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Wilmington, North Carolina Area

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North Carolina

Management services and support firm with leader-oriented solutions to achieve stability and growth during business transitions, crisis situations, manager training, labor negotiations and other acute changes.Recent client projects include:• Creating a communication “roadmap” for managers to tell employees about the sale of their company.• Devising comprehensive responses to labor disputes with individual executives and company management teams.• Developing a step-by-step rollout plan to implement a luxury goods wholesaler’s growth and marketing strategies.• Establishing performance evaluation criteria for charter yacht interior guest services crew.• Counseling leaders of a large faith congregation on how to manage fallout from a controversial clergy separation.• Long-term coaching with an operations director stationed overseas on techniques for supervising middle managers, overcoming cultural barriers and preparing for cyclical C-level executive reassignments.Designing a business plan and administrative operations guidelines for a growing education nonprofit

U.S. Virgin Islands

The Virgin Islands’ market-leading print and online news media company. (Currently owned by a locally based investor; owned 2008-14 by Times-Shamrock Communications of Scranton, Pa.; owned 1997-08 by Innovative Communication Corp., a Caribbean conglomerate; 1978-1997 owned by Gannett Co.)• 2016: Initiated redesign and expansion of digital products and redesign of the print edition of the daily newspaper.• 2015-16: Redesigned office, printing plant and warehouse workspaces at headquarters facility to improve efficiency, communication and customer service; relocated bureau office to a new, better location.• 2014-16: Led Daily News Publishing Co. through its third sale in 16 years; implemented new buyer's strategic plan and business agenda.• 2014-15: Directed the selection, installation and training for new software database systems for Accounting (SBS), Circulation (SBS Circ), Advertising (SCS AdMax), and News-Online-Print Production (TownNews Blox Total CMS and Agfa Intellitune) in a nine-month period; concurrently oversaw re-engineering of data telecom networks to incorporate fiber technology and lower IT service costs 40%.• 2014: Honored as Virgin Islands Small Business Advocate of the Year by the Small Business Development Administration.• 2013-14: Managed local side of the brokering and marketing of the company.• 2013: Earned the inaugural Associated Press Media Editors Tom Curley First Amendment Sweepstakes Award.• 2012-13: Negotiated union contract extension with only 1% total increase in base pay over four years.• 2010: Awarded the Times-Shamrock Communications Flagship Award, presented to the corporate subsidiary most effectively meeting and exceeding annual corporate performance goals.• 2008-15: Posted annual operating profits and positive cash flow.• 2008-14: Times-Shamrock Communications Advisory Board.• 2008-09: Designed and implemented strategy for 25% reduction of workforce using layoffs, attrition and retooled processes and products.

U.S. Virgin Islands

• 2007-08: Maintained five-year 4.1% revenue CAGR, top market position and staff retention through corporate owner's bankruptcy and dissolution.• 2007-08: Showcased The Daily News for brokers, prospective buyers and potential investors in informational memoranda, buyers books, face-to-face presentations and on-site visits.• 2007-08: Kept full management team intact and stable through the 10-month process of bankruptcy trusteeship, auction and transfer of the company; led the same team forward under new ownership with continued success meeting changed strategy and goals.• 2007-08: Unwound centralized finances from corporate accounting office of prior owner and merged those into new corporate structure after sale.• 2007: Installed computer-to-plate technology and retired two expensive, unreliable imagesetters and the remaining pre-press cameras.• 2007: Launched zoned editions of TMC publication and added a second major annual advertising supplement.• 2006-2008: Produced multiple award-winning newsroom projects, including a series of reports that resulted in the freeing of two young men who were framed for the murders of two tourists.1999-2008: Increased personnel retention rate to a company-wide average of 16.5 years; that included 5.9-year average in the newsroom and 8.1- year average among sales staff.

U.S. Virgin Islands

• 2005: Raised circulation single copy price from $0.75 to $1 and used a combination of new features, publicity and advertising specials to retain 93% of single copy readers.• 2004: Honored by the American Bar Association with the Silver Gavel for Journalism, recognizing an exposé on the use of deadly force by Virgin Islands Police. Restored journalism product to national award-winning prominence with sterling quality standards that achieved national peer recognition through multiple honors.• 2002: Produced and attained quality benchmark standards for printing, customer service and accuracy.• 2000: Launched “Best of the Virgin Islands” promotion that grew from $7,500 to $500,000 in annual business.• 2000, 2003 & 2006: Negotiated initial union contract with newly certified collective bargaining unit representing publishing company tradesmen and clerks.

U.S. Virgin Islands

• Re-staffed and re-trained newsroom in the wake of a difficult ownership transition that occurred in the months before I arrived.• Selected and installed Mac- and Quark-based content management and production system to complete the transition to full computer pagination.

Pensacola

Award-winning, market-leading print and online news source for Northwest Florida and Southern Alabama (owned by Gannett Co.).• 1998: Led newsroom copy editing and page design training on story presentation theory and techniques for incorporating news copy, storytelling styles, photos and graphics as contributing components of a comprehensive vision.

Beaumont, Texas

The top daily newspaper in Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana covering 10 counties and three parishes (owned by Hearst Corp.).Design Editor & Redesign Director — 1996-98• Developed graphic and sectional redesign of The Beaumont Enterprise; facilitated Advertising and Production input on new visuals and sections.• Led concept redevelopment for the launch of the new Beaumont Journal TMC weekly; retooled design and sections and set up staff.

Beaumont, Texas

• Introduced QuarkXPress pagination technology and led newsroom transition from computer-assisted layout to full pagination of news content (including photos and graphics).

Bachelor Of Arts, Political Science And English

Activities and Societies: • Editor in Chief, The Battalion (25, 000 circulation student-run newspaper) • Field Research in Dominica, West.

Certificate, Organizational Consulting & Change Leadership

Newspaper Editing And Publishing Seminars

Diploma With Honors

Activities and Societies: • National Honor Society • National Forensic League