David Luckett Email & Phone Number

San Antonio, TX, US

Hoboken, New Jersey, United States

San Antonio, Texas Area

Houston, Texas

Global Internal Communications Leader for GE Power & Water’s Distributed Power, a leading provider of power equipment and services. Distributed Power’s product portfolio includes highly efficient industrial aeroderivative gas turbines and reciprocating engines that generate 200 kW to 100 MW of power for numerous industries globally. Headquartered in.

Washington, D.C./Ft. Meade, MD

- Orchestrate message alignment between Department of the Navy communication priorities and Department of Defense internal communication products. - Coordinate, review and approve approximately 450 products a month designed to communicate Navy priorities and events to global external and internal audiences. - Provide daily technical and professional.

Ft. Meade, MD

- A lead instructor for Department of Defense’s flagship public affairs training institute. Provided more than 2,400 hours of public affairs technical and professional instruction to more than 540 officers, civilians, and senior non-commissioned officers. Training subjects encompassed all facets of public relations including media relations, community.

Norfolk, VA

• Lead public affairs officer for the organization’s Maritime Operations Center. This required detailed planning, coordination, and execution of in-depth public affairs and strategic communications guidance for military.
• Developed, implemented and executed the organization’s strategic communications plan for the Navy’s Individual Augmentee program. This program coordinated the Navy’s efforts to continually provide more than 10,000.

Norfolk, VA

• Only public affairs officer for four east-coast Navy SEAL teams and two other Naval Special Warfare commands. Integrated the full spectrum of public affairs capabilities and congressional liaising into Naval Special.
• Hand-selected to deploy to Iraq to plan, coordinate, and execute a public affairs strategy that showcased over 300 special operations combat missions. Provided consistent communication advice and counsel on special.
• Directly supervised and managed 10 multimedia mass communication experts while managing a budget of over $100K.

Gaeta, Italy

• Served as the lead military public affairs officer in Athens, Greece, for the 2004 Summer Olympics. Fully integrated with the U.S. Embassy Athens Public Diplomacy office to ensure precise coordination of media messages.
• Successful execution of the public affairs plan for FLINTLOCK 2005 in Dakar, Senegal. As media action officer for this international exercise, coordinated among all nine Trans-Saharan nations and four European nations.
• Drafted and executed public affairs plans for 75 international exercises, operations, and port visits with 18 European and African countries. These plans directly supported identified command objectives.

Washington, D.C.

• Daily interaction with the Pentagon press corps, consisting of national and international media. Primary objectives were to articulate Navy global operations and top budget priorities to congressional, national and.
• Deployed to U.S. Central Command-Forward in Qatar to provide public affairs support for the initial combat operations of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Served as U.S. spokesperson and Special Assistant to the.
• As media relations action officer for Navy current operations and naval aviation, provided consistent advice and counsel to executive-level Navy leadership on all aspects of public affairs and communication matters.

Washington, D.C.

• Sole public affairs and communication advisor for executive charged with representing more than 260,000 Sailors. Included global external and internal organizational communication strategies.
• Wrote and coordinated annual congressional testimony for multiple congressional committees. Testimony was critical in achieving identified goals and objectives for the executive’s constituency.
• Speech writer for executive who delivered over 100 speeches annually to internal and external audiences. Also developed and implemented process for the executive to communicate directly with the more than 260,000.

Various

• Served in various print and broadcast journalist leadership roles from 1990 through 1998.
• Key awards include a Department of Defense Thomas Jefferson Award, 10 U.S. Navy Chief of Information Merit Awards for exemplary achievement in internal communication excellence, and a 2011 Excellence in Federal Career.

Masters Degree, Organizational Communication

Master of Arts in Organizational Communications

Education record