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Michele Eileen Salas

usctrojm@hotmail.com

Objective: 

To develop my career in the area of rehabilitation psychology.

Experience

MICHELE BY PROJECT, Greater Los Angeles, CA 5/02-Current

Account Manager, Freelance

 

BREADSTICKS RESTAURANT, Beverly Hills, CA 1/06-10/06

Marketing Manager, Italian cuisine and cafe

•marketing collateral •sales initiatives •promotion •advertising


DRISSI MULTIMEDIA, INC., Los Angeles, CA 10/05-2/06                                  

Account Executive, Home Entertainment and Theatrical Advertising

job tickets purchase order requests, task scheduling production schedules, revision trafficking proofreading production assets cost containment marketing plans monitoring designer Hours contest submissions

 

LA LAB INC. dba CHIP AND PEPPER JEANS, Vernon, CA 2/05-6/05

Brand Assistant, Apparel Merchandising and Manufacturing

research and support in the establishment of international wholesale distribution channel (England) contract review, negotiation and closing with distributors advisory with legal counsel on all contracts, trademarks, sweepstakes, and other legal documents development of company employee manual and supplemental documents as it pertains to employees and company operations daily sales reports tradeshows merchandising research press requests calendaring domestic and international travel arrangements expense reports •responsible for conducting interviews and support in areas of human resources and personnel implementation internal office messaging system implementation of telephones call management database (dategenics oasis)

 

WILD MANGO CLOTHING, Van Nuys, CA 6/04-7/04

Sales Assistant, Apparel Manufacturing and Distribution 

data entry calendaring oversee sample production sale representative selling season coordination import coordination (sourcing from south africa) inventory count and distribution chargebackscollections off price selling trunk shows trade advertising


SHAPIRO-LICHTMAN, West Hollywood, CA 1/04-4/04

Agent Assistant, Literary Agency

rolling calls conference calls screening calls mail filtering


NORTHROP GRUMMAN, Hawthorne, CA 10/03-12/03

Engineer Assistant, IT Sector

•policy and procedure •training coordination •presentations •administration

30SIXTY DESIGN, INC., Los Angeles, CA 7/00-5/02

Harry Potter Project Manager, Home Entertainment Advertising and Consumer Products 

job tickets estimates change orders 250K project scopes critical task scheduling production schedules revision trafficking marketing plans creative briefs fiscal management cost containment/budget management, 750K+ monitoring designer hours creative meetings trade shows photo shoots merchandise returns press releases website development company liaison seasonal promotions collections 150K contest submissions  


CENTRAL VALLEY TECHNOLOGY CENTER, Fresno, CA 9/99-6/00

Assistant to Executive Director, Non Profit Technology Resource Consortium

project manager for CSUF grant account development of content narrative for proposals submitted for grant funding established networking project, 85K maintained service agreements established VIN agreements (district wide area network videoconferencing) website development 


DO+ABLE PRODUCTS DAVIDSON PLYWOOD, Chino, CA 1/98-8/98

Assistant to CFO and Controller, Manufacturing

coordination for month end reporting to shareholders, bank and sales executives coorespondence and contract review for real estate (e.g. company expansion) policy and procedures manual


GEMSTAR TV-GUIDE INTERNATIONAL, INC., Pasadena, CA  5/96-8/97

Information/Compliance Manager & Research Assistant, Technology Licensing 

responsible for producing a world wide licensee guide establishment of rademark guidelines establishment of logo sheets establishment of licensing reporting guidelines definition of OEM cross functional interfaces used as framework for communications between the Company and licensees (legal/accounting, pr/marketing, technical/engineering) prepared presentations and proposals for meetings and new marketing opportunities royalty analysis and review of contracts market research and new brand identity for the VCR Plus+ product line extension market research for development opportunities via television programming 


INTERNSHIPS

BUENA VISTA PICTURES DISTRIBUTION, INC., Burbank, CA 6/95-8/95

1995 Summer Intern, Theatrical Marketing and Distribution

traveled eight state in the Midwest region, responsible for theatrical exhibitor theatrical marketing and distribution  distribution of point of purchase materials research and data entry analysis of exhibitor compliance, promotional involvement, promotional involvement, and trailer playability assessments; authored a creative summary report with team member of midwest exhibitors for the president of BVPD and regional managers. 


EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles, CA  Class of 2000

Communications, B.A. 2000, Annenberg School of Communications

 

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, Fresno, CA  Class of 2011

Rehabilitation Counseling, M.S. 2010, Kremen School of Education and Human Development


SKILLS

Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project Manager, FileMaker Pro, Access, PageMaker, Outlook, Entourage, Visio, Clients and Profits, Oasis Datagenics  (incoming/outgoing telephone call system program), CIDOR


ACTIVITIES 

Member, American Institute of Graphic Arts

Member, USC Mexican American Alumni Association

President, Delta Gamma Fraternity Housing Corporation- UC Merced

Social Chair, Chi Sigma Iota- Fresno State

Secretary, Rehabilitation Counseling Program- Fresno State