In this role I reached out to community groups and organizations who directly help shape our youth. Community centers, YMCA’s, county PTA’s, county school systems/schools for staff development. • Developed a system of bulk sales outreach and communication with our team. • Reached out to community groups and organizations via phone and email who directly help shape our youth. • Processed and mailed book review orders, which included follow-up with point of contact. • Conducted additional research on youth service organizations who would find the book most beneficial for their leaders and staff.

Editor for a neighborhood publication, Cary Park Life in West Cary, NC. • Built strong relationships with the local small business community to help them grow in a large, diverse neighborhood. • Worked with business sponsors who invested in community publication via print ads• Completed direct weekly prospecting of new sponsors, along with working with current sponsors, on ad content and management• Met face-to-face with new and existing clients to present the advertising opportunities• Created protocol for featuring sponsors in a rotating article spread to gain additional exposure• Ensured all pertinent information was included in ad revisions• Worked with volunteer resident team to collect content to include each month. • Wrote and edited content to supplement monthly articles • Contributed to content placement for the magazine layout

• Built trusted relationships with our campaign team by providing guidance, feedback, structure and support• Trained core team and volunteers equipping them with the tools needed to execute strategic actions• Collaborated with team members to delegate work and fostered a team culture of learning and mutual support• Developed and implemented a campaign plan, tracking and assessing progress, adapting as needed• Problem-solving cross team issues, thinking through lessons learned, planning/executing community and fundraising events*We ran a strong, honest and competitive campaign against 12 year incumbent Nelson Dollar in 2016. By receiving 23,875 votes I came within a vote margin of 1,420. It was a challenging, enlightening experience to have the ability to connect with so many in our SW Wake community. My precinct was drawn out of the district to where I could not run in 2018, but we helped paved the way for an excellent public servant to win that race in 2018.

• Focused on relationship building with public education groups around North Carolina by engaging parents, teachers and public education advocates and volunteers• Applied extensive project management skills, as well as strong multi-modal communication skills, in working with diverse stakeholder groups • Responsible for the creation, implementation and evaluation of outreach and fundraising initiatives, including cultivating and sustaining individual and corporate giving, and executing community outreach and special events. • Oversaw the creation of a strong annual giving and major gifts program that identified, cultivated and solicited new donors• Secured and retained foundation support, researched grant applications, and actively uncovered other corporate giving opportunities

-Responsible for uncovering sales opportunities within the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Marine Corps-Configured, priced, negotiated and quoted sales solutions on Lenovo desktops and notebooks-Provided proactive follow-up, product information and overall account support to business partners and customers-Worked within corporate initiatives including weekly forecast and opportunity management-Provided contract proposal support in the way of summarizing fact finding researchI was 110% of my quota for the first quarter I worked at Lenovo and top inside sales rep for the public sector. I realized very quickly though that sales may not be the best career change for me afterall for several different reasons. Not the right fit for the time, although I loved Lenovo as a company and the people I had the opportunity to work with!

-Uncovered new verticals for the company in the way of phone and web research -Performed qualitative research of federal government employees to gauge the needs and pains of their IT infrastructure -Made cold calls into a broad range of contacts to ask research questions -Summarized findings daily to track the progress and need of a particular vertical -Report to the CEO and Director of Business Development weekly on the status of my research -Assisted the business development executives (sales) with research pertaining to their verticals and assigned agencies -Maintained a repository of research documents and plans on the company's intranet -Utilized several databases for contacts, agency plans, new vertical documents

-Primary role was to assist in the production and management of product content to ensure data quality -Contributed to 43% product growth by assisting with the creation of 25 additional profiles within a year, and nine additional profiles on top of this within a year -Researched and wrote content for client driven research reports -This includes four Federal research reports and two State research reports published for our members -Spoke with the media and clients regarding questions about research reports -Interacted with government and clients, establishing better relationships and value add to the product -Delivered structured analysis and custom research on an as needed basis -Guided, trained and mentored new and existing staff -Presented and demonstrated products as needed in support of sales team to maximize product renewals and sales

-Responsible to the Legislative Assistant of Education, Healthcare, and Social Security and assisted with answering constituent mail, researched key issues, provided notes on Congressional hearings -Responsible to the Press Secretary and Deputy Press Secretary and assisted with organizing daily news clips for the Senator and staff