Microsoft Office Design

Rheta Murry **** W. Georgetown Road • Logansport, IN, 46947 • 865-***-**** • ***********@*****.***

Objective

Marketing Coordinator/Management Trainee, in a position requiring an accomplished communications professional with writing design abilities including flyers, advertisements, posters, newsletters and other promotional collateral.

Summary of Qualifications

Creative professional with a broad-based record of education, skills, and experience in a diversity of corporate, small business, and publishing environments. Ability to think strategically about communications objectives and carry them out

Write articles and design advertising pieces that successfully increase company name recognition and promote products, services, and events

More than 20 years as a professional journalist, including seven years at The Daily Times, Maryville, Tenn.

Established a reputation as a motivated professional with the ability to work as a team member, build relationships, serve as a professional company representative

Ability to juggle multiple projects while meeting strict deadlines

Specific Experience by Category

Graphic Design/ Desktop Publishing

Design promotional items such as newsletters, brochures, flyers, membership cards, direct mail pieces, booklets, catalogs, training manuals, and advertising layouts

Create designs from information and data gathered from required sources, such as managers and customers

Coordinating schedules with printers. Ensuring projects meet quality/customer specifications

Preparing senior-level presentations and business correspondence, creating flow charts and business forms

Created product manuals for Astec Underground products

Designed CD covers and traycards for recording studio clients as needed, some with photographs I took

Created two newsletters a month for retail customers for Karoke/recording studio products

Compiled information and created two retail catalogs

Created retail posters, postcards, and other retail advertising pieces for Karoke/recording studio products

Worked with commercial printer to coordinate printing of CD covers and

traycards, posters and newsletters

Specific Experience by Category Continued Murry

Writing & Editing

Identify and interview key players in order to write feature stories, articles, news releases and personality profiles for print and web publication

Write and edit copy for advertising circulars/brochures, newsletters, news releases and radio advertisements

Cover public meetings and write cohesive articles explaining decisions and actions taken.

Edit and write articles for county-wide Senior Magazine and broadening the scope of the publication

Interviewed recording studio clients, took photos, and wrote personality profiles for website

Photography

Events and people for newspaper articles, newsletters, news releases, and promotional pieces

Sporting, school, and community events and illustrating articles with photographs

Utilizing knowledge and experience with lighting principles and techniques; image scanning/manipulation; equipment set-up; darkroom operations; and group photos / individual portraits

Project Management

Balance a variety of tasks, including coordinating with photographers, commercial printers compiling information

Managed monthly Senior Magazine by locating interesting seniors, interviewing and writing articles, selected correspondents in each of five areas to broaden coverage, edited articles submitted by columnists, and created attractive layouts for 8-page monthly magazine

Web Design

Helped create recoverytown.com, a web site of resources for the recovery community, as internship project as Pellissippi State Community College student. With Jerry Smith, The Tombras Group

Demonstrated knowledge of Wordpress, HTML. (Can provide a disc containing a “website” highlighting web design, writing, photography and graphic design skills

Employment History

Editorial Assistant, The Daily Times, Maryville, Tenn.

May 2008 – November 2015

Managed variety of projects including church news, realty transfers, letters to the editor, police records, obituaries, birth announcements and other assignments

Interview people, attend meetings and write relevant feature and news articles

Answered newsroom phones and direct calls to other colleagues

Photographed accidents, fires, storm damage, Habitat for Humanity home dedications, people attending events, and other events as necessary, using digital cameras

Used InDesign, BLOX CMS by TownNews.com, InCopy, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Microsoft Excel, LibreOffice

Started out as part-time. By taking on more responsibilities, promoted to full-time

Recognized for hard work by receiving raises

Employment History Continued Murry

Freelance Copywriter, Web and Graphic Designer, Maryville, TN

November 2003 – September 2014

Eva Lawhorn, Knoxville, TN

Created paper booklet of blogs, using Microsoft Word; and manipulated photographs in Photoshop to add photos to project

Also used InDesign and Photoshop

Lisa White, Maryville, TN

Created a four-page pamphlet by writing articles about Ms. White’s two dogs, and adding a selection of photographs to illustrate.

Used InDesign and PhotoShop

Clarks Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Maryville, TN

Updated four pages of church web site, including cropping photos and inserting onto page, rewrote copy and changed map on site

Used PhotoShop, Publisher, and wrote HTML code

Sew It Goes, Elaine Sexton, Knoxville, TN

Designed website sewitgoes.com as a college project at Pellissippi State

Wrote copy for multiple pages for retail site

Selected graphics that best illustrated each page, then cropped them, and added to each page

Joshua Resource Center, Pat Thompson, Maryville, TN

Designed newsletters, programs, postcards, posters and advertisements

Wrote news releases, newsletter articles, and advertising copy

Took photos of events, people to illustrate newsletters, programs, etc.

Gave testimony at several fundraising events for non-profit organization

Taught class for JRC

Used Microsoft Word, Adobe InDesign, Adobe PhotoShop, digital camera

Purpose Driven Ministries, pastors.com, Hendersonville, TN

Interviewed people all over the United States by telephone to learn what churches and pastors were doing with the Purpose Driven curriculum

Wrote articles using information garnered from interviews for a pastors’ online newsletters and for Purpose Driven Ministries web site

Worked at home, then submitted articles to editors at satellite office in Hendersonville, TN

Goody’s Family Clothing corporate office, Knoxville, TN

Created signs for retail products to be used in store,

Wrote copy for advertising circulars and website

Filled in when needed to help design newspaper advertising and circulars

Took photos and wrote article for company newsletter

Used Adobe InDesign, PhotoShop and Quark x-press

Proffitt’s Corporate Office, Alcoa, TN

April 2002 – June 2003

Wrote copy for newspaper advertisements and circulars for retail corporate office

Attended buyers’ meetings to learn about products that I needed to write about

Used Quark x-press

Computer Skills

Adobe Creative Suite: InDesign, Photoshop, Flash, DreamWeaver, Acrobat Pro

Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Publisher, Outlook

Awards

Go Go Go And Don’t Let Go, Special Award, 2011, The Daily Times newsroom

Award of Excellence, Feature Writing, 2008 Golden Press Card Competition, Society of Professional Feature Journalists, East Tennessee Pro Chapter

Third place, Feature Writing, 2008 Golden Press Card Competition, Society of Professional Journalists, East Tennessee Pro Chapter

Honorable Mention, Lifestyles Coverage, Tennessee Press Association

First Place, Coverage of Religious Issues; Award of Merit for Sports Coverage, Better Newspaper Contest sponsored by Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association

Award of Merit, Lifestyles Coverage; Better Newspaper Contest sponsored by Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association

Award of Merit, Sports Coverage, Better Newspaper Contest sponsored by Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association

Education

Pellissippi State Community College – Knoxville, TN

Associates of Applied Science, Media Technologies, Web Technology

Certification, Web Page Authoring

Indiana University –Bloomington, IN

Bachelor of Arts, Journalism and English

Logansport High School Logansport, IN – Graduated

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