WORK EXPERIENCE:

2009-2009
Team Comfort, Bloomingdale, Illinois
Marketing Manager of Business Development/Graphic Design

Over see all marketing and promotional activities. Design, develop and create all marketing materials and e-mail blasts with company objectives. Website maintenance, Create and implement a marketing schedule and budget designed to consistently promote the company efficiently. Cultivate a process to test and review the effectiveness of each promotion. Responsible for marketing company's products and services to the right market whether it be business to business or business to customer. Manage all aspects of production, receipt, and distribution of marketing materials. Achieve consistent and timely marketing coverage utilizing all available distribution channels. Conduct market research to identify potential opportunities. Analyze potential strategic partner relationships. Tradeshow preparation. Many other duties.

2006-2006
Avalon Risk Management,Inc., Elk Grove Village, Illinois
Graphic Design/Marketing Assistant

Designed and created artwork for ads, brochures, trade publications, newsletters, tri-folds, fliers, handouts, t-shirts, etc., utilizing Adobe CS, QuarkXPress and Acrobat. Create the "Quest" newsletter in MS FrontPage and distribute to internal and external clients as e-mail blasts. Also create PowerPoint presentations and format, create and modify documents in Word as well as create, format and modify training materials for internal and external use along with designing, creating and modifying corporate marketing materials. Assist with trade show preparations. Additional projects and tasks as needed.

2004 – 2005
B & F Technical Code Services Inc., Hoffman Estates, Illinois
Graphic Design/Marketing Assistant

Designed and created covers, artwork and ads for brochures, trade publications, newsletters, tri-fold brochures, fliers, course guides, etc., utilizing QuarkXPress, Illustrator and Photoshop for B & F Tech and The Building & Fire Code Academy (a subsidiary of BF Tech). Placed created ads in various trade publications and on promotional gifts. Answered caller/e-mail inquires regarding placing ads. Maintained client database and templates and provided marketing research. Ordered and processed mailings for promotional gifts, went out on the field with inspectors to take photos, website maintenance, created PowerPoint presentations with sound and animation, other duties as assigned.

1998 - 1999
ForceField Marketing Inc., Schaumburg, Illinois.
Marketing Coordinator

Contacted clients to book demos for promotions of food products, entered survey data into Filemaker Pro database, tracked product shipments, gathered and submitted product data to clients via e-mail, agency correspondence, other support functions.

FREELANCE & CONTRACT WORK:

2007-Present
Graphic Design (Freelance)
     Sheerly Elegant: Half-page Ad
     Orbitz WorldWide: T-Shirt Design
     Signature Doctors: T-Shirt Design

Contractors providing contracting services while searching for permanent employment:
Sun Consultants:
    CDW: Administrative Excel Work - Marketing Department
Digital People
    J.S. Paluch: Production Artist
Salem Group:
    American Academy of Dermatology: Administrative Assistant - Meetings & Conventions Department
    Village of Schaumburg: Data Entry - Finance Department
    Northfield Industries: Data Entry

2000 - 2004
Snelling, Superior Technical Resources, Fellows Staffing, OnSite, Adecco & Office Team:
Contractors providing contracting services while searching for permanent employment.

Assignments have included:
ABN AMRO: Administrative Assistant to Managing Director - Global Head of Foreign Exchange
GE Capital Commercial Finance: Administrative Assistant to Senior VP - National Restructuring Department
Spiegel: Administrative Assistant - Corporate Marketing / Merchandising
Kimball Hill Homes: Administrative Assistant to CFO - Finance Department
Facilitech, a Service of EcoLab: Administrative Assistant - Sales Department
Harding Environmental Science & Engineering: Administrative Assistant - Accounting and Marketing Department
Sears, Roebuck & Company: Buyers Assistant - Tools and Hardware
Riverside Publishing: Human Resource Assistant
ACNeilsen: Executive Administrative Assistant to Marketing Executive - Marketing Department

Work/Tasks:
Executive calendar/e-mail maintenance, travel arrangements, schedule conference rooms/meetings, create set-up interviews, extract data from company websites/vendor information systems, itinerary/correspondence, report generation, internet research, handle confidential information, maintain account listings, fulfill customer inquiries, process sales orders, other support functions.

WORK SKILLS:

Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS
View my: Graphic Design Portfolio

EDUCATION:

Elgin Community College, Elgin, Illinois:

Associate of Applied Science Degree - Computerized Graphic Design with Honors
Associate of Applied Science Degree - Office Administration Technology - Executive Secretary
Vocational Specialist Certificate - Office Administration Technology - Executive Secretary
Basic Vocational Specialist Certificate - Office Administration Technology - Word Processing with Honors
Basic Vocational Specialist Certificate - Office Assisting with Honors
Basic Vocational Specialist Certificate - Management - Marketing 
Basic Vocational Specialist Certificate - MOUS Word Preparation with Honors 
Basic Vocational Specialist Certificate - MOUS Excel Preparation with Honors