Kawika Holbrook Email & Phone Number

United States

Los Gatos, Calif.

I lead all creative efforts for the agency. That includes strategic communications plans, web development, and presentation design. I also create social media and marketing campaigns to build brands, solve problems, and increase engagement. Most importantly, I bring the donuts.

Worked with Apple's executive team, press relations, investor relations, legal department, and director of customer care to solve complex, sensitive issues for the company's most influential and demanding customers. Responsible for damage control, customer recovery and retention, official company positioning, and creating strategies for operational, product and service improvements.

Promoted six times in three years to assistant store manager. Hired, trained and managed new employees. Created and presented workshops and special events. Opening and closed the store. Increased the store's conversation rates, attachment rates, and sales of higher-margin third-party products.

Developed online strategies and solutions for Plantronics and Chevron. Wrote speeches for Sun Microsystems' SVP of sales. Led the development of client proposals, naming projects, strategy documents, technical requirements, content catalogs and other information architecture materials.

Developed, managed, and marketed an online benefits enrollment (with supporting print collateral) for 500 clients and their 11,000 employees. Initiated, helped produce, and managed a timesaving and productivity-boosting intranet for 300 staff members.

Helped develop and produce HR intranets for @Home and Applied Materials; M&A communications for Travelocity and Sabre; summary plan descriptions for Starbucks and Emory Worldwide; personalized financial brochures for Oracle and Providence Health System; multimedia presentations for the International Association of Machinists and the Trust Company of the West; management materials for Cirrus Logic and Transamerica; and competitive research, phone interviews, focus groups, and industry analyses for dozens of other clients.

Shared the corporate vision with the public, the press, employees, clients, and business partners. Planned, wrote and edited the company magazine, newsletters, ad campaigns, training manuals and business plans; directed public relations; designed and produced the marketing materials, booth exhibits, logistical plans, and staffing schedules for trade show and industry conferences; and researched trends in the staffing industry.

Researched and wrote op-ed articles, position papers, letters, and speeches for an elected official. Promoted and scheduled educational programs, lectures, and speaking engagements.

Investigated local economic, social, criminal and agricultural issues. Created a weekly in-house roundtable for constructive criticism. Photographed sex offenders, skydivers, and forest fires.

Ba, Mass Communications

Activities and Societies: Newspaper, student government

Journalism

Activities and Societies: Speech Team, Lambda Chi Alpha

That Girl Next To My Locker. You Know The One.