Experience

Employment and long term contracts

Ketchum Public Relations, pre tempore Senior Vice President, Corporate Practice

Trillium Health Centre, interim Communications and Marketing Director, responsible for internal and external communications and marketing campaigns for five months (See Praise)

Raising the Roof, Communications Director responsible for communications planning and media relations

Ontario Centres of Excellence, Communications Director, responsible for issue management, government and stakeholder relations, media relations, communications and marketing. The Ontario Centres of Excellence are responsible for technology transfer from universities to the corporate sector (See Praise)

Addiction Research Foundation, Direct of Public Affairs, member of senior management responsible for strategic communications planning; media, government and stakeholder relations, media training and  internal communications (See Praise)

Government of Ontario, Ministry of Tourism and Recreation, Manager, Media Relations and Communications Planning (See Praise)

News Media experience:  Managing Editor, Etobicoke Guardian, Lakeshore Advertiser (urban weekly newspapers); Reporter, Kingston Whig Standard (daily); Editor, Belleville Intelligencer (daily); Ontario Copy Desk, Canadian Press

Freelance writing

Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, The Ottawa Citizen; Maclean’s Magazine

Speechwriting/ghost writing

Non-fiction mass market book on behaviour modification in children; corporate history, Delcan Engineering; op ed opinion pieces, The Globe and Mail; Ministries of Health, Attorney General, Economic Development, Trade and Tourism.