Builds communication systems for complex initiatives
Develops newsletters, web content, social media, presentations, reports, event materials, dissemination assets, and reusable content workflows for center, division, and program priorities.
Cross-functional impact
Chris combines editorial judgment, technical confidence, operational discipline, and administrative follow-through to help teams communicate clearly, coordinate better, and move work forward.
Improves project consistency and delivery
Establishes recurring content processes, operational workflows, simple automations, and organizational systems that make complex work easier to coordinate.
Supports leaders, staff, faculty, and external partners
Shapes messaging, edits materials, clarifies audience approach, and prepares decision-ready assets for high-visibility initiatives.
Connects communication with operations and technology
Brings experience in dashboards, systems implementation, stakeholder communication, recruitment, technology adoption, and organizational planning.
Where I help
Useful for teams that need clear communication, practical systems, reliable coordination, and better translation between people, priorities, and tools.
Complex content and translation
Clear public-facing and internal materials for research, community engagement, institutional priorities, programs, events, reports, and leadership updates.
Leadership and stakeholder materials
Slide decks, briefing materials, infographics, visual summaries, branded collateral, and editorial support tailored to decision-makers and stakeholder audiences.
Workflow, tools, and operations
Repeatable processes, dashboards, digital tools, light automation, and cross-functional systems that improve visibility and reduce friction.
Working style
Practical systems, not decorative strategy.
The strongest work usually starts by making the situation legible: what matters, who needs it, which tools or formats will move it forward, and what operating rhythm keeps it from becoming one-off heroics.
Turn scattered input into a clean operating direction
Clarify audience, message, constraints, timing, ownership, and the actual decision or action the work needs to support.
Create polished materials and repeatable systems
Move from concept to web copy, reports, decks, newsletters, event collateral, dashboards, templates, and working systems.
Keep people, priorities, and tools moving together
Make complex collaborative work easier to track, explain, hand off, administer, and improve over time.
Selected experience
A career spanning academic medicine, education, civic organizations, utilities, nonprofit leadership, and small business work, with a consistent throughline of communications, technology, operations, and program execution.
2024-Present
Communications Specialist
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Manages communications projects and content development for the Forge AHEAD Center and division initiatives, supporting faculty, leadership, staff, community partners, and external stakeholders across web, print, social, presentation, reporting, and event formats.
2022-2023
Operations, Technology, and Communications Leadership
Legacy Prep Charter School
Led communications systems, branding, data reporting, recruitment support, operational projects, compliance coordination, technology systems, and leadership-facing dashboards.
2020-2022
Communications, Marketing, and Technology Manager
Clarksdale Collegiate Public Charter School
Managed stakeholder messaging, systems implementation, vendor coordination, remote-work operations, and administrative tools that improved reporting and organizational communication.
2009-2020
Community, communications, and organizational leadership
Self-employed, Clarksdale Public Utilities, Young Life, and civic boards
Built communications campaigns, community relationships, donor and stakeholder engagement, strategic planning rhythms, public education materials, and technology solutions across nonprofit, civic, utility, and small business contexts.
Credentials and capabilities
Grounded in liberal arts training and strengthened by hands-on leadership across communications strategy, technology, operations, administration, content, and process improvement.
Education
Furman University
Bachelor of Arts, Spanish and Sociology
Greenville, South Carolina
Core strengths
- Communications strategy, message development, and brand stewardship
- Executive, editorial, stakeholder, web, newsletter, social, and presentation content
- Academic, institutional, operational, research, and community-facing communications
- Workflow design, project management, administration, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration
- Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Tableau, WordPress, and Squarespace
Let’s make complex work easier to move.
For communications strategy, workflow systems, leadership materials, research dissemination, operations support, or cross-functional program work, reach out or book time.