Creative professional communicator with a mission
Greater Seattle Area
- Current
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- Chief of service information at King County Metro
- Owner and developer at Garbl's Writing Center
- Past
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- Public information officer at King County Wastwater Treatment Division
- Instructor at ITT Technical Institute
- Senior editor, Community Relations and Communications, at King County Department of Transportation
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- Education
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- University of Washington
- Central Washington University
- Mountlake Terrace High School
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- Industry
- Public Relations and Communications
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Gary B. Larson’s Summary
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 36 years of experience in planning, carrying out and coordinating public, news media, online, customer, employee, and student information programs. For more than 28 years, I've worked for public transit and water pollution control agencies serving the Greater Seattle area.
Gary B. Larson’s Specialties:
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.
Gary B. Larson’s Experience
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Chief of service information
King County Metro
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)
February 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)
I supervise 16 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. A current major project is planning, production and installation of a new family of bus stop signs that are more informative, easier to use and read, and more attractive.
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Owner and developer
Garbl's Writing Center
(Writing and Editing industry)
November 1997 — Present (11 years 9 months)
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.
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