Qualifications:• Skilled communications professional with more than 20 years of public relations experience.• Strategic communications expertise in diverse subject areas including public transit, environment, legal affairs, finance, public safety, political campaigns and local government.• Crisis communications expert as on-camera spokesman for agencies facing national media.• Long-standing and trusted relationships with key reporters and producers in Chicago.Accomplishments:• Served as primary media spokesman for Mayor Rahm Emanuel's re-election campaign.• Directed $250,000 in media buys for CTA’s Red Line South and Ventra initiatives.• Created and directed Red Line South and Ventra Ambassador Programs to educate CTA riders about project impacts on customers. • Directed three-year public awareness campaign for Forest Preserve with a budget of more than $1.6 million dollars. • Responded to national media for 2010 fatal plane crash in Des Plaines River.• Coordinated media responses to 2003 fatal fire at the Cook County Administration Building.• Developed Forest Preserve’s “Live Healthy, Discover Nature” festival in downtown Chicago, attracting thousands.• Helped to create the Forest Preserve’s iPhone and Blackberry mobile applications.• Handled media inquiries for Cook County Medical Examiner as 700 people died in four-day heat wave.• Worked with staff and Royal advisors to help coordinate Princess Diana’s 1996 visit to Cook County Hospital.