Communications professional with over 30 years of experience in public relations, marketing, media relations, and special events planning. A hands-on manager with proven business skills in developing comprehensive marketing plans and budgets, staff supervision, and employee/community/corporate relations, as well as creative talents in copywriting, layout design, and photography for print, broadcast, Internet, and social media. History of starting up marketing departments and organizations and developing them into viable, solvent, and productive resources. Energetic, dedicated, self-starter with outstanding verbal, written, and people skills.