Bruce King

Work Experience

• Government Affairs Director/Lobbyist

  REALTORS® Association of Northwestern Wisconsin
  1/1/2005 - Present  | Eau Claire, WI

  Extensive experience in all facets of government affairs including lobbying, advocacy and fundraising. Working with all units of local governance to forward association goals and objectives. Use political action committee to forward political candidates that support association positions, active and engaged in fundraising for associational PAC, utilize techniques and methods unique to my office to recruit and motivate members to take action locally, statewide and nationally. Very active in my community, serving on boards that promote civic engagement and community disaster preparedness for both private and public sectors. Always looking to partner with other groups to provide government affairs services for their organization in a cost effective, professional, and successful manner.

• New and Used Sales/Municipal Sales

  River States Truck & Trailer
  5/1/2003 - 12/1/2004  | Eau Claire, WI

  New and used Freightliner heavy truck sales. Developed sales route and worked with customers to meet their medium, heavy and severe use truck needs. Worked with a variety of vendors to provide solutions to clients short and long term uses.

• Commercial Truck Salesman

  Markquart Chevrolet
  2/1/2001 - 4/1/2003  | Lake Hallie, WI

  New and used cars and trucks and commercial truck salesman. Worked sales route and worked with commercial customers to provide solutions for a variety of commercial and municipal customers.

• Weather Anchor/Reporter/Photojournalist/Copywriter

  WEAU TV
  4/1/1987 - 1/1/2001  | Eau Claire, WI

  Anchored weekend newscasts, prepared weather information for segments in local news, prepared radio weathercasts, prepared and delivered over 1000 public speaking engagements to schools, civic groups and other organizations, fill-in news anchor, photojournalist for news, sports, and outdoors program, covered severe weather as needed, storm spotter and chaser, general assignment reporter, fill in on assignment desk, award winning commercial copywriter, ENG truck operator, fleet manager, science and environment reporter, wrote, edited and produced weekly science segment, other duties as assigned.

• Announcer/Operations/Sales Consultant

  WRDN Radio
  4/1/1977 - 4/1/1987  | Durand, WI

  Announcer/sales/sports/agri-business announcer/program director/music director/engineer/developed marketing campaigns for clients that focused on agri-related marketing and business solutions to reach the maximum number of customers. Provided custom weather forecasts and severe weather coverage for the station and additional clients, engineered sports broadcasts and other live remote broadcasts, ran office and scheduled commercials for air.

Education

• Durand High School

  n/a english, science, journalism
  1975-1979

Awards & Certifications

National Response Framework, ICS for Single Resources, Public Information Officer, NIMS Public Information Systems, NIMS Introduction, Introduction to ICS, Improving Preparedness & Resilience, Public-Private partnerships

FEMA-Emergency Management I

Associations & Organizations

Eau Claire Chamber of Commerce, Executive Committee Northstar PTSA, Parents Advisory Council-Eau Claire Area School District, Board of Directors Alliance for Strong Communities, Facilitator Clear Vision Eau Claire, Elected Treasurer, Board of Directors Disaster Ready Chippewa Valley, Former Member Executive Committee Muscular Dystrophy Association Eau Claire Area Chapter for 18 years, elected 4 years as Vice-President, 14 consecutive years as President, emcee MDA Telethon 13 years, former member Durand School Board 1984 -87 and Eau Claire School Board 1994-97. Served on CESA 11 Board of Control 1984-87 and CESA 10 Board of Control 1994-97, also appointed to State Superintendent's Advisory Council on Teacher Education and Licensure 1994-97, appointed to Local Emergency Planning Committee Eau Claire County for 10 years and Chippewa County for 4 years. Member, Eau Claire County Medical Reserve Corps, trained as Public Information Officer, numerous certifications by FEMA for Public Info.