* Responsible for ensuring efficient business office functions related to the administration of all employment-related practices, including payroll, risk management, and staffing and recruitment efforts.* Prepared and maintained the daily schedule, coordinated the scheduling functions at the community in collaboration with community leadership, assisted in new hire orientation and annual in-service employee training, and performs other HR-related duties.

* Responsible for all marketing and communications, to include management of the nonprofit’s online presence.* Responsible for all interaction with local media and local and state officials. Responsible for oversight of fundraising campaigns, to include event planning.* Responsible for developing and maintaining partnerships throughout the tri-county community.

* Responsible to the Public Information Director for the timely, bi-monthly publication of Navy Recruiter magazine, serving Navy Recruiting assets worldwide.* Edit, write, and oversee the layout and photography.* Responsible for drafting speeches for two Navy admirals.* Responsible for writing public affairs guidance.* Responds to community and media queries on behalf of Navy Recruiting.

* Coordination of all church communications - bulletins, Sunday announcements, newsletter, website, and social media (Facebook and Twitter).* Responsible for overseeing all media for the church, including photography, video and media relations.* Managed a staff of four volunteers.

* Planned, developed, executed and directed the public information program, including community relations, media relations, base newspaper and command presence for a military facility with 5,000 personnel and family members. * Supervised a staff of seven public affairs specialists, news writers and editors, and photographers to ensure departmental assignments and priorities are met on deadline. * Maintained an effective working relationship with print and broadcast media representatives in disseminating information and responding to queries regarding the programs, operations, services and activities for the base and more than 30 tenant activities. * Evaluated the impact and effectiveness of communications plans and advised senior leadership if efforts should be discontinued, emphasis changed or coverage expanded. * Established editorial policy and procedures, and secured bids for the weekly newspaper and other publications. * Drafted articles and speeches for the base commanding officer; ensured quality control of all base publications. * Advised management and major claimants on handling problems and incidents related to the base’s programs and activities.

* Reviewed audit reports on the basis of grammar and clarity, and for ensuring they are factually sound, then released the reports to top-level officials throughout the Department of the Navy.

* Wrote, edited, produced and placed major photo-feature articles in Navy publications including All Hands, Surface Warfare and Naval Aviation News magazines. * Managed internal communications and media relations at this complex scientific and engineering organization. * Provided internal communications budgeting inputs to the Public Information Director.

* Managed a staff of ten writers and photographers, serving as a major public affairs outlet for the entire U.S. Navy, providing both internal and external communications. * Drafted in excess of 3,000 press releases and photo-features, carried in newspapers across the country and around the world, and served as first-line editor for all other releases. * Maintained the command’s Windows-based computer systems, including hardware, software, and interconnecting LAN setup.

* Managed a staff of writers, photographers and graphic artists, in the weekly production of The White Falcon, the award-winning newspaper serving the joint military community of Naval Air Station Keflavik, Iceland. * Singularly responsible for all content, and for daily assignments of the newspaper staff.

* Provided a crew of 600 sailors and 5,000 Marines aboard an amphibious assault ship with daily radio and television programming, and a daily newspaper. * Served as liaison between the ship and area media, and as community relations liaison, answering queries and giving tours, both in the United States and overseas.

* Served as radio and television announcer at an Armed Forces Radio & Television (AFRTS) outlet. * Developed audience surveys to solicit feedback and assess how well the television and radio outlet met their information needs, and tabulated the results; earned an Army Achievement Medal for managing the surveys. * Handled advertising requests. * Produced and starred in carted and voice-over advertisements for radio, and performed electronic newsgathering (ENG) assignments for television.

* Produced daily newspaper aboard a battleship, writing stories and performing layout and design work. * Served as a television board operator for the ship’s closed-circuit television studio. * Served as tour guide to visitors.