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Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

• I wore many different hats in my time at GoDaddy. Before we were acquired (when we were still a social-media startup called Main Street Hub), my role included community management and social media content creation..
• Directly supervising a team of up to 16 writers
• Interviewing, grading work products, and hiring candidates to grow our department
• Project managing inter-team and cross-departmental initiatives relating to company goals
• Creating and leading trainings for product rollouts, quality initiatives, and new-hire onboarding
• Working with HR to create policies that enforce consistent performance-based accountability

600 Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas

Detroit, Michigan, United States

• For two years, I wrote SEO articles for Detroit Sign Factory and handled their social media presence. Because they were a new company in a re-growing city, I focused my articles on Detroit's history and culture as well.
• Publishing weekly SEO articles to the company's website
• Posting those articles to Facebook and Twitter to promote audience engagement
• Creating and managing an Instagram page for the business
• Substituting stock images on the business' website for photos of their actual sign projects

Grand Rapids, Michigan

• At Green Cup Design, I was the primary content writer fielding a variety of different writing/editing-related contracts. I had the opportunity to consult directly with our clients about their content needs and fulfill.
• Ghostwriting timely articles for SEO marketing
• Copyediting an entire website (Fabrinet.com) for consistency, style, and tone
• Utilizing both an informal voice or formal, AP-style voice to create content for varying client needs
• Communicating directly with clients to optimize their content needs
• Delivering content according to both monthly and weekly deadlines

Allendale, Michigan

• The focus of my work centered around two websites: WritersCircle.com and Blog.TheVeteransSite.com. For these websites, and seven others, I composed and published virally-poised web content. For the Greater Good.
• Writing articles for a variety of audiences, ranging from veterans to animal rights advocates
• Copyediting and formatting articles for third-party contractors
• Utilizing Google Analytics and Facebook Insights to optimize the performance metrics of my content
• Creating marketing content for the eCommerce branch of the company
• Producing marketing packages for my Wordpress articles (e.g. Open Graph data and FB statuses)

207 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI

• Served guests during large events both public and private
• Completed Pernod Ricard’s Bar Smarts training course in March of 2013
• Maintained a working knowledge of fine spirits, craft cocktails, and local breweries
• Filled multiple roles to fill in service gaps including food prep, handling keg preparation, and expediting food

1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI

• Fulfilled hold requests through inter-library systems as well as Michigan Electronic Library (MEL) and Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
• Assisting in moving Zumberge’s catalog of books and journals to the newly built Mary Idema Pew Library
• Kept the public areas of the library clean
• Shelved newly returned books

Grand Valley State University Campus

• Led weekly meetings, presented lectures, and organized events
• Ran the club's monthly board meetings
• Doubled membership and increased faculty involvement
• Edited and produced a 4-minute video for club promotion (for the American Library Association’s 50 State Salute to Banned Books)
• Spearheaded and orchestrated the club's War of the Writers event (2012 and 2013)

Grand Valley State University Campus

• Contributed to annual meetings for story inclusion
• Defended strong pieces for their inclusion in the journal within a roundtable format
• Assessed student submissions made to Fishladder editors (including 54 submissions for fiction)

823 Slayton Ave, Grand Haven, MI

• Implemented the organization’s first email publishing campaign
• Composed and distributed a monthly newsletter using Vertical Response’s publishing software
• Created a reusable SOP document detailing the process of designing the monthly email newsletter
• Updated the organization’s Facebook page
• Contributed marketing feedback and strategies during monthly PR council meetings
• Developed new strategies to market the company using social media marketing

4699 East Loch Alpine Drive, Ann Arbor, MI

• Oversaw multiple employees during shifts in the snack bar
• Waited on country club members in the clubhouse
• Participated in the country club’s Kids Camp as a counselor for children ages 5-7
• Ran the cash register using Jonas POS system
• Tended bar during the annual swim team banquet

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English Language And Literature, General, 3.71

Activities and Societies: Grand Valley English Society, Fishladder Student Literary JournalAs an English major with a minor in writing, I.

Completed 45 Credits Towards Bachelor'S Degree

I attended Ohio University from August of 2009 through June of 2010 before transferring to Grand Valley State University.