Director Public Relations

Keith Talley

**** ******** ****

Nunnelly, TN ***37

Cell phone: 615-***-****

E-mail: ***********@*********.***

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Career Summary

Public relations professional with more than 19 years of experience at all

levels of government. Have developed multi-media messaging campaigns for a

variety of clients and managed the vendors, staff and budgets associated

with those campaigns.

Work Experience

Public Relations Consultant (August 2005 to present)

Offer critical advice and services concerning media, government and

community relations. Have created messaging strategy for the Tennessee

Democratic Party as its communications director; managed a $1 million

budget while coordinating and developing campaign strategy for the

Tennessee House Democratic Caucus as its political director; managed a

$500,000 budget while coordinating and developing campaign strategy for a

community coalition supporting candidates for the 2007 Metro-Nashville

City Council election; formulated and advised public relations efforts

for the nonprofit Mid-Cumberland Community Action Agency.

Communications Director (December 1998 to July 2005)

Office of U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon, Tennessee's 6th Congressional

District, Washington, D.C.

Analyzed legislation and policies with the congressman and senior

staff to formulate positions and then communicate those positions to

constituents through press releases, columns, talking points, speeches,

newsletters or on-the-record interviews with local, state and national

media outlets.

Municipal Government News Reporter (April 1997 to November 1998)

The Daily News Journal, Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Wrote hard-hitting stories concerning budgets, ordinances and policies of

Murfreesboro, Smyrna and La Vergne city governments that provoked thought

and action by the newspaper's readers.

. Associate Editor (October 1993 to April 1997)

The Daily Herald, Columbia, Tenn.

Helped manage an editorial staff of 12 while also writing stories about

local law enforcement agencies, the criminal and civil courts in Maury

County, and the Maury County Commission. Netted a 1995 Tennessee Press

Association award for writing a series of stories examining youth gangs

in Columbia.

General Assignment News Reporter (March 1992 to August 1993)

The Stuttgart Daily Leader, Stuttgart, Ark.

Covered the Arkansas County government and wrote compelling news stories

that netted two 1993 Arkansas Press Association awards - one series

concerned civil lawsuits filed by the state's attorney general and the

Arkansas County prosecuting attorney involving the transfer of waste

across state lines, and the other series concerned voting discrepancies

in the 1992 Arkansas County judge's election. Served as the newspaper's

principal photographer.

Skills

( Outstanding writing and photography

. ( Computer proficiency includes software experience with Microsoft

PowerPoint, Adobe InDesign, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe

Illustrator, QuarkXPress and Microsoft Excel

. ( Familiar with local, state and federal legislative processes

.

Education

Tennessee Technological University

Cookeville, Tenn. 38505

Degree: B.S. in English/journalism (December 1991)

Minor: Public relations

Military Service

United States Navy

Honorable discharge

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