Work Experience
2023 - now
Senior Office Assistant
Visual and Performing Arts/Humanities
Northwest College
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Festival, camp and concert coordination that includes all invoicing, scheduling, creation of marketing assets and communication with vendors, event staff and attendants.
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WordPress website management and page creation with Elementor and WP Forms that inlcudes successfull integration of Paypal Commerce on Jazz Fest registration form for 2025, ensuring 100% fee recovery during registration and complete elimination of outstanding invoices.
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Supervision and training of student workers for general office tasks, music library catalog, department equipment inventory and festivals.
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Budget tracking for income vs. expense reports, processing of all budget paperwork.
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General office duties such as monitoring supply inventory, managing petty cash and POS card reader for event ticket sales, phone and email inquiries, scheduling, recording minutes, compiling reports for President and board of trustees.
2016-2023
Marketing Coordinator/Graphic Designer/Photographer
Best of the West & Huskemaw Optics
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Designed: advertisements for magazines and websites, trade show graphics, product packaging, apparel, branded materials, promotional materials and graphic artwork for custom rifles.
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Created, maintained and distributed Dropbox asset library for product dealer network.
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Maintained Volusion, WooCommerce and Shopify e-commerce websites with graphics, product photos and descriptions.
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Coordinated with sales and production teams in creation of support materials such as order forms, product sell sheets, retail catalogs, dealer locator maps, user manuals.
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Developed product training events with PowerPoint presentations with accompanying printed materials.
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Composed posts and created images/graphics to build presence on social media.
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Maintained tradeshow/event calendar and coordinated applications, booth placement and badges for attendees.
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Collaborated with videographers and marketing director on design and execution of email campaigns and press releases for product launches, events and promotional giveaways.
2014 - 2016
Prepress Technician/Pagination Designer
The Billings Gazette
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Utilized multiple technologies to paginate display ads and classified listings for daily newspaper offset printing.
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Worked collectively with other teams internally and externally to reach print deadlines and meet advertisers expectations for ad design and placement.
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Designed: magazine covers, display ads for web and print application, special section and real estate publications.
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Coordinated with sister-paper prepress teams in other cities to distribute workload.
Education
University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY • 2009
Bachelor of Arts in Art
Concentration in graphic design
Minor in journalism
RELEVANT COURSEWORK
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Advanced Graphic Design
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Motion Graphics
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Color Theory
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Typography
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Photojournalism
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Hard news and feature writing
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Investigative reporting
COMPLETED INTERNSHIPS
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University of Wyoming - Laramie, WY
UW Art Museum
Sculpture: A Wyoming Invitational assistant
Student Publications
Copy desk editor/writer/photographer -
RTC - Laramie, WY
Graphic designer -
Uinta County Herald - Evanston, WY
Junior varsity sports reporter -
Evanston High School - Evanston, WY
Editor-in-chief of newspaper, yearbook
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