MARNY SMITH

marny.smith@gmail.com
917-846-6828
www.marnysmith.com
@marnysmith
@nycinternz

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE


NY Creative Interns, New York, NY

Community Manager November 2010–Present

  • Manage Twitter account tweeting internship listings, motivational quotes, tech news.
  • Oversee Facebook page posting questions, comments and new content daily.
  • Engage and educate our followers through Twitter chats, Meetup events, and our e-newsletter.

Ryland Peters & Small, New York, NY

Publicity Manager 2007–December 2010

  • Oversaw US publicity for 100 front-list titles.
  • Forged relationships with print and online editors to review and promote titles in various topics, including home décor, cooking, crafts, and babies/children.
  • Built and maintained contacts with critical media and blogging resources.
  • Steadily improved the market visibility of titles, resulting in increased sales between 2007 and 2010. e.g. 18% increase in sales on Amazon.com.

Hopkins, Smith & Barden, New York, NY

Casting Assistant 2005–2006

  • Managed simultaneous relationships with three casting directors and a casting associate, balancing priorities among all four.
  • Worked on multiple feature films in various stages of development.
  • Maintained staff productivity by coordinating with agents and managers to set up auditions, confirm actor availability and tape auditions.

Playbill On-Line, Woodside, NY

Intern Summer 2003

  • Maintained and updated content for Playbill.com, the online marketing companion to Playbill, the performing arts industry’s pre-eminent sales and marketing publication.
  • Created keywords and tagged archived stories to increase visibility and traffic throughout the site.

ACME Talent and Literary, New York, NY

Summer 2002

  • Assisted agent Nina Shreiber and her clients working in film, theater and television.

SKILLS

  • Photoshop, basic CSS & HTML, InDesign, Filemaker, SEO, Tumblr, Twitter, Hootsuite.

EDUCATION

  • Post-baccalaureate Certificate in Digital and Graphic Design Production from New York University (2010)
  • New School University, New York, NY
    B.A. in Literature (2005)
  • Bronx High School of Science (2001)