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Professional office director with 18 years experience in project and office management, including the news and arts industries. Proficient in records management, employee management, content creation and client relations.

EXPERIENCE

DIRECTOR
Toms River Seaport Society & Maritime Museum
11/2019-Present
Toms River, N.J.
Duties: records maintenance and grants compliance, records digitizing, membership file requests, demographic study and marketing, employee management independent and with board direction, engagement setting and event organizing, workshop attendance and development, internal and external communications, digital and print marketing, digital and print content creation, photo and video editing, graphic design, open museum walk-in guidance and tours, bookkeeping and accounts payable maintenance, occasional nights and weekends.

NEWS SERVICES ASSISTANT
Jersey Shore Hurricane News
01/2016-12/2019
South Seaside Park, N.J.
Duties: news gathering and dissemination, records maintenance and digitizing, demographic marketing, advertising generation, events promotion, internal and external communications, digital marketing, content creation, photo and video editing, graphic design, readership point-of-contact, occasional nights and weekends.

NEWSLETTER EDITOR
Pine Beach Connections
06/2011-09/2017
Pine Beach, N.J.
Duties: state grant compliance, records filing, resident inquiry point-of-contact, demographic study and marketing, event organizing, workshop attendance and development, internal and external communications, digital and print marketing, digital and print content creation, photo and video editing, graphic design, occasional nights and weekends.

NEWS EDITOR
Riverside Signal
11/2009-12/2015
Ocean County, N.J.
Duties: records maintenance, digitizing and filing, readership and government official point-of-contact, demographic study and marketing, employee management, engagement setting, workshop and seminar attendance and development, internal and external communications, digital and print marketing, digital and print content creation, photo and video editing, graphic design, news gathering and dissemination, bookkeeping and accounts payable maintenance, regular nights and weekends.

PROJECT ASSISTANT
PostWorks NYC
04/2007-12/2009
New York, N.Y.
Duties: post-production video project assistance including files maintenance, project shift scheduling and maintenance, workshop attendance, internal communications, client service and point-of-contact.

OTHER:
Station Assistant, OCTV-20, 2008-2010
Marketing Director, Playmobil USA, 2006-2007
Product & Communications Manager, Point Bay Fuel, 2005-2006
Office Intern, Office of Public Information, Georgian Court University, 2004

EDUCATION
William Paterson University
Wayne, N.J.
2002-2004 (B.A. in Communications, 05/2004)

College of Mount Saint Vincent
Riverdale, Bronx, N.Y.
1999-2001 (transfer)

TECHNICAL PROFILE
Platforms and Frameworks: Windows, Mac OSX, Linux
Desktop Applications: Microsoft Works, OpenOffice, PowerCampus, Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, InDesign, Lightroom), Intuit QuickBooks. Webex
Online/Mobile Applications: Google Workspace, Zoom, Slack, Canva, MailChimp, Constant Contact, Discord, Evernote, Flickr, GroupMe, Remind, Otter, Quizlet, Rosetta Stone, Square, Udemy, Vimeo, YouTube plus social media (various, as needed)

FURTHER EDUCATION/TRAINING
Nihongo Picnic [online Japanese language school, Tokyo], 2022-present
Clarion West Writer’s Workshop, online, 2020-present
Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers, online, 2020-present

MEMBERSHIP/ASSOCIATIONS
Member/Past Executive Board Member, Ocean Gate Yacht Club, 2017-present
Commissioner, Ocean County Culture & Heritage Commission, 2009-2014
Member, Asbury Park Book Cooperative, 2019-present