and solving issues about common and unique issues related to their laptops, viruses, malware, spam, accounts, printers, and more.
• Managed redesign of Academic Computing's website
• Created and network installed dual boot operating systems
• Managed 50+ Academic Computing and Help Desk student employees
• Researched and implemented whentowork.com to improve shift attendance

Bronxville, NY, US

• I supported students, faculty, and staff, solving issues related to their laptops, viruses, malware, spam, accounts, and printers.
• Provided one-on-one assistance to students, faculty, and staff with hardware and software
• Troubleshot virus, spam, and malware issues

• Raised >$50,000 via crowdfunding
• Locked in distribution deal with Amazon Prime for five years
• Won IndieWire film of the week Facebook competition

• Act Outside the Box offered actors and musicians classes to learn how to use social media to build an audience and brand.
• Developed and presented 2.5 hour and all day seminars detailing the basics and advanced uses of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter
• Taught attendees how to create organic and paid content

Seattle, WA, US

* Project managed ISP and Backhaul migration switch overs* Implemented Cisco and Netopia router configurations and modifications* Supported circuit switching (backhaul) for optimal network traffic utilization* Administered and supported email, web hosting, and Domain Name Server (DNS) solutions

* Researched, verified, and completed high performance/broadband circuit orders* Maintained and updated numerous CLLI and circuit source systems and databases

* Troubleshoot LAN problems and provided timely resolutions on-site and remotely* Installed, configured, and backed-up configurations of NetWare and NT

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

* Resolved escalated issues* Assisted with the development of Intranet web sites* Provided support to customers on cellular equipment use and service concerns

JP

• JET is the only teaching exchange program managed by the government of Japan. In the classroom I shared cross-cultural lessons. Outside the classroom, I spent time at each of the five schools I taught at playing sports.
• Prepared lesson plans and team-taught with 16 Japanese Language Teachers
• Provided support to students in and out of class
• Encouraged conversation between students, in English, to develop their conversational ability
• Reorganized visitation schedules to create more interaction with students at each school

Mfa, Theatre (Acting)

Bs, Mis