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