Resume

Objective

To obtain a permanent position in the marketing, advertising, or public relations field, specifically one that will enable me to utilize my past experiences and skills in mass communication.

Education

Saint Mary’s College Notre Dame, Indiana

2006 - 2010

The degree of Bachelor of Arts, 2010

Communication Studies Major (3.36 cumulative GPA)

• Concentration in Mass Communication, Minors in Sociology and Women’s Studies

• Completed Senior Comprehensive

• Active in Student Government
• Board Member for Junior Class, 2008-2009
• Board Member for Sophomore Class, 2007-2008
• Assisted with event planning, including Sophomore Parents’ Weekend, Junior Class Formal, and Junior Moms’ Weekend 
• Participated in the Light the Night walk raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Fall 2008

• Intramural Flag Football and Basketball Teams, 2006-2007

Cathedral High School Indianapolis, Indiana

2002 - 2006

Class of 2006 

• Member of the National Honor Society
• Achieved High Honors for four years
• Member of Cross Country Team, Fall 2002-Fall 2005; Awarded Varsity Letter, Spirit Award (2005)
• Member of Freshman Basketball Team

Work Experience

BeyondCredentials.com Notre Dame, Indiana

 Head of Student Selections November 2009-Present

• Responsible for marketing the new, web based company on the Saint Mary’s College and University of Notre Dame campuses
• Hold information sessions, gift card giveaways
• Facilitate communication between BeyondCredentials.com employers and Saint Mary’s College
• Work with interns from different colleges to attract qualified students to the website

Angela Athletic Facility, Saint Mary’s College Notre Dame, Indiana

Fitness Desk Worker August 2009 - Present

• Responsibilities include monitoring and assisting patrons, ensuring equipment is clean and orderly

Publicis Indianapolis, Indiana

Account Service Intern May 2008 - August 2008

• Participated in the development of the 2008 Olympic Ad Campaign for St. Vincent
• Facilitated communication between the Account Service and Creative Departments
• Assisted on the set of a photo shoot for a print campaign
• Edited copy for brochures, advertising campaigns, and television commercial script

Crystal Catering Indianapolis, Indiana

Server May 2007 - August 2007

Definitions for Her Carmel, Indiana

Sales Associate May 2005 - January 2007

Interests

Indianapolis Colts and Notre Dame Football fan, Running, Live Music, Visiting family in all over the country

Accomplishments

Dean's List: Fall 2006, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009

Completed Communication Studies Senior Comprehensive, Winter 2009

My Personality

Writing Samples

Excerpt taken from my Senior Comprehensive:       MTV has become an extremely important aspect of popular culture, both in the past and in the present, as its success has reached a global level.  “It would have been nearly impossible for the many of us studying popular culture, youth culture, popular music, or television in the 1980s to avoid attending to MTV” (Jones, 2005, p. 84).  Part of MTV’s success has emerged from the fact that it has been altered and tweaked to conform to different religions and cultures all over the world.  “MTV now follows a policy of airing local content in at least 70% of its programming, thereby ‘successfully replac[ing] its ‘Classic Coke’ global image with a retailored programme [sic] format that meets local political, advertiser, and consumer tastes’” (Jones, p. 85).  MTV shifted from music videos to live and reality programming in an attempt to capture audiences “for longer periods of time than music videos would permit” (Jones, p. 87).  As Jones points out, channels which rival MTV follow the unwritten rules that MTV has established throughout the years, especially with reality television.   MTV has had its foot in the reality television pool since 1992 with the filming and airing of The Real World: New York, a show which would have a larger impact on television than anyone could have imagined at its initial debut.  Co-creators Jonathan Murray and Mary-Ellis Bunim worked on pitching shows to networks for three years before hearing of MTV’s interest in a prime-time soap opera in 1991.  The duo was concerned that a script-based soap opera would be too expensive, which is when the idea of casting real kids and throwing them all into a house together sounded like an interesting alternative.  They originally got the idea from the Fox show called American Family.  “We were following families through crisis and transition in their lives, then editing them like a drama” (Albiniak, 2004, p. 45).  The pitch to MTV was a hit, and the deal became final that same afternoon.   Since then, many types of reality television have taken off. Reality has now become somewhat of a phenomenon for television.  “Some consider it to be the most significant development in recent American television history” (Ebersole, et al., 2007, p. 23).  The Real World is described as one of the primary influences of present day reality television in many different aspects.  A variety of different television shows such as America’s Next Top Model, Big Brother, and The Bachelor have taken on The Real World format in terms of living in a large house, talking in confessionals, eavesdropping, having cameras all around the house, and so on.  MTV chief Brian Graden describes The Real World as “quite simply the undisputed granddaddy of modern, commercial reality television” (Keveney, 2007).