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Greater Seattle Area

• Known for storytelling, developing and maintaining an organization’s voice, detailed editing and polishing, wordplay in creative writing contexts, and client relationship skills.• Able to quickly learn new subject matter, work cultures, and corporate standards by partnering with a wide range of industries.• Writing experience includes business-to-business, business-to-consumer, video and radio scripts, website copy, brochures, professional bios, obituaries, magazine articles, newsletters, fundraising, event promotion, press releases, and organization-wide marketing consultations.• Clients include Simple Concepts, Holistech Systems, Mud Mile Communications, Vision Video Interactive, Head 2 Toe Spine and Sports Therapy, and Cascade Youth Symphony Orchestra.

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

• Wrote business-to-business communications, PR, marketing, educational, and instructional materials.• Wrote entirely new copy from scratch and co-created a new approach for the company website, which led to a new look and feel company-wide. Interviewed and wrote biographies of all chief executives and department groups within the financial institution.• Lead writer of the internal corporate newsletter. Managed team of volunteer contributing writers and oversaw production.• Transitioned the client email distribution process over to a new platform.• Co-coordinated Meta's Junior Achievement classroom volunteers and the company's all-time highest Junior Achievement fundraisers.• Received a Gold ADDY Award for "Why Meta" project.

Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States

• Wrote and coordinated direct mail, advertising, promotions, press releases, scripts, and newsletters. Advertising platforms included live television news spots, radio, outdoor billboards, newspaper, magazine, city-wide posters, and web.• Oversaw creation and managed production of the Symphony’s season program book.• Responsible for all interviews and media trades.• Conducted meetings with the Marketing Committee of the Board of Directors and made marketing presentations at monthly meetings to the full Board of Directors.

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

• Provided day-to-day, highly detailed management of ad campaigns.• Project manager for all aspects of pre-sale and post-sale support of ad campaigns and personalized marketing sponsorships.• Coordinated with ad operations, programming, design, content, and TV production, and was a resource of information for sales.• Helped develop internal proprietary software to track the progression of orders.• Served on the Employee Wellness committee.

Ba, Communication Studies Major, English Minor, And Emphasis In Music

Activities and Societies: Gustavus Wind Orchestra, Chamber Singers, Lucia Singers, Chaplin Apprentices Major in Communication Studies..

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