With over 15 years' experience as a professional writer and public relations consultant, I can offer you solid ability to develop editorial and PR solutions to meet short-term needs and long-term goals. I write, edit, and work with media to convey clear, consistent messages to your target audience and to favorably position people and issues to gain public awareness and trust. I deliver quality work on time and on budget, ensuring that your projects remain on schedule.

• copywriting
• speechwriting
• ghostwriting
• web content
• editing
• public relations
• newsletters/brochures
• crisis communications
• project management
• event planning
• media training
• media relations

I have worked with clients in the US and Canada, such as Women's College Hospital, NOVA Petrochemicals, and Sprint to develop communications and public relations solutions that create competitive advantage. Recent projects include:

• designing, writing, and managing production of annual review for a workplace health organization which enabled it to win a $5 million government grant for research.
• full communications support and media relations for "Women: A New Political Future" conference in Sarajevo, Bosnia, hosted by Hunt Alternatives, a Boston-based foundation, that resulted in favorable coverage in national and international media.
• creating public relations and media strategies to deflect negative press and public reaction to the planned layoffs of 1200 workers, resulting in dramatic improvement in media reaction to the organization's radical reengineering plan.

Ambassador Swanee Hunt, Director, Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard University and Head of Hunt Alternatives Foundation

• speechwriting, writing bylined articles, working with national and international media, and providing communications support for the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard University.

Rainier Corporation, Princeton, MA

• technical writing, writing bylined articles and press relations for high-tech accounts.
• authored technical white paper for Sprint Corporation dealing with Internet Protocols, Asynchronous Transfer Mode, frame relay, broadband networks, and SONET.

Ministry of Industry, Trade and Technology, Government of Ontario, Canada

• speechwriting and developing media kits, backgrounders, policy papers, legislative statements, and communications plans for politicians and senior civil servants, with the goal of attracting favorable media coverage for a wide variety of issues.

Ministry of Transportation, Government of Ontario, Canada

Ministry of Transportation, Government of Ontario, Canada

• speechwriting and editing speeches and legislative statements, acting as media liaison for senior cabinet ministers. I succeeded in attaining national media interest for ministers' roles in ameliorating contentious issues that had widespread impact in mainline and infrastructure ministries.

Calgary Tonite and Calgary Herald, Calgary, Alberta

• ghostwriting of daily column, and writing a series of articles on social issues, including teen prostitution, young offenders, family violence, and mental illness, that changed the newspaper's direction from an entertainment tabloid to an editorially influential publication in western Canada.

Child and Family, Journal of the California Alliance for the Mentally Ill, NOVA Now, Strad Magazine (UK), Calgary Herald, Calgary Tonite, omnivore

Name:	Lex Thomas
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