• Lead a team of 27 professionals, including 5 managers, to build and enhance the reputation of the laboratory. I set the strategy and overall direction of the team while managing day-to-day operations.• Advise the lab director and senior leadership team on strategic internal and external matters, including crisis communications, government relations and the management of emerging/high-consequence issues.• Major initiatives include navigating through the evolving impacts of the pandemic, defining the lab's post-COVID future, chairing/participating in key senior leadership hires and leading a lab-wide rebranding initiative currently underway.

• Led team responsible for planning, scheduling and executing tours, public events, lectures, exhibits and educational initiatives.• Managed and maintained relationships with major Stanford University donors, faculty and researchers, government agencies, entrepreneurs, local businesses and community leaders. • Directed major projects and initiatives including the development of SLAC's visitor center (2015) and laboratory long-range planning (2017). Directed a year-long series of events and activities to mark the lab’s 50th anniversary in 2012.

• Led team of 19 communications professionals responsible for internal and external communications, public relations, outreach, multimedia and graphic services.

• Built relationships with journalists that directly resulted in coverage in The New York Times, The Economist, New Scientist, ABC, KQED and more.• Communications lead on news releases, press visits and SLAC’s public website. Ensured consistency in messaging and made SLAC science accessible to the media and the public.• Initiated and executed extremely successful events involving 100 to 1000+ participants, and managed SLAC’s presence at major conferences.

• Managed visits of foreign dignitaries and elected officials, coordinated visits for television/radio news crews and documentary filmmakers, and directed events at SLAC and on Stanford campus.• Produced and edited articles, press releases, brochures, displays and images for print and web communications.