Kimberly Barron Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon Area

Guides and supports the marketing team, attorneys, and other corporate departments in strategic business development and promotional initiatives, in order to help one of the Portland area’s top law firms retain current clients and develop new lines of business. Website Content Administration: Works with marketing team members and the web developer to develop and execute project plans, to provide project-specific content and deliverables, and to help track project milestones.Marketing Collateral: Manages the development, design and production of customized marketing materials such as brochures and sponsorship-related advertising.Branding: Oversees the firm's creative output. Develops and maintains a set of standard visuals to use in connection with all promotional activities. Email Marketing: Oversees the distribution of legal advisories and other client communications, including reviewing and proofing content, developing and maintaining mailing lists, dissemination, and tracking and reporting results.Social Media: Manages firm-related social media profiles, including attorneys’ LinkedIn profiles; and educates and trains employees on best practices.

Portland, Oregon Area

Website Maintenance: Acts as the central point of contact for all website-related updates. Creates, edits, updates and maintains web content, including practice-area overviews, attorney biographies, legal advisories, news items, notable transactions and cases, and additional materials.Internal Communications: Serves as the editor-in-chief for the internal marketing newsletters, which communicates best practices and reports monthly marketing activities in order to leverage a collective experience.Presentations: Working closely with the attorney(s), develops engaging, informative presentations and seminar materials for internal and external speaking engagements. Directory Listings: Updates renewals for firm directory listings and surveys, and coordinates the submission and nomination process for rating and peer recognition providers.Client Pitches and RFPs: Manages the creation, tailoring, and production of client pitches and proposals, responses to RFPs, and other business development presentations.

Portland, Oregon Area

Greater Seattle Area

Internal Training and Education: Assisted with the development and implementation of training and professional development programs for the firm’s 130+ attorneys. Included attorney orientation and integration programs, and professional development series.Annual Evaluations: Aided in the annual associate evaluation and compensation process by gathering and distributing feedback, while maintaining the utmost level of confidentiality. CLE Administration: Promoted the adoption and use of a Web-based resource for CLE programs and additional skills courses.

Greater Seattle Area

Represented Seattle University's school newspaper by leading, supporting and directing the advertising sales activities of assigned subordinates. Helped double newspaper profits during the 2007-2008 academic year.Advertising Sales: Sold advertising space for The Spectator by engaging with agencies and prospects to determine key marketing issues; and providing thorough follow-up with a creative, tailored pitch.Sales Team Management: Oversaw, motivated, monitored and assigned work, and provided leadership, guidance and training of assigned sales staff to meet and/or exceed revenue goals.

Greater Seattle Area

Helped grow fanbases and engage consumers across a multitude of screens for Fortune 100 clients of a boutique, award-winning advertising agency by aiding in the successful execution of paid, earned and owned media strategies.Discovery: Assisted with the discovery process on large engagements and defining project requirements (goals, deliverables, schedule, and budget).Production: Partnered with a variety of project-specific vendors to ensure that the finished project met the requirements laid out by the account and creative teams.