Serve as a public affairs specialist for the Bureau of Land Management, Utah State Office, Office of External Affairs.• Provides expertise and support in planning and implementing inclusive external affairs programs for issues that are sensitive, controversial or of high public visibility.• Assists District managers, area managers, field specialists by providing public affairs support as needed for specific projects and issues.• Provides guidance on written and oral communications, media relations, public participation, and other general public affairs planning as needed.• Works in coordination with the Washington Office to support national initiatives and programs on a local level.• Works with outside agencies and organizations to promote understandings, support and cooperation.• Works directly with news media to promote timely and accurate news coverage.• Serves as State Office spokesperson on topics that could include controversial issues.• Conceives, writes, and distributes a wide variety of materials to communicate information about BLM issues, programs, and activities to key public's. Materials include correspondence, news releases, reports, newsletters, and speeches as well as interpretive brochures and signs.

Commander of the 128th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment. • Led the 128th MPAD in support of the Texas Military Department and the Texas National Guards communications efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. • Served as the public affairs officer in charge of creating the training scenarios for Key Resolve 2013 held in Yongsan, the Republic of Korea.• Worked with the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and FEMA in the Joint Field Office in Anchorage, Alaska, assisting with their communications efforts in the aftermath of the 2013 Spring Flood.• Served as the Public Affairs Officer for Atlas Drop 2011, an annual joint aerial-delivery exercise, hosted by U.S Africa Command, in Entebbe, Uganda.• Served as the senior editor for the award-winning Summit E zine, a quarterly electronic magazine, which took honors in two consecutive years in an annual nation-wide media competition.

Performed a wide range of public affairs assignments in support of the mission and the organizations priorities that includes media relations, social media, civic outreach, internal information, visual information, contingency/crisis response and communication planning.• Represented the Utah National Guard as the lead public affairs planner for Vigilant Guard Utah 2014, a large-magnitude earthquake exercise, sponsored by the United States Northern Command and supported by National Guard Bureau. • Served as the lead public affairs officer and planner for the Region VIII Homeland Response Force (HRF). • Created public affairs plans, staffed and managed public affairs teams, and produced products for major events and training exercises.• Served on an inter-agency team tasked with planning, resourcing and implementing the Utah National Guard‘s crisis communications plan.• Work closely with Utah National Guard's Office of Environmental Resource Management in planning public service and public participation objectives regarding land use and munitions clean up efforts throughout the state.• Developed a Unit Public Affairs Training Program (UPAR) designed to train public affairs principles and objectives to senior leaders and Public Affairs Specialists at various levels of the Utah National Guard.• Served on a multi-agency team assigned to provide guidance and training to senior Moroccan military leadership on crisis communications and management as part of the Utah National Guard State Partnership Disaster Preparedness Program.• Led the Utah National Guard‘s re-branding effort to include logo redesign, branding toolkit and Website redesign.• Developed the guidelines and training material for the state‘s social media and Web content manager programs.Awards:2008 United States Army Keith L. Ware media contest: 2nd Place, Television Information Program2008 National Guard media contest: 2nd Place, Television Information ProgramTop Secret Clearance

Duties include concept development, graphic design, illustration, and logo design for a broad range ofclients.

Responsible for aiding management in the development of new projects, graphic design, and pre and post production for a wide range of broadcast television and motion picture clients.

• One of 54-member road crew for the 70-city tour of the Kmart Kids Race Against Drugs national tour, benefiting the D.A.R.E. program. Duties included team management, event management.• Project coordinator for local and national tours for a broad range of clients to include Coca Cola, GM, K-Mart, and Gatorade. Responsible for event execution, staffing, and team management.