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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Personally establish, grow, and maintain a fully functioning government affairs practice offering wide range of government affairs, community affairs, and political consulting services.  Serve as primary organizational representative, business strategist, issue manager and direct advocate to advance clients’ interests and objectives, while monitoring and tracking all relevant legislation.Organize, supervise, and engage in effective task delegation for nationwide team of… Show more Personally establish, grow, and maintain a fully functioning government affairs practice offering wide range of government affairs, community affairs, and political consulting services.  Serve as primary organizational representative, business strategist, issue manager and direct advocate to advance clients’ interests and objectives, while monitoring and tracking all relevant legislation.Organize, supervise, and engage in effective task delegation for nationwide team of Government Affairs and Community Relation professionals. Create overarching strategic work plan & successfully implement daily tasks, including legislator & community stakeholder outreach.Noted Accomplishments:Honored to be selected as trusted source of critical actionable information for political affiliates. Exceled at procuring large blocks of government funding for multiple large-scale client projects. Show less

Washington D.C.

Represented multiple corporate and non-profit interests before the Congress, White House and state capitals across the country.Served as one of four acting corporate partners, with emphasis on personnel management, recruitment, and oversight of active student internship programming. Clients included Associated Industries of Massachusetts, the Nuclear Energy Institute, The Exelon Corporation, the Edison Electric Institute, The Swarthmore Group, the Hepatitis B Foundation, The… Show more Represented multiple corporate and non-profit interests before the Congress, White House and state capitals across the country.Served as one of four acting corporate partners, with emphasis on personnel management, recruitment, and oversight of active student internship programming. Clients included Associated Industries of Massachusetts, the Nuclear Energy Institute, The Exelon Corporation, the Edison Electric Institute, The Swarthmore Group, the Hepatitis B Foundation, The Pittsburgh Economic Development Organization, Environmax, and the Crosscurrent Corporation.Noted Accomplishments:Successfully procured funding for the development of US made Emergency Energy Transformers for use after terrorist attackEarned Department of Defense support in piloting multimillion dollar project improving agency handling of toxic waste materials. Show less

Eastern Region, United States

Responsible for directing and coordinating all state government affairs activities in 11 eastern U.S. states, as well as managing broad-spectrum national health care issues. Closely collaborated with multiple internal government partners to incorporate state government affairs and public policy activity into strategic and comprehensive business plans.Acted as primary Kodak liaison with the National Governors Association, the Republican Governors Association, and the State… Show more Responsible for directing and coordinating all state government affairs activities in 11 eastern U.S. states, as well as managing broad-spectrum national health care issues. Closely collaborated with multiple internal government partners to incorporate state government affairs and public policy activity into strategic and comprehensive business plans.Acted as primary Kodak liaison with the National Governors Association, the Republican Governors Association, and the State Leg-islative Leaders Foundation. Noted Accomplishments:Along with the National Foreign Trade Council, directly supported leadership in nationwide coalition against Massachu-setts sanctions law; law was ultimately overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. Personally led effort to shift team focus, resulting in massive transition from 70% internally focused/30% external to 70% ex-ternal/30% internal, dramatically increasing company’s visibility and brand in government markets. Show less

Performed as primary manager of government affairs office, and honored with promotion to VP at one-year anniversary. Acted as public-facing representative for over 5,000 MA businesses when communicating with the federal government, collaborating on all matters of interest to the association, primarily those centered around business costs and healthcare practices.Regularly presented to 70-member Boston Board of Directors to update on DC activities, functionally serving as… Show more Performed as primary manager of government affairs office, and honored with promotion to VP at one-year anniversary. Acted as public-facing representative for over 5,000 MA businesses when communicating with the federal government, collaborating on all matters of interest to the association, primarily those centered around business costs and healthcare practices.Regularly presented to 70-member Boston Board of Directors to update on DC activities, functionally serving as political liaison for large group of distinguished Massachusetts CEO’s.Accepted full responsibility for promoting organization’s legislative agenda with executive and legislative branches of government.Provided full participation in the organization’s Health Care, Unemployment Insurance, and Taxation committees. Noted Accomplishments:Successfully carried important spending issues to U.S. Supreme Court, permanently modifying two overly expensive laws and achieving what others had found impossible while managing daily government affairs activities. Actively served as coalition leader against state sanctions law and worked tirelessly to change unfair funding streams for significant environmental opponents to the organization. Show less

Boston, Massachusetts

Served with unfailing dedication for nine years within the Commonwealth’s Health and Human Services Secretariat beginning as Administrative Assistant of the Legislative Office and ending as Legisatlive Director for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Consistently acted as primary communication point for 19 major human services agencies legislative offices. Performed as constituent service contact for members of legislature for any issue within the human services… Show more Served with unfailing dedication for nine years within the Commonwealth’s Health and Human Services Secretariat beginning as Administrative Assistant of the Legislative Office and ending as Legisatlive Director for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Consistently acted as primary communication point for 19 major human services agencies legislative offices. Performed as constituent service contact for members of legislature for any issue within the human services secretariat. Thoroughly and efficiently processed all human services-enacted legislation within the Governor’s office.Noted Accomplishments:Directly supported the victorious establishment of a new investigative office of client deaths.Provided quality supportive services for the newly established Commission of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.Spearheaded funding for breast cancer detection and treatment, AIDS research and tobacco cessations programs. Show less