Rena Crispin

About Rena Crispin

Retired (May 2016) website developer, editor, content creator, and consumer engagement facilitator. More than eight years experience managing two financial-education websites for credit unions, five student interns, and nine youth editorial boards. Former Family & Consumer Science teacher in the Madison Metropolitan School District, helping middle school students develop skills in cooking, sewing, understanding and applying nutritional principles, and personal finance. Former tutor for children with learning disorders (specializing in Dyslexia) and adults learning English as a second language Professional skills • Orton-Gillingham multi-sensory education: incorporate multi-sensory strategies into an existing literacy curriculum. • Communications: Develop, design, and distribute print and e-newsletters, press releases, surveys, and marketing campaigns targeting credit union staff, using MagnetMail • Website: Develop and manage different consumer-facing websites (targeting adults and grades 4-12 students) to be used as financial education tools for educators and parents, and as marketing tools for credit union marketers • Social media: Develop and manage social media platform, with focus on Twitter. • Design, develop and publish content for print and online: infographics, articles, blogs, contests, and quizzes, using a proprietary content management system, Microsoft Office products, WordPress, Adobe Acrobat XI Pro, and Adobe PhotoShop CS5. • Press coverage: Develop press releases for the CUNA marketing team • Video production: Manage video production from initial idea to final online publication using proprietary content management system, YouTube, and Vimeo. • Management: Hiring and mentoring student interns (one college student every two to three years) and youth editorial boards (12 grade school students every year)

Experience

1. Substitute Teacher

   Waunakee Community School District

   Jan 2019 — Present · The only Waunakee, WI, US

Education

• Indiana University Bloomington

  BA

  1968 — 1974

• Indiana State University Laboratory School

  High School

  1966 — 1967

Skills

• Project Management
• Editing
• Management
• Executive Management
• Website Development
• Credit Unions
• Photoshop
• Budgets
• Public Relations
• Yoga
• Strategic Planning
• Html
• Risk Management
• Nonprofits
• Newsletter Production
• Marketing
• Team Building
• Project Planning
• Social Media
• Banking
• Content Management
• Canoeing
• Public Speaking
• Press Releases
• Communication Skills
• Microsoft Office
• Customer Service
• Publishing
• Internal Communications
• Public Affairs
• Leadership
• Data Analysis
• Trade Associations
• Social Media Marketing
• Copy Editing
• Marketing Communications
• Magnetmail