Monica Brady

Monica Brady

Social Media/Marketing Consultant at Mommy Brain

Jacksonville, North Carolina Area

Current
  • Social Media/Marketing Consultant at Mommy Brain
  • Virtual Assistant at Monica Brady- Independent Contractor
  • One of Walmart's ElevenMoms at Walmart.com
  • Owner/Author, Independent Consultant at Mommy Brain Reports
Past
  • Help Desk Technician at World IT Solutions
  • Acting Director at Navy Marine Corps Relief Society
  • Senior Customer Service Agent at FedEx
Education
  • Barstow Community College
  • California State University-Sacramento
  • Software Products Southern Wing
  • University of Maryland University College
Connections
97 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Monica Brady’s Summary

Professional Blogger, specializing in product reviews. Have extensive experience in fields of Administrative Assistance, Customer Service, and Computer Support, Social Media and Marketing.

- Currently working with PBM Products and Parent's Choice formula as a Social Media Consultant, promoting their money saving campaign with store brand formula.
Coordinating giveaways with other popular bloggers, brainstorming campaign and giveaway ideas.

- Worked with EA SPORTS Active in promoting their fitness program. Participating in the 30 Day Challenge with 11 other selected people including celeb mom Alison Sweeney (Biggest Loser). Worked out under direction of Bob Greene (http://thebestlife.com)

- I'm one of Walmart.com's ElevenMoms, in their moneysaving campaign. http://www.elevenmoms.com
Extensive experience in customer service and support.

Monica Brady’s Specialties:

- Social Media and Marketing

-Daily use of Mac OSX

-Excellent written and verbal communication skills

-Extensive experience in data entry, and office skills.

-Experience with graphics editing and creation using Adobe Photoshop.


Monica Brady’s Experience

  • Social Media/Marketing Consultant

    Mommy Brain

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    May 2009Present (7 months)

    Working with various companies to help promote their brands via Social Media Tools.
    Have worked with companies such as EA SPORTS Active, Parent's Choice, and many others.

  • Virtual Assistant

    Monica Brady- Independent Contractor

    (Information Services industry)

    September 2008Present (1 year 3 months)

    I'm a Virtual Admin Assistant that can provide a wide range of services, including:
    Market Research, Advertisement Services, Form and Spreadsheet creation and maintenance via Google Documents, Schedule assistance, document reviewing and editing.

  • One of Walmart's ElevenMoms

    Walmart.com

    (Public Company; WMT; Retail industry)

    September 2008Present (1 year 3 months)

    I am a participant of Walmart's Eleven Moms social media marketing campaign targeting mothers. Consists of blogging, product/service reviews, support & social media consulting.

  • Owner/Author, Independent Consultant

    Mommy Brain Reports

    (Internet industry)

    June 2008Present (1 year 6 months)

    MommyBrainReports.com is a product reviews and giveaway blog. My mission is to elevate the visibility of products, both in our region and across the world by providing real, open and honest reviews of products and services for children, adults and families.

    MommyBrainDeals.com is a blog dedicated to informing consumers about freebies and great discount coupons and deals on the internet and in their local stores.

    MommyBrainNews.com is dedicated to serving up the latest news and press releases for the products consumers want to know about.

    ~Currently working with PBM Products and Parent's Choice formula as a Social Media Consultant, promoting their money saving campaign with store brand formula.
    Coordinating giveaways with other popular bloggers, brainstorming campaign and giveaway ideas.

    ~Currently working with EA SPORTS Active in promoting their fitness program. Participating in the 30 Day Challenge with 11 other selected people including celeb mom Alison Sweeney (Biggest Loser). Worked out under direction of Bob Greene (http://thebestlife.com)

    ~I'm one of Walmart.com's ElevenMoms, in their moneysaving campaign. http://www.elevenmoms.com

  • Help Desk Technician

    World IT Solutions

    (Computer Hardware industry)

    March 2004November 2004 (9 months)

    • Answering phone calls into the IT Help Desk and providing quality customer care in a fast and efficient manner.
    • Monitor and respond to help desk trouble tickets using the Remedy Database Software, and provide technical support to over
    20,000 end users for PC, mainframe application and hardware issues.
    • Assisted Help Desk Lead with creation and implementation of the Help Desk SOP.
    • Handled problems/issues that first tier help desk support was unable to resolve.
    • Interacted with network services, software systems engineering, and/or applications development to restore service and/or
    identify and correct core problems.
    • Assisted in simulation and re-creation of user problems.
    • Recommended system modifications to reduce user problems.

  • Acting Director

    Navy Marine Corps Relief Society

    (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    February 2002August 2003 (1 year 7 months)

    • Performed various administrative duties related to day to day operations including: maintaining correspondence and data
    files, preparing reports, casework forms and message files, distributing daily mail, and answering the telephone.
    • Performed various financial functions including: preparing allotment requests and issuing loan checks, receiving loan
    payments and donations, and preparing vendor checks.
    • Provided training and guidance to volunteer receptionist and administrative support personnel.
    • Performed casework duties including: interviewing clients, preparing budgets, making needs determinations and
    recommending actions.
    • Performed routine computer maintenance tasks including: daily backup, weekly transfers, rebooting, assignment of
    passwords, loading and troubleshooting of software & hardware, etc.
    • Assisted Marine Corps Coordinator in coordinating and running the 2003 Active Duty Fund Drive,

  • Senior Customer Service Agent

    FedEx

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; FDX; Package/Freight Delivery industry)

    19961999 (3 years )

    • Completed 8-week customer service training course.
    • Answering phones, general customer service.
    • Was designated as FedEx Tracking representative.
    • Used computer systems for tracking packages, giving rate quotes, supply orders, determining package commitments, etc.


Monica Brady’s Education

  • Barstow Community College

    Computer Science/Programming

  • California State University-Sacramento

    Computer Science

  • Software Products Southern Wing

    Java Programming

  • University of Maryland University College

    Computer Science/Programming


Additional Information

Monica Brady’s Websites:

Monica Brady’s Interests:

Volunteered at public library as summer children’s program coordinator for 3 years, Volunteered with Navy Marine Corps Relief Society as a Knitter/Crocheter for approximately 2 years, 2nd degree black belt and former instructor of Tae Kwon Do, sewing, poetry, jewelry making, and automotive repair. Very knowledgeable of computers and many applications. PADI Certified Rescue Diver. Created an online Parenting community at http://www.parentscentral.net. Edited all web templates, and Administer the site and forum. Site is deployed on Ubuntu, on a 256Mb Slice at SliceHost, using Apache, mod_php, and vBulletin.

Monica Brady’s Groups:

  •    Women 2.0
  •    ThoseinMedia
  •    Social Media Marketing
  •    M2Moms - Marketing To Moms
  •    Twittering
  •    ElevenMoms of Walmart

Monica Brady’s Honors:

Dean's List Award- Barstow Community College
Microsoft Office User Specialist Master Certification


Monica Brady’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

  • career opportunities
  • consulting offers
  • new ventures
  • expertise requests
  • business deals
  • reference requests
  • getting back in touch

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