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Clients

Avarent, LLC GailHeidel.com
Barry Personnel Kaplan Publishing
Digital Direction Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

East Coast Extreme

Union League Boys & Girls Clubs
   

Past Experience

Associate Director of Advertising at HarperCollins Publishers,
March 1998January 2004

Managed workflow for over $5 million dollars in media spending as well as conceived and executed
multi-media advertising campaigns for New York Times bestselling authors.

  • Managed workflow and supervised HarperCollins advertising, totaling $5 million in media spending.

  • Conceived and executed advertising campaigns for New York Times bestselling authors, including
    multi-media campaigns that included television, print, online, and radio.

  • Wrote copy for national radio, print, movie screen, billboard, online, and television campaigns, including
    new taglines for New York Times bestselling authors Elmore Leonard "Always Judge a Book by its Author"
    and Dennis Lehane "One Book Won’t be Enough."

  • Supervised Advertising Associates for various genres (academic, mystery, romance, science fiction, mystery)

  • Participated in brainstorming media campaigns to increase sales and visibility of authors and titles.

  • Organized and oversaw contracts, media estimates, and booked media.

  • Found low-cost media solutions reaching national audiences.

  • Created department procedures and proofreading standards for newly formed in-house ad agency.

Skills

  • Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint & FrontPage 2003

  • Adobe Creative Suite 2: InDesign, PhotoShop & Illustrator

Awards/Interests

  • The DeVilliers Distinguished Volunteer Award

  • Bronze Presidential Service Award

  • Broadening horizons through cooking, sewing, Spanish classes, and art history classes.

Education

  • Simpson College, Indianola, IA – Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication Studies, Minor in Management

  • Micro Train Technologies Classroom Seminars: Adobe InDesign CS, Levels 1 & 2; Adobe Illustrator CS, Level 1

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