Nancy Shawver Consulting offers custom results-oriented communications solutions, including integrated communications & strategic planning, digital media, business writing and editing, research and change management initiative execution. I work with health care, science and technology firms. I serve TechAccel LLC as director of communications.

Serve MRIGlobal, an independent not-for-profit research and development organization, with:- Media relations- Community outreach- Branding and marketing- Internal communications- Event and meeting planning- Government relations.MRIGlobal, formerly Midwest Research Institute, performs contract research for government and industry. Founded in 1944, MRIGlobal has built a reputation for innovation, technical excellence, and problem solving. Today, as one of the nation’s leading research institutes, MRIGlobal conducts programs in the areas of national security and defense, life sciences, energy and the environment, agriculture and food safety, and engineering and infrastructure. With headquarters in Kansas City, MRIGlobal also has facilities in Rockville and Frederick, MD, and Palm Bay, FL. In addition to operating its own laboratories, MRIGlobal operates laboratories for the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Defense. MRIGlobal is one of two entities in the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, which manages and operates the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, CO, for the U.S. Department of Energy. MRIGlobal has managed NREL since its inception in 1977.

Director and Assistant Vice President in IT. Led business architecture discipline to drive strategic alignment of IT resources and activities. Previous positions include merger integration change management, management of outsourcing, application development, governance (including Sarbanes Oxley/other regulatory requirements), competitive intelligence, strategy, product management. Experienced change agent and leader.

Emerging digital media services including audio, fax and online information delivery integrated with the newspaper. Previous experience editing and reporting.

Reporter, Business First, Buffalo, NY, specializing in health care and technology reporting; and Kansas City Business JournalManaging editor, San Jose Business Journal, San Jose, CAActing editor -- worked positions as needed in start-up and acquisition newspapers including business journals in Washington, D.C., Dallas, San Antonio, Los Angeles, Columbus, Baltimore, Hartford and Jacksonville.