Work closely with staff for the Colorado congressional delegation, federal elected officials, military officials, and other offices to schedule outreach meetings, campus tours, and events with congressional members and staff, federal elected officials, and military officials (in Colorado, Washington, D.C, and virtually). Acts as point of contact with congressional schedulers for events, coordination with university staff and faculty, constituent matters, etc. for all campuses and the CU System offices. Manages the overall office budget for the Denver office and manages operations for the Washington, DC office, including office budgets, contracts, and travel.Oversees the development of department and system policies and updates related to government relations;Prepares and files the semi-annual federal contributions and quarterly lobbying reports for the federal lobbyists and for the University of Colorado;Manages the Colorado Capital Conference for the University, in cooperation with external and CU campus partners; Manages and oversees the solicitation processes to retain the services of qualified government affairs firms to assist the Federal Relations team, including overseeing RFP and DQ processes. Also manages and oversees operations with contracted firms, including coordinating payment for services; scheduling and coordinating meetings; and communicating with firm personnel to resolve budget or contractual matters as needed; Manages and maintains schedules, updates calendars, arranges travel, and assists with preparing corresponding materials for the Federal Relations team ;Established department newsletter for Government Relations and continues to coordinate the distribution to an internal CU audience;Provides support for special projects as needed;Approves vacation/sick leave requests and manages monthly staff time collection;Assists with a variety of duties including purchasing supplies; preparing expense reports and travel reimbursements;

Create, coordinate, and distribute the quarterly Office of Government Relations newsletter.Prepare, coordinate, and file the federal lobbying report with the U.S. House and U.S. Senate, which includes any lobbying conducted by the lobbyists, faculty, administers, chancellors, or President; Work closely with each congressional office to schedule Hill Visits with congressional members as well as staff; Assist with constituent requests from congressional offices regarding issues on campuses and health care needs; Manage and maintain schedules and corresponding materials for Senior Director of Federal Relations and both AVPs of Research and Federal Relations; Make travel arrangements for Government Relations employees; Draft office correspondence and prepares federal reports; Assist Office of Government Relations staff with a variety of duties including filing; purchasing supplies; submitting department employees' leave; preparing department expense system reports; and preparing department travel reimbursements; Assist with invitation lists for campus events and outreach meetings for Congressional staff attendance; Assist with coordinating and organizing federal tours of campuses; Assist with requests for information from Office of Government Relations staff, and University and Government officials; Prepare fact sheets and congressional appropriation forms based on research, legislation, congressional funding and CU; Facilitate federal bill tracking and bill distribution for CU system and campuses; Maintain office tracking spreadsheets and databases; Draft speeches, fact sheets, and communications documents as needed; Plan and staff events;Other office duties; general administrative rock star.

I have worked as a brand ambassador in Las Vegas (Gruv Liquor (start-up), various clubs, supermarkets, etc). I have handed out samples, filled in customer surveys, and passed out promotional material. In Denver I have done work as a brand ambassador for Victory Marketing (corporate team building exercises) and I have worked as a secret shopper for BestMark (exit interviews, store/team member evaluation).

Maintained and updated social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Hoostsuite) for 13 separate campaigns. Created new Facebook pages. Graphed and tracked user statistics. Updated eblast campaigns with ActiveCampagin. Prepared and distributed surveys for Film on the Rocks (Red Rocks), created posters and campaign materials as needed, assisted in ezine and newsletter updates and distribution using Publisher. Distributed and logged tickets for all venues.

Assist the Public Relations department - Write press releases, conduct research, and assist with special events and photo shoots.

Assist the Finance Department with planning and assisting at fundraising events, database creation and maintenance and research projects.

Coordinated, tracked and prepared interoffice deliveries and correspondence from several architects. Prepared schedules, memorandums and architectural spreadsheets as needed for multiple projects. Prioritized workflow and self managed time to finish projects by deadlines. Assist architects as needed in an administrative capacity.

Wrote articles between 400-600 words in length on various topics for use in RSS feeds, blogs and site content.

Highest total: 2008 - over $14,000.00. Oversaw creation of promotional materials, coordinated walkers among several offices, solicited charitable contributions from local businesses, developed a registration and fund collection process for participants, generated funds with raffle drawings and fundraising contests, arranged after parties to reward participants.

Supported sales team with leasing functions, customer service, billing and collections. Coordinated ordering and removal of equipment and created invoices. Trained new leasing employees and created training manuals.

Created promotional materials, planned and executed several fundraising events.

Provided customer service, performed general sales and office duties. Coordinated in-store promotion.