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Newton, Massachusetts, United States

Work with will local businesses to help them address operational and regulatory challenges. Engage with elected and appointed leaders and collaborate with staff across municipal departments to update land use regulations and other policies to encourage beneficial economic activity and growth.

Dedham, Massachusetts

Appointed to coordinate land use functions across Conservation, Economic Development, Environment, and Planning, with the aim of combining the four departments under one umbrella. Continue economic development activities and oversight of the Town website.

Dedham, Massachusetts

Manage commercial licensing and permitting projects across regulatory departments. Deliver technical assistance to developers and business owners. Provide guidance on economic development issues and policy to Town bodies. Collaborate across departments to develop long-range plans for land use and zoning. Oversaw Town’s website development on new content.

Greater Boston Area

Worked to foster job growth and investment at established firms and new ventures in 29 cities and towns, including Boston and Cambridge. Provided technical assistance on tax incentives, tax credits, and workforce training grants. Connected firms with resources for site selection, financing, and manufacturing. Worked with municipal officials and partners.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Worked with state, regional, and local leaders to promote civic space, equitable economic development, housing options, and multimodal transportation for the benefit all Massachusetts residents. Prepared the organization for expansion as a statewide network. Relaunched statewide smart growth conference in 2013. Launched new website content management.

Newton, Mass.

Founded and launched Newton Living, a glossy magazine with a circulation of 39,000 mailed and bulk distribution. Advanced an editorial vision to promote civic engagement, examined municipal issues, celebrated local restaurants and merchants, profiled local business leaders, and honored village history. Sold advertising, managed content creation, design.

Newton, Mass.

Co-founded and directed the work of the community nonprofit modeled on Main Streets principles. Raised awareness about village centers and promoted their civic, cultural, and economic importance. Worked with merchants and residents to identify opportunities. Oversaw beautification projects, parking counts, and retail inventories. Organized grassroots.

Greater Boston Area

Managed product development and marketing plans of college textbooks, trade books, educational websites and software. Clients included Pearson Education, Houghton Mifflin, and McGraw-Hill. Oversaw content creation teams, deliverables, budgets, and schedules.

Upper Saddle River, NJ

Managed budgets, editorial schedules, and production of new textbooks, revisions, and software for a $5-million list of undergraduate and graduate courses in management, operations, organizational behavior, human resources, and leadership.

Developed business solutions for the divisions of Addison-Wesley, Benjamin Cummings, Longman, and Prentice Hall. Developed training curriculum and user manuals for CRM software and oversaw utilization of data for targeted marketing campaigns. Trained staff sales, marketing, and editorial on software applications and intranet resources.

New York, New York, United States

Based in Atlanta, covered 45 accounts in Georgia and north Florida and promoted, after one year, to a key territory in San Francisco, with 33 accounts. Achieved sales goals two of three years.

Mfa, Creative Writing

Graduate teaching instructor, 1991‐1994. Teaching commendations, 1993‐1994.

Ba, English

Managing Editor, Editor of the student newspaper, 1986-1987. Eugene C. Pulliam Journalism scholarship, 1986.