Corporate marketing and communications is the core of my career. I started out with an oil and gas company in Houston, Texas as a staff writer writing and editing articles for the stockholder’s magazine and doing the layout, design and writing for five corporate newsletters. Later, I worked with two international medical manufacuturing companies. I managed the release of a new blood pressure machine for national distribution, taking the product from inception with R&D through preparing marketing and training materials as well as training our national sales team.
I took a corporate break and wrote a novel as well as articles and artwork for virtual world magazines. Post break I joined a tech company where I designed their website and wrote content for their social media and blogs.
Most recently, I spent the past four years focused on sustainability and pollinators. I worked on the design and ongoing maintenance of two websites using Shopify and BigCommerce. I’ve written product descriptions, designed labels from inception through printing. I’ve designed and edited a how-to guide and worked extensively with Photoshop, Illustrator, WordPress, and InDesign.
AND NOW?
Now it's time for me to pursue the work I love without the distraction of other-duties-as-assigned.
CREATING!
Whether it’s a website, a simple business card, a series of social media posts, a book, or a branding package; I find that I am in my element. Cliche I know, but it is my passion. You know it’s true when you find yourself utterly lost in the task.
Kylie Sabra
The SABRAWORKS blog showcases a variety of subjects and writing styles including: sustainability, climate change, and food security. You'll also find short stories; true and fictional. Other than providing an outlet for my imagination and concerns, they give the reader a glimpse of the writing they can exect from SABRAWORKS.
Unforgettable
When the first call came in, my husband and I were dancing—me in a cobalt-blue, velvet and satin gown and he in a tux. Without knowing why we were being called away from a party we'd looked forward to for weeks, we rushed to my office on the 19th floor of The Coastal Tower in Houston, Texas—home of the ne defunct Coastal Oil & Gas.
As instructed by the harried voice that had derailed our plans less than an hour before, we grabbed notepads, pens, tape recorders and cameras. There is something unsettlingly eerie about an empty skyscraper at night.
Our arms were loaded when the phone rang again.
Get to Ellington Air Field as fast as you can, and don't tell anyone.
