Julie Correll has over 15 years of experience providing administrative, graphic design, and communications support at Purdue University. She has extensive experience designing publications and websites, organizing events, and assisting with travel arrangements. Her background includes roles providing secretarial support to various departments at Purdue, as well as serving as the Public Relations Coordinator for the Purdue Musical Organizations, where she promoted performances through media outreach and publications.
1. JULIE CORRELL
3522 North River Road West Lafayette, Indiana 47906
mjhcorrell@yahoo.com 765-491-8031
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Purdue University Jun 2009 – Dec 2016
Secretary V/ Graphic Designer– College of Engineering Graduate Programs
Entered and exported data from the Graduate School Database and Slate, which is the
application system and client relationship management tool, for prospective students and
applicants to create ad hoc reports and strategic communications from the data.
Designed and managed the Graduate Programs website to include a student recognition page,
creation of videos and photography of current students, and keep content current.
Assist the Director of Graduate Programs with a number of events such as the Big10+ Expo
by organizing the Sunday evening Welcome Dinner, Expo Graduate Fair, and a faculty
reception for the prospective students.
Organized communication workshops for graduate students by setting up registration through
Qualtrics, sending email reminders, creating videos for attendees to help improve their
communications, and advertising the workshops on the communications webpage.
Attended graduate fairs and national conferences along with graduate students to recruit
prospective graduate students for the College of Engineering and then use Purdue’s travel
software, Concur, to generate travel requests and reimbursements for everyone and also
served as the departments expert for travel related questions; interpreting university travel
guidelines, policies and procedures.
Responsible for layout, design and production of high-end graphic designed artwork; edits
and proofs layouts; perform a variety of specialized/custom tasks to provide graphic support
for recruiting professionals.
Planned and facilitated video production work and post-production tasks; including filming,
editing, sound mixing, and graphic design, reviewing footage, making editorial decisions,
video transcoding, rough cuts, audio adjustment, color correction, and final editing.
Responsible for all the photography production: including casting, lighting, editing, digital
input and file management, and image compositing; use of Canon camera systems and
proficient with digital cameras and studio lighting including; strobes, on-camera lights, and
reflectors; utilizes computer graphics and special effects for video post-production in
accordance with the overall production concepts.
Manage and develop the Graduate Student Calendar by taking photos of the graduate
students and designing the complete layout for a recruiting piece to hand out at graduate
fairs, the department and schools in the College of Engineering.
Published, organized, and optimized media on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and other
platforms to promote the College of Engineering and recruit prospective graduate students.
Purdue University Jan 2007-Jan 2009
Secretary IV (part-time)- IT Customer Relations
Provided administrative support to the staff and backup support to the ITCR support staff.
2. Composed correspondence, reports and other documents for the ITCR staff.
Designed and assisted with the publicity materials.
Assisted with the scheduling and organization of special events, lunches, and banquets for
the IT Department.
Coordinate travel arrangements for the IT Customer Relations staff.
Managed the schedules and maintained the calendars for IT Customer Relations Staff and IT
Video & Multimedia Production Service staff and maintained the conference room calendar.
Purdue University Jan 2008- Jan 2009
FNP Secretary IV (part-time)- College of Consumer and Family Science
Managed mileage and incidental purchase reimbursements with the CFS Business office.
Typed up invoice vouchers, looked up mileage via MapQuest and reviewed receipts for
reimbursements.
Assisted with the preparations of the Family Nutrition Program training materials for
conferences and community outreach.
Created and maintained CFS/FNP database records for both home and office contact
information, supervisor’s information, training courses completed and other related
paperwork.
Purdue University Jan 2006- Feb 2007
Administrative Assistant- Agricultural Economics
Office manager
Registered students for classes.
Purdue University Jun 2001- Jan 2006
Secretary IV- Animal Sciences
Registered undergraduate students for classes.
Provided clerical support for 11 faculty members.
Designed all the publication materials for recruitment purposes.
Arranged travel and reimbursements for all the faculty.
Supervised the student workers in the office.
Supported the Animal Science Ambassadors by scheduling them for events.
Managed the Animal Science Fall Picnic.
Purdue University May 2000- Jun 2001
Public Relations Coordinator – Purdue Musical Organizations – PMO
Supervised student workers for events such as the PMO Christmas show.
Arranged public appearances to promote the Glee Club, Jazz Ensemble, and Coral Ensemble.
Conferred with the Director of PMO and the Marketing Director to identify trends or key
group interests or concerns to provide advice on business decisions.
Consulted with advertising agencies and musical staff to arrange promotional campaigns
with local and national media to promote all singing ensembles.
Established and maintained cooperative relationships with representatives of the community,
the musical staff, and student ensembles and developed a working relationship with local, state
and national media venues to help promote PMO Musical Organizations.
3. Prepared press releases for the media outlets across Indiana to promote the ensembles and
upcoming shows.
Prepared and edited high-end publications for internal and external audiences, newsletters,
and magazines to promote the singing ensembles and upcoming shows.
Identified and analyzed media coverage across print, broadcast, and online resources.
Planned media events, created PowerPoint, flyers, brochures, programs, advertisements,
videos, and promotional materials for all the musical ensembles.
Supported marketing programs and monitored results for several promotions.
Webmaster for Purdue University Musical Organizations.
Organized photo sessions and booked musical groups on WLFI-TV8, Radio stations, and
around campus.
The spokesperson for Purdue Musical Organizations.
Created and managed the Singing Telegram for any ensemble that wanted to participate.
Created photo library to use for promotional purposes.
EDUCATION
Purdue University
M.S. Strategic Communications Management
M.S. Communications—expected graduation date: May 2017
B.S. Computer Graphics
ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS
Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)
The Association of Strategic Marketing (ASM)
The Greater Lafayette Photography Guild
Purdue University Photography Club
COMPUTER EXPERIENCE
MS Office Photoshop InDesign Illustrator Premiere
Lightroom HTML CSS Ariba System Concur
Xerox System Google Analytics Grad Database Banner Internet
Social Media Boot Strap Google Analytics MyPurdue Zope
Dreamweaver Qualtrics Kaltura
Student Service System (Slate, Apply Yourself, Graduate School Database)