Lunar Mosaic 05/2025 – Present
May 2025 - Present
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Strategic Communications and Public Participation Lead
Tempe, AZ
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- ‣ Generated 2,000+ actionable leads for use with agency email marketing campaigns.
- ‣ Built brand identities and marketing collateral for 9 clients in fitness, AI, tourism, education, manufacturing, and skilled trades
- ‣ Designed and launched 12 client websites, including booking, digital-menu, and payment-integrated builds.
- ‣ Created estimate, proposal, and brand-development templates that standardized client-facing deliverables agency-wide
Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT)
Nov. 2023 – May 2025
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Community Relations Project Manager
Phoenix, AZ
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- ‣ Directed public involvement for 15 projects worth $4.4B+ (€4.1B+), including the $3.5B SR 30/Loop and $613M Loop 303 corridor.
- ‣ Managed local agencies and consultants to ensure contract, federal, and state regulatory compliance.
- ‣ Led demographic, Environmental Justice, LEP, and constraints analyses ensuring full regulatory compliance across all projects.
- ‣ Executed outreach to residents and organizations through meetings and events to build project awareness.
- ‣ Designed graphics and content for social media and the ADOT website to expand project reach and awareness.
- ‣ Translated public involvement materials into Spanish, extending equitable outreach to LEP communities.
Torres Multicultural Communications
Sept. 2021 – June 2023
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Public Involvement Account Supervisor
Phoenix, AZ
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- ‣ Led a 4-person team to zero turnover and consistent high performance across rail, freeway, and workforce development contracts.
- ‣ Designed an employee development program (coaching, protected training time, MOOC funding) adopted as company standard.
- ‣ Built an in-house learning management system, eliminating manual onboarding and improving mandatory-training tracking.
Your Project Marketing and Outreach
June 2018 – Aug. 2021
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Public Involvement Project Manager
Phoenix, AZ
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- ‣ Managed public involvement for 42 transportation and water/wastewater projects across Arizona municipalities.
- ‣ Drove a 10x reach increase for a 4-month arterial reconstruction: 300,000+ impressions, website visits from dozens to 13,500+.
- ‣ Oversaw construction-phase community relations, ensuring coordination of construction activities with stakeholders.
- ‣ Launched the firm's digital advertising services, enabling new high-impact offerings for public-sector clients.
- ‣ Directed community relations planning for a $776M freeway project, including oversight of a $500K mobile app prototype.
Method Social Kinetics
Nov. 2016 – June 2018
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Political and Communications Strategist
Tempe, AZ
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- ‣ Directed branding and strategic communications for 15 campaigns, including congressional, legislative, and other races.
- ‣ Led a statewide campaign reaching more people than the total AZ electorate.
- ‣ Managed 14 staff, 6 contractors, and volunteers that completed 26,000 calls, 53,000 texts, 23,000 door-knocks.
- ‣ Unseated a six-term incumbent against polling projections.
- ‣ Earned media coverage from CNN, BBC, Washington Post, and other national outlets
