Public Relations and Strategic Communications Consultant
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Public Relations and Strategic Communications Consultant
Glasgow, United Kingdom
I am a Public Relations consultant with extensive experience in multicultural and multinational environments gained working in the US, UK, Belgium and Romania. I am also a polyglot, proficient in English, Spanish, French and Romanian which means I can make the same copy, press releases, brochures, presentations, websites, concepts and not only appeal to half of the world. I work well under pressure and work hard to deliver the results you want.
- Press Releases, Brochures and Flyers
- Web Content and Blogs
- Consultation
- Copywriting and Editing
- Translation and Interpretation
- Transcription
(Public Relations and Communications industry)
November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)
Offering Public Relations consulting services that cover both writing (press releases, company profiles, networking profiles, resumes, newsletters, blogs, commercials/cartoon scripts, company letters) and strategy (communication, events, online, offline, corporate social responsibility, sponsorship)
Clients: h(O)w - help our word, Global Languages, Impacts08, Netlog
(Research industry)
September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
Writing, editorial assistance and management of digital resources including The Olympic Calendar
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
February 2008 — May 2008 (4 months)
Assisting with teaching and seminars of the undergraduate course "Sport and Spectacle. The Olympics", which addresses the Olympic Movement, media and culture and questions how the Games operate within a substantial non-sporting environment.
(Online Media industry)
August 2007 — December 2007 (5 months)
Contributing to and co-authoring a column on the impact and influence of the internet and its many technologies on the Romanian Public Relations practice. Check: http://www.prwave.ro/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=74&Itemid=117
(Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Education Management industry)
January 2007 — September 2007 (9 months)
• Design the Center’s PR strategy, website redesign (http://eu.missouri.edu), create an international scholars’ network for future research platforms, initiated one of the Center’s strategic partnerships and sponsorships with the Graduate Professional Council (http://students.missouri.edu/~gpc/about.htm) and started negotiations with several more on-campus and off-campus organizations
(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Public Relations and Communications industry)
August 2006 — May 2007 (10 months)
• Quarter-time
• Media relations and strategic counseling for Mojo AD (http://www.mojo-ad.com), the first student staffed, professional services strategic communication agency and its clients such as Hallmark Cards, First Line and Albert Motors
• Winner of the Albert Motors strategic communication and multi-platform pitch, presented also as a case study in New York City to the Television Bureau of Advertising in March 2007
(Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Education Management industry)
March 2003 — August 2005 (2 years 6 months)
• Part-time and project-based
• Created and implemented PR strategies for different clients and projects including creating the e-PR strategy of the Center, writing the text for the brochures, website etc., organizing events on a part-time basis
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Public Relations and Communications industry)
February 2005 — July 2005 (6 months)
• Full-time
• Media relations, crisis management for Coca-Cola Company Romania, corporate image for McCann Erickson, PR strategy and counseling for LaborMed Pharma, Flanco, Kandia, designing and implementing various training programs for IRECSON training center
• Golden Award at the Romanian PR Excellency Awards as well as Medic.ro Excellency Awards for “Give from the heart” (“Daruieste din inima” ) – national campaign for blood donation
PhD , New Media and the Olympic Games , 2007 — 2010 (expected)
now known as The University of the West of Scotland
MA , Strategic Communication , 2005 — 2007
• Fulbright Scholar
• Thesis: Currently pursuing an experiment about how positive, negative and coactive online video messages about the risk and benefits of the HPV vaccine affect the credibility of the source releasing them and which message format is more effective and is better remembered by youth and young adult audiences
MA , Management and Business Communication , 2004 — 2006
• Thesis: “e-PR for PR companies”, the first Romanian PR research focusing on the impact of the Bucharest located PR companies’ type of ownership on their online communication strategy, the publics they address and the manner in which they do it. (bilingual paper)
BA , Public Relations and Communication , 2000 — 2004
• Thesis: “e-PR” " the first interdisciplinary thesis on online and offline Public Relations created with the advising of two professors, a Romanian and a Belgian one (the paper is bilingual)
international PR, e-PR, crisis communication, media training
Acceder
• Fulbright Alumna
• Erasmus Alumna
• Golden Award at the Romanian PR Excellency Awards as well as Medic.ro Excellency Awards for “Give from the heart” (“Daruieste din inima” ) – national campaign for blood donation