Honored to be your MCHS Class of 1999 Vice President!
After HS graduation I attended the University of Oklahoma (1999-2003) and graduated with my BA in journalism without killing too many brain cells along the way. Okay, maybe a few .... :).
My first professional job opportunity was in classified advertising at the Oklahoman newspaper and I held the position for about a year before moving to Wichita, Kansas in May '04 for a career promotion to work for an ad agency.
At Associated Advertising, I was on the creative team serving as a copywriter and writing TV/radio scripts for commericial production and print/billboard ads for clients such as Cox Communications and Intrust Bank.
Following my year in Kansas I returned home to Oklahoma in 2005 to be closer to family and great friends. Back in OKC, my next position was with Enterprise Leasing Company. Here I remained for 3 years trying my hand at a (new) sales career until 2008. I picked up some great sales experience and fundamental business management knowledge but it just wasn't what I saw myself doing forever.
So, my next step was a "stepping stone" opportunity I sought out with Children's Miracle Network. I became an executive assistant there and found the good cause to be very rewarding. However I also realized the negatives of a non-profit organization can easily outweight the positives.
And that is what brought me to my next role in February 2009. I was offered a position working on a U.S. Department of Education contract for Reading First Monitioring and worked as a program support manager and technical writer for Miko Group, Inc. in Norman, OK.
I left Miko Group in August of 2010 and accepted a position as a marketing manager for a social media and digital marketing technology consulting firm in October 2010.
Prayers and well wishes to you all and please stay in touch, because believe it or not, the world is getting smaller with the social networks we now have access to everywhere (which of course we never had as kids). I'd like to thing overall as a class, we had a pretty darn good time ...