John W. L'Abate Email & Phone Number

Greater Atlanta Area

• Responsible for managing and assisting with a range of external and internal communications activities for Delta Community Credit Union, Georgia’s largest credit union with more than 500,000 members. With 80+ years of.
• Managing, editing and writing the corporate blog at… Show more Responsible for managing and assisting with a range of external and internal communications activities for Delta Community Credit Union, Georgia’s largest.
• Managing, editing and writing the corporate blog at https://www.deltacommunitycu.com/content/deltacommunitycreditunionprogram/us/en/knowledge-center/blog.html
• Managing marketing campaign internal communications to inform customer service staff and departmental executives
• Assisting with the development and editing of presentations for the CEO and CFO
• Assisting with profile development and drafting LinkedIn® postings for senior management

Greater Atlanta Area

• Responsible for overseeing and implementing a variety of internal and external national communications activities and programs for Crawford & Company, an Atlanta-based insurance claims management company with.
• Assisted with the planning, editing, and distribution of change communications materials in collaboration with OCM consultants (Perficient, Inc. and Cask NX, LLC) and internal teams for the transition to Microsoft®.
• Assisted with the planning, editing, and distribution of change communications materials in collaboration with OCM consultants (Perficient, Inc. and Cask NX, LLC) and internal teams for the transition to Microsoft®.
• Oversaw and managed the transition from the IBM® Notes/Groupcast mass email system to the EmailOpen™ internal email platform.
• Served as a primary news media contact for the U.S., responding to media queries and arranging interviews.
• Drafted U.S. and global press releases, reviewed and edited releases from outside the U.S., issued releases on the GlobeNewswire system and published releases to the company Web site using the Umbraco 4 content.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Managed a variety of internal and external communications programs for the Technology group of U.K.-based Travelport, which provides distribution, technology, payment, mobile and other solutions for the global travel.
• Creating annual Technology communications plan.
• Writing and/or editing and issuing internal communications for CIO, Technology team and other senior corporate executives, including a blog; a number of the… Show more Managed a variety of internal and external.
• Writing and/or editing and issuing internal communications for CIO, Technology team and other senior corporate executives, including a blog; a number of the communications focused on the move to Agile development.
• Writing and editing employee profiles for monthly corporate internal newsletter.
• Researching, drafting and editing lead stories for intranet landing page on events and accomplishments within the Technology group.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Responsible for overseeing and implementing a variety of internal and external national and global communications activities and programs for Crawford & Company, a $1 billion+, 8,500-employee, publicly held.
• Served as a primary news media contact for the U.S. and secondary contact for the U.K., responding to media queries, arranging interviews and pitching stories. Advised internal clients on media relations… Show more.
• Served as a primary news media contact for the U.S. and secondary contact for the U.K., responding to media queries, arranging interviews and pitching stories. Advised internal clients on media relations strategy and.
• Drafted U.S. and global press releases, review and edit releases from outside the U.S., and publish releases directly to the firm’s Web site using the Umbraco content management system.
• Served as editor and writer for Tech Talk, a quarterly four-color printed and digital magazine for Crawford Global Technical Services® distributed globally.
• Researched, wrote and edited "Superstorm Sandy a Year Later: A Record‐setting Storm and a Record‐setting Response", a 5,000-word whitepaper.

Greater Atlanta Area

• As contractor for six-month project, served as change communication lead in the Enterprise Forecasting & Planning department for an information technology project focused on the installation and migration to Oracle®.
• Advised leadership on communications strategy and tactics. Responsible for drafting and issuing weekly, monthly, and ad hoc communications to segments of the user base, including… Show more As contractor for six-month.
• Advised leadership on communications strategy and tactics. Responsible for drafting and issuing weekly, monthly, and ad hoc communications to segments of the user base, including drafting a weekly and monthly newsletter.
• Revised weekly email and monthly newsletter format and content based on strategy recommendations to senior project management.
• Managed strategic communications plan, presented weekly status reports at project team meetings, and maintained communications materials in a Microsoft SharePoint® site. Show less

Greater Atlanta Area

• As part of the Tax Internal Communications team, responsible for overseeing and implementing a variety of internal, national communications activities and programs for Deloitte Tax, a subsidiary of Deloitte.As part of.
• As a special project for Deloitte, managed… Show more As part of the Tax Internal Communications team, responsible for overseeing and implementing a variety of internal, national communications activities and programs.
• As a special project for Deloitte, managed the 2011 CEO succession nomination processes for both the Deloitte Consulting CEO and Deloitte Tax CEO positions—the first time anyone had managed both processes.
• Planned and managed all internal change management communications for a series of divestitures of Deloitte Tax businesses from 2007-2010 and received two Outstanding Performance Awards for those projects. Was cited by.
• Served as managing editor (editing and writing) for all primary Deloitte Tax mass communications vehicles, including Tax Weekly, Tax P/P/D Weekly, One Voice e Update, and TEG Vault – One Voice eUpdate, as well as the.
• Oversaw or planned and implemented 2007-2010 Tax Internal Communications all-practice surveys, and helped articulate the significance of research findings.

Bachelor'S Degree - Journalism (Public Relations), Political Science - Minor

Activities and Societies: Public Relations Student Society of America (Vice President), College Republicans (Chairman), Delta Tau Delta.

Master Of Arts In Mass Communication (Public Relations)

Activities and Societies: Master's thesis was used as the basis for a monograph developed by the Counselors Academy of the Public.

Corporate Communication Certificate Program, (Classes Included Change Management, Change Communications, Crisis Communications, Id X308653)