KEY SKILLS: **Content Creation: Writing press releases, web copy, blog posts, magazine articles, features, research reports, award submissions, marketing copy (e.g. brochures), profile interviews, video scripts, podcast scripts (including audio recordings and basic editing) **Strategy: Setting strategic direction for corporate messaging, PR, social media, marketing campaigns, videos and events **Visual publishing: Creating posters, logos, icons, editorial designs/layouts, flow charts, site maps, infographics and presentations, using Adobe In Design, Illustrator and Photoshop, Figma, ProCreate PR: Account direction. Pitching stories into relevant broadcast, newspaper, trade and online outlets. Some recent press coverage for my clients has included: BBC Online and Radio, CBS News in the US, and iTV in the UK. I have particularly strong contacts in business and technology mediaCAREER SUMMARY:My career began at MIT in 2001, and from there I fronted client teams for two of the most respected technology PR agencies in Boston and London. In 2008, I founded Hatch PR, a unique network of PR freelancers that has successfully rivaled the largest agencies in the UK for mobile and enterprise contracts. In 2020 I rebranded my business to Filter. Over the past 15 years, my clients have included Catalyst, Instil Software, NearForm, Vertical Structure, Nokia, Deutsche Telekom, Viewster, Xtract, Verint, Huddle and Doodle. From 2015 to 2019, I wrote and edited the award-winning TechWatch blog. I have also been a contributor to Sync NI and Silicon Republic over the years. I'm American, but I'm a permanent resident of the UK.