Thomas Ruyle Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

* Primary line editor of U.S. Army Inspector General Agency reports, memorandums, briefings, slides, publications and other written products for a variety of internal and external audiences. * Team Lead for establishing and improving USAIGA's Public Affairs and Strategic Communications capabilities. * Lead writer and photographer for USAIGA Public Affairs products, including news stories and web content. * Designated speechwriter for The Inspector General.

Fort Meade, Md

* Chief editor of the Department of Defense Visual Information Style Guide (VISG) and VISG mobile app. * Acting Public Affairs team lead, including development and execution of overall outreach plans. * Assisted in developing, writing and implementing new policies, procedures and curriculum relating to DoD Visual Information.* Team lead for rebuild and launch of the dimoc.mil website (April 2018). * Trained military Combat Camera and Public Affairs photographers in writing effective, historically relevant captions.* Worked with the Defense Information School to ensure students are trained to standard in Visual Information policies and expectations.

Fort Meade, Md

* Edited DoD Combat Camera and Public Affairs photos for content, spelling, grammar, style and military issues (units, equipment, terminology, etc).* Assigned as Liaison Officer to PACOM and SOUTHCOM Public Affairs and Combat Camera elements; coordinated flow of imagery from those commands to DefenseImagery.mil * Worked with U.S. military personnel to ensure accuracy and timely results in all imagery products, as well as coordinating imagery coverage of military exercises and operations worldwide.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

* Designed and edited news pages at the Department of Defense's editorially independent newspaper for U.S. military personnel overseas. * Assisted in production of four editions daily (Middle East, Europe, Japan and Korea) with a total circulation of about 100,000. * Completed a top-to-bottom overhaul of the Stars and Stripes stylebook, as well as creating a training program for fellow editors on military terminology as it applies to journalism.* Regularly produced front, inside, sports, business and feature pages using InDesign. * Extensive knowledge of military terminology, equipment, ranks and organization.

Lewiston, Maine, United States

* Designed and edited news and sports pages at a regional daily newspaper in central/western Maine, with a 35,000 daily circulation.

Sedalia, Missouri, United States

* Managed copy desk and design operations at a small daily newspaper in central Missouri with a daily circulation of about 12,000.* Assisted staff members with stories relating to military or veterans' issues, including editing of a book on regional war veterans.

Wilmington, North Carolina, United States

* Designed and edited news, features and occasional sports pages at a 50,000+ daily circulation newspaer serving Southeastern North Carolina.

* Deployed to Iraq from March 2004 - December 2004 with HHC, 1/120th Infantry, 30th Brigade Combat Team. * Provided battlefield analysis to battalion staff and command under combat conditions. * Managed 50 interpreters of several regional languages. * Honorably Discharged; Army Commendation Medal (2nd award), GWOT-S, GWOT-E, Armed Forces Reserve Medal with 'M'.

* Managed day-to-day operations of a weekly collegiate newspaper (4,000+ circulation), including setting news budgets, improving training and initiating technological upgrades. * Upgraded the newspaper's standing as a relevant and reputable news source for the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, a 10,000+ student campus in southeastern North Carolina. * Staff writer during the 1998-1999 academic year.

* Trained as an Automated Logistics Specialist in 1994. * 1st Corps Support Command (COSCOM), Fort Bragg, NC from Jan 1995 to July 1998. * Received on-the-job training as a newspaper correspondent and editor from September 1997 through July 1998 at the 1st COSCOM Public Affairs Office. Wrote articles, took photos and edited stories for the Fort Bragg Paraglide newspaper. * Honorably Discharged; Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Good Conduct Medal.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Homeland Security

Focusing on Domestic Violent Extremism.

Ba, History

Activities and Societies: The Seahawk newspaperEditor-in-Chief, The Seahawk, May 1999 - May 2001 Staff Writer, The Seahawk, August 1998.

History

42 credit hours. Left CMU (then-Mesa State College) to join the U.S. Army in 1994.