- Lead and am responsible for marketing and communications strategy, campaigns, and related KPIs for Astroscale U.S.- Manage a team of professionals in marketing, corporate communications and PR, creative and design, content, and more.- With the rest of the Astroscale U.S. executive leadership team, lead and manage the company’s strategic direction, market choices, growth plans, etc.

- Responsible for Astroscale’s brand, messaging, content, and audience experience. - Lead, coordinate, and evaluate communications and marketing efforts across Astroscale Global, and directly manage U.S. communications and marketing staff and work. - Accountable for protecting and strengthening Astroscale’s brand, telling the Astroscale story in compelling and effective ways, and creating an experience across channels that draws audiences and stakeholders into closer relationships with Astroscale.

Managed brand, positioning, public and media relations, and content for Astroscale's U.S. subsidiary via campaigns, events, and other engagements.

Create, guide, and execute campaign strategies and tactics across the corporation to engage government, media, industry, congressional, and other stakeholders. Lead thought leadership and policy communications in partnership with the Executive Director of Aerospace’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy, and civil and commercial space communications in partnership with the Senior Vice President for Civil Systems, and their respective teams. Host Aerospace's space policy webinar series.

Led thought leadership and policy communications in partnership with the Executive Director of Aerospace’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy and his team.• Hosted Aerospace's first policy webinar series; created Aerospace's first Instagram TV episode.• Received CEO award for helping to quickly create and execute a national security space campaign.• Published paper on creating an agile defense space enterprise, a major corporate priority.• Streamlined the policy publishing process, developed a campaign concept of operations and KPIs, and created a communications strategist staffing model.

Advised on communications strategy and execution for Aerospace’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy, including the messaging, coordination, and promotion of thought leadership content and events.

Partnered with leaders and experts across MITRE on communications strategy. Advised and supported the CEO on media interviews, event engagements, and related content. Oversaw the acquisition and application of communications talent and resources. • Partnered with the Director of Space Programs to develop MITRE’s strategy for growth in space-related work, and helped lead strategy for MITRE’s health data campaign. • Pioneered the use of new storytelling methods and skills, and successfully applied them to a contract competition, executive presentations, and portfolio director pitch training.• Developed flexible staffing processes that cut contractor acquisition and onboarding time from months to weeks and improved policy and procedure compliance. • Created and promoted a single MITRE multimedia function, increasing billed-out work by 10 percent and requests for work by 150 percent in four months.

Managed congressional affairs, executive and employee communications, multimedia, web, and social media departments, strategy, and policy for the USGS, the world’s largest earth science agency.• Oversaw strategy and execution for a Senate oversight hearing for the USGS Director, including mock hearing prep, a pre-hearing internal event tied to corporate strategy, and proactive outreach that garnered multiple media placements and a technology journal op-ed.• Led the creation of the USGS's social media strategy, positioning scientists as public ambassadors on Facebook and Twitter, which resulted in close to a million combined followers across social channels and an A+ grade for policy from the Union of Concerned Scientists, the highest grade given to any federal science agency.• Partnered with the Director on a strategic innovation initiative, including field events, the unification of three disparate innovation programs to vet potential funding investments, and internal workshops to inform multi-year funding strategies. Laid the foundation for this initiative with an engagement campaign encouraging employees to serve greater Bureau needs, leading to successful completion of sequestration-related fiscal goals and a two-year increase in positive responses to viewpoint surveys, even during sequestration.• Launched the Bureau's first blog-based feature series, which drew an average of nearly 2 million visitors a year, and evolved that series into a brand journalism format. • Built a multimedia and design team with staff from four different departments. Garnered almost a million YouTube views, provided content for Animal Planet, PBS's "Nova," and other outlets, and secured about $100,000 in production funds from external sources, all over the course of about 18 months.• Pioneered the use of innovative tools such as Facebook@Work, Genius.com (the first such use in the federal government), the UserVoice ideation platform, and internal WordPress blogging.

Sought out for this detail by the Associate Director for Ecosystems. Advised and assisted the AD on preparation and execution of duties for this $150 million-plus program, including strategic planning, meetings and events, and relationships with internal and external stakeholders. • Led the recruitment outreach process for a Senior Level research unit director.• Directed Ecosystems’ response to several Freedom of Information Act and Information Quality Act requests.• Implemented an action-tracking and communication process for the mission area and its senior staff.

Led outreach campaigns, media engagement for water research and issues, and content development.• Executed a water census report launch, which included an Assistant Secretary roll out at an Atlantic Media summit, a congressional briefing, and coverage in outlets such as Smithsonian Magazine and Mother Jones.• Led video production and helped build web strategy for the Obama Administration’s transition in the Department of the Interior; also produced video and web content, and engaged partners on the first Great ShakeOut, which became the largest disaster drill in U.S. history. • Executed the content strategy for a campaign that brought $23 million in funding for natural hazards science.• Co-created the first USGS podcast series, which saw more than 600,000 downloads in two years.

Increased membership by 45 percent through thought leadership posts, community platforms, and partnerships with the General Services Administration, the Partnership for Public Service, and the Canadian and British Prime Ministers’ offices, bringing training and networking opportunities to hundreds of communicators.

Was coached through leadership principles, practices, and challenges, specifically focused on the Senior Executive Service executive core qualifications, through this 9-month program.Worked with a team of fellow professionals from a variety of federal agencies on solutions and recommendations for a significant challenge facing the National Park Service, with an emphasis on partnerships and collaboration.