Resourceful, high-energy professional experienced in leading and engaging multi-office highly specialized projects against tight deadlines. Excel in program development, resource and process optimization, creative collaboration, campaign development & rollout and driving operational & collaborative excellence through a careful balance of critical and design thinking, close scrutiny of and agile response to analytics.

Motivated and mission-driven. Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Thought leader. Strong employee relations, motivation, management experience and training qualifications assure an ability to lead. Proactive with a strong attention to detail. Numerous hardware and software application proficiencies.
 
Testing Venturer on the Predictive Index and INTP-A on Myers-Briggs, I am outgoing when necessity requires, communicate effectively and maintain confidentiality at all times. Demonstrate exceptional ethical insight, informed, pragmatic judgment organizational and time management skills, and thrive in an environment which allows me to work independently. Native language: English, Read/Write Familiarity: French, Italian, Spanish

 
Experience:
Freelance Writer/Editor/Producer                                                                                                                                              2004 – Present
  • Copywriting & Copy Editing
    • Journalism - News, Industry, Policy, Lifestyle, International
    • Full-Suite Ad
    • Television Commercial
    • Radio Commercial
  • Brand Development
  • Brand Communication Strategy
  • Brand Management
  • Business Development Strategy
  • Digital Marketing
  • Visual Design
  • Campaign Strategy & Management - Development & Rollout
  • Reputation Repair
  • Multifunctional Team Management
  • Source, procurement, development - multi-part series
  • Commissioned pieces
  • Contract research/writing
    • Legal
    • International Trade
    • CPG & Retail Food Service Development
  • Creative Writing
  • Co-wrote a play which went to local stage for a limited run
 
Consultant: Senior Legal Support  and Business Development                                                                2010 – Present
  • Legal Affairs & Processes:  Advanced research, review, process, drafting/writing, analysis, negotiation, conveyance (Direct Exp: AR, CA, TN, TX, Federal/FAR, RESPA, Int’l Trade); advanced problem-solving and conflict resolution; due diligence; data privacy/data ethics (GDPR, CCIP, HIPAA, FCRA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLBA) compliance); timeline investigation, development and documentation, risk assessment/risk mitigation (ISO, NIST), fraud investigation.
  • Project Management: Development, Implementation, Presentation of complex projects involving:
                     - Blockchain-based SaaS
                     - CPG & Retail Food Service
                     - Agriculture
                     - EdTech
                     - SpaceTech
                     - Community Development and Advocacy Programs
  • Process Standardization: Development and implementation of Company manuals (employee, process & procedure, HazMat, job description), internship programs, workflow management
  • Startup Pre-Series A: Board of Directors (functioned as ad hoc ethics advisor following SEC violations), SVP of International Partnership – EMEA, APAC. Communications with internal and external partners, Implementation and distribution of 360º marketing programs, C-Level Advisor
  • Contract Management: Research, Development, Drafting, Review, Negotiation, Procurement & Conveyance – MOU, LOI, NCNDA-IMFPA, SOW, SLA, SWIFT
  • Leadership: C-Level, Ethics Advisory, Non-Profit, Globally-Distributed Workforce, Creative & Marketing Communication Projects, Legal, PPP, Media Buying, Process Development & Performance Coaching
  • International Market & Partnership Development (Raw Commodities, CPG Dev, PaaS)
                   Sales and Marketing
                       - EMEA
                       - APAC
  • Publications
                - U.S. News & World Report (Contributing Writer)
                - HARK News (Managing Editor & Contributing Writer
                    - LinkedIn Pulse (Featured Writer, Online Journalism, Web Content Writer)
                - The Introducer (Contributing Writer, 2019)
                - FrontRunners Innovate (Guest Co-Editor, May/June 2020 Issue)

RECENT CLIENTS & CAPACITIES INCLUDE:
  • Michael G. Dray – Hydrogen Law (Pasadena, CA) -- Development & Case Management, Business Administration Consultant
  • Grainster – Consulting SVP: Investor Relations, International Market & Partnership Development (EMEA)
  • Dotdash (New York, NY) – Editorial Producer, numerous verticals including Investopedia, Thought Co, The Balance, LifeWire
  • Mad Pixie Confectionaries (Specialty Food Retail-Little Rock, AR) – Owner/Creative Director
  • Daiquiri Dames (Restaurant-Bar, Hot Springs, AR) --  Development Consultant (Grantmaking, Menu Dev)

