Experience

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  Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce

  • Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States

  • Finance Coordinator

    • Jan 2024 - Present
    • Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States

    In my role as Finance Coordinator, I am responsible for accounts payable, reconciling accounts, tracking expenses, and providing excellent customer service to our partners.

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  Sprucely Designed, LLC

  • Kentucky, United States

  • Storyteller & Content Manager

    • Jan 2021 - Present
    • Kentucky, United States

    Sprucely Designed takes on the hard work of creating and managing your digital presence so that you can focus on what’s really important: growing your small business. I specialize in Content Marketing including SEO optimization, blog content, newsletters and email marketing, and general content support.

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  Tambellini Group

  • Analyst

    • May 2021 - Jun 2022

    Tambellini Group is the leading independent technology research and advisory firm dedicated exclusively to higher education. Tambellini's trusted market advisors provide members with credible resources and strategic advising through direct interaction with the top industry analysts and market-leading research.

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  Western Kentucky University

  • Interim Assist. Vice President for Budget, Finance & Analytics

    • Oct 2019 - Apr 2021

    In this role, my goals were to modernize institutional budget and financial planning processes through technology improvements, establish partnerships with the campus financial community to foster teamwork, and to implement standard procedures to keep campus moving forward in one unified direction. I led a 10 month effort to select and implement a new budget management tool. As AVP, I acted as liaison with state government agencies like the KY Council for Postsecondary Education, and as needed, to the WKU Board of Regents.

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  Division of Strategy, Operations & Finance, Western Kentucky University

  • Bowling Green Area, KY

  • Budget & Finance Manager

    • Sep 2019 - Dec 2020
    • Bowling Green Area, KY

    As the Budget and Finance Manager, I worked daily with the Executive Vice President and divisional leadership team to review financial activities and operations with the goal to make improvements and identify new processes. I oversaw the division’s budget development process including balancing of salary base, estimating revenues, projecting carry forward balances, identifying funding priorities and updating annual budget narratives. In addition to financial administration, I also assisted the division with projects that supported WKU's strategic plan.

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  WKU Information Technology Services

  • Bowling Green Area, KY

  • Operations Manager

    • Jul 2018 - Sep 2019
    • Bowling Green Area, KY

    As the Operations Manager for WKU Information Technology Services, I partnered with all IT units to project spending, track personnel financial needs, and create strategic spending plans to help IT meet common goals. Through digitization and removing paper processes, I was able to simplify daily operations and make them more efficient. I also managed all major software platform renewals and long-term cost tracking.

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  Technical Support Services

  • Western Kentucky University

  • Office Coordinator

    • Oct 2014 - Jul 2018
    • Western Kentucky University

    In this role I provided excellent customer service to all IT visitors, including students, staff, faculty, alumni, vendors, and affiliates. During my time with Technical Support Services, I expanded service offerings to include credit card acceptance for student computer repair parts. I managed a overhaul of the student repair drop off process, increasing efficiency by digitizing the entire process, introducing electronic signatures, and simplifying processes. As Office Coordinator, I also served as an administrator for the IT ticket system TeamDynamix. In that capacity, I created custom ticket and service requests based on client needs and feedback. During this time I was awarded both the "ITX Innovation Award" and the "IT TSS STAR Award."

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  The Honors College at WKU

  • Coordinator, Constituent Relations

    • Jul 2011 - Oct 2014

    During my time with The Honors College, I partnered across multiple teams including Campus Special Events, Admissions, Enrollment Management, and Housing & Residence Life to offer student, parent, and alumni programming. I established the HC Parents' Advisory Council to create engagement opportunities for families, and designed marketing materials for alumni to create a pathway of engagement and philanthropic activity. As CCR, I was also responsible for planning all aspects of the Honors freshmen orientation retreat, "H4." This included all marketing materials, programming, and learning sessions of the program. I also managed the social media presence for the HC.

  • Office Associate

    • Aug 2010 - Jun 2011

    During my tenure as Office Associate for the Honors College, I provided customer service to students, families, and visitors of the office. Each day, I answered phone calls and greeted visitors. Additionally, I arranged travel for all members of the staff and assisted with special events. During the academic year, I also accepted, logged, and tracked applications for Honors College financial aid grants worth over $90,000.

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  The Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana

  • Office Manager

    • Jun 2008 - Jul 2010

    As the Office Manager with the Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana, I maintained a constituent database of all girl and adult members for 15 counties in Kentucky and monitored annual budget of over $80,000. Additionally, I maintained files of membership applications, purchase orders, and other documents and assisted with planning logistics for the yearly “Desserts First” development event with over 250 attendees. Each quarter, I published an electronic newsletter and weekly email updates for all members.