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Houston, Texas, United States

Worked with key leaders in the Corporation to advise and implement communication strategies and plans. Advised them on timing and methods of communicating key messages, sometimes sensitive and confidential in nature. Wrote many communication pieces for the leaders and made many social media posts. Worked collaboratively on a daily basis with other communications advisors to plan and launch deliverables that applied to more than one part of the Chevron Enterprise.

Houston, Tx (Downtown)

Served in a lead role for managing strategic communications for Information Design and Communications, communications team in Chevron. The key focus is managing the writing function for user and other instructional documents, proposals, project execution plans, and many other strategic technical and business documents. Provide work direction to other writing team members and to an in-house organization. Involved in project scoping and definition, strategic planning, and delivery of documents for strategic internal projects. Lead communications rollout initiatives, such as software and major projects. Work with those in web, digital media, and other department functions.

Houston, Tx (Downtown)

Served as a technical writer in Information Technology Company (ITC) of Chevron Corporation. Prepared and delivered 48 vulnerability assessment packages on the risks and vulnerabilities of various networks, applications, and devices. Wrote technical and business processes, and application user documentation. Worked with internal team members, a strategic vendor and IT contacts at various sites throughout Chevron. Assisted with strategic communications and internal web writing.

Houston, Texas Area

Served as Senior HES Trainer in Chevron Pipe Line. Responsibilities included: training development and delivery, giving work direction to 2 other HES Trainers and the Training Coordinator, coordinating CPL's HES training programs, tracking budgeted funds, yearly strategic planning and interfacing with CPL Leadership Team for endorsement and approval. Also involved training development of instructor-led materials and eLearning tools (e.g., CBTs). Worked extensively among field teams to learn and understand their field operations. Served as HES training liaison to Organizational Capability. Facilitated HES Training team meetings, and served on many employee and contractor selection teams, often serving as the lead.

Houston, Texas Area

Provided extensive development of health, environment, and safety courses and other programs for CBRES (Chevron Real Estate and Business Services). Wrote material from advice from SMEs in the organization, and developed and delivered training to implement and deploy the courses. Wrote HES process content and also delivered training on the processes at various sites. Worked extensively on the Operational Excellence Leadership Behaviors Certification course. Took the Corporate course and customized it for CBRES, and delivered many sessions of it at various sites. Worked with the CBRES Management team to vet all OE courses and plan implementation and deployment.

Houston, Texas Area

Served as the Writing team Technical Lead position for technical communications projects. Worked with project managers and other clients throughout opcos to manage communications projects with 1 or more deliverables. The job included scoping projects, providing proposals, budgets, etc., and managing resources and other challenges. Served as a liaison between the CBRES Writing team and the team's customers. Served on many hiring selection teams and was involved extensively in onboarding new employees and contractors, providing one-on-one training on Operational Excellence and The Chevron Way. During this time, was involved in a one-year special assignment with the OE team.

Downtown Houston (Various Specific Chevron Sites)

Worked with many types of communications projects. A few major projects are listed below, but was involved in many others: 1. Mid Continent Alaska Audit: Worked with MidContinent Alaska to document their work processes and prepare for a major IT audit. Served in this role locally in Houston, and on-site with Alaska area personnel. 2. ETC Energy Components Project: For this energy application, worked with ETC employees and a Norwegian vendor to write these deliverables to use to train and support the workforce: User Manual, Cookbook Document, System Administrator's Manual, individual Work Processes. 3. Global Marketing: Documented and arranged their huge collection of processes, and involved in designing a website for easy access of the processes.

Houston, Tx

Assumed a role with CBRES IDC's first web design function that included web design and putting together strategic web content. Worked with graphic artists and writers to design and implement web sites. Most time was spent on projects with multiple deliverables that occurred over a long time period. Key projects included: 1. CABGOC: Worked on an HES website, spending a month in Malongo, Angola to work with customers to analyze their needs and prioritize and arrange their information, and gave many demonstrations to the workforce to introduce them to the site. 2. Business Products and Services: Designed and worked with content for the HES&EP website for the opco. 3. Chevron-Texaco Merger Initiatives: Was also involved with the synthesis of Chevron's and Texaco's legacy websites and new sites during the merger, serving as one of 3 key players in the official launch at the official start of the merger. Also was involved in various strategic business planning and writing business documents such as job descriptions and strategic business planning.

Houston, Tx

Worked with customers to create manuals, proposals, training materials, and other business documents. During this time, most of the work effort was on the CPTC (ETC) Earth Modeling team as a technical writer, but worked with other teams within CPTC as well. Learned earth modeling and seismic software and worked with developers to write user and training manuals for computing applications for these disciplines. Due to knowledge of training materials, assisted computer application trainers in some of the technical training classes.

Various Campuses In Houston And Bellaire, Tx

Taught a freshman level technical writing course on part-time basis (while working full time). The focus was on the overall concepts of technical and business writing, and the mastery of various technical and business documents. Received excellent reviews while in this position, and served as a foundational role for later career roles in training and Corporate education.

Houston, Tx

Worked for this international consulting firm as a technical communications specialist, and wrote user manuals, training guides, and other technical and business documents of these types: accounting, inventory, and oil and gas computer applications. Worked with various clients, usually for 4 to 9 months, to meet their technical and business communications needs. Was also involved in securing new customers, and recruited several new company employees.

Houston, Tx

Recruited professionals for various jobs in the Houston area, and secured jobs from firms in various industries. Was involved in training others to learn the job responsibilities.

Houston, Tx (Territory); Home Office Eatontown, Nj

Sold computers to the medical vertical market in Houston. Cold called prospective customers and served existing customers. Conducted demonstrations, constructed proposals, and closed sales. Maintained dynamic relationships with customers, and kept track of their changing and emerging needs.

Houston, Texas

Sold dictation equipment to the medical (vertical) market in Houston, Texas. Employment ended when company was sold.

Houston, Texas

Worked in an Information Technology team as a Technical Writer. Wrote, edited, and maintained software application documents for computing applications that covered the business scope for the entire company. Worked with subject matter experts to keep the documentation current, and improve format and other aspects of the finished product.

100 Waugh Drive, Houston, Tx

Involved in keeping records for construction project purchases, and was trained on making the purchases. Communicated with vendors about various product issues.

Bachelor'S Degree, Major: Journalism; Minor: Speech

Activities and Societies: Yearbook Staff (Photographer), Daily Mississippian (newspaper Staff as Writer and Photographer), Delta Psi.

B.A., Journalism, Journalism