After nearly two decades as a media relations publicist and owner of Crowley Communications, I’ve changed directions – still under the marketing umbrella – but instead of using words to “crowabout” my clients, I create graphics and pictures to amplify your message.

I started my career in the newsroom of The San Diego Union-Tribune (formerly The Tribune), where I spent more than a decade working in various departments as an editorial aide. In that role, I supported staff writers covering everything from restaurant reviews and entertainment to politics, government and business reporting. I also contributed business and real estate stories as a freelance writer.

In 1985, I began a career in public relations working for several local PR agencies, representing local and national clients in the areas of:

• commercial and residential real estate (Aviara, Great American Plaza)
  
• higher education (National University)
• consumer products (WD-40 and Solatube)
• retail (Bazaar del Mundo and Petco)
• museum (Museum of Photographic Arts)
• law (law firm of Sullivan, Cummins, Wertz, McDade and Wallace)
• banking (San Diego National Bank)
• high tech (TRW LSI Products)
• food (Bumble Bee Seafoods)
• new ventures (Planet Packaging Technology).

After a short stint as Director of Marketing Communications for the Child Abuse Prevention Foundation, I launched Crowley Communications in 1994.

Clients on the Crowley Communications roster included:

• polling (Competitive Edge Research & Communications)
• higher education (SDSU’s College of Business and Entrepreneurial Management Center)
• consumer products (The Upper Deck Company and Solatube International)
• business (San Diego affiliate of Inner Circle and Inner Circle International)
• authors (former San Diego Tribune Financial Editor Janet Lowe, author of more than a dozen books; and Ken Lee, author of "Trouncing the Dow")
• fundraising events (1998 and 1999 Jazzercise Marathon for Breast Cancer Research)
• law (The Law Offices of Michael L. Crowley, The Gomez Law Firm)
• consumer trade shows (Westward Expos, producers of the Spring and Fall Home/Garden Show at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, and Bridal Bazaar)

Volunteerism:

• As a member of the Committee for Areawide Involvement in Redevelopment in the mid-1980s, I was part of the original community outreach team charged with the revitalization of the Gaslamp District
• Member of the Board of Governors of the Grossmont Hospital Foundation
• Board Officer and Community Relations Chair of the Boys & Girls Clubs of East County
• Foundation Board Member and Communications Chair of the San Diego Mediation Center (now called the National Conflict Resolution Center)
• Marketing Chair of the Gaslamp Quarter Theatre
• President of the San Diego Press Club

Membership:

• AIGA, the professional association for design.

My coop is in El Cajon, Calif.