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Indianapolis, In, Us

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Upland, Indiana, United States

Work with Student Life Coordinators to plan and facilitate events and activities throughout the one-week Academic Camp and the two-week Summer Institute where high school students visit campus to take classes for college credit and experience a glimpse into life as a college student.

Served as the Assistant Hall Director in an all male residence hall of about 300 freshmen through senior students. Main responsibilities include: planning and conducting weekly staff meetings with 8 Discipleship Assistants (DA), having bi-weekly one-on-one meetings with each DA for discipleship, development, and conversation. In addition, I attend weekly meetings with the Resident Hall Director and his staff of 14 Resident Assistants, as well I created and run the hall's Instagram page.

Upland, Indiana

Served as the hall director for approximately 70 students staying on campus for the summer. Main responsibilities included: check-in/check-out procedures, filling out maintenance requests, checking campus wide residence hall keyboxes for missing keys.

Upland, Indiana

Served as a three-week intern for student organizations. Main responsibilities included: co-facilitator for a small group as part of an undergraduate leadership course, attended weekly staff meetings, met with the Freshman and Junior class council to assist in the brainstorming process for a class event.

Berkeley, California

Served as a Resident Assistant at UC Berkeley for approximately 15, mostly international high school students, alongside a team of 8 other Resident Assistants with their own residents. Main responsibilities included: attended daily staff meetings, conducted nightly check-in meetings, planned and executed various events for all students, served as a chaperone for students on weekend excursions into the city.

Springfield, Missouri

Served as a Resident Assistant for two academic school years on a floor of approximately 30 men in an all-mall residence hall of approximately 200 freshmen through senior students. Main responsibilities included: attended weekly staff meetings with Residence Director and other Resident Assistants, attended monthly campus-wide residence life staff training sessions, check-in/check-out procedures, assigned keys, served approximately twice a month as the nightly RA on duty, helped organize hall events, created and ran the hall's Instagram page.

Springfield, Missouri

Served as a Social Media Manager for Evangel University's marketing department. Main responsibilities included: utilized Canva, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop to create posts for Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, worked with Hootsuite to organize and schedule upcoming social media posts for multiple different accounts, wrote various blog posts for the online blog.

Springfield, Missouri

Served as the Assistant Design and Layout Editor for Evangel's yearbook, Excalibur. Main responsibilities included: utilized Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop to create and design pages using content created by others such as photography and copy, attended weekly staff meetings, attended weekly work nights, assisted in interviewing and writing stories when needed.

Served as an overnight host and tour guide for Evangel's Admissions department. Main responsibilities included: contacted a prospective student prior to his visit, organized a time and place to meet up upon arrival, created a welcoming space and environment on the floor and in the hall for the visiting student(s), helped the student with anything he needed, gave tours for prospective student(s) and family, worked during Visit Days wherever needed.

Springfield, Missouri

Served as the Fine Arts Clerk (preparing for the annual National Fine Arts Festival) at the National Leadership and Resource Center for the Assemblies of God for two consecutive summers (2016 and 2017). Main responsibilities included: answered phone calls from parents, pastors, students, etc. providing assistance when able, monitored the online registration system, handled mailed in, paper registrations, various office duties, (2016) worked in the administrative center on-site handling various organizational tasks, running scoresheets to rooms, etc., (2017) worked at customer service assisting with the process of on-site check-in, various customer complaints/issues, and resolving computer system issues.

Graduate Certificate, Teaching English To Speakers Of Other Languages

Master Of Higher Education And Student Development

Activities and Societies: Association for Christians in Student Development

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Youth Ministry