Professional Summary

I am a higher education professional with 15 years of experience in a variety of career counseling, academic advising and managerial roles. My areas of expertise include dynamic presentation creation and delivery, career/academic exploration, technology utilization, and department marketing and strategy. I bring to the workplace:

- An applied focus on student success, with thousands of one-to-one counseling sessions provided and survey ratings consistently in the highest percentiles.
- A proven track record of increasing student engagement and event attendence through creative marketing and public relations efforts.
- Nimble, big picture thinking that leads creative-but-practical idea generation.

I am currently assistant director for business-related internships at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For a more indepth look at my experience, see my full resume to the right. My current professional activities include networking among Triangle business professionals, expanding my knowledge and use of social media in student career development and creating new internship programming.

Social media activities

I am the Web 2.0 cheerleader and go-to staffer for University Career Services at UNC, where I deliver presentations to students on personal branding and social media. Although I have only been professionally involved with social media in recent years, I have long been an early adopter of technology and web tools, having been involved with various web technologies as a user since the mid-1990s. I have been interviewed by regional news station WRAL for a piece on social media in the job search, and I recently began blogging for the Student Affairs Collaborative Blog. While there is always more to learn, I stay engaged with the trends in utilization of Web 2.0 tools.

I am professionally active on Twitter, 12seconds, and LinkedIn. My activities on each of these cross-pollinate and feed content to the others. While I am on Twitter with more freqency, my blog tends be the provide more depth, as I include video, news and musings on issues related to higher education in general and career counseling in specific. Please feel free to contact and interact with me on any of those sites.