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Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

After two years of work, we are ready for market. Meet Halumin™, A New Approach To Creative Photography Lighting.Halumin™ is a patent pending first-of-its-kind lighting modifier. Halunmin creates a new category of lighting modifiers we call Open Cylindrical™, which allows lighting control to be truly intuitive, fast, and portable. Professionals can work faster, and beginners will achieve professional results with little or no learning curve.

New Bern, North Carolina Area

Our clients represent some of the most remarkable and recognizable hotels and travel destinations in the world, including the Hotel Baur au Lac in Zurich, the Cala di Volpe in Sardinia, the Hotel Principe di Savoia in Milan, and 7132 Hotel in Vals.

Real estate investing, home renovation, rental property.

Ada, Oklahoma

Led public relations and communications strategy creation for LegalShield, a provider of legal services in 49 states and 4 Canadian Provinces with more than 700 employees and 300,000 sales associates. -- Set up foundation for PR including press release distribution, media list creation, media outreach -- Aligned cross-functional stakeholders to formalize LegalShields Purpose: We protect and Empower People-- Led creation and implementation of monthly brand tracker-- Created the first ever digital version of the company's "Profiles of Success" annual achievement book, improving access to the content and improving search on the company website. -- Created and launched first employee newsletter- open rates are more than 78%, employee engagement improved-- Created content sharing strategy resulting in annual savings of more than 100K

Jackson Hole, Wyo.

Serve as a core member of Everyartisrt with the team that founded the organization. My focus is strategy and management for business development, communications, operations, and technology. Everyartist is an L3C formed in 2013 whose purpose is to spark and foster creativity through involvement with the arts. Creativity is the underlying foundation of innovation and problem solving, skills that are imperative in life and business. Everyartist’s first pilot event had 8,000 participants; the next year the event had more than 230,000 participants from nearly every state in the country.

Bentonville, Ar

Built and funded platform strategy for the Walmart's first global intranet. Created, branded, built and institutionalized the world’s largest private social networks for Walmart U.S., myWalmart.com and WalmartONE.com. -- Aligned several teams goals and budgets and led the globalization strategy to broaden the platforms reach and drove the acquisition of Salesforce licenses to support the entire global workforce-- Stood up Walmart’s first global communications channel and built the foundation for the first global intranetLed the consolidation of key corporate external websites under one umbrella, significantly reducing cost while increasing traffic-- Built stronger ties between corporate and e-commerce sites and marketing initiatives. Linked walmart.com to walmartstores.com, driving millions in incremental sales -- Led the creation of self-service tools and processes that enabled more efficient execution and lower operating costs including a process for product recalls that resulted in reduced labor and response time

Created new department dedicated to defining and launching Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. U.S. internal communications strategy with a specific focus on developing the company’s internal brand, creating messaging for associates, improving communications channels and coordinating more effectively with external communicators.-- Led work to create and attain global adoption for Wal-Mart’s global purpose/mission statement: Saving people money so they can live better. -- Created associate messages framework-- Relaunched corporate magazine using self-funding model

Defined, developed, executed and managed strategic, comprehensive public relations plans encompassing integrated initiatives designed to maximize media coverage for the Chrysler, Jeep® and Dodge brand’s marketing efforts. Partnered with management, internal departments and vendors to coordinate overall brand public relations efforts and messaging in accordance with corporate goals. Identified and developed relationships with key media. Prepared and counseled executives for media and public interface. Directed regional public relations staff and agencies in accomplishing public relations program goals. Maintained partner relationships; collaborated to develop new partners as appropriate. Prepared and managed public relations marketing budget. -- Significantly increased press coverage for Marketing initiatives -- Improved relations and planning between Marketing and Media Relations departments-- Positioned the Chrysler Group marketing team as a leader in non-traditional, online, gaming and branded entertainment initiatives—team won Ad Age’s Online Marketer of the Year award for 2005

Worked with DaimlerChrysler’s Washington, D.C. office, government regulatory agencies and external partners to develop and manage safety programs in line with the corporation’s goals. Provided day-to-day oversight, direction and leadership to program associates and agencies; guided creation of public relations and marketing tools, including earned media, point of purchase displays, direct-mail pieces, co-op advertising program and Web site content. Tracked, projected and reported on safety program initiatives. Managed communications interface with the Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge dealer body and management on training and promotion for safety programs. Served as primary spokesperson and representative for safety programs. Managed $10 million budget.-- Public Relations Society of America Award of Excellence winner for Fit For a Kid safety program-- Silver SABRE (Superior Achievement in Branding and Positioning) Award for Fit For a Kid

Served as pimary interface for zone managers and dealer body. Assisted the safety programs manager with public relations efforts, event planning and execution. -- Revamped dealer safety seat installation training program to reduce costs by $900,000 a year

Worked within a team that serviced the logistical needs of new vehicle public relation launches and special media events. -- Spearheaded first online event enrollment system for media representatives-- Structured system for archiving press kits and photos

Coordinated with home office, clients and suppliers to execute onsite event logistics for programs ranging in size from a few to hundreds of participants. Managed staff onsite in a variety of positions, including hosting VIP guests to transportation logistics to food and beverage. Completed on-site billing and staff evaluations.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Psychology

Business Professional Certification, Business Administration, Management And Operations

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