patty sullivan

senior communications advisor

About

Experienced Director Of Public Affairs with a demonstrated history of working on government projects including fisheries, rail, port, and natural resource development. Strong media and communication professional skilled in writing, strategy, crisis communications, event management, photography, presentations, and editing. Strategic communications helped in garnering $154 million in state appropriations for rail and in authorizing commercial fisheries regulations to allow more fish passage north in the hotly-contested Cook Inlet.

Country

united states

City

wasilla

Industry

oil & energy

Skill

press releases, media relations, crisis communications, video, public relations, speech writing, strategic communications, social media, message development, internal communications, spokesperson, news writing, government, corporate communications, writing, journalism, publications, graphic design, storytelling, community development, ap style, publicity, facebook, copy editing, newspapers, public speaking, feature articles, web content, strategic planning, radio, editing, event planning, social media marketing, event management, video production, community outreach

Experience

bureau radio reporter, editor for matanuska-susitna borough

kska public radio alaska public broadcasting

1999-1 - 2005-1 · 6 yrs 1 mo

Worked unsupervised in satellite office for six years and captured the Mat-Su Borough in sound. Work aired nationally on National Public Radio including Road Kill 101: Making a Meal of Moose. Reporting on State legislators, energy, and local government. Radio Journalist of the Year Award, Alaska Public Radio Network Edward R. Murrow Award, West Coast, for radio feature for small radio stations PRNDI Award, national field, Public Radio News Directors Inc.

senior communications advisor

conocophillips

2019-4 - Present · 7 yrs 6 mos

Writing about one-of-a-kinds on the North Slope: the largest mobile land rig in North America, the rotary well with the farthest reach with combined footage, and 50 years in the industry for an employee who started work as the legacy fields began. Originator, host, producer of new internal podcast FarthestNorth, a look at energy exploration and development work on the 71st parallel.

public affairs director

matanuska-susitna borough

2005-12 - 2019-4 · 13 yrs 5 mos

* Strategic information campaigns * speech writing for executives * master of ceremony * photography * video * video production * radio commercial production and narration * senior writer * crisis management * lead Public Information Officer on multiple federal, State, and local disasters * graphic design * annual report production * podcast producer and interviewer * making clear, the complex

Education

university of california

university of california, berkeley

journalism

1994-1 - 1995-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

Activities and Societies: Thesis on Yusuf Bey's Black Muslims awarded second place in graduating class at Berkeley. The subject became advanced in documentary. Sullivan photo appears on book cover.

university of california, davis

english

1984-1 - 1989-1 · 5 yrs 1 mo

Activities and Societies: Attended a year abroad at University of Barcelona, Spain

management

2010-1 - Present · 16 yrs 9 mos

Activities and Societies: Lead PIO for the Mat-Su Borough in Sockeye Fire 2015, 7,220 acres burned. Lead PIO in state flood disaster for Mat-Su 2012; Lead PIO in federally declared flood disaster of 2006, Mat-Su Borough.