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External communications planning, products and services for $1.4 billion nuclear power plant.Representative Accomplishments: Developed nominations that made STP the most honored nuclear power plant in the U.S., winning seven Top Industry Practice and three Best of The Best awards, as well as a Project of the Year Award for Best Nuclear Project, worldwide.Designed and developed stpnoc.com Web site, created most of its content, and shot many of its photos. Site receives approximately 250,000 visitors annually.Selected scenes for, scripted, and produced media B-roll and Visitors Center video (12-minutes each), utilizing archival with new footage. Created industry guidelines for Web site development. Developed industry guidelines for online crisis communications; presented at industry conference three weeks after 9/11 attacks.Managed reactor leak crisis communications. Met daily with executives, and wrote all external and internal communications over a four-month period. The "superb communication" of the project was specifically commended in its Best of The Best Award citation.Hosted video crews, reporters and official delegations (regularly, for U.S. State Department) from Japan, Australia and Russia, plus NASA and other U.S. agencies. Developed corporate brochures, pamphlets, fact sheets, backgrounders, and other publications and presentations.

Provided marketing, advertising and image-enhancement counsel and products, including brochures in several languages, to advanced technology and software companies with branches and operations in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East

Managed external communications of $140 million supplier of software products and services to aerospace and defense industries, with seven sites nationwide. Developed, implemented and directed communication strategies, standards, policies and procedures. Served as liaison to local, national and international media, and to corporate, industry and government officials.Created and produced printed, visual and electronic materials for marketing, publicity, recruiting, advertising, etc. Responsible for development, content, budgets, schedules, specifications and production, including supervision of creative and production personnel.Representative Accomplishments: Developed nomination that won NASA's highest quality honor, the George M. Low Award, never before given to a subcontractor or a company that did not produce spaceflight hardware.Achieved consistently positive publicity in media, worldwide. Initiated electronic publication of organizational newsletters, reducing production costs and staff hours by 45 and 50+ percent, respectively-lowest unit costs in corporation. Contributed to local and corporate marketing proposals, including proposal that won International Space Station software contract. Developed aerospace portion of corporate national advertising campaigns, including media selection, scheduling and budgeting.Developed management matrices that were adopted and implemented as corporate models.Organized and led editorial team to develop International Space Station Control Center security policies and procedures manual-formally commended by customer.

Representative Accomplishments:Edited guidebooks on worldwide commercial space market and remote sensing. Researched, wrote and edited briefing book on University's research projects in systems and software engineering, artificial intelligence/expert systems, and distributed databases. Personally distributed to aerospace executives, resulting in major joint research project between University, NASA and the Unisys Corporation.Wrote, edited, designed and produced alumni quarterly.Organized and moderated joint press conference with NASA/Johnson Space Center that received international coverage.

Houston Chronicle, Texan, and Suburbia-Reporter newspapers; Houston City magazine; additional media outletsRepresentative Accomplishments:Initiated, developed, wrote, and placed or filed articles and reports on wide range of topics.Had hundreds of bylined reports and features published, including numerous front-page and magazine articles. Also wrote editorial, humor and commentary columns. Promoted within nine months from correspondent to reporter to editor of three weekly newspapers with combined circulation of 35,000.

Bachelor Of Arts, Philosophy/English

Masters Of Business Administration Courses, Management, Marketing Andeconomics