Position:
Senior Communications Specialist at Piedmont Healthcare, President/Principal at FM Communications LLC
Industry:
Public Relations and Communications
Work:
Piedmont Healthcare
- Atlanta, Ga since Apr 2011
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Senior Communications Specialist
FM Communications LLC
- Roswell, GA since Jun 2010
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President/Principal
Stiefel, a GSK company
Jul 2007 - May 2011
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Communications Lead-Internal/Manager
BellSouth/AT&T
Jul 1999 - 2007
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Communications manager
The Times (Gannett Corp.)
May 1995 - May 1999
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Editorial page editor, political reporter
Education:
Centenary College of Louisiana 1993 - 1996
MBA, Business
Texas A&M University
BS, Journalism, Political Science
Skills:
Communications leadership, Change Communication, Business Transformation, Internal Communications, Corporate Communications, Community Relations, Public Relations, Media Relations, Strategic Communications, Executive Communications, Editing, Intranet, Marketing Communications, Writing, Copywriting, Copy Editing, Healthcare, Customer Service, Proposal Writing, Communications Management, Consultancy, News Writing, Newspaper, Editorial leadership, College instruction, Journalism, Online Video, Newsletters, Publications, Editorial writing and management, Management, Leadership, Communication Training
Honor & Awards:
Spearheaded Amber Alert program that won Computerworld Honors
--Two-time Pinnacle Club winner, BellSouth
--Contributor to Pulitzer Prize finalist entry, Shreveport Times.
--Numerous first-place national, regional, state, company and trade group awards during journalism career
--Circle of Excellence awards, Society of Professional Journalists