Experience

Common Ground Publishing

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing

• Communications Lead

  • Jun 2014 - Present

  - Provide leadership to and guidance to a team of young professionals.- Successfully manage a 4 person support team which provides services to a worldwide customer base to the tune of 600+ interactions per week.- Research and implement marketing and communication strategies for the growth and enrichment of knowledge communities.- Collaborate with all departments to develop and mobilize a successful communications strategy for 26 international conferences and 72 international journals.- Hire, train, manage, and direct a communications team of 7 people to provide customer service, create and manage web content, and market an international publishing and conferencing company.- Facilitate interdepartmental communication and teamwork.- Manage and collaborate with outsourced design and marketing talent, ensuring unified promotional materials and standards while keeping to marketing pipeline deadlines and budgets.- Supervise the maintenance of all company websites and social media pages.

• Support Associate

  • Feb 2014 - Present



Internet Archive

• United States
• Libraries
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Book Scanner

  • Aug 2013 - Feb 2014

  At Internet Archive I work with a small satellite team to digitize the University of Illinois Library collections in order to help build a free online library.We collaborate daily with other scanners and managers at various scan centers world wide efficiently and clearly in order to maximize available online content. As a scanner I also republish books scanned by Internet Archive to ensure quality by setting crops and margins, checking page numbers, and monitoring clarity.www.archive.org At Internet Archive I work with a small satellite team to digitize the University of Illinois Library collections in order to help build a free online library.We collaborate daily with other scanners and managers at various scan centers world wide efficiently and clearly in order to maximize available online content. As a scanner I also republish books scanned by Internet Archive to ensure quality by setting crops and margins, checking page numbers, and monitoring clarity.www.archive.org



Deep Silver Volition

• QA Tester

  • Jan 2013 - Aug 2013

  As a QA Tester I played through various iterations of the game looking for imperfections in assets and gameplay presented throughout the in-game world. Testers used software to communicate issues found within the game to developers and collaborated with developers to ensure that errors are corrected in a timely manner. As a QA Tester I played through various iterations of the game looking for imperfections in assets and gameplay presented throughout the in-game world. Testers used software to communicate issues found within the game to developers and collaborated with developers to ensure that errors are corrected in a timely manner.



2010

• Graphic Design
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Personal Assistant/Nanny

  • Aug 2006 - Jul 2010

  - Provided aid to a mother who was renovating her home as well as taking on various other projects. Helped to run a very busy household smoothly - manage phone calls, appointments, travel plans, book hotels, helped file taxes and other paperwork. Generally took care of the details of every day life. Accompanied family on various trips and vacations in order to assist with children and scheduling. - Provided aid to a mother who was renovating her home as well as taking on various other projects. Helped to run a very busy household smoothly - manage phone calls, appointments, travel plans, book hotels, helped file taxes and other paperwork. Generally took care of the details of every day life. Accompanied family on various trips and vacations in order to assist with children and scheduling.