Dave Hecht, Apr Email & Phone Number

Virginia Beach, Va, Us

Senior Public Affairs Officer and top advisor to Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command and key flag officers on the staff. Provides oversight and guidance on all elements of strategic communication for all military activity within the commander's domain. Supervise, manage, and direct Naval external information, media operations, and community relations programs supporting more than 100,000 military and civilian personnel. Coordinate messaging, media events, and coverage of numerous annual U.S. military joint, multilateral and bilateral exercises.

Washington, District Of Columbia

Public Affairs advisor to the three star Chief of Naval Personnel. Primary responsibility; informing the fleet of 450k active, reserve and civilian personnel on U.S. Navy Human Resources initiatives. Through internal means of establishing a social media presence and building a following to external efforts of enticing positive media coverage, job entails a knowledge of strategic communications, marketing and media relations.

Norfolk, Virginia

Public Affairs advisor to the commander. Responsible for internal/external communications involving all six east coast based U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and more than 30 aviation squadrons. Job involved supervising a team of public affairs professionals in media relations, crisis management and community outreach.Developed the “Sailor for a Day” program which helped tell the Navy’s story in middle America and was recognized in 2017 as the Dept. of Defense’s best media outreach program.

Stuttgart, Germany

Served as the social media supervisor and the command's connection to the outside world via all web based platforms. - Tripled content on the command's YouTube page.- Increase the number of unique visitor to the AFRICOM Facebook page by 40%Developed and produced media campaigns for television and radio to promote AFRICOM themes and messages. Coordinated live web chats and other creative opportunities to engage with the public about what AFRICOM is, does and strives to accomplish.

Yokosuka, Japan

- Served as the ship's lead spokesperson coordinating more than two dozen news conferences with international journalists who reached an audience of millions across Asia. - Coordinated all aspects of the ship's Distinguished Visitor program which welcomed aboard heads of state, ambassadors and high ranking military officers. - Launched the Navy's most successful media outreach program which resulted in 500 live radio and television interviews. - Supervised a staff of 25-30

Millington, Tn

Coordinated all aspects of nearly a dozen Navy Week celebrations across the United States. This included:- partnership building with city and corporate officials - creating and coordinating a detailed scheduled of events- devlope media interest- supervision of a staff of 15-20These events required strong communication skills and out of the box thinking in order to entice the media, draw a crowd and deliver your message..

Kabul, Afghanistan

Developed and supervised ISAF's first network of Combat Camera teams across Afghanistan which vastly improved the speed at which photos, video and print stories could be released to international media. Coordinated more than 100 liveshots via DVIDS and spearheaded the production of ISAF's first television news program, "ISAF Update."

San Diego, Ca

Developed a pilot program for the Naval Special Warfare Center to promote Navy SEAL recruiting and more importantly identify future SEAL candidate with a greater chance of completing the training. The Navy SEAL Fitness Challenge pilot program was so successful it received full funding by Navy Recruiting Command.Produced all television, radio and print promotional products and supervised an all out media blitz in Boston, San Antonio, Los Angeles and Milwaukee.

Tucson, Az

News Anchor, Reporter, Weather Anchor bringing credibility and personality to each of KGUN 9's newscasts. Emmy winning feature reporting journalist. In baseball terms, KGUN 9's utility player who can fill any empty shoes in the newsroom.

Toledo, Ohio

One of 30 broadcast journalists hired out of a nationwide search to build NBC24's new news department. Promoted from General Assignment Reporter to Morning Show Anchor/Weathercaster when news programming was expanded. Morning newscast was the only product to see positive ratings growth in a market long dominated by the ABC and CBS affiliates.

Yuma, Az

Served news department in every capacity:- Asst. News Director - Producer- Anchor- Reporter- Weathercaster- PhotographerIn this small market, two station town, KSWT was the David In a David vs Goliath battle every night, but under my leadership we consistently beat the competition. Won the Associated Press "Best Newscast" award three out of my four years with the station.

Flagstaff, Az

Morning anchor for local NBC affiliate writing and producing my own cut-ins. General assignment reporter and producer for evening's 5PM newscast.

Master’S Degree, Communication And Media Studies

Selected by the U.S. Navy from a highly competitive pool of applicants to attend the Masters program at SDSU studying Public Relations.

Jpme 1 & 2, Military Operations In A Joint Environment

Completed the online Phase 1 portion of the JPME program in May, 2013 and attended and graduated from the in-residence course in Norfolk.

Public Affairs / Media Relations

Public Affairs Qualification Course, Media Relations The Defense Information School, or DINFOS, is a United States Department of Defense.

Education record

Direct Commission Officers Indoctrination Course, Leadership, Naval Science DCO curriculum includes academic instruction, military.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Communications And Media Studies