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Consulting on various operational projects ranging from Strategic Planning and Revenue Initiatives to identifying operational efficiencies throughout the LAT properties.

• Management oversight for the Los Angeles News Group (LANG). A group of nine Southern California Daily Newspapers, ten web sites, five weekly newspapers and three City Life-Style Magazines.• Ensured achievement of financial objectives, including revenues, expenses and operating profits.• Coordinated local personnel and key consolidated service units across the company to grow audiences and to provide quality multi-platform publishing and customer care. • Aligned local and… Show more • Management oversight for the Los Angeles News Group (LANG). A group of nine Southern California Daily Newspapers, ten web sites, five weekly newspapers and three City Life-Style Magazines.• Ensured achievement of financial objectives, including revenues, expenses and operating profits.• Coordinated local personnel and key consolidated service units across the company to grow audiences and to provide quality multi-platform publishing and customer care. • Aligned local and centralized efforts through seamless communications, operational planning and budgeting, capital planning, strategic planning. Ensuring high quality standards and quality control.• Developed and monitored the quality of products across platforms to produce operating results.• Set overall news and editorial focus that provided editorially successful products across platforms, provides leadership in local news and public service, placing the brands at the forefront in efforts to improve the quality of life of the communities it serves.• Developed an advertising sales strategy that identified opportunities for improved advertising market share, increasing advertising revenues; and developing successful customer-centric relationships.• Developed and enhanced digital products to grow revenue and strengthen the market footprint. • Provided marketing leadership that developed and built relationships with advertisers and readers. • Engaged employees to pursue company goals with a strong sense of purpose and direction. Show less

President and Publisher for the Inland Newspaper Group- these newspapers were two of the nine newspapers in the LA newspaper Group.

Responsible for daily operations for a 65,000 daily circulation newspaper with annual revenues of $100,000,000. Launched and developed a custom publishing division with annual revenues of $9,000,000, launched two city magazines and three weekly newspapers in Northern Nevada.

President and Publisher for the OLYMPIAN the Washington State Capital newspaper. During my tenure we designed and built a new office and production facility.

My first publishing job. 21,000 circulation with 12million dollars in annual revenue.

Responsible for all sales and marketing functions including circulation, sales and marketing departments. During the growth years of the Coachella Valley we doubled circulation from 22,000 to more than 50,000 and revenues increased from 22 million to more than 45 million.