Astra Communications
Experience to Understand Your Market
 
Experience

Understanding of when to seek aggressive growth, how to turn challenges into opportunities and what is necessary to sustain long-term development is a sense cultivated through diverse public relations and marketing communications experiences. I have worked in a variety of markets and with different business styles, from large corporate enterprises to new start-ups and trade associations. Areas of experience are listed below with the companies served.

Select the credentials link for biographical information or select any of the industry links here to jump to a specific market:

Credentials and Biography
Experience: Technology - Telecommunications - Industrial Processes/Scientific
Manufacturing - Other B2B and Consumer - Agency Experience

Technology
Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG)
ISPs, network operators and vendors working to stop spam and abuse
PhoneEvents.com, an EventMobile Company
First mobile ticketing service to be easily accessed on any Web-enabled phone; provides preferential and location-based events
Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA)
Supporting open standards for IPTV and advanced video services
RapidIO Trade Association (RIO)
Open standard switch-fabric intrasystem interconnect technology
Internet Business Services Initiative (IBSi)
Association of Web-native business solutions
Odetics Broadcast
Broadcast and Internet automation
US SEARCH.com
Internet Consumer and Business Search Tools
USWeb/CKS
Web design and marketing
Hughes NetLock
Enterprise-wide network security software
eWorkplace
Enterprise Applications Integration (EAI)
@Road
Wireless GPS and e-commerce for mobile business
FileNET Corporation
Enterprise document management and imaging
Xerox Corporation
Computer systems and printers
State of the Art, Inc.
Accounting software (now part of Best Software)
Peter Norton Computing
Antivirus and utility software (now part of Symantec)
Kofax Image Products
PC imaging hardware and software
Bell & Howell COM Division
High-speed microfiche printer
PictureWorks Technology, Inc.
Vertical market and Web digital imaging
Omintron Systems Technology
Ethernet and IBM midrange network hardware
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Telecommunications
CIDCO
Smart phones and Internet access phones, first Web-enabled phone
@Road
Cellular, GPS, Internet fleet management
GTEL GTE
Regional phone company (employee communications)
Conveyant Systems, Inc.
Centrix attendant consoles
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Industrial Processes/Scientific
Analect Instruments
Industrial and scientific monitoring
KVB-Enertec
Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS)
CEMTEK Environmental
Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS)
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Manufacturing
Disc Manufacturing Inc. (DMI)
Largest independent CD replicater in the industry
MagneTek
Industrial lighting and power supply manufacturer (employee and merger communications)
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Other Business-to-Business, Consumer and Real Estate
Vision4Media
Original and commercial film, DVD, broadcast, Web and streaming Internet
Foreign Trade Association of Southern California (FTASC)
Nonprofit promoting free and fair trade
Optics Laboratory
Consumer healthcare products
Petersen Publishing Company
How-to book publishing and marketing
PictureWorks Technology, Inc.
Web digital imaging application for Web
Prudential Real Estate Affiliates
Online real estate program
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Public Relations Agencies
Creamer Dickson Basford/California
Senior Account Supervisor (became Euro RSCG Magnet)
Hi-Tech Public Relations
Supervisor, Southern California Office (merged with Shandwick PR)
Manning Selvage & Lee
Senior Account Executive

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