Andrea Kemp Email and Phone Number

• Creative writing lead, tasked with producing three themes each for at least six individual incentive trips and corporate conferences annually.• Generate content to tie selected themes into more than 25 creative pieces per campaign, including gift mailings, brochures, emails, website content and social media posts.• Experienced international travel writer working in collaboration with stakeholders, business partners, event planners, graphic and email designers to promote sales-based incentive trips.

• Serve as lead copy writer and editor for marketing department, supervising two published articles from each of five market segment managers annually.• Generate weekly content to include press releases, email blasts, company blogs, technical notes and magazine articles. • Lead social media strategy and implementation across variety of platforms with 75% increase in engagement over six-month period. • Actively promote company by designing, sourcing and ordering branded merchandise, as well as planning and attending annual trade shows and industry events.

• Certified Ground Security Coordinator for Allegiant Airlines; first on-ground point of contact in emergency or irregular procedures. Relay necessary security information to TSA, Airport Authority, WFS management, and other airlines. • Facilitated ticket sales, field customer queries, and settled customer service disputes for average of three flights per day using positive, proactive communications. • Developed time-saving measures for collecting critical flight and passenger tracking, significantly reducing delays, increasing on-time performance by an average of 15 minutes. • Designed intake system for comprehensive data collection in new bookings, increasing rate of purchased flights.• Trained more than five new hires and facilitated onboarding process.

• Completed more than 50 contracts for web copy, article writing, blog posts, press releases, marketing consultation, e-mail campaigns, résumé creation, SEO writing, and the editing of two published non-fiction books. • Ranked in the top 30 percent of all contractors in Content Writing, Creative Writing, and Vocabulary arenas. • Managed average of four active clients at a time. Facilitated daily communication to ensure on-time deliverables and repeat clients.

• Navigated more than 45 individual vendor relationships across more than 700-mile-territory by scheduling visits, in-services, support calls, and marketing update deliveries. • Created original copy, PowerPoint presentations, hand-outs and itineraries for quarterly client in-services. Educated sales, technical, managerial, and support staff on Pride Mobility products. • Provided monthly sales forecasting and relayed trends in territory for corporate use in budgeting, sales, and product R&D.

• Managed fastest-growing channel of Fortune 5000 Company, working to increaseproduct sales with more than 45 individual vendors in the Internet and catalogareas.• During first month of 2013, brought in revenue of over $200,000 in theInternet/Catalog Channel, an increase of more than 55 percent over previousyear and 80 percent above projected budget. Grew overall channel more than 20percent from 2012-2013.• Openly collaborated with marketing to form new product sales ideas, froming copy toonline content ideas; suggested and implemented rejuvenation of old productmarketing materials to rejuvenate older product lines.• Crafted copy for customer responses used across all sales channels.• Sourced and attended trade shows, made individual client visits to ensure strong vendorrelationships with Brownmed's Internet/Catalog Channel.• Maintained open, professional internal communications with customer service, shipping,logistics, manufacturing, marketing, and product development to ensure efficienttransactions; provide input for how to expand, improve, and streamline companyprocedures for optimum brand growth.

In charge of placing and purchasing advertising, coordinating graphic packages, web presentation, social media marketing and lead event coordination. Generate press releases to garner publicity for company.

Created press releases, created and edited copy and edited documents for clients.

• Planned, wrote and copy edited at least four stories per week on topics that showed adept news sense and exhibited community involvement. • Responsible for uploading of all news content to publication’s website.• Provided photography for online and print editions.• Pitched and wrote stories for numerous magazines, special publications and tabs.

Freelance writer for publications including Okoboji Magazine and The N'West Iowa Review

Tabulation coordinator during Iowa Caucuses; currently submit freelance material

• Sole reporter of Democratic Party vote tallies from media headquarters to Associated Press during Iowa Caucus. • Provided freelance A-Wire coverage featured both nationally and internationally. • Created personalized list of national contacts on issues including agriculture, environmental concerns and green energy.

• Served two-year term on Reader Advisory Board. Provided monthly feedback to editorial staff impacting changes in layout of paper and delivery of coverage.• Photographer, staff writer and blogger for community publications, submitting as many as six articles and 50 photos to print and web components each week.

Supervised more than 30 writers, section editors and photographers, work with layout, copy editing and story conceptualization.Served as staff writer, sports and copy editor prior to current position.

Submitted footage upon request of campaign events in Iowa during late summer and early fall of 2007.

Reported on array of issues, book and movie reviews, news conferences and Capitol Hill community events.

Worked with Quark to complete pagination, edited copy and contributed news and feature articles for community newspaper.

Served as a freelance writer for community editions. Selected to two-year term on reader advisory board, providing feedback to editorial staff members.