Katy Jo at Home

First and foremost, here is my Resume because I’m looking for a job and appreciate YOUR HELP in finding one. This is my Linked In Account for further employment and networking information.

Due to personal issues, I relocated to Atlanta/Alpharetta from Nashville on Jan 1^st 2008 and am now looking for a full-time job. Job searching is hard work and a full-time job all at once. I have to admit that playing with my dogs and cooking that next recipe that I’ve compiled in my notebook are top distracters for procrastination (sorry to the IRS that my taxes are NOT). Being pretty creative and able to see the big picture helps me be an excellent project, product and business manager focusing on communication, efficiency in processes, cost-effectiveness and contingency planning.
I’m hoping that if you’re an Atlantan native you may be able to assist me in this journey. I know it’ll help you know best what I’m looking for so here’s a brief synopsis. My objective in finding a job is to secure a position utilizing my strengths of communication, efficiency in processes, cost-effectiveness, contingency planning, organization, production and overall management with an organization whose purpose is meaningful and whose environment is founded on integrity and respect.

A creative environment based on self-motivation, mutual respect and team building in order to accomplish a greater goal is ideal. I’m suited to be a project manager, product manager, coordinator or associate.

As one can observe from reading my resume, I’ve worked in quite a few industries doing a variety of tasks. Although some companies may view this as a negative aspect to my character, personally I believe that the variety of experience I’ve held enables me to bring a creative perspective to whatever role I fill in the future. I guarantee that every job I’ve held I’ve done to the best of my ability and with all of my heart. Being an entrepreneur and visionary isn’t something that is widely embraced by the run-of-the-mill employer which is understandable but disheartening. The upside is that I don’t want to be run-of-the-mill in any aspect of my life.

Disaster Relief is a very interesting field to me. I’m very good at handling stressful situations and have the ability to plan quickly. I think these skills would be really useful in a disaster relief environment and am looking into options here as well. Although I’ve not worked in this field professionally, I am an excellent person to get into the field as I am a natural leader, excellent under stress, incredibly dependable, adaptable and flexible, very organized and detail oriented as well as a good listener and skilled communicator.

I’ve worked with children for 12 years which is a differentiator to my experience and the knowledge I’ve gained in this field can be applied to many positions. Whether I find a job working with children or promoting ideas which make the world a better place, I simply want to find a job where I’m bringing positive benefits to others.

Industries by Priority

Printing/Publishing/Content – specifically educational content related but not limited to health/wellness/culinary/lifestyle/eco-sustainable lifestyles

Emergency Management

Management Consulting

Healthcare/Health Informatics Technology(HIT)/Health Informatics

Energy/Utilities/Green Collar Consulting – specifically alternate energy providers

Non-Profit – specifically Children’s Advocacy/Safety Organizations

Companies by Priority

*Note: These are the companies of which I am currently aware and is not a permanent all-inclusive list

Discovery.com

Howard Scripps Network

Atlanta Parent Magazine

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

American Red Cross

GEMA/FEMA

Cox Communications

Emory Healthcare

Center for Disease Control

McKesson Corporation

Ronald McDonald House

First Book

Global Fund for Children

Heifer International

United Nations Children’s Fund

Functions by Priority

Operations

Program Development

Emergency Planning Manager

Team Leader/Management

Project Management

Health Informatics Specialist

Systems Analysis

Consultant

Account Management

Business Analysis

Strategy

Contingency planning

Product Management

Production Operations

Recruitment

Creative Content Production

Communications

Contract negotiation

Research

Public Relations and Social Networking

Marketing: General Planning and Implementation

Online and Email Marketing

Customer Relations Management and Implementation

Writing/Editing

Business Development

Sales Support

Why I’ve chosen each Industry

Printing/Publishing/Content – The creation and communication of educational content for consumers is a means of unifying humans, eradicating poverty and genocide, creating awareness of global issues including the need to support sustainable local communities, and displaying human differences to be accepted and appreciated by one another.

Disaster Relief – Disasters and catastrophes happen and it seems as though their impact is increasing in the light of global warming becoming a bigger issue.  Survival and adaptation to new environments are always on the top of my mind and thus planning for disasters as well as navigating myself and others through their wake is one of my passions.  Additionally, “The field of emergency planning has grown.  Of course, emergency planners prepare for and respond to other disasters, such as fires, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, outbreaks of highly infectious diseases, and major accidents.  The field has formalized, with 250 bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs in place or in the works” US News and World Report March 24/31 2008

Healthcare/ Health Informatics Technology (HIT) – Having worked with designing software and creating user-friendly web applications combined with my experience as a patient in the healthcare system equips me to launch into this field.  “Hospitals, insurers, and regional collaboratives are switching to electronic medical records.  Nurses and doctors are using computerized systems to guide diagnoses and treatment recommendations.  Healthcare providers are also collecting more data to evaluate quality of care.  As a health information systems analyst, you speak with physicians, nurses, and others to identify their needs and develop a blueprint to hand to the programmers for implementation.” US News and World Report March 24/31 2008

Green-Collar Work – Americans have become excellent consumers which has fueled our economy.  Our consumerism, though, has gone unchecked as far as the consequences and repercussions for the rest of the world and future generations.  The human population’s exponential growth combined with consumerism which goes unchecked results in an earth whose resources will not last, which is unbalanced across the globe and whose structure is currently dependent on the limitless supply of limited resources.  Combating what humanity has done so far and planning for changes which create sustainable local communities and environments is a role I want to play.  This includes municipality strategic planning for sustainability, ecotourism, and alternate energy research.

Non-Profit – Standing up for innocence, liberating the impoverished and neglected and fighting for what’s right is pretty meaningful.  Ending the marriages and sex trade of children and girls across the world, feeding children and providing clean water to communities around the globe, and giving kids an education and literacy are just a few of the causes that are worthy in just in my book.  Programs specifically related to children’s advocacy, safety and education are some that I identify with the best.