• Manage strategic publicity efforts with a focus on the expansion of the Disney Cruise Line fleet, developing tactics that increase awareness, generate buzz and drive business results.• Foster current media relationships and earn breakthrough coverage with new media outlets.• Collaborate with other areas within Disney Cruise Line, including social media, broadcast, marketing strategy, promotions and influencer relations, to optimize public relations campaigns.• Create written content, including press releases and content for the Disney Parks Blog.• Manage ideation, production and creative direction for photo and video productions.• Host media on press trips and serve as lead for local and national media events.• Manage a team of three, including two public relations managers and the professional intern.

• Manage strategic publicity efforts for the Disney Cruise Line fleet, developing tactics that increase awareness, generate buzz and drive business results.• Maintain relationships with journalists in the travel, lifestyle, trade and features fields, while pitching and shaping stories that highlight key business priorities.• Create written content, including press releases and content for the Disney Parks Blog.• Manage ideation, production and creative direction for photo and video productions.• Host media on press trips and serve as lead for local and national media events.• Collaborate with other areas within Disney Cruise Line, including social media, broadcast, marketing strategy, promotions and influencer relations, to optimize public relations campaigns.

• Drive communications initiatives both on and off the court, from press releases and pitches to managing interviews for players and executives with local, national and international media.• Lead all media operations for 45+ home games attended by 100+ media.• Develop PR plans and strategy for communications initiatives/events.• Compile media reports and track publicity via media monitoring.• Manage content creation for game day program at all home games (print run of 5,000-10,000) including editing and publishing.• Edit and approve all marketing and promotional materials produced by the franchise.• Lead a team comprised of communications coordinators, communications intern and 10+ person game night staff.• Regularly travel with the team for road games and events as media relations representative, handling coordination of all media obligations for players and coaches, including NBA Draft and nine NBA All-Star weekends.• Manage award nomination process for weekly and monthly NBA honors.• Selected by NBA senior vice president to serve on advisory board for league-wide public relations issues, including media access to players and growing influence of social media on basketball communications.

• Supported all communications initiatives, including community relations and corporate public relations.• Created content for team media guide and press releases, wrote feature stories for team website and game day program.• Provided statistics and game notes in real time for media at home games.

• Led all media operations for home games for local and national media.• Served as editor and publisher for both the monthly Sixers magazine and game day program.• Facilitated interviews for external media and conducted interviews for content creation for internal media use.

• Responsible for all media relations functions, including creating all press materials, updating the athletics website daily and traveling with each sport, for the following teams: softball, men's and women's track and field and cross country, women's golf and women's basketball.• Served as media relations host for the 2004 SEC Track & Field Championship.