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Des Moines, Iowa, United States

• Driving Iowa Workforce Development's statewide social media strategy and communication of its workforce programs, adjoining agencies, and the Iowa State Capitol.
• Craft and create social media communications for various workforce programs, including working resources for various segments of Iowa's workforce, including military Veterans and individuals with disabilities.
• Generate quarterly reports showcasing growth and performance and general updates regarding content performance, including podcast listener information and stats.
• Engaging Iowa audience where they are at on platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and emerging platforms.
• Educating internal social media managers about best practices and improvements to the content that they produce by creating a channel for open dialogue and feedback.
• Advising and managing graphics and video content that accompanies social copy and website layout.

United States

• Writer for PC Invasion website.
• News, reviews, and preview coverage for the video game industry.

United States

• Writer for five websites owned and operated by Enthusiast Gaming
• Leading staff of over 30 writers whose duties include producing news articles, professionally critiquing new release video game titles, and communicating with public relation firms for potential review units
• Creating guidelines and deadlines for content producers located in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom
• Customize and creating strategic plans for software and hardware developers to reach their targeted gaming markets
• Introducing our partners to our family of sites and publishers consisting of over 183-million monthly page views and 30-million monthly visitors
• Created campaigns executed on our programmatic ad network

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Consult with local business owners regarding their digital strategy
• Uncover business needs and develop an effective campaign to drive business and results based on client needs analysis.
• Plan, create, and execute an effective digital strategy for small-to-medium size business, including such technologies as Over-the-Top Television (OTT), targeted display, email marketing, geofencing, and audience.
• Develop creative and work with clients to curate their message in digital advertising
• Audit prospect digital channels and offer solutions for their digital spend
• Deliver, educate, and walk through reports detailing various campaign KPIs, such as clickthrough rate (CTR), creative effectiveness, and deep-dive into Google Analytics and campaign results

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Volunteer with CASA Iowa digital strategy team

Fresno, California Area

• Manage digital accounts for government, city and local business entities in California.
• Create and write social media and blog content for all clients.
• Interpret, communicate and generate reports through social media data analysis.
• Execute and create digital campaigns, assign creative for targeted results.
• Manage communication between customers and clients.
• Familiarized with social media management tools such as Sprout Social and Choozle for programmatic ad bidding.

Fresno, California Area

• Consulting Central Valley businesses, selling service (SaaS) for human capital management
• Cultivate relationships with 13 Certified Public Accountants firms, 2 Enrolled Agents, 13 banks, and financial planner for referral sources for business to entrust with their clients
• Met or exceeded quota for both units sold and revenue produced, achieved monthly unit bonuses
• Identify sales opportunities based on extensive needs analysis of small to mid-market business
• Developed and created personal development seminar to team of 13 sales representatives

Clovis, CA

• Promoted from part-time seasonal hire into two leadership roles
• Successfully captained two select Pilot programs for Software and Logistics, later expanded nationwide
• Target Store (T-2018) ranked intra-district as a Top Performing store, #1 of 8 in 2012/2013/2014
• Target Store (T-2018) was Top Ranked through survey feedback and Key Performance Metrics(KPM) scores in 2012/2013/2014

• Reaching out to the gaming community via editorials, news and multiple platforms of social media.
• Respective of time sensitive material and embargo guidelines.
• Providing coverage of events such as the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Game Developers Conference ( GDC) and Consumer Electronics Showcase(CES).
• Providing reviews on all current-gen gaming platforms.
• Interviewing members of the industry, Editorials, and reaching out to potential media partners for contests and coverage.

• Increased sales through door-to-door sales and cold calling
• Generated sales leads in the Central Valley in over 12 cities and Top Seller on team
• Sold energy efficient windows, doors, and various other home improvements

• Trained in all departments of the store. In charge of truck process and was top Sales Associate