
Creative government communicator with a mission
Greater Seattle Area

Creative government communicator with a mission
Greater Seattle Area
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My professional mission is to use my skills and abilities to tell people about their government--so they can understand, influence and use its essential services. Information about our government must be clear, concise, consistent and correct if it's to have credibility with citizens.
I have more than 35 years of experience in planning, carrying out and coordinating public, news media, online, customer, and employee information programs. For 28 years, I've worked for public transit and water pollution control agencies serving the Greater Seattle area.
Communications planning, project management, publications production, writing and editing, plain language, news media relations, marketing communications, employee communications, Web site management, training, speech writing, executive communication, event planning, photography, graphic design, community relations.
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)
February 2006 — Present (2 years 9 months)
I supervise 15 Transit Division employees who plan, recommend, write, edit, design, stock, store, post, distribute, coordinate and manage timetables, brochures, facility signs, transit passes, bus stop schedules, maps and other information to help customers ride the bus.
(Writing and Editing industry)
November 1997 — Present (11 years)
My free Web portal -- www.garbl.com -- offers an editorial style manual, annotated directory of writing Web sites, concise writing guides, and bookshelf of recommended writing references. I hope you find this nonprofit Web site useful, bookmark your favorite pages, link to it from your Web site, and tell your family, friends, colleagues, students and fellow writers about it.