I offer 18 years' experience in public relations project management, community outreach, public speaking, event planning, and writing. Seventeen years of my public relations career have been spent working on projects involving California water issues, including groundwater management, water recycling, seawater desalination, and water supply and quality. Over the past eight years, I have also been working on major transportation projects, as well as various other large-scale municipal projects. While serving as a public relations professional at the Orange County Water District (OCWD), I managed OCWD's community relations efforts and designed and implemented OCWD's outreach programs for several of its multi-million-dollar projects, including the Green Acres Project (secondary treatment for landscape irrigation) and the Groundwater Replenishment System (a $500 million project that will recharge Orange County's groundwater basin). Over the course of my career, I have created and c