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Responsible for all aspects of Navy public affairs and visual information policy and doctrine at the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy levels; • Authoritative counselor to senior leaders and Navy public affairs professionals on DoD and Navy public affairs and website policy, best practices and civilian personnel development. • Produced a series of Navy Public Affairs Guides from concept to publication, incorporating policy and best practices in an easy-to-understand and use format.• Leader in DoD-wide efforts to develop and update joint doctrine informed by current industry best practices and joint experiences to enhance communication with key audiences.• Created and leads multi-agency, executive-level working group to update standards used to describe federal government civilian PA professional positions and to hire for them.

Retired from Navy Reserve -- recalled to active duty while employed full-time elsewhere which creates overlapping dates of employment.Mission Public Affairs Officer for Pacific Partnership 2009 (October 2008 – September 2009)• Planned and executed all aspects of the Pacific Partnership 2009 PA program, building and leading an eight-person multi-national team spanning five countries.• Developed and executed a ground-breaking social media plan – one of the first comprehensive ones for the U.S. Navy – resulting in a productive, two-way conversation with key audiences and social media tactics still in use today throughout the Navy.Public Affairs Action Officer for U.S. European Command (October 2005 – September 2008)• Public affairs director for Combined Endeavor 2007 and 2008, a 40+ nation multi-national information technology exercise, building and leading a staff of 20 in two countries significantly raising awareness and understanding of the exercise with senior government and military leaders from participating nations and in IT industry.Branch Chief, Joint Task Force – Armed Forces Inaugural Committee (June 2004 – February 2005)Joint military ceremonial support to 55th Presidential Inaugural• Developed the media operations plan detailing key events, locations and support operations—determining and filling personnel, logistics and training requirements.• Initiated outreach program to key stakeholders to consolidate efforts and share best practices, leveraging their inaugural experience to develop a strategic communication plan, which resulted in the daily media coverage in the 10 days leading up to the inauguration shared fairly across all the participating military ceremonial units rather than one or two as in years past.

Executive counsel and communications strategy for military and government clients.

Strategic Communications to U.S. Government Agencies and the Department of Defense.

Public Affairs Instructor at the Department of Defense's Defense Information School

Managed relationships with key industry influencers, technology industry analysts, throughout the world in the areas of Telecommunications (Voice over IP, 3G Wireless, Remote Access Service) and Consumer and Enterprise Networking Products.

Managed relationships between industry analysts and key executives for database management, application development, enterprise management products.

Internal communications management for the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Personnel and the USS SHEANDOAH (AD 44).