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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

The Four-Seven Ministries is an organization dedicated to run hard after incarcerated individuals in Southern Ohio. Nearly 50% of those released from prison return to incarceration. We are determined to help individuals find their footing and change their path through faith-based support and guidance. The Four-Seven provides support for incarcerated individuals as well as those adjusting to life following their release. Professional and spiritual skill courses are taught by our volunteers at local correctional facilities in an effort to help prepare incarcerated individuals for life after prison. For those adjusting to reentry, we offer mentoring opportunities and provide assistance with job and housing searches.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Lebanon, Ohio

I currently serve as the Marketing and Recruitment Coordinator for the Kairos Prison Ministries in Ohio. My duties entail email marketing, website creation (www.kairoslebanonohio.org), event planning for weekly meetings and bi-annual Kairos Weekends within the prison. As part of Kairos, we work with incarcerated men to help better their lives going forward. My job is to keep our team informed and continue recruiting men outside of the prison to become a part of the ministry on a weekly basis by creating promotional material.Accomplishments/Responsibilities● Website creation, email marketing and graphic design.● Create marketing campaigns to help raise awareness of the ministry and to increase recruitment possibilities.● State-wide marketing creation/implementation 17+ prison institutions.● State-wide communication and website managing.● Focus on Millennial recruitment into the organization.● Increased brand awareness.

Newport, Kentucky

At IBG, I have overseen brand development, creation of the new company logo and implementation of a new website (which will be launched soon). Before my hiring, the company was only known within the jewelry trade. I have increased the company visibility by increasing advertising not only within the trade, but to the public consumer as well. My job not only entailed website creation and brand awareness, but I was solely responsible for creating all advertisements and marketing materials for IBG in addition to product retailers around the world.Accomplishments/Responsibilities● Creation of new “employee portal” to streamline communication from employees worldwide.● Increased brand recognition achieved through digital marketing and advertising.● Developing a marketing plan to ensure the expanded reach of the IBG brand for the next five years.● Creation of company press releases to the trade and public.

Commentary author - informative and personal.

Www.Sportsgrumble.Com

Sports Grumble is a website designed to provide readers with unique commentary on the world of sports. With sports journalism becoming a saturated field, I launched this site with the focus being on providing entertainment for the average fan. The site has blossomed and developed an avid audience thanks to engaging and provocative content. I am not only the main provider of article content, but I also oversee the site’s graphics and website design/production.Accomplishments● Despite having a soft launch on September 8, the site continues to grow rapidly. In September the site had just over 19,000 views. In October it grew to 53,000 views and November saw nearly 80,000 site views. ● Became profitable after just three months of being “live”.● Writers have been recruited from around the United States to provide engaging content for a wide variety of readers.

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

Like Sports Grumble, Riverfront Grumble was created to reach a specific niche. While SG was used to cover the entire world of sports, RG found a niche in covering the sports of the Greater Cincinnati area. The targeted reach is much smaller than SG but the content is more personalized to local fans.Accomplishments● Radio broadcasting for local high school football and basketball games featuring BRC client advertising.● Podcasts and weekly radio shows that have become popular in surrounding cities.● Created digital platform for local athletic departments to connect with the community to provide information and facts on local promotions, games and accomplishments.● Rotated weekly radio shows to local restaurants to help increase dining revenue.

Waynesville, Oh

Blue Raccoon Creative is a digital solutions company that I co-founded. My business partner and I saw a need with small businesses for digital marketing and design. Our company has worked with large and small businesses to increase sales as well as city governments and school districts to raise awareness and pass ballot issues. BRC provides SEO work, digital marketing, ROI development, web design, graphic design, multimedia creation & digital reputation management crafted for each individual client.Accomplishments/Responsibilities● Increased student applicants for local flight school and close work with the Board on improving brand recognition.● Developed communication between local high school and voters to help pass recent school levy.● Implementation of digital marketing for local city to increase participation from community members with local festivals, parades and outreach events.● Creation of marketing materials and promotional art/videos for local athletic department to increase ticket sales.● Increased ROI for performance enhancement facility by improving social presence as well as digital marketing.● Improved relationship between local retirement home and community through personalized social media campaigns. Also developed events for the company and community.● Creation of advertising campaign to promote one of the largest festivals in the state of Ohio.● Grant writing to help local companies obtain the necessary funds to operate their business.● Assistance with the growth of a local foundation for children stricken with cancer through digital marketing.● Speech writing for clients to be used during conferences, at conventions, in board meetings and with the press.

Blog Red Machine (Cincinnati Reds)

Writing analytical articles dissecting the Cincinnati Reds.

West Chester, Oh

I was brought onto the staff at Powerstep to help with the transition from being just a B2B company to becoming a B2C company as well. My responsibilities included graphic design, email marketing, ROI development, website maintenance, reputation management and retailer monitoring.

Covering the Cincinnati Reds on a daily basis.

Kettering, Oh

At Naked Lime, I was responsible for overseeing the digital marketing for clients around the country. I created social media campaigns, informative company blogs, crafted and submitted press releases and maintained each company’s digital reputation management on a daily basis.

University Of The Cumberlands

For University of the Cumberlands, I was responsible for creating awareness of the college both among current students, alumni and prospective students/donors. I created digital advertising campaigns that were designed to improve the relationship between the college and its students/alumni, a relationship that had become strained due to media attention. In order to do so, I constructed a narrative on behalf of the college that was used to change the public perception, a narrative that instilled a great deal of pride among current students as well as alumni. At the same time, I created a marketing campaign that was targeted specifically towards possible future students to engage their interests with the school prior to making their college decision.Accomplishments● Radio broadcasting for collegiate baseball and basketball.● Creation of a radio broadcast specifically designed to the interests of prospective students - included interaction from the students as well.● Creation of a school iPhone application.● Filming/editing of advertisements - both radio and video.● Creation of UC3D campaign that was a unique marketing endeavor separating UC from other colleges. ● Development of the “UC Communications Board” - included interactive website and engaged dialogue between members across the state and country.● Increased digital reach from 4,000 per month to over 2.5 million.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

During this internship, I worked specifically with America’s News Headquarters (anchored by Shannon Bream and Brian Wilson). My responsibilities during this time were to handle guest booking, script writing, statistical analysis, digital advertising, show production, pre-packaged segment producing, social marketing and in-field research.Accomplishments● Research assistant during the 2009 arrest of the US State Department Spies from Cuba.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Communication, General

Bachelor'S Degree, Communication, General, 3.25

Activities and Societies: College Republicans, UCTV-19, 94.5 WCCR, The Patriot Newspaper, Media Relations, Sports Information● Production.