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. • Develop positive relationships with key stakeholders, including shareholders and government agencies.• Proactively address challenges in the internal and external environment to protect business interests. • Oversight responsibility for all divisions, to ensure they are focused on each department’s mission.

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 • Instituted multi-year plan to update department’s video and photography library • Researched and implemented department’s first on-going research program to develop data on tourism in Oklahoma for marketing purposes • Served as the Department's liaison/key point of contact with national, state and local travel and tourism officials, organizations and associations. • Improved and grew strategic partnerships with key state travel and tourism stakeholders to advance the goals and development of tourism in the state. • Appeared before appropriate governmental and private organizations to promote a positive image of the state.

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.• Developed and led a team to design the IT infrastructure of the corporation. • Coordinated purchase and led operation of tower and television translator company, increasing operating cash flow (OCF) by double digits each year and long-range value to shareholders by over 25%.Project Management of capital expenditure projects: planning and management of capital budget:• Projected and managed the capital infrastructure needs and budget for corporation. • Researched Business Facing solutions for corporation’s business units.• Project Manager for all capital projects for corporation; electronic, IT and building construction, including project specifications, contract negotiations, integration and proof of performance• Led a team of engineering, production and news personnel to research and implement corporation-wide strategic move for gathering and presenting content material.

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.