Heather Eulalie Yates

Greater Chicago, Illinois – (708)435.9562 – heyates@gmail.com

Summary of Professional Qualifications
 
Experienced administrator with over ten years scheduling, coordinating and facilitating meetings, community service and promotional events. Preparing minutes, presentation materials, reports, invoices, memos, and manuals. Creation and management of office organization, filing, and tracking systems. Product and service market research, development of company newsletters, internal office communication forms and procedures. Project Management experience with recruiting collaborative personnel and team mentorship. Creation and management of project budgets and contracts. Management of marketing scope and deliverables. Interpersonal Relations and Customer Service through written and verbal from administrative collaboration and outsourcing to classroom management and parent-teacher conferences. Public Relations experience through Social Media Networking, creative promotional content, press releases, and managing social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and Linkedin.Personable and apt to communicate complex ideas clearly and concisely. Advanced understanding of language use. Flexible, analytical, and resourceful with a keen eye for creative detail; skilled at analyzing, synthesizing, and editing information to achieve overall objectives. Able to acquire new information and technical skills quickly and easily with a technical adaptability between iOS and MS Windows applications such as Adobe, Word, Outlook, Excel, Access, and Powerpoint. Devoted, highly motivated, results-driven achiever, and effective team leader.
 

Professional Experience and Training

 
Long Term Substitute Teacher, 2013-present
Parallel Employment Group/Uno Charter Schools Network Chicago, IL

▫Plan, prepare, and deliver classroom procedure and organization, behavioral management plans, lesson plans, and instructional material according to CORE standards and that reflect the diverse educational, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds of the students.

▫ Establish and communicate clear objectives for all learning activities. Instruct, supervise, observe, and evaluate student performance, grade papers, maintain grade books, prepare and distribute required reports. Tutor students on an individual and small group basis.

▫ Parent, student, and faculty conferencing,  attend and integrate ongoing professional development training. Extracurricular development and support of both in-school and after-school activities. Meet course and school-wide student performance goals. Develop professional relationships with other agencies and programs. Work with program coordinators to ensure initiatives are being met.

Communications Specialist,  2013
Oakland Consulting Group Chicago, IL/Lanham, MD

▫Created and delivered press releases, media relations content, executive bios, corporate newsletter content, social media content, internal communication forms, brochures, newsletters, and other publications, both print and electronic.

▫ Researched media coverage and industry trends, conducted extensive media outreach to identify, develop and execute communications strategies for key media contacts and customer references.

▫ Developed marketing communications campaigns, developed fresh story ideas, and recommended, implemented, and maintained site design and operation.

Creative Consultant, 2012
History On Video Atlanta, GA

▫Evaluate  theme, tone, pace, story arcs, character arcs, plot development, character development, premise, hook, dialogue, action, tension, conflict, and genre of video series based upon industry standards, market, target audience, and company objectives.

▫Proposed written and visual edits to story outline

▫Proposed marketing and distribution strategies

Story Analyst, 2011
Creative World Awards Atlanta, GA

▫Receiving and evaluating many contest submissions for  theme, tone, pace, story arcs, character arcs, plot development, character development, premise, hook, dialogue, action, tension, conflict, and genre based upon industry standards and providing the coverage to the contestants

▫Provide written evaluation to contestants and itemized scorecard to fellow judges

▫Research on current markets and relevant agencies for collaboration, administrative support, and data entry into developing directory

Office Automation Clerk, 2009 – 2011
US Department of Defense                 Dobbins Air Force Reserve, Marietta, GA

▫Develop correspondence, forms, reports, messages, memorandums, minutes, presentations and other official communication through internal and external channels associated with organization functions.

▫Develop and maintain office management plan, document tracking systems, employee timekeeping

▫Coordination of meetings and events. Receiving telephone calls and visitors. Management of office inventory and equipment.

Formal Education

Masters of Arts in Teaching Elementary Education – 2016
National-Louis University, Chicago, IL

Masters of Fine Arts in Screenwriting – 2014
DePaul University, Chicago, IL

Bachelors of Arts in Film/Photography – Dean’s List – 2012
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

High School Diploma – Dual Diploma w/ Honors – 2008
McEachern High School, Powder Springs, GA

Current Licensure & Certification

State of Illinois
▫ Substitute Teaching License K-12

▫ Paraprofessional Educator Endorsement