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Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Grand Island, Nebraska, United States

Develop and direct the marketing and sponsorship sales efforts and plans for Nebraska's biggest annual event.

Billings, Montana Area

Manage the marketing and sales operations and activities of MetraPark, a 189 acre entertainment property, owned by Yellowstone County. Established and collaborated in working relationships with promoters, agents, sponsors, vendors, the local and regional business community, Yellowstone County Board of County Commissioners and their agents, and MetraPark.

Billings, Montana Area

Billings, Montana Area

Create and manage advertising revenue opportunities across all station platforms (on air, online, and separate digital programs). Direct and hired a 6 person qualified sales department to expand revenue relationships with advertisers. A firm believer in the "No cold call" idea, my department works through relationship selling.

Monitored and reported on radio station talent performance, reviewed and made recommendations for social media efforts, reviewed and critiqued station web sites. Wrote reports on station performance and aided in research documents. Started the A&O Facebook presence and made recommendations for website changes.

Billings, Montana, United States

Director Of Operations for five station cluster in Billings, MT. Relaunched two radio stations on different frequencies and improved talent development. Station personnel were nominated for national award from Country Music Association during my period with the company.

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Programmed and directed legendary station and returned the station to its position to top of country battle. Hired and began development of new morning show talent replacing heritage market leaders.

San Francisco Bay Area

Conceived, wrote, and hired staff for the startup for 95-7 The Bear in San Francisco. Owner took the signal off air in 2005 as the property was beginning to cannibalize other owned operations.

Built the five station multi-market cluster for this group. Three country stations, an A/C (KEZN) and a Big band AM were in the group. Billing increased by 80% in 4 years.

Became the first station in St. Louis to beat legendary KMOX in 1992.

Returned this legendary station to the top of the market against direct country competition.

Harrisburg A/C station that was consistently in the top 5 in women in the market.

Promoted to Kansas City when Rusty Walker left day to day programming to start his consultancy. Kansas City had three country stations even at that early time.

Program Director and air talent for the station. Reviewed and executed research and programming plans. Directed promotions and overall station air sound.

Revamped the cluster focus from the daytime only AM station to the full time FM frequency by swapping formats and hiring staff. Revenue increases came as the station became better marketed and more listened to in its community

Business Administration

Education record

Studied electrical engineering.