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Nicole Gonzalez

Advertising Consultant

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Industries: Entertainment, Media
Skills: Business, Copy Writing, Design, Editing, English, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, Graphic design, Languages, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Product design, Public Relations, Public speaking, Sales, Spanish, Writing
Location: San Juan, PR
Groups: Enterprize 2008 [INACTIVE], Enterprize 2009 [INACTIVE], [INACTIVE] EnterPRize 2010
Visas: All over the world!
Interested in: Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Creating a group, Finding experts, Finding mentors, Getting press, Giving back, Helping friends, Internships, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Starting a company, Supporting my investments
Schools: Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Pro*Es*Sa IMC – San Juan, Puerto Rico
Position: Founder, Free-Lance Advertising
Time period: December 2004 - Present
Description: Duties:
Provide clients with independent advertising and marketing assistance / counseling as free-lance graphics artist and publicist. Establishing a well nourished portfolio of campaigns, local initiatives, art work and collaborations with small-business companies, up incoming artists in the music industry, and non-profit organizations.

Main Tasks:
Through application of gained knowledge, assist clients with accurate recommendations on accomplishing organizational goals and reaching target effectively, providing services for acquisition of media exposure through the purchase of venues, creating promotional material for activities directed toward specific demographics, and providing professional documentation, such as:
 Assisting music artist through Public Relations efforts, creating legal documentations such as contracts for performances, promotional material for activities and calendar / agenda maintenance, providing representation on booking (gathering information on fees, participations, and event logistics).
 Successfully establish monthly magazine Kronos® for non-profit organization, providing services as Chief Editor and Co-Director of Publishing. Creating template of inside material, recruiting correspondents and preparing Calendar section for monthly activities, including promotional materials in diverse formats of media and genres (movies, TV, music, etc.)
 Creating numerous occasional / seasonal hand-out materials, such as flyers and posters for advertising activities. Providing identification through creation of logos and banners in P.O.P.
 Heading Advertising Dept. for ICNC, leading efforts in promotions through creative media (alternate advertising), coordinating activities and material for different departments within organization.
 Providing counseling for activities to leaders in charge of events such as concerts, congresses, etc. Preparing promotional and accountability materials and logistics coordination.
 Coordinate wedding on small scale.

Employer: FEMA-DHS – Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
Position: Research & Writing Specialist
Time period: August 2008 - October 2008

Employer: Sphere Creative Studio Inc.
Position: Advertising Consultant/Sales Rep.
Time period: July 2008 - November 2008
Description: Contacting prospective clients, Presentations, Client Liason, Creating Proposals, Providing Advertising Consultations, etc.

Employer: McCann-Erickson – Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
Position: Account Executive Assistant
Time period: February 2003 - July 2006
Description: Duties:
Provide high-level administrative assistance to Account Executive and Vice-President of Account Service Dept., also lending assistance to several departments within advertising agency (Media, Traffic, Accounting, Public Relations, etc) of over fifteen mayor international clients.

Main tasks:
Perform a variety of key functions, maintaining accurate computerized data on clients and competitive reports, communicating these with Marketing Dept. regarding client initiatives and actions reviews, also maintaining mass-media databases. Develop spreadsheet to improve and inform market participation and local / international initiatives of corporate clients and their competition. Prepare meeting agendas and carefully monitoring the following action items:
 Clerical Tasks: fax and email clients, as well as members of mass media.
 Archive print clippings for client overview (newspapers and magazine) on current advertising tendencies, maintain file hardcopies/softcopies, and develop an informative route that kept all account executives up to date on new media initiatives.
 Perform market investigations on diverse products, in conjunction with Promotions Dept. in the entry of public participations to sweepstakes and tabulating findings of tendencies within markets in diverse demographics.
 Assist in coordinating successful client seminars and meetings for regional / international clients with Public Relations Dept. (creating invitations, memos, conformation tools, and promotional material, also reviewing venues).
 Supervising print media copy and artwork according to client needs, providing entry and revisions to productions jobs and campaigns for Media and Traffic Depts.

EDUCATION

University: Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Time period: 2000 - 2006
Degree: Advertising, BA

Nicole Gonzalez

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