Subject Matter Expertise: Big Data and analytics, neuroscience, life sciences, and research initiatives• Strategic communications work for high tech and life sciences companies, federal government, universities, and national non-profits, promoting their image, major initiatives, emerging technologies. • Journalism background with IBM management and corporate communications experience in executive communications, media relations, analyst relations, image, branding, social media, and customer communications.• Expertise in issue management and crisis media relations working with senior executives, legal, investor relations, and governmental relations on data privacy, business analytics, research initiatives, international trade, supercomputing, trade secret theft, workforce reductions, and reorganizations. • Experience creating and managing integrated global communications plans, and managing complex communications and image across a global organization, involving corporate headquarters, and consulting and services, marketing, product, research and international divisions.• Expertise developing national and international keynote and major presentations, tailored to audience, industry, and geography, and providing media relations and conference support. • Experience launching entrepreneurial businesses in Big Data and analytics, and parallel supercomputing, where the proactive communications strategy enabled rapid growth.• Experience working with Fortune 500 customers publicizing innovations in finance (Citigroup), pharmaceuticals (Pfizer), life sciences (Karolinska Institute), healthcare (United Healthcare), retail (Tiffany & Co.), insurance (State Farm), transportation (United Airlines), telecommunications (AT&T), and state governments.• Experience working with U.S. government scientific and technical organizations publicizing supercomputing at U.S. Air Force Maui High Performance Computing Center and NSF Cornell Center for Advanced Computing.