Experience

I Marine Expeditionary Force

• United States
• Armed Forces
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Plans and Operations Officer, COMMSTRAT

  • Mar 2022 - Present

  • Served as a project manager for over 30 deployed public affairs teams executing operations in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Egypt, the Federated States of Micronesia, France, French Polynesia, Indonesia, Kosrae, Malaysia, Mexico, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Timor-Leste, United Arab Emirates, and the United States. • Developed data-driven communication strategy plans and evaluated their effectiveness for the 150 COMMSTRAT Marines supporting more than 46,000 Marines based on the west coast. • Acted as the primary liaison between Marine Corps personnel and Wunderman Thompson marketing agents to film content for 2022 Marine Corps recruiting campaigns. Show less



1st Marine Division

• United States
• Armed Forces
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Media Officer

  • Feb 2021 - Feb 2022

  • Escorted six Polish media representatives aboard Marine aircraft for flight demonstrations and facilitated official interviews with Marine Corps personnel in support of Bell Aircraft Corporation’s sales case of the H-1 airframe to Poland. • Facilitated engagement with command personnel and media, including: the New York Times interview with the commander responsible for evacuating Afghan refugees from HKI airport; PBS News Hour’s coverage of extremism in the ranks training; the media tour of the first operational unit to field the Marine Corps’ newest amphibious vehicle; and congressional and media engagement with the final service member to receive the Purple Heart for actions in Afghanistan.• Served as the crisis officer engaging media in interviews, escorts, and responses to query for mishaps, service member misconduct and Uniformed Code of Military Justice Court Martial proceedings, and senior officer relief of command. Show less

• COMMSTRAT Director

  • Sep 2021 - Oct 2021

  • Developed communication products for South America’s largest military exercise featuring 19 nations. • Served as the commander’s principal advisor on public affairs matters and prepared him and command personnel for official interviews and engagements with owned and international media. • Led a deployed split-team in content collection of EXERCISE UNITAS 2021 while distributed 500 miles apart.

• Operations Officer, COMMSTRAT

  • Jan 2020 - Feb 2021

  • Led 20 Marines in producing 982 communication products which placed in 159 media outlets.• Structured the training of four adjacent COMMSTRAT units and organized their combined support to EXERCISE STEEL KNIGHT 2020, enabling purpose-built, task-organized teams to conduct experimentation and support military operations.