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Kansas City Metropolitan Area

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

As the Internal Communications Specialist, my first focus is how news and change are enacted and disseminated throughout the growing organization. My daily responsibilities include working across departments and offices to learn of news, internal and external activities of the organization, and changes coming down the pipeline. I work with company leadership to help develop execution and communication strategies for a 600-associate organization with a special focus on how the changes and news are shared across a workforce split between offices and construction sites. I am responsible for planning and executing our internal, all company events, including three yearly meetings and summer and winter parties for all associates. I have a love for the art of communication and am driven by people. This role allows me to act on both of these and ensure that our associates are highly engaged and heard.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

As the Marketing Manager, I handle any and all pieces of content that come out of the Folly Theater with our branding and voice. My responsibilities are wide ranged and include coordinating marketing assets and vendors, developing strategic marketing plans and implementing timelines to promote the theater's award winning Jazz Series, Kids' Series, and Americana Music Series. Over the course of my time with the Folly Theater, I'm proud to have been able to double our social media presence with engaging content. I've been able to more than triple the amount of Press and Public Relations coverage of our theater by developing ties with local press and television broadcast journalists around Kansas City. Finally, our namesake, Folly Jazz Series, has increased in attendance and profitability year over year through diversified marketing, the establishment of a Young Friends group, and careful adherence to a fiscally conservative budget. I am also very proud to have established the Folly Encore Club. A young friends/professional networking group that focuses on bringing in a newer demographic and patrons to the Folly Theater, helping to develop and expand our audience.

Overland Park, Ks

I held multiple roles during my time at Dex Media (now THRYVE). My roles always focused on a primary goal of building clientele and developing their trust of the organization. As all members, I started as a Marketing Consultant where my role was to work with Dex's large list of clients to manage and grow their marketing campaigns, as well as find & sell new clients. Shortly after starting I was given the title of Emerging Leader. This meant that I had the added responsibilities to work closely with the team sales manager to develop education and support for my sales team and act as a leader for my team to help my manager.As I found a love for connecting with our clientele and had one of the best client retention rates for our region, I moved to the Client Retention team. The goal of Client Retention was to work directly with clients that were unhappy or weren't able to pay their bills. After long discussions with customers and creating connections, I was able to maintain one of the best retention rates in the company!My final role with the organization was working with the Lead Generation group. This was a new frontier for an organization that always focused on cold-calling and new business. My team pioneered the launch of this program. We not only worked closely with the developers of a new software platform, we worked with the executive leadership of the Dex to help them understand client feedback, edit marketing messages, and tailor the operations.● Manages incoming leads and forms inquiring on Dex Media services● Nurtures inbound leads to purchase● Develops marketing plans and cultivates account relationships● Mentors and trains new teammates ● Acts as resource for teammates

Overland Park, Ks

● Retained and nurtured at-risk accounts● Cultivated and increased revenue accounts● Designed multi-platform marketing campaigns● Trained new teammates and provided engaged coaching ● Assisted team manager and teammates in systems, products, and sales

Overland Park, Ks

I am passionate about inside sales, about creating solutions that meet client needs and about delivering the right results at the right time. My small- and medium-sized business clients trust me to help them mazimize their advetisiting budget. With access to state-of-the-art solutions and up-to-date consumer market research, matching clients with a product from our award-winning line of solutions and services is all in a day's work. My extensive solution include:• Creating content for placement in a wide variety of media• Producing concepts and content for website and mobile website• Designing and managing their company Facebook page• Developing advertisement campaigns for online and print Yellow Pages directories

Kansas City, Mo

I worked with the Folly Theater to specifically market their Folly Frolic fundraising event. I was responsible for the Facebook ad and it's performance, daily posts on Instagram, Twitter, & Facebook, developing video and capturing photo and video content for posts, and responding to interactions followers on the social channels.With the successful performance of the Social Media Plan, networking at the patron events, and coordinating with leadership the event surpassed the prior year's numbers!

Kansas City, Missouri Area

I have partnered with the Vital Voice publication as an intern to further my knowledge and experience in the events planning, publication, and public relations. I work directly with the Publisher & CEO. Over the past few events, my responsibilities have included events promotions both through social media channels and in the public face to face interaction, event set up and tear down, and helping to run the background operations of the events including collecting emails, running the door, and socializing with guests of events. I have also been acting as a liason between the magazine's leadership and various points of contacts of partnering businesses in the Kansas City area.

Independence, Mo

Impact teammates in sales presentations and customer service. Drive sales and grow customer base. Maintain contact and sustain relationships with guests. Merchandise store to drive sales and fashion.

Independence, Mo

I manage staffing, training, merchandising, and drive sales at the Bakers Shoes at the Independence Center.

Independence, Missouri

Drive and lead sales for the store.Accomplish top sales in region.Help train new sales associates.

Overland Park, Ks

Drive sales.Merchandise store.Help train new Sales Associates.

Independence, Mo

Learned key elements of marketing and development in malls.Put together and hosted Mother's Nite Out.

Independence, Mo

Assist customers in putting together outfits.Operate cash registers.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor'S In Liberal Arts, Communications Studies, 3.5 Cumulative Gpa

Completed studies with a focus in Business Administration, Cultures, and Communications. Attained a Bachelor's of Liberal Arts.

Associate Of Arts (Aa), Business Administration And Management, General

Activities and Societies: Honor Roll, Blue River Student Ambassadors, Gay-Straight AlliancePresident of Student Ambassadors, Participated.