Oversee all external content and editorial initiatives, including writing executive speeches, thought leadership articles, white papers, press releases and media statements; planning, assigning and editing posts for social channels and the company blog; and working with product teams to conceive and maintain all web and app copy.Manage in-house PR team and external agency in developing and executing communications strategies, and achieving ambitious earned media goals.Work with in-house creative team and external marketing agency in developing consumer-facing branded content, including OTT ads, digital ad campaigns and CRM outreach.

Manage key communication processes and create external, multi-faceted editorial content for automotive fintech startup. Work cross-functionally between marketing, product, design and brand teams – as well as executive leadership – to identify, develop and craft key company messages.• Collaborate with Fair CEO Scott Painter in writing bi-weekly articles for Inc.com, focusing on fundraising, company-building, and other entrepreneurial topics. • Write external communications for stakeholders and potential investors that frame Fair’s key messages and advantageously position the company in the auto fintech space.• Conduct and oversee writing of Fair’s white papers, coordinating and scheduling multiple ongoing projects with company subject matter experts in finance, risk and other disciplines.• Work with Chief Marketing Officer Help and Head of Brand to develop brand-related strategy and content, including defining and building a slate of key buyer personas, helping identify and craft our primary value propositions, and writing website and advertising copy.• Interface with Director of Communications and external public relations team from Edelman PR in maximizing Fair media opportunities, including writing company press releases, crafting responses to media inquiries.• Work with Fair's Head of Product and engineers to execute UX writing duties for Fair’s groundbreaking iOS app – the first all-digital solution for getting a car entirely on your phone.• Coordinate clearing of company communications with Fair’s General Counsel and legal staff, while also working with them on an ongoing basis to establish and maintain an efficient system for doing so.• Assist Fair’s product marketing and growth-hacking efforts by creating copy for ongoing email and promotional campaigns.• Support Social Media Manager in implementing Fair’s social media program, including posts and campaigns on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other platforms.

Developed and successfully pitched movie ideas for top entertainment producers and talent, including Sandra Bullock, Chris Pratt, Ice Cube and Dwayne Johnson. Have sold 10 feature & television screenplays to studios including Paramount, 20th Century, Dreamworks, Columbia Pictures and New Line. Conceived and co-wrote Hulu’s Vacation Friends, which starred John Cena and was nominated for a 2021 People’s Choice Award for Best Comedy. A sequel, Honeymoon Friends, is scheduled to begin production Sept. 1st. Projects• Housesitters (ABC Network)• Vacation Friends (20th Century Fox)• Sullivan's Sluggers (Broken Road Productions)• Harvey Richards: Lawyer for Kids (New Line Cinema) • The Swap (Columbia Pictures)• One of the Guys (20th Century Fox)• Time Travel for Dummies (20th Century Fox)• Strike (Paramount Vantage)• Deers & Beers (Montecito Picture Company)

Directed and executed marketing and communications strategies for Los Angeles-based environmental software startup, producing all advertising and web materials, writing a regular blog, generating press releases and client proposals, managing social media and Google Adwords accounts, and driving online and organic brand awareness through in-person and online demos for large institutional clients. From a baseline of zero, my efforts resulted in SmartComment tripling its business in each of my three years there, as well as achieving the top Google search result across several critical keywords – most notably "public comment software." My efforts attracted a nationwide roster of client accounts, including the City of San Francisco, the Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering, the Washington State Department of Ecology, the Army Corps of Engineers, Caltrans, LA Metro, the North Carolina Dept. of Transportation, the Colorado Department of Transportation, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, and many others.

Managed external communications and media strategies for international investment bank based in Los Angeles, ranked as the #1 merger & acquisition advisor for transactions under $1 billion • Created advertising campaigns and wrote executive speeches, articles and white papers • Edited more than a dozen monthly newsletters sent to analysts, CEOs and corporate officers across our various industry-focused investment banking practices• Wrote press releases and fostered media relationships across a wide breadth of mainstream and financial publications, driving a considerable increase in media coverage and queries for our in-house industry experts • Initiated and managed a trade publication media outreach program, resulting in our food & beverage practice co-sponsoring an annual conference with Stagnito Publishing, and the head of our consumer group writing a regular column for Women’s Wear Daily

Managed public relations for nation’s second-largest private transit provider• Identified and pitched stories to media, and wrote articles for targeted trade publications• Regularly interfaced with the dozens of local and regional government entities we served and managed numerous public outreach efforts, including promotional campaigns for new service routes and facilities• Developed a speaker's bureau and crisis communications program, both of which we relied on when one of our premier transit systems, Foothill Transit in the San Gabriel Valley, had to extract itself from two inherited routes that were de facto school bus lines running against Federal Transit Authority rules. I coordinated informational meetings for involved schools and a public outreach campaign that resulted in a public understanding of our predicament and defused a potentially contentious situation with several of our local governments.• Managed ATC’s national sponsorship of Serena’s Song, the world’s first wheelchair accessible hot-air balloon. Handled publicity and coordinated all aspects of appearances in cities across the country. Efforts garnered positive media coverage for ATC in such publications as Reader’s Digest, Guideposts, Good Day Live, CNN Radio and numerous newspapers and television stations.

Researched and wrote national, regional and statewide stories for the world’s largest newsgathering organization. Working under strict deadline, areas of coverage included general news, statehouse issues, crime, business and sports • Regularly ran state news desks, responsible for assigning, editing and supervising all AP stories distributed to dozens of member newspapers, and news and radio stations. • Coordinated national reporting of many breaking news stories, including an Oklahoma State University plane crash that killed 10 people associated with its basketball program • Covered Oklahoma football team throughout its 2001 national championship season• Reported on numerous high-profile court cases, including hearings for convicted Oklahoma City bombing accomplice Terry Nichols and an estate case involving Elian Gonzalez • Personally covered six executions, including background stories on trials and coverage of appeal hearings and protests • Won a Katie Award from the Dallas Press Club for my part in a series of articles on the five-year anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing

Enlisted as a military journalist with the 103rd Public Affairs Detachment, where I produced news stories, press releases and escorted media during multiple training exercises and military operations, including a NATO deployment to Bosnia• Received highest graduating honors out of more than 50 students in the Basic Journalist Course at the Defense Information School in Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., in June 1994 • During six-month NATO deployment, escorted reporters from all major networks as well as New York Times and Discovery Channel. Also wrote and edited a publication based in Taszar, Hungary, for U.S. soldiers engaged in the Bosnia mission• Distinguished Honor Graduate from Officer Candidate School, which included rigorous leadership and tactical training, as well as intensive physical conditioning. Graduated with a commission as an infantry lieutenant and joined the 1-163rd Infantry Batallion as a platoon leader