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Highly motivated leader with a proven track record in broadcast and social media platforms working under extreme time constraints, troubleshooting and solving problems in high stress situations. Recent MBA graduate and previously earned two undergraduate degrees in five years on scholarship while working a full time job. MBA curriculum further developed project management, new product development, marketing, analytical, organizational and leadership skills through team project based learning including: managing and motivating MBA teams to achieve goals, researching transit oriented development best practices and creating a marketing campaign to improve the city of Knoxville’s transit system, using SPSS & SAS analytical tools to pull insights out of a large consumer survey and make recommendations to Bush Brothers, and developing a mock shopper marketing plan designed around a partnership between Levi-Strauss and Dillard’s.

•	Crafted a “Pro-Static” marketing campaign that utilized video, print and interactive experiences to detail benefits of static technology for pet training while disproving negative myths and opinions associated with static technology.
•	Worked jointly with a public relations firm to develop a crisis management plan to prepare senior company officials for potential crisis scenarios through social media techniques, news channels and media training.
•	Assisted in the overhaul of all Amazon marketing techniques through the analysis of competing products and brands in order to raise company profits and brand awareness. 
•	Worked alongside PetSafe Marketing Specialists to develop marketing plans, RFPs, write and edit product manuals and scripts for instructional videos, develop ideas for advertising campaigns, develop trade show plans and write creative briefs.

PetSafe Brand Marketing Intern

•	Produced multiple news stories for nightly newscasts on a strict daily deadline by interviewing subjects, filming and editing video, and creating scripts for use in stories on “10 News Nightbeat” which has remained the number one rated 11 o’clock news show over the past four years.
•	Spearheaded social media campaigns for WBIR, composing posts for WBIR’s Twitter and Facebook accounts by marketing news stories for the social media audience, contributing to the weekly readership of 2.6 million people visiting WBIR’s social sites.
•	Simplified transmission of video from the field to the newsroom by developing a new method of exporting video on to SD cards and subsequent transmission of stories to the newsroom, resulting in a decrease of the number of stories that fail to make air, increasing productivity from news crews working in the field. 
•	Troubleshot equipment malfunctions at the station and in the field, utilized problem-solving skills efficiently to decrease downtime in high-stress scenarios.

Multimedia Journalist

•	Organized thousands of dollars of repairs to bring the fraternity house up to code after being shut down for fire code violations while simultaneously corresponding with and supervising contractors to ensure repairs were made, providing a place to live during the school year and ensuring revenue from collected rent checks would not be lost.
•	Oversaw day-to-day operations of chapter and membership, motivating members to achieve superior academic results and adhere to the highest standard of conduct, resulting in an increased membership GPA in 2010.
Key Achievement:
•	Elected after serving as Vice President from 2008 - 2009.

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Benjamin DeVault

Radio Systems Corp

WBIR-TV

Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity - Tennessee Epsilon Chapter

University of Tennessee

University of Tennessee

University of Tennessee