Jennifer Bender

About Jennifer Bender

Jennifer is a hybrid personality who excels at project management, marketing, creative design, and brand management. She relates equally well to crane operators in Charlotte, CEO\'s in Chicago, and designers in Columbus. She moves easily between AIA billing with construction companies, planning with developers, and code advocacy for small business owners. Outside the office she\'s an active photographer, illustrator, and hiker. Jennifer has worked as a Photo Studio Manager, a Purchasing Agent for a Commercial Contractor, and currently as Project Manager, Media Manager & National Accounts Manager for DaNite Sign Company. She prides herself for creative vision, critical thinking, reliability, organization, a teamwork can-do attitude, intuition, prioritization, budgeting, communication, multi-tasking, and the supernatural ability to wade through and comprehend sign code on a national scale. With her feet firmly placed both in the local Columbus Arts Community, and in branding Corporate America, Jennifer bridges the gap between art and marketing on a fully comprehensive scale. As a proud community member in the eclectic and diverse Olde Towne East Columbus neighborhood she is truly \"at the heart of it all\".

Experience

1. Project Manager, National Accounts Rep, & Media Manager at Dānite Sign Co

   Dānite Sign Co

   Apr 2008 — Present · Columbus, OH, US

   In a vibrant national market with aggressive to impossible deadlines, Jennifer manage\'s every stage of both single and multi-location signage projects. Whether for a new local boutique or national re-branding, she juggles all the details, from design, quote, and subcontracted crane and electrician selection, through engineering, permit procurement and production, to shipping, installation, and invoicing. On the local level, Jennifer interface\'s between DaNite\'s designers, architects, zoning officials, business owners, and corporate representatives to achieve powerful, efficient, legal, and relevant signage. When an electronic message center is purchased through DaNite Sign Co, Jennifer sits down with each client to teach them how to create and program their own dynamic content in order to harness the full potential of their advertising investment. As Media Manager, she leverages every aspect of the DaNite brand in blogs, social media, the company website, the I-71 highway sign, various advertising formats,\"Lunch & Learn\" presentations, marketing materials, and company events.

Education

• Columbus College of Art & Design

  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

  1991 — 1996

Skills

• National Accounts
• Photography
• Vendor Management
• Digital Signage
• Graphic Design
• Account Management
• Branding & Identity
• Site Signs
• Permit Applications
• Photoshop
• Subcontracting
• Building Code Research
• Aia Documents
• Aia Billing
• Client Billing
• Customer Service
• Subcontracts Management
• Strategic Planning
• Advertising
• Signage
• Social Media Marketing
• Mechanics Liens
• Corel Draw
• Project Planning
• Adobe Photoshop
• Construction Management
• Building Permits
• Marketing
• Urban Design
• Fine Art Photography
• Corporate Branding
• Brand Management
• Marketing Strategy
• Electronic Message Centers
• Digital Photography
• Project Management
• Signage Systems
• Sales
• Electronic Media
• Contract Negotiation