Spokesman for 657-bed healthcare system with four hospitals and more than 100 facilities that's nationally known as a best place to work.• Directs communications objectives and produces messages to 7,000 employees and physicians; develops newsletters, maintains internal employee website with news, photos and videos and oversees town hall forums all in partnership with the marketing team and aligned to the system’s culture.• Manages a diverse team of five professionals dedicated to content strategy, digital platforms, media relations, and overall messaging — both internally and externally.• Responsible for content and presentations for leadership development sessions for system’s 365+ leaders multiple times per year.• Creates employee engagement content monthly by delivering PowerPoint slides and talking points to health system leaders to use with their teams and employees. • Instrumental in ensuring annual employee engagement scores rank in the nation’s top decile. • Oversees internal news website growth with an average site visit increase of 25% each year.• Provides counsel to senior leadership team before and during times of crisis – developing plans and executing external response during hurricanes, floods, network outages and COVID-19.• Known for consistent year-over-year growth in positive media placements since joining the healthcare system in 2013. • Thought leader and educator who has presented on internal comms best practices at national and regional conferences. • Named Health Care Hero honoree for Community Service in 2020 by CRBJ for COVID-19 work

Directed newsroom operations for the most decorated daily newspaper in the South. Managed 17 reporters and a team of editors. Assigned, oversaw and edited news content. * Planned all news coverage for daily newspapers and oversaw content for state’s largest newspaper. * Editor of the Sunday edition, the largest and most-read paper of the week.* Project editor for award-winning news projects.* Reporter/writer for multiple front-page stories while also serving as an editor.* Editor of My Charleston, a 100,000-circulation coffee-table style magazine published annually.

Ran satellite offices for the newspaper outside of the main newsroom, coaching reporters and photographers, rewriting stories and motivating writers to improve. * Helped plan daily and weekend coverage of the newspaper. * Wrote a major four-part series about six young people killed inside their home in Deltona, FL over the theft of a video game system.

* Covered hurricanes, NASCAR, the Florida Election Recount; served as the Associated Press "pool" reporter during presidential visit.* First place award winner for a multitude of feature stories. Received the highest honor for feature writing in Florida.

* Covered eight municipalities and two school districts.