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Leader / Creative Catalyst / Change Agent / Strategic Planner

SKILLS

  • Leadership

  • Management/Supervision

  • Administrative Oversight

  • Strategic Planning

  • Creative Project Management

  • Teaching

  • Team Building

  • Coaching & Development

  • Web Content Management

  • Web Platforms (Squarespace, Wix, WordPress)

  • Problem Solving

  • Conflict Resolution

  • Microsoft Office

  • Adobe Products - Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator

  • Basecamp

  • Salesforce (novice but generally familiar)

Professional Accomplishments: The Highlights

Co-planned and executed conference/events for 400-1000 attendees

Natural leader with experience both stateside and international

Successfully led the re-branding of a church with strong delegation and project management skills with attention to detail

Implementer of efficient systems and procedures

Creative and collaborative leader and teammate

Engaging public speaker

Always on budget and on time

 

Professional Experience: The Details

Year Up Professional Resources, PBC (dba YUPRO) / HR Manager / 3/21 - present

Responsible for the successful and seamless onboarding of all employees

Manages the company benefits portfolio and enrollment

Maintains confidentiality with employee performance issues and document management

Oversees compliance of workers compensation insurance

Performs all weekly payroll duties

Ensures state compliance of all required sexual harassment training

Helping to develop a virtual onboarding/orientation process for all staff

Year Up Professional Resources, PBC (dba YUPRO) / Operations Manager / 01/18 - 3/21

Manages the accounts receivable, reconciliation and collections for growing staffing company with increasingly large client base

Maintains AR aging in the 95th percentile

Coordinates travel/retreat logistics for the team

Light banking/bookkeeping

Manages the documentation for our contractors

Provides job search coaching for candidates

 

Austin Oaks Church / Director of Communication / 09/13 - 07/17

Managed brand creation, graphic and logo design, environmental design and way-finding signage

Led marketing strategy, art direction, project management, writing, editing, event promotion and planning, and vendor negotiation

Managed web content creation

Successfully hired and managed a creative team of 3 to meet professional goals, stay on budget ($55,000/annual budget), and meet all project deadlines

Effectively communicated and held team/church mission and vision through weekly meetings and an “open-door” policy

Fostered a healthy team environment focused on growth and community

Familiarity with social networking sites to drive church engagement

Led the marketing and design around capital campaigns resulting in increased church-wide giving

 

KIPP Austin Academy of Arts & Letters / 6th and 8th grade Theatre Teacher / 06/10 - 06/13

Created and implemented an academically rigorous curriculum for required theatre classes

Efficiently managed a classroom with maximized time for learning

Successfully collaborated with grade level team of teachers

Effectively used collected data to measure results and reach set goals

Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills

 

Megalomedia, Inc. / 04/07 – 09/09 / Austin, TX

Responsible for all production management for all film/TV projects, including budgets up to $150,000

Demonstrated project management experience

HR Generalist - implemented initial processes for all HR, Financial and Administrative systems

 

CRU Inc. / (08/95-04/07)

Regional Conference Associate / 05/04 – 04/07 / Austin, TX Associate Director / 06/01 - 05/04 / Denton, TXStaff / 08/95 - 06/01 / Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia / Denton, TX

Successfully worked with management oversight team responsible for planning the region’s annual student conference (avg. attendance 1000)

Effectively and successfully directed program team of 20 employees responsible for production of the conference’s main meetings

Led teams of 15-60 staff and students on 6 week-long summer trips domestically and internationally

Experienced leader in strategic planning, evaluation, change and progress Demonstrated exceptional communication skills - speaker at weekly meetings (avg. attendance of 100)

Recruited, trained, led and sent out student volunteer teams

Taught, trained and equipped staff and students to be successful leaders post university

Successfully raised funds for personal and team ministries with effective vision casting, communication and donor retention

 

Education

B.A. degree in Post-Soviet and East European Studies University of Texas at Austin 1991-1994

Interests

Family, Sports, Writing, Women’s Issues, Racial Reconciliation

 

Personality

Myers Briggs - ENTJ

Enneagram - 8 The Challenger