Experience

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  Cider Hill Farm

  • Amesbury, Massachusetts, United States

  • On-site Coordinator

    • Jun 2023 - Present
    • Amesbury, Massachusetts, United States

    • On-site coordination: responsible for all on-site logistics, coordination and staging for private events.• Customer engagement: upon contract signing for a private event, manage client relation and communications during planning stages, set-up and event. Provide recommendations and solutions to assist client in creating a meaningful event.• Specialized hosting: host hard cider bars during private events, and promotional hard cider tastings during farm-sponsored events. Host and greet CSA members weekly during farm share pick-ups and promotions.• Successful in making guests feel warmly welcomed and included into the community and joy of Cider Hill Farm through professional communications, excellent logistical and organization skills, and creating in-the-moment connections with the farm.• Experienced with and knowledgeable about the diversity of farm practices, produce and products as well as the farm’s on-site hard cider production and products.

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  Self-employed

  • Textile and Fiber Artist

    • Jan 2022 - Present

    Textile and fiber artist combining both textile and fiber art materials and techniques. Transforms textile and fiber scraps into unique decorative artwork and accessories with a nature-inspired design.

  • Home School Educator

    • Mar 2020 - Present

    • Teach all academic subjects to a neurodiverse, middle school-aged child in a home school setting. • Curriculum and Teaching: research alternative curriculum sources and methodologies, and create custom lesson plans to improve student’s ability to access academic material and master lessons. Lessons and assessments incorporate a variety of modalities including project-based, dialectic, graphic, audio, video and hands-on experience. In addition, mind-body, executive function and personal well being lessons are interwoven with the academic curriculum.• In the home school classroom, student has advanced in four years from beginning 2nd grade-level work to appropriate middle school academic material. • Trained in and applied new neuroscientific understanding of neurodiversity to customize lesson plans and change teaching approaches on the fly to make lessons successful and increase student’s confidence, success and independence.

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  The First Religious Society Unitarian Universalist

  • Nebwuryport, MA

  • Director of Community Engagement

    • Dec 2018 - Jun 2020
    • Nebwuryport, MA

    • Outreach and management: managed the digital engagement and community outreach of growing 600+ congregation.• Strategic communication development: created communication strategies to support worship themes for the year, development of new spiritual programs, and operational changes coming from lay leadership. Managed and executed overlapping communication roll outs, strategies and timelines.• Content creation and development: created digital (audio and video) and print content. Developed new methods of engaging and connecting members, and the larger community through social media, podcasts and videos, as well as church-based programs and events. Founded and created the FRS &U podcast, launched FRS video production and channel on YouTube, and improved FRS social media presence and analytics.• Content management: created and designed digital, print and audio marketing content for church news and promotions, publications and web site using InDesign, WordPress, GarageBand, iMovie and PhotoShop.

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  The First Religious Society Unitarian Universalist Newburyport

  • Newburyport, MA

  • Office Administrator

    • Sep 2015 - Dec 2018
    • Newburyport, MA

    • Managed day-to-day operations of busy 600+-member historical church and served as a liaison and resource between church leaders, the congregation and the public.• Supported the Director of Finance and Administration in the efficient management of the church’s business and financial affairs—including primary controller of the church database, vendor invoice and payment processes, data entry of member and friend giving, and weekly cash deposits, as well as program manager of church’s major annual fundraiser.• Designed and produced the church’s marketing collateral and communications including programs for weekly Sunday services, concerts, and holiday celebrations as well as posters, brochures, flyers and surveys for volunteer committees and events.• Provided project, schedule, contract and calendar management; as well as program and technical support for church functions, fund-raising campaigns, weddings, memorial services, staff and committee projects, and community events.

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  Vibrant Kitchen

  • Newburyport, MA

  • Personal Chef/Baker, Certified Holistic Health Coach, AADP

    • 2012 - Jan 2016
    • Newburyport, MA

    I connected people to a healthier lifestyle centered around gluten, dairy and refined sugar free, and whole foods diets.Coaching, recipe demonstrations, food preparation and meals, education • Specialist in clean eating, gluten-free, dairy-free, refined-sugar free lifestyle.• Baker for custom ordered baked products supporting gluten-free, dairy-free, refined sugar-free, vegetarian, vegan, and paleo lifestyles. • Educator in dietary lifestyle skills including pantry makeovers, nutritional education, goal setting and transitional plans for moving to a clean eating lifestyle, easy cooking techniques, gluten-free elimination diets, dairy-free elimination diets, refined sugar elimination diets, one on one coaching, and customized plans and recipe makeovers.

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  Dow Jones

  • New York

  • Product Director

    • Mar 2004 - 2013
    • New York

    Strategic product development and design, marketing strategy, technical writing, customer relations, detailed project and team management• Developed B2B business and product strategy for both an existing $2 million vertical, and new products and markets.• Managed requirements planning, product development projects and launch strategies.• Designed strategy to transform $1.5 million bankruptcy PDF newsletter into a web-based information product to sell to larger distress market.• Led redesign of outdated PDF publications to sophisticated HTML-based email publications.• Consulted on development of new technology platform that integrated all product sites and provided opportunities for cross selling.• Created advertising opportunities within electronic newsletters and online sites.

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  Asset Alternative / Alternative Investor

  • Wellesley, Massachusetts

  • Consultant

    • 2000 - 2004
    • Wellesley, Massachusetts

    Strategic product development, quality control, program management• Managed the company's strategy development and move to an online platform.• Led the quality assurance testing, UI development and launch of the company's first online news site and searchable archive.

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  EBSCO Publishing

  • Ipswich, MA

  • Product Manager

    • 1997 - 2000
    • Ipswich, MA

    Strategic product development, quality control, process management, public relations•Established business and product development protocol for international provider of library-services and subscription products.•Coordinated media/marketing campaigns for commercial releases of new library-oriented products.

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  Brigham & Women’s Hospital

  • Boston

  • Public Relations Associate

    • 1995 - 1997
    • Boston

    Reporter, writer, photographer, magazine writer, display designer and project manager• Writer and photographer for internal newsletter covering one of the nation’s leading hospitals an distributed to over 10,000 employees.• Lead project manager on the development of internal communications projects including public lobby displays and publicity functions that marketed the hospital.

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  Billerica Minuteman

  • Billerica, MA

  • Reporter

    • 1994 - 1995
    • Billerica, MA

    Reporter, writer, photographer, feature writer • Reported and wrote several articles, news and features, per week for weekly newspaper. • Photographed subjects of news and feature stories.