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Texas, United States

Frisco, Texas, United States

Visual Merchandiser

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Responsible for all sales activities and sales associate job duties, from greeting customers, answering questions, offering assistance, suggesting items, lending opinions and providing product information.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

-Offer creative solutions to solve strategic problems. -Coordinate with operations, sales territory managers, accounts payable/receivable, production management and quality control personnel to resolve billing, contract, and product/services issues. -Provide design direction and inspiration to key account and clients through visual merchandising of new product and inventory at quarterly Home & Gift Markets, ATLANTA, DALLAS, HIGH POINT, LAS VEGAS

Fort Worth, Tx

•Develop and Implement Marketing and Advertising Campaigns•Supervise Social Media Outreach•Coordinate and Deliver email campaigns•Create, deliver, edit, and optimize marketing material•Ensure Customer Satisfaction•Visual Merchandising

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

•Assist Sale Representatives with client during Dallas Market Week•Ensure customer service for all new and existing clients in showroom•Offer valuable insight on product and design

Eastside Memorial High School At The Johnston Campus

Austin Independent School District (AISD) is an award-winning school district that employs 12,000 high quality teachers, administrators and other support professionals. AISD also is one of the most progressive school districts in the nation! AISD is the fifth largest school district in Texas, and serves approximately 86,000 students. We are a diverse, urban district that continues to make great progress in student academic achievement. AISD has a richly, diverse student community which includes children from all economic levels and all kinds of backgrounds. CTE Department Chair (Aug 2013 to Dec 2014)CTE Teacher, Graphic Design I, II, III• Leadership Role: Department Chair, appointed by administration to head career technology department; facilitated collaboration and strategic planning for vocational studies programs. (2013, 2014)• Leadership Role: Selected by campus leadership to serve on Campus Advisory Committee comprised of parents, teachers, & stakeholders in the community to oversee that all available resources are utilized to their full potential, and to ensure school’s performance reflects maximum level of efficiency. • Taught upper-level Graphic Design & Digital Media courses, assessed students’ level of mastery as per required criteria to achieve industry recognized certifications. • Facilitated and led peer leadership group, PALS (Peer & Leadership Skills), composed of upper level students elected by classmates to serve as school representatives; Created student-centered curriculum focused on social & emotional learning. • Coached Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball team; organized skill-based training workshops.

Austin, Tx

Starbucks Corporation, doing business as Starbucks Coffee, is an American global coffee company and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world ahead of UK rival Costa Coffee, with 21,160 stores in 63 countries and territories, including 12,067 in the United States, 1,570 in China, 1,451 in Canada, 1,070 in Japan and 793 in the United Kingdom.• Demonstrates exceptional interpersonal skills to maximize customer experience.• Assists store manager in executing operational responsibilities.

Austin, Texas Area

The Digital Media Academy is a specialised apprenticeship academy offering two industry specific apprenticeships in Creative and Digital Media and Social and Digital Media Marketing. With the skills shortage within the creative and digital sector, recruiting an apprentice can help to address this and build for the future. Specialties include Digital and Creative Media Apprenticeships, Social Media Marketing Apprenticeships, Creative Apprenticeships, Graphic Design ApprenticeshipsYouth Instructor, Graphic Design:• Performed instructional duties to assist primary instructor in the following course areas: photography, graphic design, animation, & game design. • Planned and led large & small group activities to foster students’ overall growth & development.

Austin, Tx

Production Coordinator, Between Kings and Queens (May 2009 to Sep 2009)• Worked closely with film’s Producer & Director to execute all logistic-related tasks, including: applied for necessary permits, created film schedules, oversaw budget. • Completed grants to various industry non-profits to support project funding. • Facilitated communication between the Producer, cast, crew, & talent. Production Assistant, Conflict of Interest (Feb 2009 to Apr 2009)• Organized transportation as per different film locations. • Assisted with coloration, & different clean ups for props, FX, & character poses. • Designed & assembled production sets.

Austin, Texas Area

With 245 million monthly listeners in the U.S., 97 million monthly digital uniques and 196 million monthly consumers of its Total Traffic and Weather Network, iHeartMedia has the largest reach of any radio or television outlet in America. iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia’s free digital radio service, is the No. 1 all-in-one digital audio service with over 345 million downloads; it reached its first 20 million registered users faster than any digital service in Internet history and reached 50 million users faster than any digital music service and even faster than Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest. The company’s operations include radio broadcasting, online, mobile, digital and social media, live concerts and events, syndication, music research services and independent media representation.As Onsite Event Producer:• Assisted in the planning and execution of promotional events. • Collaborated with station directors to develop short and long term strategies to meet target fundraising projections. • Coordinated all logistical aspects of promotional events, including: site selection, vendor selection/negotiations, food/beverage planning, & on-site management.

Bachelor'S Degree, Digital Communication And Media/Multimedia, Advertising And Public Relations

Activities and Societies: KTCU the Choice, Radio DJ and Music Manager, Recipient of Communications Writing Award

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