Kristen Johnson Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

-- Functioned as a lead account executive for consumer clients, including BabyBjörn, Dr. Brown’s, Czarnowski, Britax, BOB, and Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC)-- Supervised projects and team members and on an ongoing basis to meet deadlines -- Secured media coverage for clients, including national and local TV, newspapers, magazines, radio, websites, blogs and social media-- Planned, managed events for product launches and fundraising, such as RIC’s annual Willis Tower stairclimbing event and launching its first-ever media competition-- Managed BabyBjörn (U.S.) social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram-- Created blogger vetting system to efficiently capture data for more than 1,500 bloggers-- Assisted with crisis communications, including product recalls and data breaches

Chicago

-- Functioned as a lead account executive for the consumer clients of Olive Garden, Red Lobster, LongHorn Steakhouse, Hilton HHonors and Kraft-- Launched national rebranding campaigns for Red Lobster (2011) and Olive Garden (2012)-- Managed brand events, including Red Lobster’s first-ever Yelp event, a Times Square Red Lobster menu tasting with top-tier media and a Skype wine tasting series for Olive Garden-- Coordinated national media tours featuring Olive Garden and Red Lobster experts-- Led blog network partnerships (Mom Central, Social Moms) to secure restaurant reviews

Greater Chicago Area

-- Functioned as lead intern for teams of Wrigley, ACH Foods, Optima, Parking Spot, Fruit2O, Elations, Fitbit-- Managed media relations efforts for 2010 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational-- Coordinated blogger affairs, such as ACH’s Bake for the Cure blogger campaign (Susan G. Komen)

Greater Chicago Area

-- Functioned as lead intern for consumer teams of Milk, McCormick, Nabisco, KFC, Campbell’s -- Developed pitch emails and media lists to conduct local and national outreach for clients -- Managed client social media platforms for Nabisco and McCormick -- Monitored daily client media mentions, including quantifying and qualifying coverage

Greater Chicago Area

-- Managed company’s social media platforms, including Twitter, Facebook and MySpace-- Interviewed new artists to craft publicity handouts, pitch new music to media -- Hired by one of the label’s bands to manage a 10-person publicity team

-- Reviewed various new albums and artists by deadline.

-- Researched, planned, and booked upcoming bands and artists, (Wilco, B.B. King, The Fray,Bob Saget, Jim Gaffigan, Charlie Murphy, Dierks Bentley, etc.) -- Advertised for performances by creating and designing posters, signs, radio/television advertisements, and merchandise-- Created and managed stage environment for concerts and events

-- Managed the features desk, including a staff of 10 reporters and an assistant editor-- Edited stories for my desk and the other desks at the newspaper-- Developed fresh story concepts linked with different design elements and graphics-- Worked with an office of editors to produce a paper every weekday

-- Researched stories, developed articles, and arranged and scheduled interviews-- Completed articles according to the assigned deadlines from the editor

-- Worked through a summer editorial internship under the paper’s editor-in-chief, John Koys-- Reported on various communities’ news and happenings

-- Wrote music artist features and reviews on releasing albums from press kits-- Practiced contacting and corresponding with record companies and artist public relation teams

Bachelor Of Arts In Professional Writing, Minors: Spanish Language, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Purdue Student Concert Committee - Publicity Director; Alpha Gamma Delta - Activities Manager, Personal.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Spanish

Education record