EDUCATION 2014-2016 Masters in Instructional Design and Educational Technology; University of Utah.
1986-1991 Bachelor of Science, Elementary Education; University of Utah
EMPLOYMENT 2009-Present Community Manager, The Open to Hope Foundation Responsible for developing social media and content strategies that drive growth of social and digital media programs; including YouTube, Twitter Foursquare, flickr, vimeo and Facebook. Development, creation and daily maintenance of youtube channel, and the editing and posting of over 600 videos to date. Management and daily maintance of social networking media for the foundation ensuring real time conversation peer to peer. Create ads for facebook ads as well as google ads to ensure search engine optimization. Collaborate with the Executive Director and the Executive Editor to engage and retain visitors to website and social networks. Work remotely with web-developer and designer to keep site up to date. Encourage and promote over 250 contributors through the use of cross links and webinars as well as using other social media strategies.
2010-2014 Social Media Engagement Coordinator Snowed Inn Sleigh Company Create and maintain social media platform which includes Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and flickr with a minimal budget. Created and updated website with fresh content. Create and post video as well as digital photos.
1999-2000 Teacher, Wasatch Middle School Heber City, UT 6th grade teacher; science, math and language arts. Teaming and planning sessions with other 6th grade teachers. Classroom of inclusion. Member and participant of committees and workshops. Maintained a cooperative learning environment and open line of communication with students and parents.
1995-1998 Supervisor, Deer Valley Children’s Center Park City, UT Recruited, hired and supervised a staff of over 30 employees. Lead cross department meetings in strategic planning for daily schedule of employees and guests. Supervised front desk scheduling, check in/out and correspondence with guests from all around the world. Responsible for meeting and development of department budget. Updated state license for the facility and oversaw training and licensing of the staff.
1995 Camp Director, City of Albany Recreation Center Albany, CA Planned and managed summer camp program. Hired and supervised staff and volunteer guest speakers. Other duties included planning city of Albany 4th of July carnival in collaboration with city employees, weekly barbecues, field trips, swimming and daily activities for campers using a limited budget. Kept an open of line of communication with campers and their parents as well as city employees.
1991-1994 McPolin Elementary Park City, UT 3rd grade teacher. Collaborated with other teachers in class preparation and planning. Encouraged cooperative learning within the classroom and parental participation in all aspects of learning and teaching. Developed strong relationships with school administrators, teachers, students and parents. Participation in a variety of workshops and committees which required communication, problem solving and leadership.
QUALIFICATIONS and CERTIFICATIONS Self starter, strategic, creative thinker with the capacity to be results oriented as well as team focused and budget conscience. Technically and analytically skilled in addition to providing unparalleled customer service. Resourceful, positive, energetic, innovative, detailed and comfortable in cross-department and collaborative efforts, I work exceptionally well with others. Certified in Google Ad Words and Google Analytics. Trained in Final Cut Pro, SEO, mark-up language, webdesign, social networking and and the Adobe Suite.
Member of Golden Key National Honors Society, 2015 Member of National Honors Society, 2016