Professional Skills

Administration

Directed programs and managed communications for projects in many departments. Consultant for institutional change with 180 colleges and universities. Led cross-operational groups to collaborate and reach consensus on major projects. Managed traffic for publication, content development, and project logistics. Responsibilities: annual budgets/finances, grants making (arts and sciences), design of program assessment and curricular reform, external reviews, human resource management (recruited, hired, and supervised staff), and event management (visiting writers, skills workshops, and convention planning).

Communication

• Writing: book reviews, editorial commentary, fiction, business and public relations copy, manuscripts and scholarly articles in web and print publications.
• Editing and proofreading: newspapers, journals, business publications. Writing instruction (creative, business, general audience, scholarly).
• Public speaking: national presentations for general audiences, boards of trustees, managers, and professional specialists in education, media studies, and publishing.

Creative

• Conceptual design, content development: American popular culture - film, fiction, music, media, advertising, fashion, social policy and politics. Topics include gangsta rap, the Mob, the U.S. drug war, conspiracy theory, artificial intelligence, madness, and sexuality and ethnicity in multicultural advertising.
• Community Work: member of arts programs boards and councils, developed and served in public humanities and arts program, developed and facilitated continuing education groups for various organizations.

Technical:

comprehensive research and computer skills