Senior business writer of marketing and communications material available as a cost-effective solution to handle all of your writing / content needs, including high-tech marcom: white papers, press releases, product descriptions, success stories, brochures, direct mail, spots, web content, business proposals. Especially strong in high-tech press release writing. Samples available.
I am a writing machine who loves sitting in a cubicle all day turning out a variety of genres in a variety of voices. Your managers / AEs can throw all the work they can at me daily.
Prefer long-term work at an established company, but will listen to lucrative project-by-project offers. Thank you.
Internal and external communications: intranet and website content; email blasts; newsletter content; press releases; AR / IR content; media content strategy; manage the creation of customer communications, articles and all documents and creative projects; project management including communication timelines, coordinating and submitting rounds of edits, obtaining approvals, meeting deliverables; sales and promotional events; strategic positioning content; collateral development and writing (product brochures, line cards); analytical, collaboration skills within a team environment.
Bona-fide PR skills with 10-plus years as a professional journalist, broadcast and print; press releases and press kits; knows how to find and develop stories and place them in the media; professional insights into editors and reporters and what makes them tick; serve as advisor to executives on all media matters; expert-level pitching, verbal and written.
Senior writer / editor with direct marketing know-how to produce forward-thinking, innovative content as a marketing tool to aid marketing communications strategies and decision-making: technical, complex report writing, brochures, advertorial, proposals, direct-mail / direct-response, ads, spots, catalog copy, a fun consumer “how-to” instruction manual.
High-tech experience in the Valley; takes complex, technical information and turns it into b2b, b2c, or p2p copy: web-content faqs, CRM, white papers, success stories, annual reports; technical marketing writing; medical/science writing; finance sample, etc.
Public Affairs. Successful interpersonal relations as the “go to guy” for the department with the agency, elected officials, city manager, mayor, their staffs, general public, business groups, non-profits. (Public Affairs work began in the Army and two years in the Civil Service.)
Staff writer of Agenda Reports, Resolutions, Lease Agreements, Contracts, RFPs & RFQs, MarCom collateral, Grants, speeches.
Writer/Editor. Wrote and edited hundreds of stories large and small in this editorial-chair position. Wrote columns & feature/cover stories; interviewed newsmakers; advanced English-language and editorial skills: proofed, edited, rewrote, or fact checked most copy; familiar with standard reference texts: Chicago Manual of Style, AP, Words Into Type, etc.
Led Direct Marketing for F500 high-tech firm in Dayton of technical hardware and usage to become the database of choice in this market for the legal and media-related industries.
Solid Events know-how, corporate and charitable, to increase visibility.
Produced Special Event luncheon from start-up to destination planning at the Fairmont Hotel for the legal community with Judge Robert Bork and New York Times op-ed columnist Anthony Lewis. It made the 11:00 news.
Summary of events experience: generate ideas & themes, book talent & speakers, Moscone Center trade shows, negotiate contracts, accommodations & travel, budget, box office, concessions, invitations, catering, program design & ad copy, invitations, media & marketing copy, publicity, props, hiring of tech crews, on-site management, post-production accounting and follow-up.
Writes, manages and implements marketing plan.
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