paulette mccoy

* Served as a person for all media requests regarding hospital and clinics * Wrote and edited all press releases * Improved visbility by overseeing the intranet * Drafted interesting and fresh weekly newsletters: Coastal Currents * Designed all internal flyers, posters, education materials, programs, etc. * Planned and organized community events

* Director of Astoria Bicentennial Celebration * Oversaw all fundraising, marketing, print promotion, and managing of the website (www.astoria200.org), managing a retail store (designing and ordering all merchandise). * Guided and supported seven committees including: education series, opening events, formal ball, budgets/fundraising, closing events, 4th-grade history book, Tall Ships * Managed the grant writers, educators and artists for a 4th –grade local history book * Managed over 75 volunteers * Co-hosted a weekly radio program (continued until March 2017) * Managed a budget of $800,000 to plan, orchestrate and implement all bicentennial signature events for 2010-2011 receiving national and international attention. * o Networked to invite and host Lord John Jacob Astor (direct descendent of John Jacob Astor) and Lady Astor from England to partake in the celebration

Oregon Catholic Press, Portland, Oregon 1986- 2005 Music Editor: Prepared manuscripts for publication within the schedule time frame while working on several projects simultaneously. Executive Editor: Assigned all projects to music editors and recording producers and scheduled all music products for production (printing). Monitored a budget of $1 million; final check of all products before publishing. Director of Editorial: Supervised a staff of forty-five including five managers; responsible for budget of over $3.7 million, all publishing of music and liturgical products including missals, hymnals, recordings, books, subscription magazines, music collections, choral works, children’s product and bilingual products.