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Greater Seattle Area

Manage media and public relations for agency expansion projects in South Puget Sound. Serve as communications lead on project teams. Work to promote agency and services to targeted media outlets. Responsible for writing press releases, feature stories and digital content. Serve as on-duty media relations officer on rotating basis.• Lead media and public information on seven expansion projects in South King and Pierce County that are part of $54 billion expansion plan• Write and distribute three to five press releases monthly• Develop communications strategy for commuter rail, light rail and express bus service that serves nearly 3 million customers a year

Tacoma, Wa

Managed media and public relations for health care system. Served as media spokesperson. Generated content for social media team and supervised social media engagement. Drafted speeches, talking points and presentation for senior executives.. Lead marketing for Medicare Advantage enrollment. Leader in solving customer and patient issues. Lead crisis communications planning and served as public information officer.• Generated more than 75 earned media placements each year including KING-TV, KOMO-TV, Tacoma News-Tribune, Kitsap Sun and Puget Sound Business Journal• Generated more than 20 earned media placement for launch of Virtual Urgent Care product including Seattle Times, Geekwire, Tacoma News-Tribune, KING-TV and Puget Sound Business Journal.• Wrote more than 50 press releases each year• Retained more than 60% of Medicare Advantage patients through marketing efforts• Crisis communication planning included: union strike,personal health information data breach, phishing email scam, clinical affiliations and physician investigations

Tacoma, Wa

Managed media and public relations for health care system. Served as media spokesperson. Generated content for social media team and supervised social media engagement. Drafted speeches, talking points and presentation for senior executives. Lead marketing for Medicare Advantage enrollment. Leader in solving customer and patient issues. Lead crisis communications planning and served as public information officer.• Generated more than 75 earned media placements each year including The New York Times, ABC News, Reuters, Seattle Times, KING-TV, KOMO-TV, and Tacoma News-Tribune• Generated more than 20 earned media placements for launch of Virtual Urgent Care product including Seattle Times, Geekwire, Tacoma News-Tribune, KING-TV and Puget Sound Business Journal.• Crisis communication planning included: union strike, phishing email scam and personal health information data breach.

Managed public relations for Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Utah and Regence BlueShield of Idaho. Lead internal and external communications and developed public relations strategies. Served as company spokesperson. Collaborated with sales, marketing and community investment teams to promote products. • Led public relations effort for partnership with American Heart Association in eastern Idaho promoting CPR in public schools. Garnered more than 20 earned media placements. • Generated more than 50 earned media placements a year.

Managed media, public relations and public involvement for UDOT, Region Three. Lead public involvement on region construction projects and supervised consultants. Served as on-call media spokesperson and crisis communication public information officer. • Managed community outreach for more than 50 construction projects each year. • Supervised communications and community outreach on $1.5 Billion I-15 CORE project. • Quoted in more than 30 earned media stories each year.

Managed media, public relations and marketing for Salt Lake City affiliate. Directed public relations support for fundraising and secured media sponsorships. Lead communications for legislative advocacy efforts. Supervised volunteers. Acted as organization spokesperson.• Secured media sponsorships for Strides Against Breast Cancer event that raised more than $35K in first year. • Promoted awarding of more than $3M in research grants in Utah. • Generated more than 30 earned media stories each year.

Oversaw all marketing and public relations campaigns. Oversaw company publications, branding and direct mail fundraising efforts. Responsible for developing new membership recruitment tools and work on national membership campaigns. Oversaw national alumni association. Worked with product development and marketing of organization merchandise through store. Part of management team and worked with Board of Directors in continuing the mission of the organization.

Served as department media spokesperson, wrote department press releases, cultivated media contacts, responded to crisis situations, on call to answer media inquiries, monitored media coverage of department events, provided media training when requested, and facilitated interviews with department staff.