ashley highsmith
Address: 7406 Holly Avenue
City: Fort Smith
State: Arkansas
Zip: 72908
Country: United States
objective
Seeking position in an office environment that demands quick and creative thinking, constant interaction, and being open to new ideas.
Work Experience
Advertising Representative (03/04/2009 – 06/25/2009)
Account management, building and maintaining an active account list, while providing client's with the upmost care and understanding of their individual needs.
Last Employer: Hill Country News
Contact Person: Don Moore/512-259-4449
Responsibilities: Meeting monthly sales goals, prospecting new accounts, cold calling on businesses for newspaper advertising sales.
Accomplishments: Obtained HEB as a client and got them to run a full page graduation ad esspecially for their graduates that worked there at the time.
Service Partner (02/04/2008 – 11/01/2008)
Provided Administrative duties for all of service department which included scheduling of 40 employees on a weekly basis.
Last Employer: HEB Grocery
Contact Person: Gabe Duran/512-528-0027
Responsibilities: Provided customers with the best of customer service while completed sales transactions for merchandise or servises; as well as assisting them with their Western Union Money Transfers, BillPay, Texas Box Office Ticket Sales, Credit Applications, Fishing License, and Tag Renewal.
Accomplishments: Received several raises in time that I worked there. Became a S.T.A.R.R.S member, obtained my Money Business Certification and was promoted to Business Center.
Station Assistant (02/01/2007 – 08/24/2007)
Graphic Design, Web Administration, and Research
Last Employer: Nexstar Digital Broadcasting
Contact Person: Marty Houston/479-785-2400
Responsibilities: Website launch of NWAHomepage.com, creating ad banners for clients, providing research for sales staff and reporters, and all regular administrative duties included in running a television station.
Accomplishments: Learned Adobe Photoshop and Graphic Design Experience.
Account Manager (01/23/2006 – 10/31/2006)
Account Management, Media Research, Client Prospecting and relations, and meeting sales goals.
Last Employer: Cumulus Broadcasting Inc.
Contact Person: Smitty O'Loughlin
Responsibilities: Maintaining and growing an active account list, live remotes, creative assistance, and performing Client Needs Analysis and customizing a media plan forthe individual needs of the client.
Accomplishments: Helped to launch the Vibe, the Fort Smith area's first hip hop station.
Account Executive (06/07/2004 – 01/23/2006)
Account Management, Real Estate Knowledge and Contacts, Outside Sales, and experience in the marketing field.
Last Employer: Cox Media Inc.
Contact Person: Tracy Gibson/479-646-4608
Responsibilities: Build and maintain a client account list for the local CableMart channel 31. Had to create all Media Kits and my own way of tracking the listings made by the individual real estate agencies to ensure on billing.
Accomplishments: Was promoted from the Sales Assistant to an Account Executive after only 6 months. At time of my departure I had alrea dy met and exceeded all sales goals for the first quarter of they coming year.
Education
Establishment: University of Arkansas - Fort Smith
Degree: Business Administration
Education Period: 08/18/2006 - 10/24/2007
Average Grade: 3.4 GPA
Skills
Customer Service, Sales, and ability to meet deadlines.
Computer Skills: Microsoft Office all products (esspecially Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, MSWorks, Adobe Photoshop, PageBuilder, Web Site Administration and design, Peachtree, QuarkXpress, QuickBooks, and creating small networks.
Foreign Language Skills: Spanish - Level II (Basic Conversations and extensive vocabulary of words. Great at translating Spanish writing into English.
Additional Information
Honors: National Honor Society Member, Who's Who Member, Presedential Academic Excellence Award Winner, and an Oklahoma Honor Society Member
Research Projects: Demographics and their spending trends as well as their media preferences.
Publications: National Library of Poetry Anthology Submission and Contest Winner
Conferences or Courses: Cox Univerity - Business Ethics and Principals. Onlilne Courses through UAFS in PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.
Professional Membership: Chamber of Commerce Member in Cedar Park, TX and Leander, TX. Was a member of the Fort Smith Chamber of Commerce and active in it while I worked for Cox Media and for Cumulus.
Certifications or Licensures: Money Business Certification
Interests
Writing poetry, Arts and Crafts of all kinds, Fishing, Golf, and Community Involvement.