Lisa Sykes Email & Phone Number

United States

Abingdon, Virginia

Abingdon, Va

Collaborate with art director and marketing for all creative projects, from concept to completion. This includes translating marketing objectives into creative strategies, managing the copy and design teams, and utilizing personal skills to conceptualize creative projects.

Abingdon, Va

Leads a variety of regulatory and sustainability activities related to proprietary brand raw materials, finished products, labeling, marketing claims, and packaging to ensure compliance with US cosmetic regulations.Provides claims guidance to creative, marketing, product development, and vendor partners so products can be brought to market in a timely, cost-efficient manner. Also develops and implements company sustainability measures and serves as a liaison between the company and counsel, third party certifiers, formulators, professional affiliations, and the local community. In addition, I write/edit/proof web and print copy and content, publish articles in trade magazines, and work with marketing on branding.

Abingdon, Va

Write/proof/edit technical manuals, product copy, and web content. Publish articles in trade magazines, manage the company blog and social media presence, and work with marketing on branding. Specializes in ingredients and personal care claims and works closely with product development and vendor partners on green product review/messaging.

Work with committee members to develop educational tools for spa members, advise on committee policy, and provide presentations at Green Spa Network events concerning personal care ingredients.Joined the Green Spa Network Marketing Committee January 2015 to serve as a liaison to the personal care committee and assist with web content and other marketing endeavors.

Lebanon, Virginia

Legal assistant for medical malpractice, personal injury, and insurance defense firm. Assisted in trial preparation, created deposition summaries, maintained and organized files, conducted legal research, assisted in case review, aided in the drafting and filing of court documents.

Emory, Va

Taught freshman and sophomore literature and composition courses. Faculty advisor for SETA (Students for the Ethical Treatment of Animals).

Johnson City, Tn

Taught freshman and sophomore literature and composition courses.

Certificate, Sustainability

Completed program with a 4.0 GPA. Successfully created and defended sustainability action plan for graduate level course.

Ma, English

Activities and Societies: -Editor, The Mockingbird 1996-1997, All American with four Marks of Distinction, Associated Collegiate Press.

Ba, English

Activities and Societies: Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society (founding member of Alpha Epsilon Sigma Chapter), Quiz Bowl Team