Patrick Conrad Email & Phone Number

Richland, Wa, Us

Richland, Washington, United States

• Serves as the manager for the HMIS External Affairs organization.• Manages a staff of 5 people.• Oversees HMIS Public Involvement and Hanford Advisory Board activities.• Manages the Hanford Site Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube accounts. Duties include promoting cleanup, advocacy and community-outreach efforts.• Manages the Hanford Speakers Bureau program by creating the presentation, proactively reaching out to community organizations and schools, booking speaking locations, and arranging speakers.• Manages the budgets for several subcontractors, including creative services, meeting facilitation, tour transportation and sign language interpretation. • Drafts and proof reads materials for reports, internal/external newsletters, magazines, social media posts and news releases.• Developed a sitewide procedure for ensuring electronic documents meet Section 508 requirements. • Performs writing and editing duties relative to major communication projects.• Proactively builds and maintains relationships with organizations within the Department of Energy Hanford Office of Communications, HMIS other Hanford contractors to exchange information and promote communications programs and cleanup progress.

Richland, Wa

Richland/Kennewick/Pasco, Washington Area

• Serves as backup communications director when company communications director is out of the office. • Manages the Hanford Site Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube accounts. Duties include promoting cleanup, advocacy and community-outreach efforts.• Manages the Hanford Site’s monthly aerial photography program, including managing budgets, corresponding with the other Hanford contractors, arranging the photographer, plane and pilot, and distributing photos to meet monthly deliverables.• Manages the Hanford Speakers Bureau program by creating the presentation, proactively reaching out to community organizations and schools, booking speaking locations, and arranging speakers.• Manages the budgets for several subcontractors, including aerial photography and sign language interpretation. • Leads monthly external communications meeting designed to identify potential company press releases, social media posts, and Department of Energy newsletter articles. • Proactively gathers information through research and interviews, writes, edits, and proofreads materials for reports, internal/external newsletters, magazines, and news releases.• Developed a sitewide procedure for ensuring electronic documents meet Section 508 requirements. • Co-developed a reorganization of the Joint Information Center's phone and social media teams to better meet current needs.• Performs writing and editing duties relative to major communication projects.• Proactively changed the Hanford Site newsletter from quarterly to monthly to better promote cleanup success and meet best practices.• Proactively builds and maintains relationships with organizations within MSA, other Hanford contractors and the Department of Energy to exchange information and promote communications programs and cleanup progress.• Serves as MSA media liaison.• Answers inquiries from public/media.• Advises MSA leadership on public information problems.

Richland/Kennewick/Pasco, Washington Area

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Richland/Kennewick/Pasco, Washington Area

• Developed a wide acquaintanceship with key members of government and elected officials.• Established and maintained a grassroots network of members to assist on critical legislative and regulatory issues.• Established and developed effective relationships with media representatives. • Identified, developed and wrote articles on government affairs issues for the Regional Chamber's website, weekly newsletters, and monthly publication.• Reviewed and edited peer-written articles for release in the Regional Chamber’s weekly and monthly newsletters prior to publication.• Worked with member businesses and facilitate problem resolutions to encourage their growth in the community.• Researched and simplified pieces of legislation to determine its impact on Regional Chamber businesses. • Informed Regional Chamber members in a tangible way of the changing legislation at the local, state and national levels which may affect the business climate, and in what ways.• Served as the staff liaison of the Regional Chamber's Government Affairs Committee by identifying federal, local and statewide issues of importance and make position recommendations to the Chamber’s Board of Directors.• Led the Regional Chamber's grassroots coalition, Citizens for P.O.W.E.R., which is comprised of business owners, citizens, organizations, and government entities worried about the rising costs of energy rates. • Principal staff member on the Regional Chamber's Good Health is Good Business program. • Wrote a wide variety of issue briefs, news articles and other communications pieces to support the Regional Chamber’s public policy agenda.• Wrote informational materials such as news releases, radio and television scripts, fact sheets, background statements and press advisories.• Served as a voice for member businesses by monitoring, drafting and advocating for legislative issues and concerns to all levels of government.

Greater Seattle Area

• Assist strategic communications for the high-profile $3.1 billion Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Program.• Contributed to the multi-agency team to develop and implement a comprehensive traffic management and communications plan for the October 2011 nine-day closure and demolition of the Alaskan Way Viaduct.• Wrote and edited press releases on the Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Project, including construction updates, upcoming closures and traffic impacts.• Maintained the Construction Update and What's Happening Now webpages for the Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Project. • Served as key spokesperson for both proactive and reactive local media in WSDOT’s Traffic Management Center during significant weather events and periods of high-profile construction.• Responded to citizen inquiries regarding the replacement of the Alaskan Way Viaduct in a timely and professional manner.• Wrote bi-monthly internal newsletter regarding the Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement program. • Developed graphics for presentations, festivals and websites for before, during and after major road closures, including the nine-day closure of the Alaskan Way Viaduct in October 2011. • Created and maintained websites that support the mission of the Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Program.• Worked closely with WSDOT and the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) traffic and communications teams to identify public relations risks and opportunities.• Acted as a communications liaison with outside agencies such as SDOT, King County and the Port of Seattle to track various projects, scopes, schedules and work locations.

• Media relations including television, radio and print interviews; pitch stories to reporters and set up media availabilities.• Write and execute communications plans, including identifying communications goals, strategies, risks and opportunities, key audiences, task breakdown and deadlines; public outreach for roadway maintenance.• Served as key spokesperson for both proactive and reactive local media in WSDOT’s Traffic Management Center during significant weather events and periods of high-profile construction.• Developed and wrote informational materials such as press releases and advisories, radio and television reports, fact sheets, feature stories, intended for national, regional, and local audiences through wire service, radio, television, and daily and weekly newspapers, and electronic media.• Work closely with traffic management engineers to coordinate daily traffic issues.• Consult and assist on communications for mega-road construction projects.• Coordinate communications with the Construction Traffic Coordination Office.• Use social media extensively; assist other communicators with public outreach; identify and create opportunities to tell WSDOT stories.• Redevelop and maintain the Snohomish and King County Construction Update and What's Happening Now webpages for WSDOT's Northwest Region.• Lead contact of citizen and media correspondence for WSDOT’s Northwest Region. Duties also included building and maintaining a statewide website with commonly asked questions for media representatives and the public.• Proven success media relations in a 24/7 environment during high-profile construction and life threatening emergencies. • Experience working directly with Emergency Operations Centers and Joint Information Centers.• Shot and edited informational videos regarding WSDOT projects and maintenance activities.• Monitored and provided updates on construction and traffic conditions through the use of Twitter and blogs.

Staffed the Seattle area Traffic Management Center and provided real-time traffic and road construction information to the media during the morning peak commute.

Pullman, Wa

Covered the WSU women's basketball team. Duties included writing weekly articles, such as game previews, game recaps and player profiles.

Bachelor'S Degree, Commuinication

Associate Of Arts (A.A.)

Education record