Extensive professional administrative and teaching experience in corporate national marketing, brand communications management, advertising agency account supervision, community relations, as well as advertising copywriting, design, and production. Executive positions include regional and national retailing, health care, insurance, financial services industries as well as state and local governments liaison with agencies, and community organizations.Expertise in the marketing & advertising industry in the USA and the former Soviet Union. Lectured at Moscow University and the Higher Commercial Management School of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, Russia. Past-Chair of the National Academic Committee of the American Advertising Federation, a member of the American Academy of Advertising, American Marketing Association, Academy of Marketing Science, and the Marketing Educators’ Association. Fluent in English, Russian, and Spanish.Teaching emphasis is the creative development of effective marketing communications, and marketing strategy. Teaching experience includes undergraduate and graduate marketing and advertising courses at Florida Gulf Coast University, University of Miami, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Bristol University, as well as graduate marketing courses in Russia and Germany.Earned a BA in Commercial Art, BBA in Marketing from Eastern New Mexico University, an MBA in Marketing from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and a Ph.D. in Communications from the University of Tennessee. Proficient in online CANVAS LMS and NVIVO Software and related digital communications.Research interests focus on the development of the advertising industry in Russian and marketing communications. Have published in the Journal of Advertising, International Journal of Advertising, World Communication, Journal of International Consumer Marketing, Journal of Marketing Analytics, Journal of East-West Business, Health Marketing Quarterly, and presented at international conferences.