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Tallahassee, Florida, United States

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) Division of Law Enforcement is responsible for uniformed patrol and investigative law enforcement services on more than 8,400 miles of coastline, 13,200 square miles of offshore waters, and over 34 million acres of land encompassing a variety of habitats including wildlife management areas, state parks and forests.• Charged with identifying and analyzing complex management problems and developing solutions for management issues on a statewide basis.• Assists the Director’s Office with special projects. Develops and coordinates Division responses to inquiries from federal, state and public entities.• Coordinates and develops documentation, summaries, proposals and presentations for legislative budget requests and the analysis of legislation which may impact the Division of Law Enforcement’s core missions.• Reviews and analyzes proposed legislation, regulations and contracts to determine what impact they may have on Division and Commission policy and procedures; • Researches, writes, and distributes the quarterly Law Enforcement Journal Division newsletter. • Researches, writes, and distributes the FWC Division of Law Enforcement Annual Report. • Coordinates the Division's internal and external communications efforts. • Coordinates the Division’s public records request fulfillment process.• Solicits and responds to questions and suggestions from all Division employees. Coordinates internal Division communications efforts to non-law enforcement Commission employees.• Researches, writes, and edits agency documents that include Division of Law Enforcement information, law enforcement working group and committee reports, official letters, law enforcement conference summary reports and other written materials. • Assists with writing operational and work plans.• Designs and conducts research projects and studies concerned with the improvement of management and organizational procedures.

Tallahassee, Florida Area

Tallahassee, Florida

As Florida's largest state agency, and the third largest prison system in the country, FDC employs 24,000 members, incarcerates approximately 96,000 inmates and supervises nearly 166,000 offenders in the community. Primary responsibilities include a high volume of on the record media interaction.• Direct a professional public information program for the Florida Department of Corrections.• Assist the department’s communications director in planning, developing, managing and coordinating communications strategies.• Represent the FDC in on-camera interviews with television news media and on-the-record interviews with radio and print news media. • Perform media liaison duties for the Department during high-profile incidents.• Conduct interview prep for department leadership and staff when necessary. • Coordinate activities concerning news media relations, publicity and outreach efforts.• Research, write and edit news releases, feature articles and other written material regarding FDC issues for news media at large and to targeted publications. • Write and edit speeches and PowerPoint presentations for department leadership.• Write and perform electronic delivery of news releases to media, stakeholders, leadership and staff. • Work with department leadership in assessing needs for communicating via news media. Develop strategic and operational plans for accomplishing news media relations strategies.• Coordinate responses to information requests from legislators, other governmental agencies and news media. • Edit social media posts pertaining to department topics.• Plan and develop informational materials for press conferences and other media events and assist the communications director with the coordination of such events.

Tallahassee, Florida

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) Division of Law Enforcement is responsible for uniformed patrol and investigative law enforcement services on more than 8,400 miles of coastline, 13,200 square miles of offshore waters, and over 34 million acres of land encompassing a variety of habitats including wildlife management areas, state parks and forests. • Direct a comprehensive public information program for the Division of Law Enforcement of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the largest conservation law enforcement agency in the world, fostering open disclosure of information to news media.• Develop division communications strategies.• Represent the FWC DLE in on-camera interviews with television news media and on-the-record interviews with radio and print news media. • Perform media liaison duties for the division during high-profile incidents (Jose Fernandez fatal boating accident, fatal tiger attack at Palm Beach Zoo, shark-dragging incident, fatal alligator attack at Disney, fatal alligator attack in Davie, etc.)• Coordinate activities concerning news media relations, publicity and outreach efforts.• Research, write and edit news releases, feature articles and other written material. • Write and edit division-generated reports, internal documents, award nominations and correspondence.• Write and edit social media posts pertaining to division topics.• Plan and conduct press conferences.

Tallahassee, Florida

Geiger & Associates is a public relations firm specializing in media marketing and public relations for travel, tourism and economic development clients. With progressive increase in responsibilities and experience, I was promoted to Vice President and have provided public relations results for numerous tourism destination and economic development clients across the United States. For each of these clients, I have successfully generated positive, on-message publicity in a variety of national, regional, trade and local print, online and broadcast media outlets. Proven proficiency in a large variety of public relations areas, including:• Development and maintenance of effective working relationships with print, online and broadcast media. I have interacted with hundreds of working media throughout my career.• Development and implementation of crisis communication plans. Experienced in crisis communication interview coaching and development of talking points. • Provide representatives of the print and broadcast media with timely and accurate information about clients; serve as a resource in a 24-hour news cycle for journalists requesting interviews and information. Experienced in in-person and over the phone pitching directly to members of the media.• Advise clients on the possible public and media reactions to proposed public relations or marketing activities. • Successful media event and press conference planning and implementation.

Tallahassee, Florida

While employed at RussTech, I helped clients achieve their goals in the international marketplace by providing the highest quality language support. I was responsible for maintaining workflow and assignments for a number of translators and interpreters tasked with facilitating communication between US national laboratory representatives and their Russian Federation counterparts in order to develop a comprehensive nuclear material control and accounting program. I also proofread, edited and formatted documents in both Russian and English to provide consistency in the final product delivered to clients.

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