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Kemptville, Ontario, Canada

Leading the Municipality of North Grenville's tourism initiatives, our collective endeavors are to showcase the region as a go-to destination. With a focus on marketing communications and business development support, my role is pivotal in driving visitor engagement and fostering growth within the local tourism sector. The strategies implemented have led.

Smiths Falls, Rideau Waterway

• Developed and supported marketing campaigns to drive sales of cabin cruiser rentals on the Rideau in Canada and inland waterways across Europe.
• Enhanced web content, implemented social media and email campaigns, engaged in branding, drafted press releases, and supported media FAM trips.
• Liaised with key stakeholders including tourism organizations, governments, municipal councils, and suppliers.

Smiths Falls, Ontario

I managed the day-to-day operations of the chamber, supported member businesses, and developed & implemented marketing/communications strategies for both the Chamber and the Victoria Park Campground & Marina.

Carleton Place, Ontario

This challenging position combined several distinct roles in Fundraising, Volunteer Coordination, and supporting the As Good As New charity thrift store.

Smiths Falls, Ontario

This contract involved the creation of a strategic planning document. I suggested strategies to raise the public profile of the foundation and introduced avenues to build new relationships with community partners. In order to boost media presence, I built a collection of news releases and outlined several news angles for future stories.

Ottawa, Canada

I worked with officers from across the program to develop a nation-wide program modernization plan, including supplementary documents for timelines, templates for regional offices and other working tools. Trained in Federal Government procedures, policy and regulations.– With input from NWPP management and staff, helped to create the NWPP Modernization.

Carleton Place, Ontario

In this position, I worked with the local tourism committee to identified priorities, messaging and strategies for increasing tourism & business in the town of Carleton Place. – Liaised with the Ministry of Tourism, the Town of Carleton Place and Lanark County Tourism in order to strengthen strategic partnerships and to identify and achieve regional.

Daily monitoring and analyzing of media from a variety of online sources.This position required exceptional attention to detail and computer skill.

ACPR

Awarded this paid student position to help run the student PR agency while attending the second year of the program. Processed requests from the community for PR work. These projects would be completed by the students though the student PR Agency, field placement, or individual student volunteering. Demonstrated organizational skills by prioritizing each.

Smiths Falls, Ontario

Worked many years in website design, customer service and communications - writing business copy, writing, designing, and maintaining business and product websites, writing help documentation for software packages, designing and writing copy for software product packaging, writing proposals, and fielding some customer service issues.Technical work included.

Ottawa, Canada

I gained experience and worked in many areas during the golden age of high-tech in Ottawa starting out my career performing basic admin duties and then progressing to Executive Assistant to the VP of Research and Development. I worked in OCR scanning. We scanned and edited massive volumes of government documents. I later took hardware courses to learn how.