MEGAN SEVERANCE SHANER
Bay City
Summary
Meticulous, detail-oriented, self-directed wordsmith has a diversity of business office experience. Equipped with problem-solving skills, communication abilities, and a proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues.
Overview
2027
2027
years of professional experience
Work History
CREATIVE ASSETS MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST
AVI-SPL
Midland, MI
02.2024 - 06.2026
- Compiling data on more than 400 technical data sheets in the content management system that needed to be updated with sustainability logos for product branding project in 2025; assigning project participants to the TDS update task; uploading the new documents to the client company’s website.
- Updating tags on more than 1,000 internal TDSs that were migrated to the new system in 2023 by writing descriptions, correcting titles, and tagging URL master links.
- Per year, proofreading approximately 1,400 TDSs, marketing fliers, corporate documents, and other literature before uploading, tagging metadata, and publishing to the client’s intranet and website portals.
- Uploading and archiving videos, webinars, and event listings on the intranet and website.
- Building and editing digital sites for Events department coordinators to market trainings and client events.
PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT, inventory
Timbuk Farms
Granville, OH
03.2021 - 02.2024
- Lead production line crews for 8 months.
- Promoted to inventorying and record keeping of thousands of plant products, 4,000 finish tag boxes, seed packets, and label room supplies.
- Wrote a press release after a March 2022 fire destroyed part of the greenhouse and production complex.
- Set up and organized the rebuilt label room and its contents in 2023.
- Took over invoicing duties after shipping department manager left the company.
- Counted approximately 1 million plant crops in the greenhouses and fields and updated data in computer.
GARDEN BUSINESS OWNER
Wildwood Estate Gardening LLC
Newark, OH
- Maintained landscapes for 10 clients.
- Designed landscapes for 4 homeowners and 1 corporate client.
- Performed invoicing and bookkeeping.
NEWS/PRESENTATION EDITOR
The Advocate/Media Network of Central Ohio, Gannet
Newark, OH
- Transitioned staff from copy editing and page designing to just copy editing when new content management system was implemented.
- Managed move of copy desk operations to Mansfield after storm knocked out local electricity for 5 days.
- Led staff of up to 15 copy editors and production of 9 print and 5 online products.
- Consolidated 4 copy desks into 1 desk.
- Served as editor for 2 issues of local women’s magazine.
COPY EDITOR/PAGE DESIGNER
Palladium-Item, Gannett
Richmond, IN
- Proposed, wrote for, and designed The Red Dress Project about women and heart health, which won an Indiana Associated Press Managing Editors first-place award and generated $5,000 in advertising sales.
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Landscape Design and Management
COLUMBUS STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Columbus, OHBachelor of Science - journalism
INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
Terre Haute, INSkills
- Content management
- Attention to detail
- Problem-solving abilities
- Task prioritization
- Self motivation
- Written communication
Timeline
CREATIVE ASSETS MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST
AVI-SPL
02.2024 - 06.2026
PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT, inventory
Timbuk Farms
03.2021 - 02.2024
GARDEN BUSINESS OWNER
Wildwood Estate Gardening LLC
NEWS/PRESENTATION EDITOR
The Advocate/Media Network of Central Ohio, Gannet
COPY EDITOR/PAGE DESIGNER
Palladium-Item, Gannett
Associate of Applied Science - Landscape Design and Management
COLUMBUS STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Bachelor of Science - journalism
INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY