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Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

• Produced more than 250 written, audio and visual products to market and enhance the Oklahoma National Guard’s image by informing the public and internal audiences with transparent messaging• Developed, hosted, edited and produced 26 episodes of The OK Guard Show, a bi-weekly podcast for informing and entertaining an internal and non-military audience• Collaborate social media campaigns, develop content and monitor engagements on multiple platforms, including live broadcasts and messaging during events with more than 500 participants• Planned and executed four media engagement events with local and national media outlets including press releases, press conferences, media escorts, allocating internal coverage assets, and developing ground rules and talking points for press events• Supervised and mentored 15 public affairs soldiers through AP Stylebook editing, news and feature journalism training and coordinating story development • Maintained accountability of $45,000 of production studio equipment

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

• Project manager for writing, designing and editing technical documents per federal and state government regulations, including the intelligent transportation systems analysis and regional congestion management process and for Central Oklahoma, as well as recommending congestion mitigation strategies as part of the region's 20 year plan.• Presented detailed regional traffic data analysis and mitigation recommendations to federal and state transportation stakeholders, local government officials and regional transportation planning staff, including GIS mapping products and analysis of traffic count and crash point data.• Establish and coordinate the Central Oklahoma Traffic Incident Management Effort (COTIME) committee, which encourages first responder agencies to collectively reduce incident clearance times to 90 minutes, identify incident-related congestion, and diminish death and injury attributed to secondary crashes.

Oklahoma City, Ok

• Evaluated and consulted tourism businesses in ways to enhance the sustainability of their daily operations by reducing waste streams and resource consumption• Successfully certified three tourism partners as sustainable tourism businesses in Oklahoma while staying within the economic and regulatory limitations of the trades and agencies • Provided detailed weekly status-update reports on existing and potential tourism conservation projects across the state

Fort Drum, Ny

• Managed and mentored 8 photojournalists as a public affairs section leader in Iraq, Afghanistan and stateside, including editing US Army photographs and press releases. • Served as the unit’s information and knowledge management officer, ensuring the information technology operability by troubleshooting enterprise network, software and hardware issues.• Wrote more than 300 press releases, including news and feature articles, and took more than 2,000 photographs for public release and internal use, including work published in NY Times, BBC and US News and World Report• Responded to daily media requests and media escorts covering routine and classified operations in both stateside and deployed environments• Briefed more than 75 commanders with prepared talking points prior to media interviews, and trained more than 2,500 soldiers on the role of media on the modern battlefield

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Creative Writing, 4.0

Activities and Societies: River & South Review literary journal staffCreative writing with a focus on screenwriting, crafting a compelling.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Geography, 3.0

Activities and Societies: OU IT Department computer lab and classroom technicianSustainable urban agriculture and food systems security.

Study Abroad, City/Urban, Community And Regional Planning, 4.0

Public Affairs

Public Affairs guidance for NATO and Partner commanders; crafting press releases, news and feature story journalism for an international.