Responsible throughout corporate public relations career for leading all internal and external communications, senior management counseling, and a wide range of special events in advertising and related industries. This includes internal and external communications for mergers and acquisitions international and national recognition for key executives, products and services issue management and containment. Has established or restructured, designed and successfully implemented overall public relations programs on global, national and local levels. This includes identity issues, annual reports, special events, government relations, Website and Intranet development, setting up speaker's bureaus, direct marketing programs, employee relations programs including monthly newsletters stockholder's meetings. Expertise includes neutralizing "unfriendly" press environments, articulating and "selling" complicated issues to various publics. Maintains extensive contacts with the international and national business press and a wide variety of trade publications, international and national broadcast and consumer print media with a focus on online media outlets and blogs. Established relationships with key bloggers and executed blog & Twitter strategies. Serves as spokesperson, manages corporate communications staff, establishes and manages corporate communications budgets. Postions held reported to CEO. Has successfully run own PR consulting business.

Highlights:

• Public Relations
• Communications
• Services
• Management
• Advertising
• Audit
• Consulting
• Acquisitions
• Employee Relations
• Focus