Inspiring Manager

• Supervise Miller Center communications staff of 11 responsible for web, video and print products.

• Directed more than 50 journalists at the Lafayette Journal & Courier, Muncie Star Press and Richmond Palladium-Item providing award-winning online, mobile and print coverage of three Indiana communities.

• Led 100-person Stars and Stripes editorial staff producing independent daily newspaper and Internet products for U.S. service members overseas. Reinvigorated news coverage, leading to a Polk Award and a National Headliner Award for Public Service.

• Restructured four editorial departments to reduce expenses while simultaneously increasing productivity and awarding incentive raises to top employees.

• Overhauled employee performance evaluation systems to emphasize fairness, consistency, clear expectations and actionable feedback.

• Supervised staff of 20 Chicago Tribune foreign and national correspondents.

• Led and developed staff of 65 employees who designed and produced Chicago Tribune websites.

• Mentored writers and editors at Washington City Paper alternative weekly while expanding staff diversity.

Internet Innovator

• Led comprehensive redesign of millercenter.org, third-largest U.S. think tank website (5.2m uniques/year).

• Doubled year-over-year earned media appearances for Miller Center experts (valued at $2.4 million/month).

• Directed geometric growth on Miller Center social media channels (10x increase in Facebook “likes” and reach)

• Created and taught new metrics-driven analytical approach to journalistic decision-making in Gannett newsrooms across the country.

• Charted new Internet growth strategy for Stars and Stripes and led redesign of stripes.com website, positioning it as a curated gateway for military news updated 24/7 by editors around the world.

• Forged new social media relationships that demonstrated how mainstream journalists and bloggers could enhance each other's work, leading to viral distribution of my stories to huge new audiences.

• Managed the Chicago Tribune's early forays onto the web, pioneering a bold front-page web design in 1998 that today is a news industry design standard.

• Guided content strategies for MinorityInterest.com, a start-up targeted at underserved American audiences.

Groundbreaking Journalist

• Created new national civil rights beat at the Chicago Tribune.

• Uncovered stories that led to a $9 million court award for the victim of a racial beating, the release from prison of a 14-year-old girl and the largest American civil rights demonstration in a generation.

• Won five national journalism awards.

• Chronicled historic events including the Oklahoma City bombing, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the end of apartheid in South Africa, Hurricane Katrina and the election of President Barack Obama.