Mitzi Connell Email & Phone Number

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Managing & developing compliant, compelling, and winning proposal content submissions to federal Government RFIs, RFQs, RFPs. RESPONSIBILITIES | SKILLS | ACCOMPLISHMENTS:✓ Building compliance matrices, RFP outlines. ✓ Drafting & refining RFP responses that demonstrate company & team capabilities. ✓ Verifying narratives are easy to evaluate against the SOW/PWS, and meeting both solicitation requirements and evaluation criteria. ✓ Performing AP-Style editing for grammar, spelling, capitalization, punctuation, acronym definitions.✓ Executing RFP-compliant document formatting across multiple proposal volumes.✓ Ensuring proposal compliance throughout all color team reviews. ✓ Working to ISO 9001 compliance standards for proposal reviews.✓ Top-notch MS Office Suite expertise with rigorous attention to detail:...MS Word formatting: fonts, tables, colors, headings, bullets, paragraphs, headers, footers, etc....MS Excel skills: functions, style formatting, pivot tables, V-LOOKUP, and data analysis. ...MS PowerPoint know-how: creating eye-catching, animated presentations.

St Augustine, Florida

Membership Administrator for a region consisting of 50+ chapters and 1000+ members.RESPONSIBILITIES | SKILLS | ACCOMPLISHMENTS:✓ Fluently manage entire region’s applicant and membership life-cycle: 900+ members, 40+ chapters. ✓ Seamlessly multitask between Helpdesk Ticketing System (Zendesk), multiple email accounts, company databases, company websites, online forms, Quickbooks, and multiple payment portals.✓ Designed online application process that BNI® Corporate replicated & rolled out nationwide 2020.✓ Transformed role from inefficient to smooth-running, paperless, & revenue-saving. ✓ Monitor multiple databases, trackers, and pipelines✓ Provide region-wide analysis and data. Identify performance trends and insights. Turn raw data into actionable information✓ Many years spent actively networking at chapter, city, and regional levels.

St Augustine, Florida

For years, I selectively managed social media for exclusive entrepreneurs / small business owners. ▪️ Omnichannel social media marketing management - Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram▪️ Established and/or maintained branding and voice consistency.▪️ Strong content marketing knowledge & skills: research, design, writing/editing, planning▪️ Managed marketing editorial calendars (I'm a long-time fan of CoSchedule)▪️ Write/Edit/Publish social media campaigns, email campaigns, digital newsletters.

St Augustine, Florida

▪️ Designed Client template and RFP outlines, worked with compliance matrices.▪️ AP-Style editing for grammar, spelling, capitalization, punctuation, acronym definitions.▪️ RFP-compliant document formatting across multiple proposal volumes.▪️ Ensured proposal compliance throughout all color team reviews.

▪️ Certified Yoga Teacher (E-RYT200®) | Community Health and Wellness Promoter▪️ Built and optimized multiple brands: “Yoga with Mitzi,” “Align & Wine,” “The Yoga Co-Op,” “Yoga HōM,” “Rocket City Yoga Week,” and “Rocket City Yoga Hub.”▪️ Founder & Organizer of the largest, high-profile annual yoga event in Alabama, "Rocket City Yoga Week" - 2012-2017. Overall 5-year attendance +10,000. Raised over $10,000 for charity.▪️ Founder & Organizer of highly successful "Align & Wine" - a weekly yoga fusion event at Huntsville Museum of Art - 2010-2014. Hosted and instructed more than 2,800 students from 9 countries. Event received national exposure, Kiplinger’s Magazine.▪️ Applied industry best-practices to conduct venue and vendor cost/price analysis on wide range of proposals & modifications.▪️ Negotiated contracts, resolved schedule problems, mediated schedule changes.▪️ Yoga Teacher for Milwaukee Brewers’ Huntsville Stars team (4 yrs).▪️ Established solid client base of 250+ students from 2009-2013. ▪️ Focused on community wellness. Winner, "Huntsville’s Healthiest Woman,"▪️ 3000+ teaching hours amassed to date. ▪️ 20+ years’ dedicated yoga practitioner experience.Reason for Leaving: Relocation to St. Augustine and sabbatical from teaching.

United States

Founder, Organizer & Promoter of the two largest, most high-profile yoga events in Alabama: Rocket City Yoga Week℠ & Align & Wine℠Rocket City Yoga Week (2012-2017)▪️ Successfully attracted overall attendance of 10,000+. Raised $10,000+ for charity in final two years.▪️ Developed and managed all branding/marketing/campaign strategies. Oversaw all social media, copywriting, WordPress website, event planning, digital and printed marketing materials, media packets, press releases. ▪️ Designed, managed, and analyzed online event reservations, digital release forms, and attendance records using platforms such as Eventbrite, Google Forms, WordPress, PayPal.▪️ Applied business / industry best-practices to conduct event cost and price analysis. Analyzed cost elements on wide range of proposals, modifications, terminations.▪️ Negotiated contracts, resolved schedule problems, coordinated with photographers and other vendors, mediated teaching schedule changes.▪️ Networking and relationship-building at local, regional, and national levels. ▪️ Created & hosted 280+ event classes. Recruited & promoted more than 50 different teachers.▪️ Creator & Publisher: Yoga Where You Are - 72-page event magazine: http://bit.ly/RCYW-ezineAlign and Wine (2010-2013)▪️ Built highly successful "Align & Wine" at Huntsville Museum of Art - weekly yoga fusion event. ▪️ Over 3 years, taught more than 2,800 students from 9 countries.▪️ National exposure, Kiplinger’s Magazine, 2012

Senior Corporate Recruiter & Global Project Recruiting Manager ▪️ Virtually supported, recruited & sourced for US and Global Sanmina-SCI plants. ▪️ Recruited for numerous divisions, spanning IT to Defense to Logistics & Global Supply Chain. ▪️ Successfully filled over 310 positions for 15 different divisions in 12 different locations. ▪️ Corrected EEO documentation platform and solved problems with OFCCP compliance.▪️ Recruited candidates from entry-level to executive-level. ▪️ Consistently coached hiring managers and candidates on best hiring practices. ▪️ Maintained personal library of resume-writing tools and websites to share with candidates.Reason for Leaving: Layoff

Anniston, Alabama Area

Senior Sales Recruiter (2 yrs), 411 Call Center Recruiter (5 yrs) ▪️ Recruited, screened, hired more than 4500 call center operators in 5 years.▪️ Recruited account representatives for positions throughout the southeast. ▪️ Consistently coached hiring managers and candidates on best hiring practices. ▪️ Maintained personal library of resume-writing tools and websites to share with candidates.Reason for Leaving: Opportunity at Sanmina

Oxford, Alabama

▪️ Menu-planning and preparation of healthy, delicious meals for private clientele.

Oxford, Alabama

▪️ Attracted, qualified, maintained solid portfolio of clients and prospects. ▪️ Recruited, interviewed, and retained staffing employees. ▪️ Generated and managed more than 30 different accounts totaling over $1.1 million in sales.

Anniston, Alabama Area

▪️ Account executive selling radio advertising.

Bachelor Of Science

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