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Tysons Corner, Virginia, United States

K-12 Education Manager and Language Arts Instructor (2018-present)Teach English, Phonics, and ESL to K-12 and Higher Ed students. Specialize in linguistics, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and essay writing. Built and developed SpiderSmart’s academic programs and K-12 curriculum. Grew the English, Phonics, and ESL programs by 920 members with a focus on adoption, retention, and growth. Developed reading, writing and communications lessons for students of all ages including international and ESL. Taught in all Language Arts foundations, including grammar and punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, speech and phonology work, reading and writing comprehension and literacy abilities, creative story writing, Wordly Wise lessons and standardized testing, and basic to advanced essay drafting, outlining, writing and revising. Taught in supplementary subjects (Math, History, Science and Foreign Language) as needed to cover for other instructors. Taught non-ESOL and EFL students as well as ESOL, ESL and EFL students. Worked predominantly with ESOL students who spoke Korean or Chinese as their first language. Possess basic ESL/EFL training

Tysons Corner, Virginia, United States

• Assembled the corporate marketing team from scratch to prioritize brand consistency, expand outreach efforts, and maximize market penetration and brand visibility.• Collaborated with project managers to develop and execute 20 new advertising and design campaigns, collectively bringing in 370 new customers. • Implemented new content creation methods, resulting in a 23% increase in returning users.• Cut costs by 10% by introducing marketing automation services (Hootsuite, Buffer).• Implemented 2020’s COVID-19 relief campaign that brought newly available e-learning services to almost 3,000 new audience members and clients.

Reston, Virginia, United States

I was a Client Feedback Marketing Manager within the Client Success Marketing team of Anthology. I worked on Project Surge and Learn Ultra LMS Adoption efforts, and the marketing of Blackboard and Anthology products and services. I oversaw webinar scheduling, program organization, and program management for all engagement, adoption, retention and growth efforts for three client success and feedback programs---Learn Ultra Insider, Learn Ultra Ambassador, and Learn Ultra Advisory. I also helped co-manage the Anthology Idea Exchange.In addition to gathering product development and client feedback for the Insider and Advisory programs, I ran the Learn Ultra Ambassador program. I oversaw institutional recognition for the adoption of Learn Ultra and admissions into the program, and collaborated with our Ambassador institutions on outreach and advocacy efforts for Learn Ultra. Finally, I helped develop writing and editing content for the Anthology Idea Exchange, a client idea submission portal for Blackboard-Anthology products and services. Regular duties: I executed quarterly program marketing campaigns through Eloqua and Asana; I also performed client and program data analytics management through BI Reporting and Salesforce. I worked regularly with our Creative and Content Development teams to develop assets and marketing content for my programs. I managed the operations, communications, and client engagement and feedback for all program registration, webinars, discussion threads, landing pages, community groups, SME panels, and more. Overall, I worked cross-functionally with Digital Marketing, Global Marketing, Product Development, CXMs, and other teams to aid in the conversion process of clients from our original LMS to the new Learn Ultra LMS.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Helped market CarpooltoSchool education technology solutions for Go Together. Executed marketing visuals and campaigns for our schools and school districts; acted as a coordinator with the marketing and communications personnel of our schools. Supported external marketing efforts and brand marketing management to increase startup visibility and awareness. Performed CRM, project management, and customer support for marketing and sales teams as regular duties. Helped support internal marketing department with digital content creation and the development of marketing materials, documents and plans. Performed social media platform management (SMPM) and digital content creation management; oversaw social media accounts and channels, social media campaigns, and the monitoring of digital analytics and engagement for all online channels.

Falls Church, Va

Managed legal software and litigation database for attorneys and senior paralegals.Drafted and edited legal documents and reports to assist attorneys in preparation for trial. Provided fact-checking and data gathering analysis support for a variety of legal processes.Improved organization and clarity of legal filing system to speed up workflow.Helped improve quality and clarity of all publications materials and achieve higher success rates with clients.

Stafford, Virginia, United States

Wrote business proposals and supporting documents asa head of the business proposal team.Worked under Research and Development to assist withresearch and to conduct focus groups with SMEs.Helped secure 9 new projects, expanded the team by 3personnel, and boosted monthly online traffic by 8%.

8245 Boone Boulevard, Suite 110., Vienna, Va

Started as an OBM (Organizational Behavior Management) and Marketing intern for Sinteg Solutions in Tysons, VA. Performed social media/web management, publications management, and operations management. Worked to help set up the company's social media outlets and performed copywiting, editing, and web design. Helped expand the customer service and marketing/sales developments through recruitment efforts.Summer internship was in person May through August 2016; Continued on-call virtual work for SS Inc. into the next school year.

The University Of Mary Washington In Fredericksburg, Va

Started as a fitness attendant performing administrative and customer service duties for the Department of Campus Recreation at the UMW Fredericksburg Campus. Helped run the front desk and manage clients for the center. Performed light maintenance duties for the facility. Was promoted to supervisor and took on more communications and outreach responsibilities as well as employee management. Helped hold weekly meetings for supervisors to share insight on advertising and promotional campaigns for the department as well as how to perform policy change implementation for the center and employees.

Fredericksburg, Va

Participated both as a student and as an intern with a student-led micro-financing company on the UMW Campus called La Ceiba MFI. La Ceiba mainly consisted of juniors and seniors who provide Microfinance loans for clients operating in El Progreso, Honduras. This organization provided me with both class credits and a Business Spanish internship to give me work experience. Was part of both the CCC and EDA teams; for CCC, responsibilities included calling clients in Spanish, doing computer and survey work with the clients over the phone, applying business analytics by monitoring interest rates and payment due dates, analyzing statistical data, helping to put together monthly progress reports, holding internal team meetings, and giving external presentations to communicate team progress and findings. EDA (Esfuerzo de Amor) was a small e-commerce business that sold Honduran artisan work. My business partner and I co-ran it as a subdivision of La Ceiba MFI. Developed skills from EDA include working with Microsoft Word, WordPress, KanbanFlow, Excel, Quickbooks and our own websites, as well as doing marketing and social media advertisement, basic coding, and extensive website design. Continual responsibilities included running business meetings, selling our products, managing our website, managing social media and financial documents, planning photoshoots, performing logistics, inventory, and quality control efforts, managing client retention and acquisition, and meeting with wholesalers to provide and promote large quantities of product.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Marketing, Management, 3.97

Activities and Societies: GW MBA Marketing Club (Events Committee), MBA Association (MBAA) (General Member), National Association of Women.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English Language And Literature, Business Spanish

Activities and Societies: UMW Red Cross, UMW UNICEF, UMW COAR, La Ceiba/SHH, UMW Complex Council, UMW Horizons, MEDC, The Blue and Gray.