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APRIL 2025 - PRESENT

IT Communications Specialist

William & Mary

● Direct digital communications across five social media platforms, developing content strategies and producing written, graphic, photographic, and video content that engages diverse university audiences.

● Create organizational storytelling content through news articles, website features, newsletters, multimedia projects, and event coverage that highlight IT initiatives and community impact.

● Lead communications planning and change management efforts for university IT initiatives, partnering with leadership and project teams to support technology adoption across 4,500+ faculty and staff, and nearly 10,000 students.

● Develop communication strategies for enterprise technology implementations by creating educational resources, web content, event communications, and targeted messaging campaigns.

● Manage five IT-managed websites serving more than 200,000 annual users, including a 41% increase in traffic to the primary IT website and launches of three new web resources.

● Established a centralized communications calendar and project tracking framework to improve coordination and execution across concurrent IT initiatives.

SEPT. 2024 - APRIL 2025

Event Services Coordinator

Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab)

Contracted by CTR

● Coordinated communications and logistics for 50+ meetings, workshops, conferences, and executive-level events involving laboratory leadership, government officials, university partners, and community stakeholders.

● Served as a primary liaison between laboratory divisions, external organizations, universities, and community partners to support stakeholder engagement and strengthen institutional visibility.

● Managed cross-functional event projects through Asana, collaborating with communications teams to coordinate promotional materials, photography, videography, surveys, and post-event reporting.

● Developed event communications, marketing materials, social media promotion, and attendee resources while overseeing registration, agenda development, and operational planning.

JUNE 2023 - AUG. 2024

Internal Communications

Intern

Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab)

● Produced internal communications content for newsletters, organizational announcements, digital signage, and employee communications using AP style and brand standards to nearly 1,000 users.

● Contributed to the launch of the laboratory's Instagram presence and developed social media content and campaigns that increased followers by more than 619 during the first year.

● Authored a feature article, "Bridging the Gap Between Physics and Computing," that was recognized and shared by the Department of Energy's Office of Science and generated strong internal engagement.

● Crafted and published feature stories highlighting scientific research, employee achievements, organizational initiatives, and events for the laboratory website using Drupal CMS.

● Developed communication plans, standard operating procedures, and training documentation while managing content on SharePoint sites used for organizational communication and knowledge sharing.

● Contributed to the success of the 2024 Open House through logistical planning, internal promotion, and event set-up, attracting over 9,500 attendees and achieving team recognition.

OCT. 2022 - APRIL 2023

Information Professionals Intern

Perry Library, Old Dominion University

● Developed and implemented a marketing proposal to increase awareness of research services/programming to undergraduate students.

● Designed and presented a multi-channel promotional campaign featuring social media content, signage, flyers, and marketing materials.

Education

Old Dominion University

Bachelor of Science in Strategic Communication

Spring 2024

Dean's List: Fall 2022-Spring 2024

Overall winner of the 2024

E-Portfolio Competition

Relevant Courses: Strategic Communications, Persuasion, Marketing & Promotion, Critical Methodologies, Strategic Writing, Crisis Communication, Communications Research, Digital Communications, Creative Writing, Communications Capstone.

Professional skillset

Content & Copywriting

Communication Research

Social Media Management

Brand Strategy

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