Experience

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  UFP Packaging

  • Flower Mound, Texas

  • Safety Specialist/HR Administrator - Titan Corrugated/All Boxed Up

    • Dec 2022 - Present
    • Flower Mound, Texas

    - Universal Forest Products, Inc., acquired Titan Corrugated and its affiliate All Boxed Up in December 2022; UFPI is a Fortune 500 company and a leader in the lumber and packaging industries.- Ensure compliance with OSHA and UFPI safety standards at the plant level through training, inspections, recordkeeping, and communication.- Conduct plant-level HR Administration on Workday and Workforce, including training, recruiting, benefits, and attendance.

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  Titan Corrugated Inc

  • Flower Mound, Texas

  • Safety/Sales/Customer Service/Tooling

    • Aug 2016 - Dec 2022
    • Flower Mound, Texas

    Safety/Tooling/Sales Coordinator2/20 – 12/22- Safety - ensured OSHA compliance and facilitated plant safety through written policies, training, inspections, and communications. - Tooling - managed all tooling (print plates, cutting dies), including orders, repairs, spec changes, and inventory.- Sales – assisted Director of Sales with quoting, ordering tooling, submitting orders to production, and communicating with customers.Sales & Customer Service Associate - All Boxed Up10/18 – 2/20- All Boxed Up is Titan Corrugated’s stock box company- Assisted general manager with day-to-day operations, including sales, account management, and customer service.Sales Associate8/16 – 10/18- Called on customers in the DFW area; provided pricing, customer service, technical support, quality control, and inventory management

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  Catalyst Healthcare Marketing

  • Flower Mound, Texas

  • Online Content Writer

    • Mar 2015 - Aug 2016
    • Flower Mound, Texas

    Wrote web pages and blogs for doctors and healthcare providers specializing in OBGYN, infertility and women's healthcare.

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  Tucker & Associates

  • Dallas, Texas

  • Consultant

    • Jan 2001 - Aug 2016
    • Dallas, Texas

    Assisted this PR firm's client teams with media and public relations efforts for a wide range of travel and tourism clients, including booking journalists for media tours, press trips and media events; pitching client stories; writing press materials and overseeing various creative and writing projects.

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  Leone & Leone, Ltd.

  • San Juan Capistrano, California

  • Senior Account Manager

    • Oct 1997 - Jan 2000
    • San Juan Capistrano, California

    Managed account and project work for this PR firm's travel and tourism clients that included Vancouver, B.C.-based Rocky Mountaineer Railtours, Canadian Pacific Hotels and Carnival Cruise Lines.

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  Allergan

  • Irvine, California

  • Senior Communications Specialist

    • Nov 1993 - Jun 1997
    • Irvine, California

    Managed internal employee communications programs; assisted with public relations, external communications and human resources/benefits communications; Editor of Insight, Allergan's global employee magazine.

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  Personnel Journal Magazine

  • Costa Mesa, California

  • Senior Editor

    • Nov 1990 - Nov 1993
    • Costa Mesa, California

    Assigned and edited stories; managed freelance and staff writers; wrote cover stories, features and departments for award-winning national trade magazine distributed to human resources professionals.

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  Arizona Trend Magazine

  • Phoenix, Arizona

  • Staff Writer

    • Jun 1988 - Mar 1990
    • Phoenix, Arizona

    Wrote cover stories, features, profiles and departments for award-winning magazine covering business and finance in the state of Arizona; publication owned by the Times Publishing Company of St. Petersburg, Florida.

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  SELF MAGAZINE

  • New York, New York

  • Intern

    • Jun 1987 - Aug 1987
    • New York, New York

    Assisted SELF's editorial team with writing, editing, fact checking and reviewing story queries; internship awarded through the American Society of Magazine Editors.