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Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Tx

Austin, Texas Area

Chicago, Il

Plante Moran is the 14th largest accounting and business advisory firm in the country. With more than 2,200 employees in 23 offices around the world, the firm provides audit, tax, and consulting services to clients across the industry spectrum. PM has been named as one of FORTUNE magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For"​ for 19 consecutive years.As manager of the Marketing Department's entrepreneurial Pursuit Strategy Team, I drove the new business pursuit process from start to finish: coaching strategy and storytelling, project managing engagement teams, developing strategic content, crafting narrative messaging, ensuring the prominence and strength of the brand, and in the end, winning new business for a growing firm. I also supervised our team's Mumbai, India staff, travelling onsite annually to strengthen and enhance our international capabilities. As we grew and developed our cutting-edge, industry-leading pursuit model, I led the team's process and deliverable enhancement, contributing strategy and storytelling expertise, data tracking and analysis, and pursuit best practices.

Greater Chicago Area

RTI International is one of the world's leading research institutes, working with governments, businesses, foundations, universities, and other partners to improve the human condition by turning knowledge into practice. RTI works in more than 75 countries and maintains offices on four continents.As an independent contract writer, I author in-depth public health research reports, constructing narratives around socioeconomic and environmental research. As part of various collaborative teams, I work with curators, data scientists, environmental scanners, reviewers, and academics to research, guide, and analyze targeted data, and then generate narrative research reports for one of the largest foundations in the country.

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I contribute sports journalism and analysis to various leading websites, including www.TheWolverine.com, www.numberFire.com, and www.PluggedInGolf.com.TheWolverine.com is the premier publication and Rivals.com network website dedicated to University of Michigan athletics. Providing in-depth, 24-7 coverage of everything having to do with recruiting, coaching, development, and breaking news for the Wolverines' sports programs. I contributed a weekly feature entitled "The OSU Review" throughout the season, which provide detailed game breakdowns for Michigan's biggest rival.

435 N. Michigan Ave.

Tribune Content Agency (TCA) provides content solutions for industry-leading businesses and top-selling publications around the world, including the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Variety, Foreign Affairs, As the entrepreneurial content marketing services arm of Tribune Company, TCA provides custom content solutions of the highest professional quality that engage consumers and fulfill their clients' business objectives. They publish, syndicate, and license an extensive content catalog of news journalism features, op-ed and advice columns, specialty content products, editorial cartoons, puzzles, and more that reaches tens of millions of consumers worldwide every day through print, online and on-screen media. TCA also markets news, features, photography, information graphics, and multimedia content to clients around the world through McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.TCA also develops and brings to market an ever-increasing slate of content products and e-publications, including topical ebooks and best-selling zines for mobile devices. Each digital content product is developed, edited, launched, and marketed through collaborative teamwork and with the utmost attention to quality and target audience engagement.

Ba, Film And Video Studies

Mfa, Creative Writing