Experience

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  Write for You

  • Houston, Texas Area and Virtual

  • Executive Communications and Research Consulting

    • 2013 - Present
    • Houston, Texas Area and Virtual

    Providing executive communications and research on a consulting or full-time basis. From blogs to books, I can strategize and craft any needed communications. Have written for technology, construction management, engineering, energy, healthcare, retail, legal and educational organizations.

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  Information Services Group Int'l Corp

  • Houston, Texas Area

  • Research Specialist and Speech Writer | Executive Communications | Research

    • Dec 2003 - Mar 2013
    • Houston, Texas Area

    Researched ITO and BPO sourcing/management consulting industry and its competitors. Created quarterly reports to top executives on company and industry results. Offered recommendations based on statistics. Strategized and scripted the quarterly TPI Index Call, the major thought-leadership executi...

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  Hewlett-Packard (Compaq)

  • Houston, Texas Area

  • Competitive Intelligence Content Manager | Executive Communications

    • Jan 2001 - Dec 2003
    • Houston, Texas Area

    Created daily and monthly reports on competitor activities for executives. Highlighted financials, innovations and business trends. Strategized and contributed to messaging for sales and executive communications.

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  EDS Group

  • Dallas/Fort Worth Area

  • Senior Market Content Developer & Speechwriter (Executive Communications)

    • 2000 - 2001
    • Dallas/Fort Worth Area

    Strategized messaging and wrote content for executive and marketing communications. This content became sales collateral, media content and executive communications (speeches and reports).

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  National Science Foundation-Center for Research...

  • Houston, Texas Area

  • Associate Director, External Relations and Executive Communications, Rice Uni...

    • 1994 - 2000
    • Houston, Texas Area

    Led a team of five communications/external relations professionals for this NSF Center. Directed all media relations. Responsible for brochures, events (15+/year), government reports and web site content.The CRPC represented the largest grant in university history to that date. Also wrote speeche...

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  Tenneco, Inc. and Sandy Corporation

  • Houston, Texas Area; Detroit, Michigan Area

  • Senior Speechwriter and Communications Consultant

    • 1986 - 1994
    • Houston, Texas Area; Detroit, Michigan Area

    Wrote speeches for top executives at Tenneco, General Motors, IBM and other companies. Wrote my favorite speech, delivered to top Chinese Communist Industrialists at the World Economic Forum in Beijing, China. Also did a series of speeches for automotive conferences and for internal GM programs t...

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  ExxonMobil

  • Houston, Texas Area

  • Supervising Editor, Technical Research I Executive Communications

    • 1981 - 1983
    • Houston, Texas Area

    Supervised a staff of five editors who edited research documents at Exxon Production Research Company. Wrote all speeches for top executives. Wrote, edited and helped produce a major capabilities brochure supporting an important oil & gas concession in China (offshore).Attended Exxon's Ma...