Sales Manager

Location:

Portland, OR

Posted:

October 04, 2012

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Andrea Boyle

ART. ADMINISTRATED.

Bio/Contact

Arts Administration

Event Management

"Mirrors"

Project Details

Artists & Collaborators

ANDREA J. BOYLE

p. 503-***-****

e. aborka@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Skills & Highlights:

5 years+ experience in arts administration and art nonprofit event management.

Extensive detail-oriented, administrative success in fields ranging from arts and culture

to academia and international relations.

Proven results-driven motivational skills: measurable increases in membership levels and

sales records as well as enrollment and matriculation rates.

Authored Mood Swings II, an arts and culture book detailing, from a critical design

perspective, Beirut s nightlife. It has been reviewed by the Lebanese newspaper, The

Daily Star, and has sold more that 2,000 copies internationally

Administrative & Event Management Experience

Coordinated nonprofit fundraising activities for an industrial arts center in Oakland

with a $2.5M budget; increased member enrollment and retention by 33%; implemented

fundraising activities including grant writing, individual and corporate solicitations,

and member outreach; managed direct mailing campaigns, and special events.

Directed after school arts & sciences enrichment program for local elementary school;

recruited, hired, and coordinated staff of 15 teachers; organized class schedule and event

planning for 14-week program; managed matriculation of 170 students; created and delivered

all promotional and informational materials; responsible for all administrative duties

ranging from budget management to permission slips and building codes.

Directed all major activities for arts and culture organization including all aspects of

organizational management and event production; volunteer coordination, art handling, art

sales, and event management; coordinated directly with artists and partnering

organizations; promoted organizations schedule through social media and networking;

directed education outreach efforts, responsible for hiring and firing of interns; wrote,

delivered e-marketing/e-newsletters; directed website creation, content delivery, design;

managed office duties, legal issues, database, finances, and budgets.

Served as Program Coordinator for new arts and culture organization delivering 75+ events

for annual two-week city-wide festival; managed staff, performers, and event programmers;

designed, managed and coordinated fund-raising events; managed weekly meetings, set

agenda, kept minutes and notes, delivered weekly updates; coordinated and scheduled weekly

events; hosted opening night program.

Managed daily administrative booth operations at local and international conventions;

scheduled high-profile executive meetings with utmost discretion; updated and maintained

contact database for post-show business opportunities, managed daily schedules of company

managers and sales-reps that included evening events; coordinated on-site staff of 15+

booth hands, functioned as on-call liaison between company and event facility.

Coordinated campus-wide headhunting and marketing campaign; maintained database of high

potential candidates; marketed organization to school officials and organizations;

organized, presented weekly information sessions; increased attendance, application, and

matriculation rates by 30%.

Teaching and Training Experience

Developed creative lesson plans exploring both language and culture through lens of

social responsibility; managed religiously and ethnically diverse classes; designed new

marketing materials aimed at meeting and increasing enrollment goals; coordinated new

teacher recruitment, hiring, training, cultural integration processes.

Managed street team of environmental activists and organizers; coached canvassers on fund

raising techniques; represented office at regional events; informed Oregon citizens on

environmental issues facing state; increased membership and volunteer levels; raised money

(exceeded all fund-raising records and ranked 3rd nationally); personally ranked within

top 10 canvassers nationally for duration of contract.

Worked on an international activist team empowering students to make substantial change

in our global community; facilitated engagement; mediated cultural conflict between multi-

ethnic group of international students; co-instructed three-week seminar based on GPACT

training; successfully trained 30 students, with three groups receiving project grants

(ranging in value from food donations to 25,000).

Promoted re-imagined organizational mission viewing preventative security as peace

building at on-campus and off-campus forums; served as administrative liaison between

international project managers; participated in vision building; initiated coordinated

strategic marketing team.

Organized and facilitated social/academic programming for incoming freshman promoting

time management, social responsibility, personal balance; maintained database of resident

class schedules and achievement goals to better assist in collegiate and post-collegiate

success; coordinated study groups, tutors, academic meetings with deans, advisors, and

potential employers

Work History

Development Coordinator, The Crucible

Oakland, CA, July 2011-Present

IndependentCuratorAugust 2010- Present

Program Director, Chief Joseph Elementary Arts & Sciences Enrichment Program

Portland OR, September 2010- March 2011

Administrative Director/Co-Director, Portland City Art

Portland, OR, October 2009-September 2010

Program Coordinator, PDX Bridge Festival

Portland, OR. January 2010-July 2010

Writer, Art Lounge Publishing

Beirut, Lebanon. January 2009-July 2009

English Teacher/Assistant Director, Berlitz Language Center

Aleppo, Syria September 2007- Septermber 2008

;

Beirut, Lebanon, January 2009-May 2009

Field Manager, Environment Oregon

Portland, OR. February 2007- August 2007

Assistant Booth Manager

Proxima, CES Las Vegas, 2000-2005; Jabra/GN Netcom, CES Las Vegas 2006; Divx, CES Las

Vegas 2007; Jabra, FIFA Berlin Germany 2007

Sales Associate, Nordstrom

Portland, OR. July 2003-January 2007

Administrative Assistant, Center for Global Security and Democracy

Rutgers University; September 2004-May 2005

Trainer and Teacher, Global Partnership for Activism and Cross-Cultural Training

University of Zagreb, Croatia. Summer 2004

Campaign Coordinator, Teach for America

Rutgers University. September 2003-May 2005

Wilderness Therapy Instructor, SUWS & Sagewalk Wilderness School

Shoshone, ID. Summer 2003

;

Bend, OR, Summer 2009Resident Life Staff/Academic Community Programmer

Rutgers University, September 2002-May 2004

Education

B.A in Political Science and Religious Studies

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. May 2005.

Minor: Middle Eastern Studies, Arabic

Honors Thesis: Reconciling the Bridge: A Search for Reclaimed Essence/ A theoretical and

practical approach to post-war reconciliation in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Honors: Magna Cum Laude, College High Honors, Aresty Research Fellow

Distinctions: National Society Collegiate Scholars (2001-2005); Golden Key National Honor

Society (2003-2005); Political Science Honor Society (2003-2005); Religious Studies Honors

Society (2003-2005); President s Award for Academic Excellence (2001)

Study Abroad: University of Kwa-Zulu Natal; Pietermaritzberg, South Africa. February 2004-

June 2004.

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