• Wrote and designed bi-weekly e-Newsletters for AU Woodstock Center, a satellite campus offering graduate and undergraduate degrees to adult students. • Helped manage and streamline Center’s finances, operations, building and schedules. • Served as key member of small staff by anticipating and solving problems• Provided high-quality customer service to students, co-workers and faculty members.

Won contested elections to serve 4-year terms as City Councilwoman for the City of Woodstock. • Campaigned, designed ads and signs, wrote platform and created website. • Once elected, helped determine the vision for the city, listened to citizens, evaluated and discussed municipal issues, fostered creative solutions, represented the City at events, and contributed to decisions affecting 25,000 residents. Highlight: "Real Woodstock" Marketing Initiative• Played key role in leading Woodstock to market itself in Chicago region as a great place to live, work and invest. • Founding board member (served 2015-2020) for creation and management of the city's external brand and marketing/advertising campaign. • Resulting "Real Woodstock" identity has won Illinois Tourism awards and serves as umbrella for website, social media, billboards, Metra train ads, radio and print. • Now in its 7th successful year, the brand was most recently instrumental in winning T-Mobile's Hometown Tech Makeover national contest in 2021.

Attended and generated detailed minutes for the meetings of the City Council and other governmental entities in Woodstock. Demonstrated ability to grasp issues and provide clear, correct summaries.

Writer for event management solutions company, developing web content, e-blasts, social media and marketing materials. Assimilated information on complex proprietary software products to write clear, compelling copy.

Wrote and edited thousands of articles on colleges, degrees and careers for web media company (formerly Remilon) using enterprise content management software (Confluence). Applied writing, grammar, research and fact-checking skills to create and improve content within company's detailed style and formatting requirements. Worked 20 hours/week on 100% telecommuting basis; twice promoted into editor roles. (Re-hired after company's 10-month reorganization hiatus in 2013-14.)

Established, wrote and designed a weekly 6-page newsletter. Coordinated publicity, flyers, mass mailings and advertising and designed an identity package for the church. Self-taught PC platform and Microsoft Publisher.

While employed full-time as magazine editor for the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA), I also formed an S Corporation, invested in Mac hardware and mastered page design software on my own time. Provided graphic design services for several 2-color ALA publications by working nights and weekends in a contractor capacity. Spent 14 months serving both roles before transitioning to full-time self-employment providing desktop publishing services. Retained ALA as a client, added others and remained current with evolving technology to achieve goal of maintaining earning potential and continuing professional growth while staying at home as a parent.

Began as a newsletter editor to write and manage a bimonthly 24-page newsletter and six specialty quarterly newsletters. Later promoted to role of magazine editor to manage all phases of association’s full-color 84-page professional journal. Assigned and edited articles, conceptualized art and illustrations and tracked design, layout and printing processes.