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Albuquerque, NM, US

Austin, Texas

Provides C-suite crisis communications, reputation management, risk assessment, strategic guidance and public affairs consulting to the firm's clients.

Austin, Texas

• Published and wrote subscription-based service providing news and in-depth analyses about Texas elections, candidates and voter trends.
• Accurately predicted elections utilizing more than 300 data sources, including historical voting patterns, straight-party voting, shifting demographics, polls and public opinion trends.
• Gave presentations on election trends to interested groups and business associations

• Developed and executed legislative and public affairs campaigns benefiting a range of clients on issues relating to taxes, utility and business regulation, licensing, investment climate and brand reputation.
• Specialized in team-based advocacy and public relations efforts arming internal officials (policy, program area, legal) and external advocates with unified messaging and coordinated strategy for achieving their public.
• Efforts improved clients’ bottom lines by tens of millions of dollars
• Served as sole external consultant to leading broadband company’s legislative strategy team
• Partnered with leading electric utility regulation and market structure consultants to provide high-level legislative and regulatory strategic advice, legislative campaign management and multi-state legislative.

Austin, Texas

Working with Stratus Energy's principals, provided high-level guidance to various clients on legislative, regulatory and external communications matters. Wrote testimony, developed collateral materials, crafted messages for internal and external audiences, prepared PAC presentations and monitored legislative and regulatory developments.

• Embedded in leading broadband communications company’s Texas legislative and public affairs team to provide high-level strategic guidance, campaign management and crisis communications.
• Helped develop and execute campaigns to enact first-in-the-nation reform of cable franchise laws and modernize regulation on telecommunications and broadband providers, including universal service policies and.
• Operated several “war rooms” to coordinate campaign efforts across internal and external advocates, including numerous divisions within client and multiple consulting firms in multiple states, including Arizona, New.

Responsible for managing business of the powerful State Affairs Committee (2000-2003) and Financial Institutions Committee (2003-2005). Other legislative experience includes writing analyses for bills coming to the House floor for the House Research Organization (1999).No points of order were sustained against committee legislation, which was a rarity in.

Provided clients with strategic public policy consulting, campaign management, web design, content development, data analysis and related services.

Provided oversight of budget development and execution for the Veterans Health Administration. Served as "scorekeeper" for all VA-related accounts throughout budget process. Responsible for creating presentations for OMB director and White House officials detailing budget recommendations and issues.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.)

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