
Director of Calvert Creative; Brand Manager for Calvert Holdings
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Director of Calvert Creative; Brand Manager for Calvert Holdings
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
Hand me a map with next to nothing marked on it, and I’m off to explore. New frontiers inspire me and engage my interest.
For several years now I’ve been working with Calvert Holdings in Cary, NC, as a Brand Manager, which allows me to draw on my design and leadership skills while plunging full force into online marketing and social media. At the Holdings I am responsible for brand development and oversight, research and reporting, and developing our online profile.
I am also the Director of Calvert Creative, which lets me offer seminars and give keynotes on internet technology and online communications.
At home I am mother to three boys, and I make it to most of my husband's rock and roll gigs. I spend every spare second in the boxing ring, and I also blog about boxing, parenting, music, and media.
Keynote and business event speaker, social/collaborative media, leveraging online technology for business, multimedia seminar development, measuring and monitoring brand activity, brand strategy, online business profile development, video and mobile media
(Online Media industry)
March 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)
Calvert Creative is a Calvert Holdings company which specializes in training companies in the use of cutting-edge communication tools. Our specialty is online media, and we offer seminars in a variety of areas:
• Leveraging Online Media for a Competitive Edge
• Measuring and Monitoring the Online Conversation about your Brand, Industry, Message, or Product
• Increasing Online Traffic by Expanding Your Digital Footprint
• Preventing and Addressing Online Reputation Attacks
• Finding Your Target Markets Online and Helping Your Fans Promote You
• Becoming a Social Media Advocate for Your Company
• Calculating Return in Online Media
• Creating and Using Online Press Releases
• Using Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, and other Online Tools to Move Business
I am also available as a public speaker for conferences, lunch and learns, and other events.
(Biotechnology industry)
March 2005 — Present (4 years 9 months)
As the Brand Manager of a diverse Holdings company, I am responsible for brand development and oversight, research and reporting, and developing our online profile.
Some of my job involves
• establishing a clear brand strategy
• directing the design, production, and optimization of all web properties and related branding
• engaging in strategic expansion of digital footprint
• assessing changing and emerging online media methodologies, standards, and capabilities, and formulate strategies for incorporating these into business brand practices
• measuring and tracking all online conversation connected to brand, message, competition, and industry
Masters , 1991 — 1994
BFA , Design , 1984 — 1988
Online media and networking, public speaking, writing/editing, live rock and roll, hiking, blogging, video, creative ways of being church, painting, photography, parenting, indie music, iEverything, toaster-looking cars (Scion xB), excellent red wines, internet, innovation, technology, the ocean, exploration, maps, reading
Twitter, Marketing and PR Innovators, StumbleUpon, Digg, Connections Church, Triangle TweetUp, Tweeple, LinkedIn Live, Q&A, Dialogue Consulting Speaker Series