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Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

United States

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Collaborated with communications team to help manage and distribute internal messaging to employees.Managed internal website with helpful information for employees and internal stakeholders.Supported Communications counterparts during transition services agreement from Dominion Energy to MountainWest Pipeline.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Understand and stay abreast of issues, both external and internal, that impact company operations.Prepare news releases, articles for internal or external distribution, and other materials about company policy, strategy, events and projects. Facilitate communication among company management, employees, and/or media. Identifies issues, and develop communication plans for appropriate audience. Advise management on communication plans.Respond to news media with concise and accurate information about company policies, operations, and projects. Assist and promote External Affairs and Corporate Communications programs. May prepare strategies for securing stories about the company in the media including other communications personnel, meeting with executives and employees, and contacting reporters informally.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Seasoned Marketing and Communications specialist with nearly two decades of professional writing, editing, and design experience. Well-versed in social media content creation, corporate communications, feature story spotlights and more.

Salt Lake City

Develop and manage strategic communications for Salt Lake City Arts Council programs. Develop and manage media partnerships. Create and implement comprehensive communications timelines. Manage important website updates. Hire and manage communications staff. Coordinate media content and sharing. Manage ad deliveries and creation. Coordinate artist and publicity and assets. Manage and execute on-site venue marketing and promotional engagements.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Created monthly communications including an all-staff email update and PowerPoint presentation on behalf of CEOs and division vice presidents. Edit written content on internal and external Red Cross websites. Work closely with other communications program managers to develop materials and toolkits to aid in communication throughout the organization. Responsible for quality and compliance communications and cascading pertinent information to employees through various communication channels. Contribute engaging and informative content for our national blood donor community page on Facebook. Proficient with Adobe Creative Suite programs.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Manage the production of multiple newsletters and weekly communications for different audiences. Work closely with key Marketing and Communications members throughout the organization to share knowledge and best practices. Develop and create content for internal and external communications in the West Division and other areas. Serve as social media subject matter expert for the division. Write, edit and design publications for internal and external purposes. Create news and feature content for print and online. Serve as a participant and leader for different communications committees throughout Biomedical Services. Work closely with graphic artists and Web designers to develop internal communications strategies for different campaigns.

Created and edited written, audio and video content for online continuing legal education website. Responsibilities included encoding and editing educational/learning programs, converting materials into online formats and working with Adobe desktop publishing programs from Acrobat Acrobat to InDesign. Assisted Sales and Marketing team in making company brochures, leaflets and documents for print and on the Web. Assembled eight issues of internal newsletter called BI Revival by writing and laying out stories on company news, profiles and local events.

Edited and proofread arts and entertainment stories for daily newspaper at The University of Utah. Developed articles for publication, examined various stages of production from creating cutlines and captions to assisting in the layout process according to the specifications of the weekly insert, RED Magazine. Helped staff writers with research methods, developing outlines and conceptualizing story ideas. Sat on editorial board responsible for newspaper editorial decisions. Participated in other areas of the publication such as writing everything from sports columns to editorial works reflecting the views of the senior staff members. Interviewed dozens of platinum-selling musicians, world-renowned authors, film makers and artists.

Associate Of Science - As, General Studies

Bachelor'S Degree, Communications/Public Relations

Activities and Societies: Arts and Entertainment Assistant Editor and The Daily Utah Chronicle.