MIKQUINLYN L.

SPELLER
14065 85th Place North, Maple Grove, MN 55369 mikquinlynspeller@yahoo.com * http://bit.ly/MikQuinlynsResumeSite http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikquinlynspeller Design Portfolio: http://bit.ly/PlayTymePromotions p.763-412-2180, c.612-600-7236 _____________________________________________________________________________________

SUMMARY Accomplished marketing professional with over seven years of marketing and communication project management experience. Organized and effective liaison with a proven track record of managing national brands worth 7.4 billion plus cross organization and vendor relationships that result in operational efficiencies. Effective experience in nonprofit organizations as well as Fortune 500 companies. Strengths include self-motivation, loyalty, creativity, flexibility, and coordination.

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Campus Media Group, Bloomington, MN 08/2012 3/2013 Account Manager / Tearsheet Processor Prioritized tasks efficiently and effectively in execution, adapting accordingly to differing styles of communication and accurately identify the communication style of others, actively listening to provide information and to build trust, accurately saying what you mean, positively and directly. Organized multiple tasks while paying attention to deadlines and details. Utilized the ability to move beyond the immediate situation and understand the sequential nature of decision making. Broke down a problems and projects into its component parts and develop a plan of attack to address these components . - Receive, evaluate and tabulate incoming tearsheets - Prepared tearsheets and mail to clients - Entered receipt of Proof of Insertions (POI's) into database - Called and Email publications to request missing tearsheets - Organized and file newspapers, tearsheets, POI's and invoices - Worked with publications to reconcile discrepancies with tearsheets and POI's - Meet and exceed semester tearsheet goals - Handled requests from clients and staff for additional tearsheets - Researched Student Publications to maintain database - Searched internet for electronic Proof of Insertion General Mills, Golden Valley, MN
Hired to take on the Pillsbury and Snacks division digital planning for a one year contract.

11/2011 1/2012

Contractor - Interactive Project Manager / Integrated Marketing Communications Planner Provide division priorities, plans and timing for annual planning process across vehicles. Worked with team as resources and plans need to shift across commitment to annual planning for owned channels. Communicated brand information for inclusion into social streams from our four owned web platforms. Partnered with newsletter planners for opportunities above and beyond basic newsletter placements of ad units and promo spots. - Maintained and update content on Integrated Content Planning Grid (ICPG) for newsletter and editorial partners to pull content from for respective purposes. - Attended quarterly and monthly editorial content meetings to provide division/brand priorities and objectives.

- Ensured promo spot and ad unit placements materials are collected, approved and provided to newsletter partners. - Made updates to brand pages on owned sites; wrote briefs, collected assets from agencies, worked with site team to execute updates route and gain approvals, and tracked progress and deliver updates on progress to brands when appropriate. - Delivered assets and direction to owned media partner, coordinated sampling needs for the Relationship Marketing team and reported to Strategist of the shared division. - Identified opportunities and needs for creating assets that can be used to support campaigns that otherwise wouldnt have been developed - Provided reporting information on site and newsletter placement and performance. Select Comfort, Plymouth, MN 6/2011 9/2011
Hired to do miscellaneous task while the Sales Operations Team prepared for a large bed and pillow launch.

Contractor - Sales Operations Coordinator Coordinator will provide administrative type support to the Sales Operations team as well as be solely responsible for short term operations projects as assigned. - Retrieval and analysis of operational, inventory and incentive reports. - Support database and systems updating. - Assist with inventory programs including reporting, publishing and inquiry follow-up. - Aid expense report procedures by processing expense requests, distributing expense checks and assistance with questions. - Additional duties to support operational projects. Target Corp., Minneapolis, MN
Hired to review and cleanup grant proposals for compatibility with the grant processing system.

3/2011 5/2011

Contractor - Grant Coordinator Use GIFTS application to process incoming grants with attention to detail to ensure accuracy and to expedite the Community Relations grant program. Normandale Community College, Bloomington, MN 5/2010 1/2011 Web Processor Identified and implemented the processes necessary to support both the Normandale Community College Bookstores web site operation and its secondary web based e commerce accounts. Provided a variety of customer services to NCC customers on matters related to their Bookstore web purchases or general inquiries. - Established, managed, and grew a strong brand presence in social communities, particularly Facebook and Twitter. - Developed new branding and web content for the website and implemented the changes using HTML. - Created monthly e-newsletter and provided event updates by email to all faculty and staff. - Created, developed, and implemented Facebook and Twitter promotions to increase college store sales - Created marketing program and plan for the quarter and implemented the plan increasing the overall student awareness of the college store and its offerings

