Marketing Content Developer

CANDACE BAZILE **** Boring Road Decatur, GA 300**-***-*** 4146

*************@*****.*** candaceleannebazile.com

MARKETING CONTENT DEVELOPER

HTML/CSS trained copywriter/designer, with a passion for creating clear, concise, compelling value propositions, striking headlines, and call to action messaging that ignites and improves the customer experience.

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

SEO Copywriting/Content Marketing

3 years creating B2B and B2C focused newsletters, web content and topical blog posts featuring relevant, organically placed links to impact inbound SEO, using Adobe Business Catalyst and WordPress CMS tools.

3 years managing content on Facebook, Google+, Twitter and other Social Media Networks, Partner Websites, related Bulletin Boards, Internet Forums, Usenet News Groups, Chat Rooms and through Email Campaigns.

Registered with MyBlogGuest.com, the largest global Guest Blogger Social Media platform on the Internet. Pitched mission driven blog article topics to several MBG blogs that have a search engine page rank of 5 or better. Established relationships to promote web content and blog posts through VOCUS, PR Web and eRelease.com.

Developed dynamic, interactive digital resumes to showcase Service First client brand marketing strategy with the help of customized copy, streaming video, audio, contact forms and Prezi presentations, linked to Social Media profiles.

Web Design Skill

4 years creative web design/typography and generating strategic meta tags for outbound SEO.

4 years using print and web design authoring/editing tools: Adobe Muse CC, Adobe Dreamweaver,

Adobe Photoshop CS6, Adobe InDesign CS5.5, Adobe Illustrator CS6, jsbin.com, notepad++

1 year basic HTML/CSS coding; 2 years editing and embedding JavaScript

Corporate Communications/Marketing Management Project Management based marketing communications coordination for: sales proposals, capabilities brochures, flyers, logos, letterhead, newsletters, advertisements, tradeshow banners and table displays.

Performed research, writing and design for technical white paper, “Today’s Enterprise Security Demands Data Intelligence” and POV paper, “The Superiority of Data Intelligent Defense.”

Advertising/Article/Press Release Communications

Managed the writing, design and layout of newspaper articles and 40+ advertisements under bimonthly deadlines for CrossRoads News of South DeKalb (Decatur, GA).

Wrote, edited and distributed press releases for Millennium Filmworks, Inc., Author, Tzynya Pinchback (How to Make Pink Confetti), Exalt Integrated Technologies, LLC, and Engineering Design Technologies, Inc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Adobe Muse Web Designer/Certified Professional Resume Writer 2012 – Present

Service First Workforce Concierge, Inc., Decatur, GA 30034

Boutique technical résumé writing service specializing in branding the career success stories of clients returning

to the workforce by means of classic résumés, interactive digital résumés, Social Media career profiles, career

websites and video résumés. Professional highlight:

• Target transitioning military personnel and return to work professionals with rebranding solutions that properly address and eclipse transitions and gaps in work history through digital profiles linked to Social Media networks

Proposal Writer/Marketing Coordinator 2011 – 2012

Exalt Integrated Technologies, LLC, Roswell, GA 30076

CMMI Level 2 IT professional services firm ranked #6 on the 2012 list of Atlanta’s fastest growing small businesses by Business to Business Magazine, specializing in Certification and Accreditation (C&A), Enterprise Security, Mobile Solutions, Application Development Support, Infrastructure Solutions and IT product sales to the Federal Government.

Professional Highlight:

• Researched and analyzed Federal Government Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for IT consulting services to help build Exalt IT’s professional services business line and brand strategy, using Deltek’s GovWin IQ database and FedBizOpps.com

Independent Contractor Marketing Communications Specialist 2002 – 2011

Multiple Clients, Atlanta, GA 30338

Contract writing and designing services for small businesses and executives in the metropolitan Atlanta area.

Professional Highlights:

• EverSpark Interactive (2013) – Editor/Blogger/Link builder • Frances Edwards, DeKalb County Board of Education District 5 – Campaign mailers; • Professional Manager Inc., – Corporate identity brochure; • Sharon Lewis, Avant Realty – Business card/brochure design; • Crossroads News of South DeKalb – Articles, ad design,layout; AJ. Price Global – Web design, content development, promotional flyers; Doretha Smith – Book cover

design; Robin Spizman Agency – Research.

Proposal Writer 2004 – 2006

Spherion Corporation, Alpharetta, GA 30005

$2 billion global staffing and workforce development company. Professional Highlight:

• Secured $22 million in sales as the first dedicated local market proposal writer assisting Spherion field managers with bids of $10 million or less in Spherion localized markets across the U.S.

Proposal Coordinator 2003 – 2004

Engineering Design Technologies, Inc., Marietta, GA 30067

Newsletter, Brochure and Proposal coordination for A/E design and build consulting, engineering and construction firm.

TRAINING/EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS

Tools & Applications, Certifications & Affiliations

• Adobe Illustrator CS6; Photoshop CS6; InDesign CS5.5

• Certified Professional Resume Writer

• Graduate Certificate in Project Management

• JsBIN.com; Notepad++; MS Word; MS PowerPoint; MS Visio

MBA Project Management – Keller Graduate School of Management – DeVry University 2000

BA Print Journalism/Film/Video – University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee 1995

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