experience

OLSON, MAY 2008 to PRESENT - MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA

• Creative Resource Manager
• Drives resource allocation, including assessment of process and proposals for streamlining and scalability
• Active in optimization of business intelligence and analysis:
  • Reinvented how key business information is assessed to reflect changing needs of the organization
  • Created dynamic, interactive reporting to allow for macro and micro view of agency performance
  • Analyzes resource data to identify trends and anomalies
  • Presents findings to executive leadership in clear, concise, relevant terms
• Manages relationships with independent contractors and the process surrounding it
  • Recruited hundreds of industry professionals and creative talent across disciplines
  • Negotiates contractual details, including rate
  • Manages legal agreements and regulatory compliance
  • Created database of freelance engagements for use as reference by internal stakeholders and from which to extract business intelligence
  • Designed process to streamline contractor requests, engagement and facilitation
• Provides both statistical and anecdotal business cases regarding hiring
• Supports creative leadership in the management of creative talent

MINNESOTA PREMIER PUBLICATIONS, MARCH 2005 to MAY 2008 — MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA

• Production Manager and Creative Director
• Successfully led the process and personnel of the creative and production departments
• Initiated and directed major MPP projects, including:
  • Conversion from a linear to a parallel workflow
  • Application of systems for tracking productivity and gathering business intelligence
  • Development of a user-friendly, efficient process for client submissions
  • Implementation of formal training, cross-training
  • Documentation of procedures and policies
  • Overhaul of company's five websites
  • Major software conversion
  • Streamlining with an exclusively PDF system
• Contributed to MPP's successes as part of the executive management team, including a 35% increase in revenue

COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER HOLDINGS INC., JULY 2000 to MARCH 2005 — MANKATO, MINNESOTA

• Assistant Editor, The Land magazine
• Collaborated with web programmer to redesign the publication's online site — researching, designing, developing the site's information architecture and preparing content
• Ideated and executed the most popular feature in the magazine's history — The Back Roads photo column
• Managed and advised the magazine's contributors — staff writers, photographers, freelancers and columnists

education

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, MAGNA CUM LAUDE, MAY 1999

• Saint Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minn.
• major of study: Mass Communications
• minor of study: International Relations

STUDY ABROAD, SUMMER 1998

• Lodz University, Lodz, Poland
• international mass media
• Holocaust history

STUDY ABROAD, FALL 1997

• Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
• Czech art, history, language
• documentary photography
• personal photo exhibition

VARIOUS TRAINING AND CONTINUING EDUCATION

worth noting

• Took on extensive journalism project in Northern Ireland, 1999-2000
• Has done a variety of freelance journalism work, including Peruvian photo project documenting tropical medicine
• Adept at learning software solutions (fluent in Microsoft Office applications, Adobe Creative Suite, Acrobat Pro, Omnigraffle and more; working knowledge of Microsoft Access, Filemaker and others)
• Moonlights as voice-over talent