Marketing and Advertising Specialist

My name is Lucy Lewandowski (she/her/hers), I graduated from Loyola University of Chicago in 2024 with a Bachelors degree from the School of Communications in Advertising and PR. When I was a Senior in High School I had the opportunity to shadow a marketing executive for my fall semester, in which is where I found my passion for the advertising industry. During this time I learned how to form trusting connections with clients, create digital advertisements for social media, format mass emails, and coordinate brand events. I excelled when working with a team to pitch an idea, and work off of each other's insight for the desired outcome. Additionally, for two years I worked with the photographer Nancy Lambert as her assistant. Nancy Lambert gave me the privilege of being by her side during multiple weddings, and family and senior portrait shoots. With her guidance I learned how to use my SLR camera in its advanced form, use reflections to enhance the lighting, and improved my Adobe Photoshop skills. During my time at Loyola I gained priceless education about the Advertising industry. I took courses such as Media Planning, Principles of Advertising, Search and Display Advertising, and many more. During the summer of 2023 I was a social media marketing intern for JBIER Boutique. My time on that team was spent creating content through Canva for both the companies social media outlets, and the founders personal Instagram as well. JBIER was my first experience managing multiple social media accounts, and taught me various vital lessons including how important engagement is with your audience. After graduating, I went on to pursue my career in advertising with a commercial architecture and interior design company, Oetee. Working with a smaller company, I got the unique opportunity of being the only marketing specialist on the team. This was an amazing experience because of the creative freedom and direction at hand. Being the Marketing Manager at Oetee, majority of the projects arise from my initiative, and are fully managed by me. I have perfected my content creation skills using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign to design organic content for their social media. I manage and analyze Oetee's social media outlets, select clients social media outlets, and email marketing as well.