Senior Corporate Communications Advisor & Strategic Storyteller

Senior communications advisor with 25+ years of storytelling experience, including shaping internal, executive, and external messaging. Known for elevating organizational voice, building trusted partnerships with leadership, and delivering clear, strategic communications.

Professional reference from Guillermo Cubillos, Director of Branding and Digital Management for BakerRipley.

Compilation of recommendations from colleagues, former managers, and former employees collected on LinkedIn over the course of my career.

I worked closely with Ernest Lewis III, Vice President of Community Impact & Vitality at BakerRipley, to develop this letter for community nonprofit leaders, civic leaders, and other agency partners, reminding them of their recent meetings with BakerRipley and the calls to action discussed.

I created this primer on BakerRipley's President and CEO, Claudia Aguirre, and pre-answered questions for a CBS-KHOU 11 televised interview led by Dr. Laura Murillo of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

I helped Dr. Adrian Yam, Senior Director of Head Start and Early Head Start at BakerRipley, develop this speech for his department of around 450 early childhood development teachers and staff.

I wrote this email for our President and CEO Claudia Aguirre to thank our agency's teaching staff.

In the wake of the Uvalde massacre, I was asked to craft a communication for our President and CEO. This was the result.

This monthly internal magazine was a one‑person production from start to finish. I coordinated with subject matter experts and leaders, gathered and verified news, attended employee events to capture photos and conduct interviews, and wrote all articles while editing last‑minute submissions. I also designed graphics in Canva, handled layout in InDesign, and published the final magazine in Flipsnack before distributing it agencywide via Outlook.

I coordinated timing with subject matter experts and leaders, gathered monthly news, and single‑handedly wrote, designed, laid out, and published this internal magazine. The publication evolved from a bimonthly e‑newsletter at the HR vice president’s request beginning in July 2025.

I produced this internal newsletter twice monthly before it transitioned into a full monthly magazine. I wrote all copy, created most of the graphics, and managed the full review and approval process with stakeholders. Each edition typically required a full workday to complete from start to finish.

BakerRipley hosts “BakerRipley LIVE!” each quarter for agency leadership or all employees—a two‑hour event featuring speakers and presentations on key organizational initiatives. This session introduced the agency’s new Values statement, “BakerRipley has HEART.” I also helped curate and produce the two accompanying “BakerRipley has HEART” videos in partnership with external vendors.

Despite being without power at my home for nearly 10 days after Hurricane Beryl, I worked from a nearby Panera Bread to produce the emergency communications the agency needed. This special‑edition Insider newsletter was well received by leadership and by the 1,400 employees it reached.

I partnered with our Assistant General Counsel to develop and refine the content for this Employee Handbook, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and alignment with policy. I then designed and laid out the full publication in Microsoft Publisher for digital release, delivering a polished, ready‑to‑use resource that strengthened organizational consistency and compliance.

ExxonMobil celebrates 110 years of success, community service and civic pride in Baton Rouge, La.

This Halliburton newsletter article highlights a key topic explored at Halliburton Academy, the company’s annual conference for senior leaders and emerging talent.

This ghost-written column for Halliburton's vice president of HSE and Service Quality announces the company's external Safety Moment campaign and calls for employee contribution.

G&A Partners announced that Michelle Mikesell has been promoted to the firm’s newly created executive position of chief people officer.

G&A Partners announced that for the first time in its 25-year history, it will be entering into an investor relationship. The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has made a minority investment in G&A Partners.

Bradley James used the Workforce Solutions-Texas City Career Office to get assistance with his resume, job hunt, and even interview clothes and gas money when he was in need. Today, he uses his position to find and hire new team members using the same service that once helped him.

When Sid Backstrom joined G-Con Manufacturing in College Station, the prefabricated pod manufacturer of mobile cleanrooms had only eight employees. As the company grew, so did the cost for benefits. That’s when Backstrom discovered G&A Partners.

In its first year in business, Moderno Porcelain Works, a large-format porcelain slab provider, fabricator, and installer, grew from one employee to 40 employees, with offices in Houston and Miami. Getting ramped up so quickly meant there was a mountain of work to do and too few people to do it.

In her recent article for Food & Beverage Magazine, Denise Macik, Manager of Strategic HR Advisory Services for G&A Partners, quotes a Harvard Business School article that defines bad hygiene jobs as those that are “demanding, low paid, and provide few prospects for advancement.”

