I’m a skilled professional with over thirty years of media experience seeking a dynamic career in the marketing and advertising field that would allow me not only to utilize my skills but also to build my knowledge within a team-oriented company.

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WORK HISTORY

Radio Personality | WQTX STACKS921 FM | Holt, MI
March 2021 - Continuing

• Consistently create engaging and entertaining, succinct content

• Be a positive voice of Metro Lansing

• Produce promotional content for sponsors and advertisers

• Conduct interviews that crisply tell a compelling story

Relationship Manager | Women’s Center of Greater Lansing | Lansing, MI
June 2024 - July 2025

• Develop and maintain relationships with donors and potential donors

• Create content to help tell the story of the WCGL

• Help produce events that are fundraising events for the WCGL

• Creative strategist for helping maintain a public persona of the WCGL

Lansing Made | Metro Lansing, MI
November 2014 - Current

• Promoting positivity

• Highlighting Metro Lansing through interviews, video highlights, and articles

• Help offer a sense of pride for Metro Lansing

• Creator, activist, rejuvenator, innovator

 

Bar Leader | Soup Spoon Cafe | Lansing, MI
June 2016 – 2018

• Supervised Financial Transactions

• Shift liaison to executive management

• Craft Cocktail Mixologist

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Marketing Consultant | Midwest Communications | Holt, MI
August 2011 – December 2013

• Consult with businesses to learn their messaging goals

• Create a marketing campaign utilizing all aspects of radio, including broadcast, web, streaming, and social media

• Write and present advertising proposals

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Waiter / Bartender | Troppo | Lansing, MI
February 2005 – June 2016

• Supervised financial transactions

• Responsible for hiring staff, providing training, and maintaining personnel reports

• Shift liaison to executive management

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Acquisitions Clerk | Capital Area District Library | Lansing, MI
July 2000 – August 2011

• Prepare purchase orders and submit to vendors

• Submit claims to vendors for items ordered and not received

 

SKILLS

• Excellent computer skills with working knowledge of: Microsoft Word, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, and data entry

• Proficient in social media: Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, YouTube, Soundcloud, TikTok, Instagram

• Extensive experience in multimedia: television talk show host, humorist, emcee, storyteller, voice-over artist, videographer, photographer, writer

• Skilled in promotional and marketing methods

• Amplified communication skills

• Execution and strategic planning for large events

• Personalized service

• Valuable marketing experience

INTERESTING TIDBITS

• Former Steering Committee Child & Family Charities Tee it Up for Kids Golf Outing

• Former Member of Advocates & Leaders for Police & Community Trust [ALPACT]

• Host Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 2016 National Gathering

• Recipient of the 2017 12 Distinguished Gentlemen Award

• Extensively quoted in the Lansing State Journal article: "2017: Year of Lansing's Political Overhaul?"

• Appeared weekly on WLNS TV-6  "What's the Haps" for 8 years

• Original short story [440 words] published in "Fiction 440: Volume 1”

• Former monthly contributor to "517 Business Magazine" for the “Places” column

• Former board member of the Old Town Commercial Association

• Creator of 517 Day

• The original announcer for the Lansing Derby Vixens

• Producer - PFAS Training Video, State of Michigan (required viewing for every firefighter in the State of Michigan)

• Owner of Metro Melik 517 Storefront for two years in Old Town Lansing: Focusing on sourcing products, art, and services, calling 517 home

• Proclaimed by the Mayor of Lansing and Governor of Michigan as the founder of the in-person 517 Day Celebration

• Lansing City Pulse Top of the Town winner four years in a row for Top Radio Personality

REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST