Background.

Present: This year I retired as communication director at the Oregon Business Council, a position I held since 2011. There I had responsibility for writing, editing, and communication of OBC's public policy work, as well as some policy formation...

My career in business and public policy communication began in the early 1970s with an initial focus on program planning and grant writing. Then I expanded into marketing, business planning, and investor communications. In the mid '80s I began to work on statewide public policy projects while continuing, in the ensuing decades, to handle a mix of corporate, government, and nonprofit assignments. 

Early Career: My consulting career builds on prior experience, including five years of daily newspaper reporting and editing, first at The Oregonian in Portland, and then at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia. Between employment at those papers, I served in the U.S. Army as assistant public affairs officer at the Department of Defense Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk. When I returned to Portland in 1970 I worked two years at the precursor to Education Northwest where I had responsibility for program development and grant writing. 

Community Service: Over the years I've served on boards and committees for a number of civic, charitable, and arts organizations, and consulted pro bono with others. I've also done communications work for both local and statewide political campaigns.

Education: I earned a BS degree in 1967 from what is now Western Oregon University. I read widely and I've taken a fair number of upper division, graduate, and technical courses in political science, literature, business finance, writing, art, and computer applications.

Personal Interests: Reading, golf, physical training, public affairs and political issues, home and garden projects.