{"id":3200,"date":"2018-07-22T15:01:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T15:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=3200"},"modified":"2018-07-22T19:46:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T19:46:32","slug":"tstc-alumna-finds-career-path-at-country-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=3200","title":{"rendered":"TSTC Alumna Finds Career Path at Country Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

(WACO) \u2013 During last year\u2019s Independence Day festivities, Danielle Woodard was on Lake Waco watching the fireworks put on by Ridgewood Country Club.<\/span><\/p>\n

By this year\u2019s Fourth of July, Woodard, 42, was the country club\u2019s new director of communications. A 2016 graduate of Texas State Technical College\u2019s Visual Communication Technology program, she began the job in early June.<\/span><\/p>\n

After graduation she had stints at First Woodway Baptist Church, the Waco Tribune-Herald and in retail before learning from TSTC instructors about the open position at the country club.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI never even saw a job posting,\u201d Woodard said.<\/span><\/p>\n

She is the country club\u2019s first communications director. Some of the work she has done so far include building its social media presence and designing and editing the country club\u2019s bimonthly publication, The Rambler.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThanks to my education, I am totally prepared,\u201d Woodard said. \u201cThere is a lot of potential. We want to put our best foot forward.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She also works on internal communications about the country club\u2019s special activities for all ages, including golf tournaments and an annual member appreciation event.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe try to brand each event,\u201d Woodard said. \u201cI love branding and enjoy it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She said the country club is member-owned, so they do not use traditional advertising methods. The country club has more than 1,000 members.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am so thankful when I pull through the gates and go down the canopied drive and see the lake,\u201d Woodard said. \u201cIt is so beautiful.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Woodard graduated in 1994 from Midway High School and studied marketing for three years at The University of Texas at Austin. Before her scheduled graduation, she moved to California.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCalifornia is where I discovered I wanted to be a designer,\u201d she said. \u201cI tried to go to school full time at night and work full time. I could not maintain work and going to school.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She later moved to Seattle, then returned to Texas in 2006. She did online classes and found they were expensive.<\/span><\/p>\n

She visited TSTC and learned that some credits from her previous college experiences could be transferred. She started classes at TSTC in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt felt like coming home and where I belonged,\u201d Woodard said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jennifer Piper, a TSTC Visual Communication Technology instructor, said Woodard was a dream student.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe never really shied away from asking questions,\u201d Piper said. \u201cShe did her work and did it really well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

TSTC offers the Associate of Applied Science degree in Visual Communication Technology, which includes classes in art direction, digital imaging, digital publishing and other topics.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn all the classes, we encouraged the students to take their own photography to incorporate into their own pieces,\u201d Piper said. \u201cWe encouraged them to use their own drawings. We want them to make the work personal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information on Texas State Technical College, go to tstc.edu.<\/span><\/p>\n

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