Matthew Mcginley Email & Phone Number

United States

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Contributed to building a holistic year long experiential event strategy to ensure success for UCLA’s return to campus campaign that celebrates the Bruin community and revitalizes Westwood
• Strategized, planned, and executed events and projects that garnered over 60 million social impressions, lead to an increase of 50,000 followers across social media platforms and resulted in @UCLA’s most viewed and.
• Won STAR award for building a culture of collaboration between campus and external partners
• Managed all aspects of both in-person and online events including budget management, vendor sourcing and management, collaboration with campus partners, event measurement and analytics, event promotion, training staff

• Manage all facets of university-sponsored events, including developing proposals, event programs, guest lists, budgets, logistics, and promotional materials, within time limits and on budget.
• Successfully maneuvered to virtual events training other campus partners, creating event websites, and editing videos.
• Partner with university officials, faculty and staff, as well as campus service providers to produce events, taking into consideration goals, themes, audiences and university priorities.
• Event highlights: UCLA Strategic Communications Summit, Bruin Bound, Faculty Research Lecture, Association of Pacific Rim Universities Conference, College Signing Day 2019 sponsored by Michelle Obama

• Managed logistical operations for Bruin Bound events - a recruiting effort that reaches 10 out of state markets bringing the experience of UCLA to potential students
• Managed guest relations and registration for the Mo Ostin Basketball Center Grand Opening an event with the top UCLA Basketball alumni.
• Managed and updated key university stakeholder lists in Blackbaud CRM

Rwanda, Africa

• Managed a $25,000 budget to continually improve a growing basketball program in Rwanda,Africa which is accompanied by a health & citizenship curriculum.
• Developed and fundraised for a health insurance initiative that sponsored health insurance for over 700 Shooting Touch participants.
• Developed to assist with health testing, give health insurance, rebuild homes in the community, raise awareness against gender-based violence
• Increased player participation hours by over 36% from the previous year including a 79% increase in female participation for a total of 10,272 participation hours

Costa Mesa

• Put on engaging and interactive career exploration events for at-risk high school students across the US empowering students to follow and find their passions and to pursue unique career pathways.
• Booked exciting and diverse local leaders to speak at events including representatives from the NBA, Politicians, Music Industry Executives, Entrepreneurs, CEO's and much more.
• Helped implement a social media contest which trended on Twitter nationally
• Presented to audiences of up to 500 people
• Maintained excellent communication with members of the press, corporatesponsors, school administrators, politicians, and more while on the road
• Captured video footage of student/teacher interviews as well as B-roll footage

Orange County, California Area

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Communications (Writing)

Activities and Societies: Sigma Alpha Epsilon at Cal Alpha Alpha KSUN campus radio

International And Intercultural Communication, 3.49

Activities and Societies: Member of International Student Relations GroupRelevant Courses taken in Sweden in a global classroom.