As the President of South Shore Public Relations I lead my PR firm to serve the public relations and integrated marketing needs of Northwest Indiana and Chicagoland area.

• Planning, Implementing, and guiding all Public Relations and marketing campaigns across De Rigo Rem’s Portfolio of 17 Brands for North America• Supervised and produced brand film projects and advertisements for De Rigo brands• Strengthening, enhancing, and fostering key relationships with trade media, and the entertainment industry for product placement, and earned media coverage• Arranged, managed, and supervised speaking engagement opportunities, and educational opportunities for De Rigo Rem• Author the De Rigo Rem News Blog, as well as staff and company newsletters that are sent monthly• Serve as company spokesperson in North America• Organize, manage, and optimize company events to build brand awareness and optimize earned media• Serve as company representative for the Vision Council’s Emerging Optical Leaders of Tomorrow Committee, as well as represent the company in my involvement for the Optical Women’s Association

•Developed, and implemented NIPSCO’s Public Reactions strategy for the NICTD Double Track and West Lake Rail expansion projects, including but not limiting, coaching executives on talking points, planning, and releasing community narratives, managing company reputation in governmental affairs associated with this project•Created and held sole responsibility for Public Affairs information with local municipalities regarding the NICTD Projects through public meetings•Managed external communications such as, mailed communications, talking points, press releases and alerts to external stakeholders for NICTD Project and other large NIPSCO infrastructure projects•Engage daily with project management and construction management to advise best communications practices to ensure all stakeholders are well informed of developments with current and future infrastructure projects

•Established relationships with Global/ U.S. press to garner international earned media development strategy•Built, maintained, and grew strategic brand partnerships with BBC, BritBox, Acorn TV, British Airways and Visit England•Arranged, coached, and supervised company correspondent for media opportunities surrounding both royal weddings, live televised global news interviews•Served as the managing editorial director of Anglotopia Magazine, where I regularly designed monthly layout, wrote long-form articles, and marketed publication to the Anglotopia.net audience and beyond•Organically grew, monitored, and created content for extensive social media marketing campaigns to theAnglotopia.net social media communities (over 200,000 users strong)•Authored and marketed the Anglotopia.net weekly newsletter (subscription list of 50K) and sold advertising space within the newsletter•Served as senior producer of the Anglotopia Podcast

• Planned, led, and tracked global public relations and marketing campaigns• Served as company spokesperson• Supervised, coached, and guided all C-Suite individuals for all media inquiries regarding Covid-19• Produced communications pieces for PCMA Foundation and PCMA Board of Directors to guide company narrative• Served as the main point of contact for global media, and was responsible for vetting media outlets as well as, evaluating and maintaining relationships with strategic media partners

• Planned, built, and implemented all public relations strategies including film production, event planning and management, press releases, providing talking points, and monitoring all social media for the company• Led Marketing Department in producing and releasing campaigns for a national audience. Marketing pieces included but were not limited to, all print, video, online, and social media marketing. As well as led market research, and brand strategy• Advised C-suite executives on communications best practices and provided regular reports on marketing efforts• Managed all OneParish and J.S. Paluch social media accounts to multi-faceted audiences

• Planned, maintained, and executed sole ownership of six-month long event, with weekly attendance over 4K• Created all marketing and public relations initiatives• Served as event spokeswoman• Developed and fostered sponsorship for event, regularly setting company records for sponsorship dollars raised• Oversaw all budget planning and forecasting for short and long-term trends• Managed 220+ business owners weekly, as well as Market staff• Obtained all permits and worked closely with regulatory and local governments

I worked closely with Tribune Interactive staff planning and implementing national campaigns. While I was an intern at Tribune, I had the opportunity to plan and implement exciting campaigns as Furry Frights, Chronicles of the Cursed and Holidays Homes.

The function of an AmeriCorps* Vista is to built relationships between non-for-profit agencies and Purdue University in Northern Indiana. I Planned and implemented contact lists in Access, scheduled meetings; wrote and presented a SWOT analysis and Needs Assessment, Brochure Design; Coordinated on-line social networking; Office Correspondence

Helped plan national marketing campaigns. I also worked closely with senior advisors of Barak Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign during in my time with LaVelle Cousins Issues Management. I implemented and evaluated all campaigns after completion. My primary duty was to build and foster relationships with media.