Daniel Charles Ross Email & Phone Number

Michigan, United States

Lima, Ohio

• Create and manage content for the VFP Facebook presence & social media• Seek media awareness of and public response to deserving military veterans and their families• Create and execute VFP events designed to heighten awareness of veterans issues• Define, create, and produce fundraising events and food drives

• Manage media relations and promote CFF to traditional and vertical media channels• Spearhead all creative development for fund-raising, collateral, website and public-facing communications• Brand and logo creation, development and awareness, including Foundation naming• Produce comprehensive still and video products in alignment with the CFF's mission of supporting America's Heroes -- wounded warriors, active and reserve and retired military, veterans, first responders, and their families• Copywriter and content developer for Web, print and eNewsletter• Social Media manager and content producer for CFF's Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and related channels• Research, develop and produce TV and YouTube video products, radio spots and indoor and outdoor signage and banners

• Full-spectrum marketing communications and public relations• Brand development, relaunch and management• Business proposal coach or complete generation of proposal package from RFQ to successful contract award• Social Media development and management• Advertising print and electronic, including TV, radio, outdoor, Web• Broadcast-grade video production and industrial film• Brainstorm-to-newsstand or Web publication creation, redesign, rebrand and relaunch• rossComm was a woman- and veteran-owned small business

• Reserve External Affairs (EA) operative• FEMA-Qualified Web content and social media expert deployable to federally recognized disaster areas or FEMA HQ in support of recovery operations.

Various

• Leading Chief Petty Officer, Fleet Combat Camera Atlantic-Reserve @ NAB Norfolk, VA; Supervised a Navy Reserve combat camera unit of 3 officers and 11 enlisted.• Command Chief, Navy Information Bureau 813, Selfridge ANG Base, MI; Supervised a Navy Reserve public affairs unit of 11 officers and 7 enlisted.• Command Chief, Navy Information Bureau 113, NTC Great Lakes, IL; Supervised a Navy Reserve public affairs unit of 9 officers and 6 enlisted.

Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Washington, Dc

• Following 9/11, served a 37-month by-name recall to Navy active duty as Chief Petty Officer and Deputy PAO; sole enlisted watchstander and Command Duty Officer at this Navy systems command headquarters• Key manager coordinating relations with domestic and offshore NAVFAC PAOs around the world and worked with those offices to realize command communications objectives• Chief journalist of the Seabees, spearheading creation of and publishing the official quarterly magazine of the Seabees in alignment with command internal relations and community management objectives; awarded Best Magazine in the Navy in first year of eligibility• Awarded a mid-tour Meritorious Service Medal (MSM) and an end-of-tour Navy Commendation Medal.

• Public relations and corporate marketing communications executive• Senior public relations and media relations/community relations advisor, spokesperson and award-winning speechwriter• Research and produce exhibit displays and tradeshow materials from brochures to full-dress booth design and graphics• In-depth experience researching, managing assets and personnel for and writing of proposals and RFQs• Attentive and effective client relations and communications program manager• Significant experience in national, federal-level public affairs, community/media relations, issue/crisis management; executive consulting; media training instructor; large-scale special event planning and community relations management• Considerable experience in custom publishing, editorial design and management, publication creation, design, redesign and brand creation/relaunch and management.

Farmington Hills, Mich.

• Recruited back to former employer• Responsibilities same as below

Dearborn, Mich.

• Directed public affairs staff of four and managed media relations globally for Ford Motor Company’s enthusiast vehicle division• Global spokesman for SVT• Directed development all product imagery and national press materials• Successfully planned and launched SVT Mustang Cobra, SVT Contour and SVT F-150 Lightning pickup truck in national press events, including all aspects of press relations, onsite route recon and selection, crisis communications and media relations and hospitality.

Farmington Hills, Mich.

• Account manager for Dodge Viper program, including CRM with enthusiast owner body• Redesigned, rebranded, edited and relaunched the quarterly enthusiast publication VIPER Magazine• Creative consultant and program manager on Dodge and Mopar Performance Parts Motorsports print and large-scale owner/executive events• Redesigned, rebranded, edited and relaunched Mopar Performance Parts' quarterly trade publication MOPAR PERFORMANCE NEWS

Flint, Mi And Los Angeles, Calif.

• Managed Buick public affairs and media relations for states West of the Mississippi• Researched and wrote all product press kit materials and directed product photography• Directed contract photographers and print vendors to produce highest quality Buick collateral and press materials• Directed and launched 1997 Buick lines in highly successful national press events, including all aspects of press relations, site/route selection and hospitality.

Detroit And Ann Arbor, Mich.

• Planned and produced all aspects of assigned and enterprise editorial content• Planned and produced cover story packages and special-feature editorial, including a magazine/Ford factory-team 24-hour racing event• Researched and wrote a popular, news-breaking monthly automotive-news and intel column.

Detroit, Mich.

• Planned and produced all aspects of assigned and enterprise editorial content• Researched and wrote a popular, news-breaking monthly automotive-news and intel column• Significant travel nationally and internationally as company representative• Managed influential Motor Trend Car of the Year Program for seven years.

Detroit, Mich.

• Freelance automotive writer and surveillance photographer specializing in imagery of concept and future-production cars and trucks in testing or other circumstances• Clients included The Los Angeles Times; The Detroit Free Press Sunday Magazine; Amex Travel+Leisure; Motor Trend; Car and Driver; Monthly Detroit and others.

Detroit, Mich.

• Researched and wrote all race-related press releases and compiled, wrote, and managed printing of the comprehensive Media Guide• Helped manage press relations and volunteer coordination• Proactively pushed grand prix updates and news developments to local and national press.

Detroit, Mich.

• Planned and produced all aspects of assigned and enterprise editorial content• Wrote monthly industry-leading auto intel column• Significant editorial travel nationally and internationally as company representative• Researched and wrote a popular, news-breaking monthly automotive-news and intel column.

Detroit, Mich.

• Planned and produced all aspects of assigned and enterprise editorial content• Significant travel nationally and internationally as company representative• Created and managed factory Dodge race team for a 24-hour road race event

Germany And Virginia

• Specialist in long-duration undercover operations, including drug suppression• Expert interrogator and interviewer• Expert in surveillance and surveillance photography• Expert report writer and long experience in successful court testimony and prosecutions

English/Creative Writing, English/Creative Writing, 3.36

Diploma, Journalism

Activities and Societies: Newspaper editor; Student Council member; Yearbook salesman

Journalism/Public Relations