Dick Dutton Email & Phone Number

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

• Chief executive officer of the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department (OTRD) responsible for providing strategic leadership.
• Work with the Governor’s Office, Secretary of Tourism and senior management team to establish long range goals, strategies, plans and policies.
• Develop and implement strategic and tactical plans to meet business goals and objectives.
• Recruit and develop a team of senior leaders to manage critical business functions.
• Create a culture of transparency and communication throughout the organization.
• Ensure commitment to, transparency of and compliance with all applicable laws and regulations across the organization.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

• Supervised all aspects of the State of Oklahoma Tourism marketing
• Responsible for the creation of all tourism marketing creative products.
• Set marketing priorities and strategies
• Led marketing shift to digital platforms and social media
• Developed new strategy for travel and associated guides production
• Revised media planning to expand marketing into new potential markets

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

• Project Design and Management for Low Power Television Station construction
• Reviewed current installations, provided performance improvement and technical recommendations
• Managed project, communication and scope research for BI&T division integration for the new corporate headquarters building.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

• Leadership and Team Development:
• Directed statewide company operations for all day-to-day and special projects needs
• Researched and developed strategic corporate goals and metrics. Developed and executed initiatives to meet strategic plans to ensure competitiveness of the organization and its long and short-term growth
• Provided administrative and analytical solutions to ensure technical and operational consistency throughout the organization.
• Conducted analysis of workflows and operational and technical systems to maximize efficiency to achieve the greatest return on investment
• Developed high performance teams for technology, engineering, operations and production departments.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

• Involved with setting and executing tactical plans for revenue goals and expense projections to achieve double-digit growth in operating cash flow (OFC) annually.
• Served on a Corporate Strategy Team responsible for identifying, recommending and executing strategic initiatives to ensure the competitiveness of the organization.
• Led the team that researched and prioritized projects, developed budgets and made recommendations to ownership on annual and rolling 5-year capital expenditures based on strategic and tactical plans of the organization.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

• Directed the primary functions of daily broadcast operations and production of newscasts.
• Managed hiring, training and evaluation of management staff for Operations, Engineering and IT Departments.
• Served on the acquisition team on the purchase of new broadcast properties, doubling the size of the corporation in staffing and billing.
• Coached the departmental management on changing the vision and mind-set of departments from reactionary style to pro-active mind set and developing a “customer service” oriented department.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

• Organized and supervised the daily broadcast and newscast production
• Designed and implemented a training program to provide a pool of qualified candidates for promotion as positions became available. 95% of higher level positions were filled by internal candidates.
• Headed a team in developing usage of an emerging technology of “Breaking News and Weather” processes and procedures.