Emily Border: Digital Content Director and New Business in Boise, ID

As a Fellow through Boise State, I serve the community by sitting on a board of directors for a local nonprofit organization. Key strengths: creative problem-solving, leadership development, hands-on learning, and leading successful businesses.

For the Public Relations and Communication Department at the College of Business and Economics, Office of the Dean, major projects and activities include: ? Design posters, banners, digital touchscreen images, website pages, and more using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign ? Write and design official email and website content for the College of Business

Advisor to a economic stakeholder committee, comprised of local Boise businesses, aimed to evaluate and analyze Boise’s overall economic competiveness and how to scale sustainable business resources through strategic community partnerships.

At the highly successful nutrition startup company, my accomplishments upon hire have directly related in a profitable and well-received product launch, high-growth rate, expanding brand awareness, and increased market share.

At the highly successful nutrition startup company, my accomplishments upon hire have directly related in a profitable and well-received product launch, high-growth rate, expanding brand awareness, and increased market share. Daily, my role includes: -Plan and execute strategic marketing communication, like social media campaigns, blog creation and management, copywriting, public relations, affiliate network building, and website/landing page content coordination. -Research, develop, and monetize content creation projects that delivers empowering nutrition and health information, boost loyal readership, and expand company assets. Blog articles, newsletters, and social media publishings have directly resulted in significant recurring revenue. -Hire and manage effective content creation teams, including writers and designers to bring additional ideas and creativity to enhance the company brand equity and awareness. -Foster relationships with health and fitness industry influencers as well as developing new business opportunities for AMRAP's Paleo health supplements. -Collaborate with team to design and implement business and function level strategies that directly result in expanded brand awareness online and in the community of athletes who use CrossFit.

Worked with a team across departments and student bodies to research and produce a transparent and first-ever sustainability report for the College of Business and Economics. During the project, I-- ? Defined environmental, social, and corporate governance impacts and strategies in COBE’s business operations ? Collected and interpreted data to outline COBE’s triple bottom line efforts and examine student and staff diversity ? Developed a standard for producing non-financial reports that track future responsible business success key performance indicators.

Researched and analyzed market potential, trends, and current competition in Oceania for advancing sales of carbon credits in emerging markets. ? Defined customers needs for reducing carbon offsets in emerging markets ? Quantified the economic viability of project expansion into Oceania global region ? Created final data and recommendations; presented findings to head of project

Coordinated marketing communication for over 21 Federal SAFER and NHTSA awarded grant projects for fire service and law enforcement clients. Accomplishments included: ? Developed grant narratives and budgets for prospective new clients ? Coordinated event logistics for two-day fire service training, including hotel and training site contract negotiation ? Managed customer service helpdesk and volunteer firefighter recruitment website and custom database: volunteerfirefighter.org ? Planned the annual conference for the International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training (IADLEST) ? Collected and interpreted financial data for federal grant accountability reporting through MS Excel

-Created and managed a database of contacts for promotional activity during the 2012 and 2013 public speaker series seasons. -Planned event strategy and speaker lineup from universities, including Duke, Harvard, University of Florida, University of Essex (England), University of N. British Columbia, Middleburg College, and more. Acted as ambassador to guest speakers, arranging travel and local tourism. -Planned a content strategy and created multi-media campaigns on multiple platforms including social media pages, email marketing, and direct mailing. -Researched event sponsors and grant-funding to increase awareness and financial backing for the interdisciplinary lecture series. Upon following up leads, my efforts initiated a partnership with local environmental and city organizations, and national organizations, such as The Nature Conservancy.

Worked closely with news editors to understand the editorial process while pitching story ideas, researching, interviewing, drafting, and work-shopping stories until printed online or in print. Also, worked daily with multimedia news platforms including blogging for news, art and entertainment genres and creating short films through Mac and Adobe for the newspaper’s online music series.

Reviewed beta and verification stages of printer user manuals and other deliverables. Position at Aquent also included internal technical writing and creative information development, specifically incorporating social media as a method of advertising Aquent’s name. Two major projects included designing a web blog to convey information aesthetically to technical writing professionals on topics of software, project management, and emerging trends within this field, and writing and publishing Aquent staff professional biographies for studios in Boise, Texas, Colorado, Kansas, and Massachusetts to be used as job proposal tools.

Managing wildfire, treating & reducing overcrowded fire fuels, participating in special projects for habitat renewal, preparing reports and compiling research gathered from wildfire monitoring, copying, filing and organizing necessary paperwork, undergoing intensive months of fire school, government certifications, physical fitness testing and daily fitness conditioning.