- Created posters, flyers, and surveys and other marketing materials as needed using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Ameriprise Financial Inc., Minneapolis, MN 4/2007 3/2009 Marketing Communications Coordinator Created and executed communications and marketing to drive brokerage and managed products sales. Updated and maintained internal advisor facing and client facing website. Created coordinated and executed advisor and client communications and marketing materials for brokerage and/or managed products. Responsible and accountable for signoffs, requirements, and testing through coordination with all resources and stakeholders from the brokerage and managed products area, as necessary. - Partnered with vendors, team members, product development, product management and training teams to ensure integration and accurate, consistent messages. - Managed projects across the brokerage and managed products department to facilitate open communication. - Represented brokerage and managed products group as a single-point-of-contact for forms management to ensure all projects where completed on time. - Oversaw production of more than 220,000 printed pieces and more than 5,500 assembled pieces thus accountable for $100,000 of the brokerage and managed products budget/spend. - Completed a review of all print materials managed by brokerage and managed products reducing these numbers from 200 to 69 items in 8 months. - Developed marketing communications coordinator and forms management process document to train back-up and to easily transition position if needed . Ameriprise Achievements The Bambooey Certificate of Appreciation, the Service and Regulatory Communications signature award Nov. 2008 - The Bambooey is an award given by the Service& Regulatory Communications team to Ameriprise business partners who embody the commitment to enhancing the client experience through simplifying and reducing client communications. Brokerage and Managed Products Rewards and Recognition - Awarded in Dec. 2008 for outstanding work relating to The Reserve . Seven financial planning, products and services cool box thank you notes from my peers Three Ameriprise Financial it begins with you awards AccountAbility Minnesota St. Paul, MN 10/2006 3/2007 Marketing Communication Coordinator Partnered with the executive team on a comprehensive communications and marketing plan including methods to evaluate effectiveness. Coordinated marketing of the tax programs for program staff and management. Created and implemented marketing plan with a marketing mix that fit the budget and reached the target customer base of the organization. Managed marketing and communication database to ensure accuracy and

redeveloped data settings to include pertinent information to target market. - Managed and re-vamped the AccountAbility Minnesota website for create a user friendly site. - Planned and implemented AccountAbility Minnesotas' first social media advertising campaign. - Increased the visibility of the website by using various conventional and non-conventional advertising methods. - Created flyers, brochures, emails, electronic and print newsletters for direct mailing distribution for staff members to ensure effective communications. - Mirrored all English communications with Spanish creating a Spanish version of all marketing materials and the new updated website. - Supervised community outreach staff and organized volunteers for marketing efforts to target qualifying customers for the tax programs. - Built relationships with community partners to effectively communicate the organizations mission and services. - Promoted and increased visibility by coordinating presentations to the public, private and nonprofit sector through presentations and direct marketing. - Created distribution list from customer database, worked with print vendor to have them printed and mailed. - Partnered with Brown College to have 30 second radio spots created for free for our unlimited use. - Created the organizations first customer survey. McLeod USA Publishing Company Cedar Rapids, IA 8/1999 8/2001 Graphic Designer Utilized Illustrator, Photoshop, Streamline, In-Design, Quickset, Manage, In-column and Page Showcase, as well as scanning software and equipment. Created logos, cuts, type and photos for telephone directories and customer sales on dual platforms and software systems. - Created quality advertisements that meet the clients specific requirements. - Promoted to spec artist; partnered directly with account executives to create creative, cutting edge advertisement based on the clients creative brief and brand.

EDUCATION

Post Baccalaureate Certificate, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN Major: Advertising, Art Direction BA, Business Administration, Wartburg College, Waverly, IA Major: Marketing, Advertising Minor: Communication Arts RECENT COURSEWORK BMI Training and Certification Program, Currently studying to obtain a MSA/B/C: Marketing Skills Assessment, Skill-Building and Certification from the Business Marketing Institute TM
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Continuing Studies: Professional Development Program , Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN August 2009; Illustration in Product Design, Intro to Adobe

Photoshop and Illustrator, Introduction to Adobe InDesign, and Photoshop for Professionals Neighborhood Development Center, Graduate of the Micro-entrepreneur 16 week Training Program Aug. 2008 Landmark Education, Graduate of the Landmark Forum, Bloomington, MN July 2008 Ameriprise Financial 2007-2009; Communications Workshop, Writing Effective Procedures, Building Your Network, Writing To Get Things Done, Setting SMART Goals, Development Planning Workshop, Dealing with Change and Transition, Effective Listening, Feedback & Coaching, and Effective Collaboration TECHNICAL SKILLS

Adobe Digital Marketing Suite powered by Omniture, Responsys, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe
Photoshop, Microsoft Publisher, Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Access, Corel Word Perfect, Windows 2000, XP, Vista, MSDOS, HP/VX, Mac OSX, Microsoft Access, Outlook, Lotus Notes, PeopleSoft, Elroy, ECommerce web content management software Sequoia and Ratex, MicroEdge GIFTS, Select Comfort Order entry and Triumph programs.