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Full-time travel photographer and content creator for @ritaroams. Toured the US in a motorhome with my husband, two cats, and two dogs. Currently settled in the Central Texas region and embracing homestead life. Freelance photographer and writer.

Provide portrait and editorial photography services to individuals and organizations throughout the Central Texas area. Contributing photographer for Getty Images. Crew Chief for SXSW's photography crew. Work with the Austin Film Festival and Austin Fashion Week.

Business owner; sales, client services, time and event management, photography expertise, Photoshop and Lightroom editing and design, general office administration, social media and marketing, graphic design, web content

Managed online social media marketing campaigns for clients in B2B environment. Activities included kickoff sessions to determine client needs, coordinating all production with design, marcom, and IT departments, creating and driving project timelines, reviewing and testing final deliverables, coordinating with 3rd party media department, and presenting final campaign statistics to client. Clients included Bank of America, Experian, Objectivity, AmDocs, DataSynapse, iter8, City National Bank, Recombo, HPI Real Estate, Innodata Isogen, and OpTier.

Help to organize and coordinate a large variety of grassroots volunteer activities including canvassing, marches and demonstrations, and activist training seminars. Main goal is to increase general awareness of our rapidly declining freedoms and liberties and educate others about what being a "conservative republican" really is all about. Hint: It's NOT Bush...

-Promoted to senior manager responsible for local and national marketing and PR strategy, development, and execution for three sister companies-Managed departmental budget and team of up to 15 who included trainers, field marketers, inside sales reps, and web and graphic designers-Activities included direct mail, radio ads, SEO/PPC internet ads, printed and electronic newsletters, local and state-wide home design tours, tradeshows, conferences, training events, media relations, community events, customer rewards and give-a-ways, HGTV appearances, and other sales and publicity generating activities.

-Responsible for creating and implementing high quality events and activities that generated positive brand recognition and community goodwill that ultimately increased sales opportunities.-Worked closely with Marketing Manager, Senior Management, and Sales department to identify market messages and target audience to align with overall company objectives.-Managed and trained company street team who held weekly events throughout the Los Angeles area to generate sales leads and present educational material to the public.-Closely tracked all statistics for each event and resulting sales conversions.-Contacted media outlets and was liaison for company owner's TV appearance requests such as HGTV home improvement shows and other print publications.-Attended community events as PR representative to create smart partnerships for mutually beneficial PR exposure.-Created and managed local and statewide home tours, collaborating closely with in-house design team and marketing goals.-Photographed and documented all PR and event activities and contributed to corporate newsletters for client consumption. -Wrote and submitted press releases for major activities and handled all media inquiries. -Responsible for all internal corporate events such as holiday parties, training sessions, and award presentations to staff.

Assisted Executive Director on a part-time basis with all aspects of non-profit fund-raising events ranging anywhere from 100 to 500+ attendees. Responsibilities included all event logistics such as scheduling, budgeting, working with caterers and auction donors, coordinating printed programs, set-up and breakdown of venue, overseeing event volunteers, and managing ticket and auction sales. Also handled all administrative support functions including incoming calls, database and mailing lists management, working with grant submissions and contracts, office correspondence, office supplies, and arranging travel for award recipients and other VIPs.

Conducted regular customer research to identify needs and patterns of new and existing TurboTax customers to ensure data entry process was accurate, easy to understand, and intuitive. Provided research findings and design requirements to multi-disciplinary product teams including key stakeholders in engineering, marketing, and senior management.

Responsible for integrating up to seven 3rd party tax books and 35 IRS publications into the TurboTax help library. Led team of tax and engineering specialists who converted the content into electronic form and created and tested over 1 million internals links. Work recognized as "Best of Show" by Society of Technical Communications (STC).