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I am a 26-year veteran public affairs writer-editor at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and a published creative writer. I spent the past quarter-century focused primarily on writing news products, features, video scripts, speeches, and associated materials about science, technology, and flight programs at NASA. Previously, I was a writer-editor in the computer-aided design, heavy construction equipment, and trucking industries, and remain a firm believer that great writers can write about anything. My first novel, an officially licensed DOCTOR WHO spinoff titled LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: TIMES SQUARED, was published in 2016, part of the popular Lethbridge-Stewart series (Candy Jar Books). I was also published in the acclaimed horror anthology AFTER SUNDOWN, the bestselling debut volume in editor Mark Morris's ongoing "The ABCS of Horror" series (Flame Tree Press) and have contributed to a number of fan works, including SARAH JANE SMITH: ROVING REPORTER Vol. 1 and 2 (Pencil Tip Publishing) and OUTSIDE IN WANTS TO BELIEVE and OUTSIDE IN TRUSTS NO ONE (ATB Publishing).…I am a 26-year veteran public affairs writer-editor at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and a published creative writer. I spent the past quarter-century focused primarily on writing news products, features, video scripts, speeches, and associated materials about science, technology, and flight programs at NASA. Previously, I was a writer-editor in the computer-aided design, heavy construction equipment, and trucking industries, and remain a firm believer that great writers can write about anything. My first novel, an officially licensed DOCTOR WHO spinoff titled LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: TIMES SQUARED, was published in 2016, part of the popular Lethbridge-Stewart series (Candy Jar Books). I was also published in the acclaimed horror anthology AFTER SUNDOWN, the bestselling debut volume in editor Mark Morris's ongoing "The ABCS of Horror" series (Flame Tree Press) and have contributed to a number of fan works, including SARAH JANE SMITH: ROVING REPORTER Vol. 1 and 2 (Pencil Tip Publishing) and OUTSIDE IN WANTS TO BELIEVE and OUTSIDE IN TRUSTS NO ONE (ATB Publishing).

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I am a 26-year veteran public affairs writer-editor at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and a published creative writer. I spent the past quarter-century focused primarily on writing news products, features, video scripts, speeches, and associated materials about science, technology, and flight programs at NASA. Previously, I was a writer-editor in the computer-aided design, heavy construction equipment, and trucking industries, and remain a firm believer that great writers can write about anything. My first novel, an officially licensed DOCTOR WHO spinoff titled LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: TIMES SQUARED, was published in 2016, part of the popular Lethbridge-Stewart series (Candy Jar Books). I was also published in the acclaimed horror anthology AFTER SUNDOWN, the bestselling debut volume in editor Mark Morris's ongoing "The ABCS of Horror" series (Flame Tree Press) and have contributed to a number of fan works, including SARAH JANE SMITH: ROVING REPORTER Vol. 1 and 2 (Pencil Tip Publishing) and OUTSIDE IN WANTS TO BELIEVE and OUTSIDE IN TRUSTS NO ONE (ATB Publishing).…I am a 26-year veteran public affairs writer-editor at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and a published creative writer. I spent the past quarter-century focused primarily on writing news products, features, video scripts, speeches, and associated materials about science, technology, and flight programs at NASA. Previously, I was a writer-editor in the computer-aided design, heavy construction equipment, and trucking industries, and remain a firm believer that great writers can write about anything. My first novel, an officially licensed DOCTOR WHO spinoff titled LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: TIMES SQUARED, was published in 2016, part of the popular Lethbridge-Stewart series (Candy Jar Books). I was also published in the acclaimed horror anthology AFTER SUNDOWN, the bestselling debut volume in editor Mark Morris's ongoing "The ABCS of Horror" series (Flame Tree Press) and have contributed to a number of fan works, including SARAH JANE SMITH: ROVING REPORTER Vol. 1 and 2 (Pencil Tip Publishing) and OUTSIDE IN WANTS TO BELIEVE and OUTSIDE IN TRUSTS NO ONE (ATB Publishing).

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I am a 26-year veteran public affairs writer-editor at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and a published creative writer. I spent the past quarter-century focused primarily on writing news products, features, video scripts, speeches, and associated materials about science, technology, and flight programs at NASA. Previously, I was a writer-editor in the computer-aided design, heavy construction equipment, and trucking industries, and remain a firm believer that great writers can write about anything.

My first novel, an officially licensed DOCTOR WHO spinoff titled LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: TIMES SQUARED, was published in 2016, part of the popular Lethbridge-Stewart series (Candy Jar Books). I was also published in the acclaimed horror anthology AFTER SUNDOWN, the bestselling debut volume in editor Mark Morris’s ongoing “The ABCS of Horror” series (Flame Tree Press) and have contributed to a number of fan works, including SARAH JANE SMITH: ROVING REPORTER Vol. 1 and 2 (Pencil Tip Publishing) and OUTSIDE IN WANTS TO BELIEVE and OUTSIDE IN TRUSTS NO ONE (ATB Publishing).

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Intermediate

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English

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Work Experience

Senior Media Writer at CGI/Aeyon/MTS, ASI, ASRI (NASA Marshall Contract Firms)

May 31, 1999 - September 29, 2025

For more than 26 years, I was the senior writer-editor supporting NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center's Communications Office, researching, writing, editing, coordinating, and issuing news products and web content on behalf of Marshall institutional offices and programs and the Science & Technology Office. Also ghostwrote speeches, op-eds, education materials, scripts, and presentations for NASA center directors, centerwide events and national museum exhibits, and coordinated diversity outreach efforts.