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Meg Whitman
Summary
Encouraging manager and analytical problem-solver with talents for team building, leading and motivating, as well as excellent customer relations aptitude and relationship-building skills. Proficient in using independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success. Dedicated to applying training, monitoring and morale-building abilities to enhance employee engagement and boost performance.
Overview
36
years of professional experience
Work History
NuVybe Records
Director of Corporate
01.2016 - Current
Job overview
- Develop strategies for bringing more awareness to NuVybe Records artists
- Assist with creating marketing materials for NuVybe Records artist content releases
- Assist with updating NuVybe Records website and social media content
- Develop new business relationships
- Recruits and advises potential NuVybe Records artists
- Promote and market NuVybe Records on multiple social media platforms.
- Negotiate Corporate business contracts.
- Championed relationship building, cross-collaboration and mentorship throughout strategic partners.
- Developed business plans to capitalize on new services and facilitate successful future growth and practice acquisitions.
- Reduced budgetary expenditures by effectively negotiating contracts for more advantageous terms.
- Identified and qualified customer needs and negotiated and closed profitable projects with high success rate.
- Built and implemented programming strategy and standards that supported enterprise philosophy.
Ice Age Media Productions
President/Music Producer
01.1990 - Current
Job overview
- Work with artists in developing, recording and producing music
- Signing music artist to recording contracts
- Hosting fundraisers to generate part of company revenue
- Producing music for various commercials and plays.
- Produced music videos broadcast on international cable and satellite networks and streaming music channels.
- Transcribed musical compositions and melodic lines to adapt to particular group or create specific musical style.
- Handled requests for specific musical selections.
- Directed global operations, from starting point of signing artist to label through marketing and sales of music.
- Produced labels first studio album in 1990 released by Ice Age Productions and performed nationally over next 14 years in the United States.
- Directed groups at rehearsals and live or recorded performances to achieve desired effects such as tonal and harmonic balance dynamics, rhythm, and tempo.
- Scheduled and coordinated auditions to select performers for musical presentations.
- Utilized contemporary music production techniques for studio recordings.
- Recorded and mixed music for various genres in professional-grade recording studios.
- Scheduled and organized recording sessions with musicians and vocalists.
- Led live music performances and rehearsals, directing musicians to achieve top-notch performances.
- Composed and arranged original music successfully for various projects.
- Developed and maintained relationships with artists, producers and other music professionals.
- Collaborated with producers, lyricists and engineers to create unique music compositions.
- Mastered and re-mastered albums for major labels and independent artists.
- Created and developed soundtracks for films, television shows and commercials.
- Determined voices, instruments, harmonic structures, rhythms, tempos and tone balances required to achieve effects desired in each musical composition.
- Coordinated and organized tours or hired touring companies to arrange concert dates, venues and accommodations for longer tours.
- Collaborated with performers and producers to determine and achieve desired sound for production.
- Transposed pieces from one instrument to another and one key to another to accommodate client and musician preferences.
- Assigned and reviewed staff work in such areas as scoring, arranging and copying music.
- Rewrote original scores to adapt to different musical genres and styles.
Martin L. King Jr, Hawkeye Community College
Manager
06.2008 - 07.2016
Job overview
- Plans, implements, and coordinates all Center activities and programs
- Manages the Center office and supervises support staff and volunteers
- Prepares the Center budget, manages programs within budgets, writes grants to sustain programs
- Recruits and advises students regarding career & occupational choices
- Promotes interaction and cooperation with college community, community agencies, and community-at-large.
- Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members.
- Resolved staff member conflicts, actively listening to concerns and finding appropriate middle ground.
- Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.
- Planned and budgeted accurately to provide business with resources needed to operate smoothly.
- Improved marketing to attract new customers and promote business.
Hawkeye Community College
Workforce Development Specialist
03.2001 - 06.2008
Job overview
- Responsible for aiding clients in developing plans for self-sufficiency
- Attend staff development meetings and workshops
- Facilitated new client orientations and job training classes
- Conduct career assessment workshops
- Case management for 190-client caseload.
