Resume

• 2016

  Western Governors University

  J. Mark's Restaurant

  American Marketing Association- FAU Chapter

  Louis and Anne Green Memory & Wellness Center

  American Marketing Association

  • Managed and organized fundraising events\n• Competed in the 33rd International Collegiate Conference\n• Promoted chapter across campus and recruited new members\n• Assisted in the creation of the new chapter t-shirts\n• Connected with other chapters to build strong relationships

  Director of Development

  American Marketing Association- FAU Chapter

  Pompano Beach

  FL

  • Managed the front desk and large party reservations for both personal and corporate event\n• Build strong relationships with guests \n• Helped develop local TV commercial from planning

  directing

  and promoting \n• Created promotional flyers for restaurant events using various photo editing software\n• Stepped in as temporary manager when needed \n• Managed yearly gift card promotions\n• Trained all new front of the house employees on delivering superior customer service

  Senior Event Coordinator

  J. Mark's Restaurant

  • Managed and grew company’s online community through various digital platforms including Sprout\n• Developed a blogger outreach program to drive brand awareness and promote products\n• Established a social presence on Pinterest

  Google+

  Linkedln and Instagram\n• Created social media editorial calendars with engaging content for all platforms\n• Organized and moderated Twitter chats in collaboration with digital influencers\n• Created various Facebook and Twitter marketing collateral

  including paid ad copy

  Life Extension

  Louis and Anne Green Memory & Wellness Center

  Florida Atlantic University

  • Plan and publicize events including negotiating vendor contracts

  gathering donations and designing promotional materials\n• Research and apply for special grants for non-profit organizations\n• Wrote and design brochures and press-releases.\n• Create both print and electronic promotional marketing materials \n• Manage website through continuous updates from content to images as well as keeping it SEO optimized \n• Maintain social media content by coordinating and implementing social media marketing communication\n• Attend trade-shows and other community events to promote the Center's services

  Marketing and Communications Specialist

  • Mentor 80-100 students on academics

  personal

  and career development\n• Develop additional tangible resources to support students \n• Created first student college specific monthly e-newsletter & podcast\n• Conducted faculty Mentor Force training\n• Collaborated on research project on the various careers in marketing \n• Made it in the top 10 for SAGE tank at WGU’s College of Business annual conference\n• Train new Program Mentors during the on-boarding process\n• Facilitate weekly team meetings\n• Oversee program changes for my team\n• Created and manage Inactive Outreach

  Western Governors University

  Southern New Hampshire University

  Online

  • Completed and excelled at three-week interactive training course on Blackboard Online \n• Developed various marketing supplement materials to enhance the student’s learning and comprehension of course content \n• Educate students on the use of social media and other digital media outlets to market B2B and B2C in today’s fast-paced business environment\n• Trained in Brightstar

  Adjunct Professor of Marketing

  Pompano Beach

  FL

  • Facilitated relationships with nationally recognized brands to increase awareness to online audiences\n• Monitored and evaluated social media campaigns using multiple analytics platforms including Facebook Analytics

  Google Analytics and Hootsuite\n• Supported globally recognized brands by ensuring consistent messaging was maintained throughout communities\n• Utilized Salesforce to generate leads

  enhance customer relationship management and grow online community\n• Wrote and distributed monthly press releases for all guest clients\n• Managed blogging community consisting of over 70 contributors\n\nO2 Media™ is an award-winning full-service integrated media and production company specializing in launching brand names out into the world through compelling storytelling and 2-way conversations. Our team of Production

  Marketing and Technology experts generate buzz and brand awareness for our customers and content partners with a fully integrated media solutions mix using our two Branded Entertainment TV shows on Lifetime TV

  Direct Response

  and Online Marketing channels

  Social Media Strategist

  O2 Media

  Fort Lauderdale

  • Collaborate with Huffington Post on 2016 Sleep Revolution College Tour campaign (over 40 colleges)\n• Develop and implement social media strategies to build brand awareness across various social networks\n• Create marketing content to convey our brand story and engage customers\n• Design and launch social media campaigns to generate new business leads by 400%\n• Create and distribute internal and external monthly newsletters via MailChimp \n• Continuously identify and manage affiliate marketing opportunities with ShareASale\n• Work with my design team to ensure a consistent brand message is incorporated across all channels\n• Monitor website design and find new ways to improve the online user shopping experience \n• Work with media outlets to publish timely company information

  such as press releases

  brochures

  and other materials\n• Publish videos and photography on company website and blogs\n• Create innovative media opportunities and pitch stories to the press and other media outlets\n• Review monthly analytics to measure performance of all marketing efforts using Google Analytics \n• Collaborate with marketing team to develop our fall and spring catalogs \n• Design and manage SEM campaigns through Google\n• SEO optimize our website monthly based on trending keywords\n• Manage online marketplace partnerships (Amazon

  Open Sky

  Houzz

  & Ebay)

  Marketing Manager

  Living Fresh

  To be eligible for membership

  a business student must rank in the upper 20 percent of the graduating class and be invited to membership by the faculty officers.

