KEY QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience and competency in the new information technologies and B2B and B2C strategies
• A track record of achievements with Internet and Intranet development.
• Person-centered management style that promotes efficiency and cooperation in adapting to new systems.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts well and at ease in person and in print.
• Analytical mind that clarifies difficult issues quickly.
• Proven experience in video production.
• Recognized magazine editorial and management competency.
• A lifetime commitment to issues involving the poor and deprived worldwide.
• Technical competency in MS Office 2000 and database and financial software.

EXPERIENCE:

Gaspra Technologies
Director of Corporate Communications June 2000 - October 2000

• Formulated and implemented a marketing and public relations strategy.
• Supervised graphic and editorial content for three marketing web sites.
• Coordinated and supported a four-person marketing team

François-Xavier Bagnoud US Foundation, New York
Director of Communications/IT 1993 - June 2000

• Designed and implemented an Internet strategy (www.fxb.org) to advocate for AIDS orphans with the media, the public, and policy makers.
• Increased cooperation and sharing of valuable global experiences by foundation's grantees through a strategically-designed Intranet.
• Assisted grantees to use new media technologies to accomplish their objectives.
• Secured significant print and TV coverage for the foundation initiatives with health and human rights, children's rights, and pediatric HIV/AIDS.
• Developed a flexible, virtual and almost paperless approach to foundation budgets; project reviews; board meetings; and reports.
• Created innovative media events for the dedication of a $20 million building and human rights center at Harvard; the endowment of university chairs; awarding of international aerospace prizes ($250,000 biennially) for human development; release of worldwide survey of HIV/AIDS prevalence - to obtain maximum media coverage.

Agendas International, Inc. New York
Vice President 1983 - 1993

• Assisted foreign governments to understand and analyze US news coverage of their policies through daily news summaries.
• Transmitted immediately to them proactive strategies to respond to these news reports.
• Equipped embassies and ministries with the latest in computer hardware and communications technologies.
• Created innovative formats of news summaries and analyses.
• Arranged editorial board meetings for presidents and high-level ministers at major US newspapers and weekly magazines.
• Secured live interviews for them on major TV news interview shows.
• Planned media events and appearances for foreign dignitaries at major universities and prestigious public fora.
• Wrote opinion articles on high profile foreign policy issues for publication in major U.S. newspapers.

United Nations Development Program (UNDP) New York
Director, Media Relations 1974-1983

• Formulated innovative publications to explain to the American public the impact of the social and economic projects of the UN.
• Revamped the public information strategies of UNDP offices in Latin America.
• Lobbied leading news organizations to write about the UN.
• Wrote and spoke about human development issues to university audiences, corporations and foundations
• Organized facilities and briefings for print and electronic media at UN global conferences.

Maryknoll Magazine, New York
Editor
World Horizon Films, New York
Producer 1963 - 1974

• Redesigned a monthly national magazine with a readership of more than a million families.
• Supervised the reporting and writing of correspondents and photographers in a dozen countries.
• Traveled extensively to write special reports in Latin American, Asia and Africa.
• Received national awards and for editorial coverage and quality.
• Supervised budgets for an editorial and publications department.
• Produced, edited and filmed award-winning documentaries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

EDUCATION:

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
M.S., Journalism

State University of New York
B.D., Theology

State University of New York
M.R.E., Education

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
Maria Moors Cabot Prize, Columbia University, for distinguished writing and filming about Latin America Alfred I. Du Pont Award, for films on Peru and Chile
Catholic Press Association awards, for magazine editing, writing and photography

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member, Technology Affinity Group, Council on Foundations
Board Member, International Congress of Distinguished Awards
Small Grants Committee, Global Health Council, Washington, D.C.