JENNIFER E. HARMON

**** ******** **.,

West Linn, OR 97068

503-***-**** • abnkar@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

MARKETING/ADVERTISING PROFESSIONAL with demonstrated success in innovative strategic planning

and execution, complex project management and advertising. Excellent communications skills, community relations

and project management. Accomplishments include:

• Project manager in the execution of integrated advertising and marketing campaigns, global and domestic.

• Creating effective online and offline communications and managing production processes to ensure

consistent communication throughout various disciplines.

• Building results-driven marketing and communications programs integrating creative strategy, disciplined

logistical execution, utilizing multiple mediums.

• Collaborating with internal and external colleagues and vendors to meet strategic and sales goals.

• Budget development, oversight, and analysis.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Natural Understanding, Portland, OR 2009-present

Event Director

Managed, organized and marketed fundraising event in conjunction with the Autism Society of Oregon and

Randy Couture. Natural Understanding consists of a V.I.P. event, raffle and private brunch. Partnered with

Entercom Radio to bring on sponsors and media coverage. Developed PR and marketing strategies, managed

budget and website design.

John L. Scott, West Linn, OR 2006-2008

Real Estate Broker

Marketed and sold residential and commercial real estate. Member of Million Dollar Club. Top Sales Agent in

August 2006, February 2007, June 2007, September 2007. 2006 Branch Rookie of the Year. Developed

marketing strategies to sell real estate. Managed and cultivated client base, managed all aspects of real estate

sale process: showed properties, pulled comps to ensure fair offer/price, evaluated properties within current

market, managed all paperwork, managed escrow and closing process.

adidas America, Portland, OR 2000-2003

Communications Manager

Managed and executed integrated global and domestic integrated advertising campaigns. Responsible for

managing million dollar budget, supplying creative direction to agencies, internal partners and various third-

party vendors. Managed ad and media agencies, internal partners throughout life of campaigns, provided

comprehensive end result reports to upper management. Increased basketball footwear category by 40% in

2002; increased basketball footwear category market share by 7% in Q1 2002. Assisted sales and product

counterparts with presentations.

Communications Coordinator 1998-2000

Assisted managers in the execution of global and domestic integrated ad campaigns. Managed million-dollar

budgets, wrote creative briefs, organized files and creative for each campaign. Worked on all aspects of ad

campaigns including briefing agencies, attending shoots, media planning, etc. Managed archive of all creative

output.

Florida Institute of Technology, Orlando, FL 1996-1997

Marketing Coordinator

Assisted in the management of all professional development courses. Created course advertisements, press

releases and syllabi. Managed million-dollar budget, assisted in job placement of graduates and cultivated new

business relationships with prospective employers. Enrollment averages consistently increased during and our

tuition accounted for over 50% of the site’s revenue.

Orlando Magic, Orlando, FL 1995-1996

Talent Network Coordinator/Community Relations

Organized team community relations outreach programs and events. Developed and implemented

athlete/corporate programs and events. Managed schedules for personnel and athlete public appearances.

Facilitated production of PSAs and press conferences for team, assisted in game operations and promotions.

EDUCATION

University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

B.A. English

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Publishing Seminar – Marketing and Editing

Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR

M.B.A. - currently studying, graduation date 2010

CIVIC AND PROFESSIONAL

Volunteer – CASA Clackamas County

Volunteer – SMART Reading Program

Volunteer – Habitat for Humanity, Ronald McDonald House

Marketing Trustee – MECC Board (2 years)

President - MECC Board

Member - Retail Industry Professionals, Sports Mktg. Professionals, Brand Mktg. Professionals & Intl. Advertising

Professionals

Mktg./PR Volunteer - ASO Autism Walk-a-Thon

COMPUTER SKILLS & LANGUAGES

Microsoft Office: Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Outlook, Publisher

MAC: Keynote, Numbers, Pages

Spanish – some spoken and written

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