  Sigma Beta Delta International Honor Society

  Director of Development

  FAU American Marketing Association

  FAU National Honor Society

  Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society

  Senior Secretary

  Senator

  Student Government

  Historian

  American Academy of Finance

  DECA

  Delta Epsilon Lota Academic Honor Society

  Broward College

  Honors Award - MBA

  Sigma Beta Delta International Honor Society

• 2015

  Google Analytics

  Google

• 2013

  MBA

  Marketing

  Nova Southeastern University

  Creative Advertising

  Managerial Marketing

  Consumer Behavior

  Marketing on the Internet

  Marketing Management

  Financial Management

  Business Modeling

  Social Media Marketing

  Marketing Strategy

  Economic Thinking

  Promotional Management

  Strategic Marketing

  Marketing Internship

  Brand Management

  Service Marketing

  Managing Organizational Behavior

  Principles of Advertising

  Legal

  Ethical

  and Social Values of Business

  Delivering Superior Customer Value

  Accounting for Decisions Makers

  Hootsuite University

  Hootsuite Media Inc.

  Blackboard

  Blackboard Certified

• 2012

  Nationwide Facebook contest that we partnered with Social Toaster and Kraft Foods Baker's Chocolate. We asked viewers to post a video baking their favorite recipe and then allowed our Facebook fans to vote for the winner. The winner was flown down to Florida to share their recipe on TV with celebrity guest

  Chef Sarah Moulton.

  Ashley

  Flynn

  Southern New Hampshire University

  Life Extension

  Living Fresh

  O2 Media

• 2011

  Creative Advertising Class Project: We were divided up into several groups

  where we had to come up with an entire ad/marketing campaign and present it to the client

  JWL Engineering. The CEO of the company chose our team’s (M.A.D) “Dare to Dream” campaign as the winner.

• 2010

  Northeast High School

  Bachelor's degree

  Marketing

  American Marketing Association -Director of Development

  National Honor Society

  Florida Atlantic University

• 2007

  Associate's degree

  Graduated with highest honors

  Marketing/Marketing Management

  General

  Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society

  Broward Community College

• Feeding America

  Packaging Volunteer

  Community Management

  Online Marketing

  Integrated Marketing

  Social Media Blogging

  Marketing Communications

  Blogging

  Content Strategy

  Advertising

  Social Media

  Digital Marketing

  Television

  Market Research

  Social Media Marketing

  Broadcast

  Press Releases

  SEO

  Online Marketing Analysis

  Video Production

  Social Networking

  Facebook Marketing

  WGU Newsletter

  Monthly newsletter for BSMK Program is designed to bring industry news

  university important updates

  and provide tips/resources for professional development. I oversee the organization and content each month as well as pull analytics from each campaign.

  Huffington Post #SleepRevolution College Tour

  Partnered with Arianna Huffington's #SleepRevolution College Book Tour to help educate students on the importance of sleep by donating bedding to over 40 colleges across the USA

  including Yale and University of Michigan.

  Living Fresh Collection Annual Conference

  In charge of planning and organizing a successful 3 day conference in Fort Lauderdale with over 170 guests. My planning consisted of developing conference logo

  decorations

  packing gift bags

  selecting food/drink menus

  and planning out the award ceremony. I was also one of the speakers and spoke about how to use social media to grow your business.

  Balanced Blogger of The Month Contest

  The contest was designed to encourage community bloggers to build conversation around the featured brand via social media. The most active blogger each month would win a prize packet and be featured on The Balancing Act blogger page.

  Give Back Program 2015

  Organized our first ever Give Back program by coordinating with charities (Ronald McDonald House

  Habitat for Humanity

  & Today Show Charitable Foundation) to donate over $42

  000 in bedding.

  Comprehensive Company Operations Manual

  As a brand new company

  we did not have a manual that detailed all of our daily operations and procedures. I took on the responsibility to compile a 150+ page written manual with step by step instructions & images on the various operating systems we were utilizing from our warehouse management system to our website's back office order management system.