Experience

MHVillage

• United States
• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President of Communications

  • Apr 2023 - Present

• Content Director/Executive Editor

  • Jan 2019 - Present

• Digital Content Strategist/Executive Editor

  • Apr 2017 - Present

  My work for MHVillage/Datacomp involves research, writing and editing to create illustrative and useful content. MHVillage boasts 25 million visitors annual. The site is responsible for $3 billion in home sales each year. My interest with MHVillage is to help convert what has primarily been a very useful listing site to one that maintains those attributes and is presented in more of an evocative light, a magazine-style experience at www.mhvillager.com blog for consumers & www.mhinsider.com blog for professionals. Show less

• Associate Vice President/Publisher

  • Jan 2020 - Mar 2023



RevereWriter

• Writer

  • Jun 2008 - Present

  I have written and edited a pair of history books, two corporate memoirs and portions of a critical analysis of the domestic auto industry, launched a furniture/technology product line, provided web content for a state-wide insurance company, created branding and positioning for a web business that serves families with young children, re-worked the brand and creative direction for a web-based personal and professional development platform and have ushered along myriad artists, musicians and entrepreneurs to the ideal marketing strategy. Show less



Waterfront Film Festival

• United States
• Entertainment
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Media Coordinator

  • 2009 - Nov 2015

  I plan and implement PR strategies, facilitate media promotions and partnerships and work as a liaison between reporters and the actors, directors, writers and producers who attend Waterfront Film Festival. We are an independent film festival held each year in June on the waterfront of Lake Michigan. SAG Indie rated Waterfront Film Festival among the Top 5 film fests in the world, alongside Sundance and Cannes. I plan and implement PR strategies, facilitate media promotions and partnerships and work as a liaison between reporters and the actors, directors, writers and producers who attend Waterfront Film Festival. We are an independent film festival held each year in June on the waterfront of Lake Michigan. SAG Indie rated Waterfront Film Festival among the Top 5 film fests in the world, alongside Sundance and Cannes.



Grand Rapids Community Media Center

• United States
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member -- President

  • Jun 2010 - Jul 2015

  I sit on the executive committee, lend support to the executive director, and always keep in the forefront the idea of building community through media. CMC board members provide oversight for the center's attributes; The Rapidian web news source, Wealthy Theatre, 88.1 WYCE, GRTV and myriad non-profit services including website building. I sit on the executive committee, lend support to the executive director, and always keep in the forefront the idea of building community through media. CMC board members provide oversight for the center's attributes; The Rapidian web news source, Wealthy Theatre, 88.1 WYCE, GRTV and myriad non-profit services including website building.



JetCo Solutions

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Proposal Manager/Technical Writer

  • Jun 2012 - Dec 2013

  I abide by rules of the solicitation, emphasize the client's solution through solid use of language, identify obstacles, organize, write, edit and provide comprehensive follow through for business to government sales. I abide by rules of the solicitation, emphasize the client's solution through solid use of language, identify obstacles, organize, write, edit and provide comprehensive follow through for business to government sales.



Williams Group

• Food and Beverage Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Writer

  • Sep 2010 - Aug 2011

  I assisted Wg clients with a patient, workman-like approach to language, offering consistency in form and quality of tone, and prepared each respective message for accurate and efficient delivery. I assisted Wg clients with a patient, workman-like approach to language, offering consistency in form and quality of tone, and prepared each respective message for accurate and efficient delivery.



The Holland Sentinel

• Business Editor

  • Nov 2004 - Jun 2008

  I was the one-man business desk, which was one of the things that attracted me to the job. I assigned and wrote my own stories. I took many of the photographs and video. I blogged. I helped plan each day's paper, and designed each day's business page or section. I drove my managing editor crazy by being really bad about calendaring. But I won the paper many of their good, lasting relationships by going to sources and being a real person, not just a reporter. Sometimes I never took my notepad out. And I always reveled in the opportunity to say "What story? There is no story..." And I meant it. Trust. Show less



Grand Rapids Press

• Reporter

  • 2002 - 2004

  I covered City of Wyoming planners and council, as well as Wyoming Public Schools, and began covering business developments within the city under the tutelage of GR Press Business Editor Nancy Crawley. I covered City of Wyoming planners and council, as well as Wyoming Public Schools, and began covering business developments within the city under the tutelage of GR Press Business Editor Nancy Crawley.

• Reporter

  • Jun 1999 - Mar 2000

  I was the beat reporter for City of Lowell government and schools, as well as Cascade Township Hall. I was the beat reporter for City of Lowell government and schools, as well as Cascade Township Hall.