Senior Communications Professional

KEVIN M. BERRIGAN
25 Ridge Road
Edison, New Jersey 08817

Home: (732) 287-2970

Cell: (908) 227-1087

e-mail: coqui531@aol.com


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE


Harmony Web Centers
Hazlet, NJ
Business Manager
2009-Present

Deliver revolutionary technology providing businesses a cost effective and functionally-rich, template driven website solution to use internet marketing, allowing businesses to increase revenues, decrease expenses and improve customer services by exposing businesses to new markets, introducing new products to the market faster and establishing credibility with customers by providing prompt, personalized service.

Enhance website marketing by providing website content development and revision services. Design strategic public relations plans to further promote businesses through media placements (press release, feature stories, e-mail blasts, case studies, fact sheets, brochures and other communications channels.)

Briechle-Fernandez Marketing Services

Eatontown, NJ
Communications Specialist/Copywriter
2007-2009

Managed several corporate business-to-business accounts for multi-billion dollar global companies providing account management, public relations, advertising, marketing, collateral development, tradeshow, media relations, copywriting and website content for chemical, cosmetics, personal care, household care, soaps and detergents, pharma, automotive catalysts and construction industries. Utilized skills in account management, marketing, public relations, media relations and advertising, social media, copywriting and multi-media.

* Increased client presence in key customer markets through aggressive media campaigns

resulting in local, regional, national and international media coverage by 15%-50%.

* Developed highly targeted ads, marketing collateral and digital media achieving improved and

multi-channel communication with customer base.

* Positioned clients as authoritative experts in their industry, providing opportunities to present

case studies and other ground breaking industry information at conferences and trade shows.

* Designed and implemented small-group educational seminars which identified new growth

markets, increasing sales by 10%-20%.

* Clients increased marketing agency budget by 15% - 30%.

Consulting Positions:

Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ - 2006
Stern + Associates, Cranford, NJ - 2006
Harrington Communications, Springfield, NJ - 2006

* Developed creative, well-educated strategic plans and managed all aspects of assigned

information technology communication projects while meeting daily deadlines and long term

project dates with 98.6 % efficiency.

* Demonstrated superior project management experience, while completing multiple,

simultaneous tasks with minimal supervision, freeing supervisor to focus on core activities.

* Conceptualized projects from inception through completion, keeping them on schedule while

adapting to sudden changes and shifting priorities, reducing costs by 10%.

* Worked with leading companies to develop media communications strategies and special event

initiatives for new product launches, life enhancing medical devices, corporate accounts and

non-profit organizations that improved media outreach and placement in national and regional

markets 25% and helped build public awareness and brand recognition, increasing sales by 6%.

* Created external and internal strategic customized communication programs including press

releases, pitch letters biographical fact sheets on clients, newsletters, and other collateral

materials that promoted sales growth by up to 15%, created a positive image and strengthened

a client’s link to business, consumers, communities, professional associations and non-profit

groups.

Caldwell College

Caldwell, New Jersey
Director of Media Relations & Advertising

1995 to 2005

Serving as spokesman for college, tripled exposure for college through print, broadcast and electronic media outlets, resulting in the largest student recruitment success in years 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2001.

* Managed overall direction for college website utilized as primary vehicle in promoting clear and

consistent institutional image.

* Established internal web master for site resulting in annual cost savings of $100,000.

* Administered departmental budget of $300,000; managed staff.

* Promoted, coordinated and supported fundraising, alumni, recruitment and special events,

achieving an unprecedented 65% of committed contributions to college’s multi-million dollar

capital campaign during the campaign’s quiet phase and a consistent 5%-7% increase in total

student enrollment.

* Coordinated advertising plans with VP and outside advertising agencies streamlining

budgetary expenditures and maximizing ROI of 10-15%.

* Developed and implemented Crisis Communications Plan, a detailed protocol for responding to

the media in emergency situations, trained executive staff.

* Received Garden State Journalist Association awards in 1997, 1998 and 2000.


EDUCATION

M.B.A., Caldwell College
Concentration: Management
Graduated: 2005

B.A. Communications, Rowan University
Concentration: Public relations
Graduated: 1987


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS


Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)
Garden State Journalists Association
Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of New Jersey (AICUNJ)