Founder/Director – NextPhase Foundation                                                                                                               06/2016-Present
501c3-registered nonprofit organization. Develop, launch and oversee initiatives affording innovative and intervention educational and occupational opportunities to at-risk and marginalized populations in the U.S. and abroad. Current projects include:
  • Project Turn the Page (2019, launch phase): Distributed 400 books to Arkansas Fourth Circuit Court’s Juvenile and Family Services division and municipal prisons across the state of Arkansas; on-track to double that number in 2020
  • Project NexTech (2020, launch phase): Procured 10 laptop computers in 2019, currently under refurbishment for distribution to students-in-need at National Park College in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 2020.
  • Project Bees ‘n Butterflies (2019, development phase): Working in collaboration with the City of Conway, University of Central Arkansas and Community Connections to develop and execute a community garden & apiary to be run, front-to-back, by at-risk and differently-abled youth and young adults. The effort will afford unique opportunities to the students to:
    • Achieve occupational, business development and leadership skills, utilizing exhibited strengths in horticulture, apiary, trade and consumer packaged goods development, marketing and sales to their own best advantage as they grow flowers, teas, fruits and herbs; run and manage an apiary; and trade within community and regional farmers markets in the fruits of their own efforts.
  • Project Rise ‘n Shine (2018, development phase): Working in collaboration with Beaded Spoon, 42-Changemakers and Mwaganza in Kenya, Africa, to develop and execute an ESG-structured effort to empower:
    • Rural women’s farmers’ cooperatives across Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Ethiopia to develop trade-to-made opportunities in coffee, cocoa, baobab, bamboo and cotton, converting trade in raw goods into production facilities capable of producing branded lines of CPG products in each of these verticals
    • Women artisans from the Maasai Tribe of Kenya to bring their beadwork to a global audience through production of jewelry, animal collars & leashes to be marketed and sold under their branded identity in retail outlets in the U.S. and Europe.
    • Taken together these efforts, upon execution, are poised to
      • Increase earnings ability for the cooperative and their members fivefold ($2.7M-USD cumulative in 2018) by 2024
      • Move their communities into a branded global production and distribution space by 2030
      • Provide between 300 and 5000 fulltime, contract and part-time jobs per region by 2030
      • Drive development of permanent healthcare facilities and schools for the rural communities in which many of these women live

Managing Editor – HARK News                                                                                                                                                                    2016
  • Procured, organized, managed and fostered a staff of 10 writers across the continental U.S. for a multiplatform publication convering startup and tech in the southeastern U.S.
  • Curated stories and series including NASA Tech Transfer Program, Startup Smarty Pants

Final Title Operations Manager, Conway Title Services, Inc                                                       2005-2008
  • Management: Developed from one employee (myself) a fully-staffed, stand-alone functional department, training and supervising a staff of five employees
  • Advanced problem-solving skills: developed and optimized KPI for Final Title Policy production and delivery, standardizing preparation process and improving policy transactions periods from an average 45 days to an average 20 days, from a backlog of literally hundreds of files to no backlog (barring title issues) at time of my departure, effectively bringing the company into statutory, regulatory and contractual compliance, vastly improved cross-functional relationships across departments through process analysis. implementation and effective communication.
  • Process Optimization: Single-handedly and successfully conquered 100+ O&E title issue files, more than a dozen aged as old as 24 months, through dogged research, legal documentation and investigation and timeline construction, drafting & filing, persistent communication, coordination and follow-up, resulting in completion of title clearance and issuance of final title policies for all but two files at time of my departure
    • Proficiency:
      • KPI development and supervision -- process and staff
      • Title curative research & resolution
      • Developed & implemented best practices process to effectively address longstanding final title issues
      • Departmental budget development and management
      • Database development and management
      • Vendors and Contractors: coordination, procurement, balance sheet


ASSOCIATIONS:
  • Speaker, Trade with Africa Business Summit 2018 – “Collaboration: Empowering Communities Forward Through Trade”
  • Featured: The Introducer Magazine – “10 To Know” Gamechangers: 2018 Women’s Empowerment Issue
  • Advisory Board Member, World Hope Youth Mentor (12/2017-Present)--                                                                            The Frontrunners' League
  • Advisory Board Member (5/2020-Present) --                                                                            Centre for Strategic Enterprise Development (Nigeria)
  • Advisory Board Member (06/2017-06/2018) –                                                                                                               National Graphene Association
  • Advisory Board Member (10/2017-Present) –                                                                                                                                    Lifeboat Foundation
  • Advisory Board Member (11/2016-07/2017) –                                                                                                                                                 AdvancingX
  • Board Member & Events Committee, Creative Director (01/2015-06/2016) –                                                     Faulkner County Boys & Girls Club
  • Executive Board Member (05/2015-07/2017)–                                                                                                                                                      Grainster
 
EDUCATION:
Penn State University (Grad 2021)
  • Bachelor's of Arts-Letters, Arts & Sciences with focus: International Trade & Policy, Marketing, Nonprofit Administration
 University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton
  • Associate of General Studies
  • Practical Nursing
University of Central Arkansas
  • Biology
 
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