ANDREA J. BOYLE
p. 503.568.3699
e. andboyle@gmail.com
Professional Skills & Highlights:
- 5 years+ experience in arts administration and art nonprofit event management.
- Extensive detail-oriented, administrative success in fields ranging from arts and culture to academia and international relations.
- Proven results-driven motivational skills: measurable increases in membership levels and sales records as well as enrollment and matriculation rates.
- Authored Mood Swings II, an arts and culture book detailing, from a critical design perspective, Beirut’s nightlife. It has been reviewed by the Lebanese newspaper, “The Daily Star,” and has sold more that 2,000 copies internationally
Administrative & Event Management Experience
- Coordinated nonprofit fundraising activities for an industrial arts center in Oakland with a $2.5M budget; increased member enrollment and retention by 33%; implemented fundraising activities including grant writing, individual and corporate solicitations, and member outreach; managed direct mailing campaigns, and special events.
- Directed after school arts & sciences enrichment program for local elementary school; recruited, hired, and coordinated staff of 15 teachers; organized class schedule and event planning for 14-week program; managed matriculation of 170 students; created and delivered all promotional and informational materials; responsible for all administrative duties ranging from budget management to permission slips and building codes.
- Directed all major activities for arts and culture organization including all aspects of organizational management and event production; volunteer coordination, art handling, art sales, and event management; coordinated directly with artists and partnering organizations; promoted organizations schedule through social media and networking; directed education outreach efforts, responsible for hiring and firing of interns; wrote, delivered e-marketing/e-newsletters; directed website creation, content delivery, design; managed office duties, legal issues, database, finances, and budgets.
- Served as Program Coordinator for new arts and culture organization delivering 75+ events for annual two-week city-wide festival; managed staff, performers, and event programmers; designed, managed and coordinated fund-raising events; managed weekly meetings, set agenda, kept minutes and notes, delivered weekly updates; coordinated and scheduled weekly events; hosted opening night program.
- Managed daily administrative booth operations at local and international conventions; scheduled high-profile executive meetings with utmost discretion; updated and maintained contact database for post-show business opportunities, managed daily schedules of company managers and sales-reps that included evening events; coordinated on-site staff of 15+ booth hands, functioned as on-call liaison between company and event facility.
- Coordinated campus-wide headhunting and marketing campaign; maintained database of high potential candidates; marketed organization to school officials and organizations; organized, presented weekly information sessions; increased attendance, application, and matriculation rates by 30%.
Teaching and Training Experience
- Developed creative lesson plans exploring both language and culture through lens of social responsibility; managed religiously and ethnically diverse classes; designed new marketing materials aimed at meeting and increasing enrollment goals; coordinated new teacher recruitment, hiring, training, cultural integration processes.
- Managed street team of environmental activists and organizers; coached canvassers on fund raising techniques; represented office at regional events; informed Oregon citizens on environmental issues facing state; increased membership and volunteer levels; raised money (exceeded all fund-raising records and ranked 3rd nationally); personally ranked within top 10 canvassers nationally for duration of contract.
- Worked on an international activist team empowering students to make substantial change in our global community; facilitated engagement; mediated cultural conflict between multi-ethnic group of international students; co-instructed three-week seminar based on GPACT training; successfully trained 30 students, with three groups receiving project grants (ranging in value from food donations to £25,000).
- Promoted re-imagined organizational mission viewing preventative security as peace building at on-campus and off-campus forums; served as administrative liaison between international project managers; participated in vision building; initiated coordinated strategic marketing team.
- Organized and facilitated social/academic programming for incoming freshman promoting time management, social responsibility, personal balance; maintained database of resident class schedules and achievement goals to better assist in collegiate and post-collegiate success; coordinated study groups, tutors, academic meetings with deans, advisors, and potential employers
Work History
Development Coordinator, The Crucible
Oakland, CA, July 2011-Present
Independent Curator
August 2010- Present
Program Director, Chief Joseph Elementary Arts & Sciences Enrichment Program
Portland OR, September 2010- March 2011
Administrative Director/Co-Director, Portland City Art
Portland, OR, October 2009-September 2010
Program Coordinator, PDX Bridge Festival
Portland, OR. January 2010-July 2010
Writer, Art Lounge Publishing
Beirut, Lebanon. January 2009-July 2009
English Teacher/Assistant Director, Berlitz Language Center
Aleppo, Syria September 2007- Septermber 2008; Beirut, Lebanon, January 2009-May 2009
Field Manager, Environment Oregon
Portland, OR. February 2007- August 2007
Assistant Booth Manager
Proxima, CES Las Vegas, 2000-2005; Jabra/GN Netcom, CES Las Vegas 2006; Divx, CES Las Vegas 2007; Jabra, FIFA Berlin Germany 2007
Sales Associate, Nordstrom
Portland, OR. July 2003-January 2007
Administrative Assistant, Center for Global Security and Democracy
Rutgers University; September 2004-May 2005
Trainer and Teacher, Global Partnership for Activism and Cross-Cultural Training
University of Zagreb, Croatia. Summer 2004
Campaign Coordinator, Teach for America
Rutgers University. September 2003-May 2005
Wilderness Therapy Instructor, SUWS & Sagewalk Wilderness School
Shoshone, ID. Summer 2003; Bend, OR, Summer 2009
Resident Life Staff/Academic Community Programmer
Rutgers University, September 2002-May 2004
Education
B.A in Political Science and Religious Studies
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. May 2005.
Minor: Middle Eastern Studies, Arabic
Honors Thesis: “Reconciling the Bridge: A Search for Reclaimed Essence/ A theoretical and practical approach to post-war reconciliation in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina”
Honors: Magna Cum Laude, College High Honors, Aresty Research Fellow
Distinctions: National Society Collegiate Scholars (2001-2005); Golden Key National Honor Society (2003-2005); Political Science Honor Society (2003-2005); Religious Studies Honors Society (2003-2005); President’s Award for Academic Excellence (2001)
Study Abroad: University of Kwa-Zulu Natal; Pietermaritzberg, South Africa. February 2004-June 2004.
