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New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Oversees all Agency Financials, Project Management, Human Resources, and Administration.

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

- Implemented employee time-tracking and resource management to track department productivity and improve efficiency.- Created processes for project management to effectively traffic jobs between the Account Team, Creative Team, and Social Media Team for all 15 clients.- Prepared and standardized reports to track profitability of each client and the agency.

Greater New Orleans Area

• Aided the Managing Partner in all areas of the agency including copywriting, art direction, media planning, SEM, social media advertising, planning traditional advertising strategies, and coordinating production as the.
• Fully managed the Blue Runner Foods, The Crescent City Classic, Crystal Hot Sauce, and Port Orleans Brewing Co. accounts, also assisting others among Acme Oyster House, Bergeron Automotive and Evamor Water.
• Directed the design, production, and implementation of all collateral, signage and advertising efforts for the Crescent City Classic and five supporting races.
• Launched Crystal Hot Sauce’s first social media campaign, focused on simultaneously refreshing the 95-year-old brand and geographically targeting three opportunity markets resulting in record sales growth for each.
• Coordinated the design, production, and implementation of all digital and social media advertising, sales support, in-store POP materials for Blue Runner Foods, including a new advertising campaign, packaging design.
• Directed the conception of the Port Orleans Brewing Co. brand start to finish.

Gonzales, LA

• Assisted the Regional Sales Manager in promoting the brand at various food shows, grocery store demonstrations, and weekend sampling events around the state of Louisiana.
• Managed the five Louisiana State University tailgate tent events at Tiger Stadium home football games and served gumbo to over 2,000 students and fans each event.
• Assisted in performing store level events promoting a new dry bean line of products.

Gonzales, LA

• Prior to the hiring of a full time employee to manage the Food Safety Audit systems, kick-started the preparation by updating all of the company paperwork and operations to comply with best practice industry standards.
• Personally created the Company Recall Plan, which scored a 100% in the actual Audit.

New Orleans, LA

• Assisted Race Director in all operations leading up to the race including collecting and inputting entry forms, distributing of bibs, and managing late entries.
• Managed the solutions desk during the two-day health and fitness expo, fixing any problems participants experienced during registration or bib pick-up.
• Filled in as needed during the road race event with 30,000 participants to ensure the race went as planned.

Mandeville, LA

• Shadowed the Retail Supervisor on daily trips to grocery stores to fix retail issues with products, build displays, and make presentations to store managers on products the company represents.
• Negotiated more shelf facings for the company’s food products.
• Promoted new food products to store customers.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Marketing

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Marketing