Marketing Communications/Content Development and Management: Writer, Editor, Project Manager
RESUME
Project manager and marketing communication strategist skilled at managing content and leading creative teams on multiple high-level assignments in deadline-driven environments.
SKILLS
Account management – supporting clients’ needs in a responsive, efficient and proactive manner.
Content development – creating and editing B2B and B2C marketing communications in digital and traditional print mediums including websites, blogs, newsletters, magazines and promotional email campaigns.
Project management – prioritizing, planning and directing short- and long-term marketing initiatives to ensure objectives are met with the highest possible quality and within the mandated budget parameters.
Resource and production management – selecting both internal and external work teams, setting goals and leading colleagues to ensure successful project completion.
Website management and production – managing websites from planning to launch, and overseeing daily and ongoing content strategies.
WORK HISTORY
Freelance Project Manager, Editor, 2017-Present
Providing project management and publishing services including writing and editing. Clients:​
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Ethicon, Inc.
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MEDInnovate
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Hyde Park Publishing Services​
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Indian Hill Middle School
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Shattles Communications
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The Marketing Pack
Associate Director, Content, Northlich/Forza Marketing
Serve as managing editor for agency’s largest, most-profitable client, LoyaltyOne, and its thought-leadership publication, COLLOQUY, on the principals and practices of loyalty marketing.
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COLLOQUY’s audience includes more than 50,000 high-level marketing executives. In addition to creating daily content for the COLLOQUY website, in 2016, I produced 50 weekly email newsletters, four 36-page magazines, several research reports and presentation decks for six webcasts.
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Supervise the day-to day operations of the publications and lead weekly client status and editorial meetings, offering story and research ideas.
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Manage the editorial calendar, content development, digital and print production, distribution, budget and promotion.
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Source, direct, oversee writers, designers and technical support.
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Lead client marketing partner program including identifying partnership opportunities, negotiating contracts and fulfilling obligations, such as ghost writing, advertising and email campaigns and hosting webcasts.
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Liaison between client and agency on the production of presentations and special projects, such as sales collateral and content from subject matter experts used for reports, blogs and webinars.
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Maintain comprehensive knowledge
of client’s business to anticipate marketing opportunities and participate in planning and strategy sessions for initiatives including marketing, editorial brainstorming and cross-departmental planning.
Freelance
Provide publishing services including writing, copyediting, proofreading and indexing.
Publications:
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Trade and text books
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Ancillaries
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Test banks
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Study/video discussion aids
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User guides
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Blogs
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Newsletters
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Websites
Clients:
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Hyde Park Publishing Services
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Catalyst Direct
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Elsevier/Anderson Publishing
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Pearson Education
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Custom Editorial Publishing
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Cengage Learning
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McGraw-Hill Education
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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SAGE Publications
Account Manager and Copywriter, Frequency Marketing, Inc.
Serve primarily as liaison between multimillion dollar hotel client, Sheraton Corporation, and agency’s 75-person customer-service department including correspondence, telemarketing and customer reward fulfillment.
Responsibilities:
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Supervise the day-to day operations of the publications and lead weekly client status
and editorial meetings, offering story and research ideas. -
Manage the editorial calendar, content development, digital and print production, distribution, budget and promotion.
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Source, direct, oversee writers, designers
and technical support. -
Lead client marketing partner program including identifying partnership opportunities, negotiating contracts and fulfilling obligations, such as ghost writing, advertising and email campaigns and
hosting webcasts.
Other clients:
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Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores
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Eddie Bauer
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Buick Motor Co.
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Prudential Insurance Co.
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Verizon (NYNEX)
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Bank One
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AT&T Global Information Solutions (NCR)
EDUCATION, TRAINING, AFFILIATIONS
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Bachelor of Arts, Communication, University of Cincinnati
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Franklin Time Management Seminar
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Zenger-Milles Management Skills Training
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Creating Thinking Seminar
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Organizational Communications Training
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American Society for Indexing
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Direct Marketing Association
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Public Relations Society of America