- Oversaw job seeker aptitude and interest testing, reviewed results with job seekers and presented suitable career alternatives.
- Presented skills development seminars for more than 30 people, resulting in improved task prioritization.
- Assisted job seekers with vocational and technical school training.
- Educated job seekers on online employment formats and discussed specific requirements for online applications.
- Identified career goals and advancement opportunities to enable workers to find success within each individual position.
- Organized job seeker skills and requested employer skills using skill codes for accurate and quick reference.
Jesse Cosby Neighborhood Center
Executive Director
03.1998 - 03.2001
Job overview
- Supervision of all staff members
- Worked with Board of Directors and Fiscal Directors
- Responsible for the development of fiscal budget, grant writing, and fundraising
- Established several new community contacts for the Center.
- Drove strategic improvements to enhance operational and organizational efficiencies.
- Worked closely with organizational leadership and board of directors to guide operational strategy.
- Exercised appropriate cost control to meet budget restrictions and maximize profitability.
- Advocated for organization and company mission to raise awareness and support.
- Set organizational goals and objectives to guide and direct company focus and achieve mission fulfillment.
- Monitored grant guideline compliance with laws and regulations to protect organization from legal liabilities and penalties.
- Conducted top-tier media interviews, highlighting key messages of major developments and enhancing company reputation.
- Built relationships with donors, government officials and other organizations to secure funding and support for organization.
- Represented organization to local public by giving presentations and speeches and participating in community events.
- Directed technological improvements, reducing waste and business bottlenecks.
Education
Upper Iowa University
Bachelor of Sciences from Human Services
University Overview
Graduated Cum Laude
Skills
- Computer:
- Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, FrontPage, I-Works system,
- DHS data entry systems
- Grant Proposals
- Operational Efficiency
- Customer Satisfaction
- Corporate Fundraising
- Inventory Control Processes
- Improvement Plans
- Corporate Communications
- Organizational Systems
- Executive Leadership
- Promotional Events
- Partner Relationships
- Sales Presentation
- Customer Relationship Management
- Corporate Partnerships
- Volunteer Engagement
- Corporate Policies
- New Hire Orientation
- Administrative Support
- Performance Optimization
- Filing Systems
- Special Projects
- Bank Reconciliation
- Talent Management
- Unemployment Claims
- Operations Oversight
- Corporate Reporting
- Corporate Administration
- Performance Goals
- Customer Service Process Improvement
- Relationship Cultivation
- Manage Operations
- People and Culture
- Strategic Planning
- Hiring and Onboarding
- Performance Monitoring and Evaluation
- Correspondence Writing
- Project Requirements
- Business Consulting
Accomplishments
- Achieved enhanced case management process by introducing shared customer notation database software for documenting customer appointment results.
- Achieved implementation of first ever off-campus center Nursing, Truck and Transportation and Core Construction programs by developing and utilizing data collected from community service area survey. This also led to support for Hawkeye Community College President Dr. Linda Allen gaining the needed support of the board of trustees and the community to bring her vision of a brand new state of the art Truck and Transportation to reality.
- Achieved the development and implementation of Hawkeye Community College's Digital Mass Media Program through effectively helping with the concept and visualization of the program and developing the original curriculum that moved the Hawkeye Community College Board of Trustees to approve of the program.
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Timeline
Director of Corporate
NuVybe Records
01.2016 - Current
Manager
Martin L. King Jr, Hawkeye Community College
06.2008 - 07.2016
Workforce Development Specialist
Hawkeye Community College
03.2001 - 06.2008
Executive Director
Jesse Cosby Neighborhood Center
03.1998 - 03.2001
President/Music Producer
Ice Age Media Productions
01.1990 - Current
Upper Iowa University
Bachelor of Sciences from Human Services
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