* Responsible for planning, coordinating, promoting, and supervising special activities and events for the the City of Toccoa and Main Street Toccoa.* Organizes and promotes established events such as, Main Street Awards, Arbor Day, Toast of Toccoa, Toccoa Train Day, Cruzin’ Down Doyle, Ida Cox Music Series, Currahee Military Weekend, Harvest Festival, Costume Parade, Small Business Saturday, Christmas Fest, Toccoa On Ice, and co-sponsored events.* Creates, organizes, and promotes new city-wide special events. Coordinates other special events held downtown with city departments.* Markets and promotes events through graphic creation and social media campaigns.* Facilitates the Promotions Committee meetings.* Recruits volunteers for the Promotions Committee and for each event.* Makes reports to the Downtown Development Authority.* Keeps the media informed of upcoming events.* Writes press releases, website content, social media content, etc.* Creates graphics for all City events and coordinates/assists as needed with graphics for Main Street and the Ritz Theatre.* Creates and submits Main Street advertisements for area magazines, newspapers, and radio.* Writes and sends the Main Street Weekly Update.* Edits the bimonthly newsletter to downtown businesses.* Promotes and visits downtown businesses.* Develops budget for special events; monitors expenditures under the current budget; completes event financial statements.* Serves as contact person for Public Works employees that clean downtown.* Serves as the contact person for street closure and private downtown events requests.* Performs financial duties such as reconciling monthly credit card statements for the department, produce department budget report, make deposits, write requisitions.* Assists with Christmas decorations program.* Edits website content as needed.

* Oversaw all financial aspects of the business and worked closely with the owner as problems from the impact of COVID arose.* Created and maintained many types of sales and analytical reports to help make tough financial based business decisions.* Planned inventory flow of goods with owner.* Helped build a new e-commerce-based company website, including all written content, and managed the transition.* Assisted office staff with daily order entries, sales reports, and general customer service communications.* Maintained procedure documentation and edited as processes changed.* Managed special order vendors.* Troubleshooted and resolved technical issues with software and office technology.* Recorded accounts receivable and reviewed all transactions for accuracy.* Designed print and digital advertisements and campaigns and wrote all copy for the campaigns.* Updated existing company website with new flyers, photos, and forms.* Priced and ordered print and marketing materials and assured timely delivery and constant flow of inventory of materials.* Produced and edited photography of all new products as well as factory defect pictures.

* Worked with domestic and international vendors to purchase raw materials as well as finished goods.* Negotiated for best bottom-line prices on all purchases.* Dealt with customs brokers to ensure shipments arrive with no delays.* Developed new purchasing policies for difficult vendors.* Aided in the development and research of new manufacturing software.* Wrote, provided graphics, and edited new software user manuals.* Ran training sessions for new software with management and with employees in each department.

Assistant Manager of Corporate Traffic* Entered accounts payable and receivable for 12 radio stations.* Received, processed, and confirmed traffic orders for 12 stations.* Billed out commercial advertising for 12 stations.* Created and edited daily program logs for 12 stations.* Completed records and affidavits for major networks.* Wrote copy and produced commercials for numerous stations.* Compiled weekly/monthly sales and accounts receivable reports for 12 stations.* Wrote and edited training manuals for traffic policies and conducted training sessions.* Aided in the development of new traffic software.Assistant Manager of WNGA Radio* Responsible for all written and phone communication.* Completed daily deposits, updated station website daily with copy and edited the copy, and compiled and sent a daily informational fax to businesses in the community.* Assisted news department with gathering/writing stories and sound bites and live reporting. At times ran entire news department single-handedly, which included writing, producing, and editing news stories for on-air and the website.* Responsible for all station programming, production, daily weather updates, obituary reports, and community announcements.* Wrote and edited commercials and press releases.* Maintained FCC mandated Public Inspection File.* Attended various station and community events as the station liaison.* Organized station events.Account Executive - WNEG Radio* Sold commercial advertising and introduced creative solutions to clients’ advertising needs.* Wrote, edited, and produced commercials.* Organized and attended station events.* Obtained new clients and participated in mass telemarketing sales promotions.Office Manager - WNEG Radio* Responsible for all written and phone communication.* Completed daily deposits and organized giveaways.* Maintained FCC mandated Public Inspection File.* Organized and attended station events.* Wrote, edited, and produced commercials