Head communications consulting business providing clients with project management, strategic communications planning, editing, writing, web development, and video production support.Clients: CUToday.info, Procter & Gamble, Ethicon Endo-Surgery, A&A Communications, Volkswagen of America, BMW of North America, and World Class Nutrition.

Recognized as one of the leading journalists covering credit unions. Write 10-20 stories weekly, covering all aspects of credit unions. Responsible for developing and researching stories. Authored the Journal’s nationally recognized investigative news features on the failures of Norlarco CU, St. Paul Croatian FCU and WesCorp. Responsible for the Journal’s payments coverage.

Led Internal Communications for $1.5-B Johnson & Johnson operating company manufacturing medical devices. Provided overall strategy and direction for communication to company's 7,000 worldwide associates. Directed three associates and managed $1-million budget.Annually directed, produced, and led four live companywide meetings that reached 2,500+ associates. Recognized for increasing effectiveness of all-associate meetings, measured via associate feedback. Developed yearly executive visibility strategy and produced communications for leadership, sharing consistent messages and aligning associates with corporate strategy. Developed and oversaw company's new global communications network and provided editorial direction and content development for quarterly global newsletter, aligning associates worldwide to company strategy.Guided overall direction of intranet portal and evaluated site's performance and companywide acceptance. Set future direction for site and future redesign.Solely responsible for managing intranet's homepage news sections. Provided direction for writers, edited all associate news contributions, wrote articles, developed homepage graphics, and published news (2-3 articles daily). Troubleshot performance issues, resulting greater site uptime, increasing associate productivity.

Directed field sales communications and partnered with Marketing to develop interactive websites for internal and external audiences.Managed presence on www.jnjgateway.com. Redesigned and reorganized individual Gateway product sites, including homepage.Recognized by Gateway for site receiving most yearly visits of any Johnson and Johnson site. Redesigned and reorganized sales intranet website bringing more information to homepage, eliminating outdated content, and improving navigation.

Directed field sales communications—wrote, edited, and coordinated design of two monthly international sales newsletters and quarterly sales publications for Johnson and Johnson Professional, Inc. Directed and produced quarterly half-hour video sales news magazine. Publications reached 1,200 sales reps worldwide sharing sales strategies, product information, surgery techniques, and marketing information. Created, shaped, and guided newsletters from inception to publication. Adapted print versions to electronic format—regularly updated news magazine that resided on company’s intranet.Researched each video story and worked with outside video production company producing the news vehicle. Wrote and edited marketing materials, provided technical writing support for company documents and manuals, and handled photography.

Managed communications for the Endo-Surgery Institute (ESI), Ethicon Endo-Surgery's surgical training facility. Managed company's field sales communications, creating monthly sales print communication and managing quarterly sales video magazine. Recognized with J&J Achievement Award for communications excellence as a result of developing an innovative marketing campaign.Guided all written, electronic, and video communications generated from the Institute, sent to all associates and customers.

Guided overall direction of company intranet and managed homepage news on daily basis. Directed company’s field sales communications and presence on www.jnjgateway.com. Worked closely with senior management to develop communications plans and individual messages. Led development of new intranet website, including 4,500-document content migration effort, which updated and transferred content from previous associate portal, improving site efficiency and effectiveness.Recognized with Standards of Leadership Award for rapid, efficient, and effective content migration.