Robert K. Lanier

Background

About Robert K. Lanier

Coordinated Coast Guard motion picture efforts- Coast Guard/Perfect Storm Promotion with Warner Bros with John C. Reilly-"The Guardian" promotion with Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher. Media coordination for- TWA Flight 800 tragedy - Egypt Air Flight 990 tragedy - John F. Kennedy Jr. air tragedy - Inaugural arrival of the Coast Guard’s largest polar-class icebreaker, the 420-foot USCGC Healy - Fishing vessel Taki Too maritime tragedy (2003)- Coast Guard response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks - River Rouge/Detroit River Oil Spill. The international spill, which affected U.S. and Canadian waters, is the largest ever in the Great Lakes Region (2002)- Coast Guard’s July 1, 2004, implementation of the Maritime Transportation and Safety Act (MTSA) and International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code - December 2005: USCGC Hamilton drug seizure (13 metric tons of cocaine). Event included press briefing by Mr. John P. Walters, Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy; Adm. Thomas H. Collins, Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard; Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson, Commander, U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area and Coast Guard Defense Forces West; and Rear Adm. Kevin J. Eldridge, Commander, 11th Coast Guard District- February 2009: Media relations for USCG & multi-agency response to more than 135 ice fisherman on an ice floe on western Lake Erie. Lectured/Public Affairs Training- June guest lecturer at the University of Washington for a crisis communications class- October 2004: Joint Information Center training to more than 75 people during the Alaska Tanker Company/BP America Spill Exercise in Long Beach, Calif- 2007 to 2008: Guest lecturer for crisis communications classes at Kent State University (Ohio) and University of Findlay (Ohio). Specialties: Public Affairs, Media & Community Relations, Crisis Communications, Coordinate Media Campaigns, NIMS/ESF-15 exercise evaluator, Strategic Communications, Mentorship and Professional Development.