Directs and manages the marketing department, supervising a team and leading the planning and execution of marketing strategies across six service lines and seven segmented markets. Spearheads integrated marketing and digital communication strategies to increase brand awareness, reinforce thought leadership, strengthen credibility, and drive business growth. Serves as the company's brand manager, ensuring consistency in branding elements, messaging, and overall brand identity. Actively participates in strategic planning, lead development, and client/business development activities. Oversees proposal development activities. Manages CRM and bid systems and registrations.

Managed daily marketing activities, ensuring alignment with long-term strategic objectives. Took charge of developing and maintaining an extensive suite of marketing and branded materials, including templates, digital content, email newsletters, press releases, case studies, corporate brochures, slide decks, and advertisements. Led the end-to-end process of proposal development, ensuring the creation of compelling proposals that effectively showcased our firm's expertise and capabilities. Managed and optimized the firm's contact database, ensuring data accuracy and segmentation for effective targeting in marketing campaigns. Managed bid system registrations, keeping the firm's presence current on essential platforms, which facilitated easy access to relevant opportunities and streamlined the bidding process. Collaborated with the business development teams to support their efforts, providing them with the necessary marketing tools, collateral, and insights to pursue new projects and partnerships.

Coordinated the development of marketing materials, ensuring their quality, relevance, and adherence to branding standards, resulting in a consistent and compelling brand image. Maintained a comprehensive boilerplate content library, providing readily accessible and up-to-date content for marketing collateral, saving time, and ensuring consistent messaging. Administered a client survey program to gather valuable feedback and insights, enabling data-driven decision-making and improvements in client satisfaction. Managed the corporate branded clothing program, ensuring employees were well-represented in branded attire, reinforcing a professional and unified company image. Provided integral marketing support for tradeshows, including pre-event preparations, booth design, and post-event follow-up, contributing to successful participation and lead generation.Supported water resource management projects with communications, outreach, and administrative tasks. Assisted in stakeholder engagement to address concerns regarding a large dairy manufacturer's indirect discharge permit. Contributed to an agency-wide process evaluation and benchmarking study for improved stormwater management at the Vermont Agency of Transportation. Prepared technical reports, ensuring accuracy in data and clarity in content. Conducted proofreading and formatting of final reports, publications, and other client deliverables.

Coordinated permit applications and assisted with final decisions for regulatory compliance with local, state and federal natural resource laws. Attended and documented monthly planning and zoning meetings.

Performed a variety of tasks, including staffing the information desk, learning and applying policies and procedures, providing assistance to library users and visitors and participating in projects that promote and support circulation and other library services.

Programs Analyst, U.S. Department of Agriculture, OPPM, PSDProvided optimal client support via outreach, reporting and collaboration. Drafted and delivered a wide array of work products to high-ranking federal officials, including website recommendations, key performance indicators and metric reports, analyses of industry best practices and inventories of agency regulations. Developed skills required for reading, analyzing and presenting federal legislation in plain English to key federal officials. Communications Specialist, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, NED Managed both external communications to general public and internal communications to regional offices. Gathered stakeholder information, issues and concerns thru feedback forums, mailbox management and social media platforms. Drafted and developed two key work products: FEMA NED Marketing Plan and Strategy and FEMA NED Communication Plan.

Utilized social media marketing methods to increase public awareness for various federal agency initiatives. Identified communication needs and developed communications package for Mental Health Awareness Week. Conducted media research, outreach, and support; new business research; event planning; benchmark studies; copy editing; brand management; positioning platforms; and strategic communications.

Assisted Fortune 100 clients in developing corporate social responsibly campaigns. Delivered to client’s needs; public consulting; strategic communications; information mapping; memos, presentations (decks); competitive analysis; market research; policy monitoring; brand management; use of social media platforms; benchmark studies; event planning; and positioning platforms; etc

Supported numerous U.S. policy initiatives in the fields of energy, water, agriculture, transportation, development, climate change and trade. Drafted demarches, green papers, and notices for EU government; covered specific transatlantic issues; drafted policy memos; and attended to bureaucratic needs for U.S. State Department worldwide & Washington, D.C. Acted as a contact person at EU Parliament, ANCHAM and other high-ranking visitors.

Collaborated with other large, nonprofit organizations to lobby the EU Commission for stricter regulations on corporations. Provided extensive research reports on corporate social responsibility in both the EU and Africa. Attended various conferences, including the Brussels Economic Forum 2011. Drafted and delivered policy recommendations and action objectives.

Organized grassroots outreach efforts to over 500 local residents, 100 non-profits, and 16 federal agencies. Engaged with the local community; assessed success of green jobs; led outreach to organizations; provided research on green job initiatives, drafted policy assessments, presentations, media teasers and reports

Assisted in management of five, $50,000 grants for U.S. university partnerships with universities abroad for specific developmental goals in Africa. Managed donor and grant spreadsheets; monitored grant submissions; researched higher education institutions worldwide; explored potential impact of grants; and coordinated grant evaluation process