The mass exodus from the healthcare industry didn’t start with the global COVID-19 pandemic, but it certainly accelerated because of it. Employers need to take a step back and carefully evaluate their benefits and incentives programs to ensure they meet current demands.

Land & Natural Resources schedules exploratory test near Alabama/Mississippi state line.

The sum of high bids at the December 9 Louisiana lease sale significantly exceeded those of the October and November sales combined, garnering $482,109.50 from the sale of seven tracts.

Devon Energy completes horizontal Wolfcamp/Cline shale well in West Texas that extends field production nearly two miles to the southwest.

Shell uses predictive analytics through exception-based surveillance (EBS) to produce oil remotely as part of its Mars B development project in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Permian Basin offers great rewards for those that take time to seek the sweetest spots for pads and the most efficient methods for fracking.

Ayata CEO explains how harnessing big data can predict the future.

Growth in Permian and other U.S. shales will drive need for export to world markets, Pioneer CEO says.

Company renews focus on safety as it explores and reboots Gulf of Mexico investments.

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government scrambled to write and pass temporary laws that would provide aid to as many of the country’s 333.5 million citizens as possible. With so many people sick, paid sick leave and paid emergency family and medical leave became a priority.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, certain types of fraud have been on the rise because of supercharged stimulus incentives passed to combat the economic impact of the pandemic. Unemployment insurance (UI) fraud, in particular, has become a major source of concern.

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) was signed into law on March 11, 2021. Following is a list of important changes and deadline extensions for the laws affecting your small or mid-sized business, as well as a list of actions you will need to take immediately to remain in compliance.

If 2020's COVID-19 pandemic taught business leaders anything, it’s that a willingness to change and the ability to adapt can mean the difference between a business succeeding or failing. But how do you know what to change and how to adapt? Look to your employees.

Hosting team-building events, catering employee gatherings, and having game rooms for your employees to hang out in is great for everyday morale boosts, but employees also want to know their company values their contributions as a means to achieve its larger purpose.

Put in place to protect individuals’ privacy and ensure data doesn’t fall into the wrong hands, HIPAA can be challenging to understand and to enforce. Yet it is critical that healthcare organizations do their due diligence to ensure their employees and practices are above reproach.

Your sales team works hard to provide a smooth customer journey. The journey can go a lot smoother if a contract lifecycle management (CLM) tool is used to accelerate the approval process.

When it comes to automatic renewal clauses in contracts, complacency can be the quickest route to financial loss. A significant amount of diligence is required to ensure no deadlines are missed in the contract review process.

The cornerstone of success for every business is trust. Without it, an organization can become vulnerable to a host of code violations and malfeasance. Most businesses rely on the three P’s to develop and hone the best practices that will help them earn trust: people, policies and procedures.

I managed this marketing project for my clients in Well Abandonment from concept to completed brochure. In addition to project management, I wrote 75% of the copy, edited excerpt submissions, helped to arrange the content so it told the story we wanted to tell, and proofed the final layouts.

An operator with a deepwater field development project in the Gulf of Mexico’s challenging Lower Tertiary Basin chose BHGE's multizone single-trip (MST) sand control completion system to improve its economics and maximize production in each of its six wells. The results were game changing.

The BHGE MASTODON hydraulic pulling tool enabled a North Sea operator to free a stuck fish in just minutes, significantly reducing the risks at surface and ensuring no damage to the rig.

A customer in the Gulf of Mexico was having trouble recompleting the upper zone of one of its wells after a running tool failed to retrieve a 9⅞-in. gravel-pack packer. Faced with costly workover options, the customer turned to Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE), for the most efficient solution.

Pilot project in Oman reduces need for natural gas in thermal enhanced oil recovery.

Four companies are profiled to demonstrate the best practices performed by their payroll departments that earned them the American Payroll Association's annual Prism Awards.

A horrific hurricane season left many companies located on the Gulf Coast scrambling to find, and pay, their affected employees. For those companies’ payroll departments it was time to sink or swim … They chose to swim.

As the recession lingered, stocks continued to depreciate, leaving frauds exposed. During this time, certified fraud examiners were in high demand, yet many were also losing jobs in public companies. This article explains and offers job-search advice from industry recruiters.

‘Simple’ solution offers safe, green alternative to conventional biocides.

The epicenter of the U.S. oil boom, Texas needs to be preserved and well-tended by those who reap its rewards.

New dual-purpose substrate and proppant said to offer operators ‘pure flow assurance protection.’

System reduces pumpjack strokes while maintaining production rate and providing a ‘zero-waste solution.’