Shelley Moore Christiansen
 
Professional/Personal Overview
  Shelley is a valued Fortune Five corporate writer who captures international operations and issues with engaging prose. She has crafted magazine features, editorials, annual reports, speeches, web content and speeches. On the lighter side, she's a contributing writer for Martha's Vineyard Magazine, a commentator for WCAI, the Cape & Islands NPR station, and the author of The Wedding Guide for the Grownup Bride (Berkley Books, 2000) and Summer Cat (Martha's Vineyard Writing, Winter 2008).
Contact Info
  Shelley Moore Christiansen
Martha's Vineyard, MA 
USA

Tel: 914-274-0024
E-Mail: shellmc2@msn.com
Website: http://
Interview
 

How does Shelley deliver consistent quality to a mixed bag of assignments?
By being a quick study.
By grasping the style, culture and whims of each client.
By deriving compelling material from subjects as unlikely as asphalt, for example.
By demystifying technical subjects for lay audiences.
By coaxing great interviews from CEOs, artists, scientists -- whomever.

Where in the world has Shelley's work taken her?
Angola, Belgium, China, Cote d'Ivoire, El Salvador, Gabon, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Kenya, the Netherlands, Niger, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Senegal, UK, much of the USA and -- via the magic of telecommunications -- more places than she can recall.

What types of communications products has she written, edited and/or managed?
Feature articles, essays, editorials, op-eds, brochures, annual and quarterly reports, newletters, video scripts, web content, speeches, press kits, a new-business proposal and one non-fiction book.

What subject areas has she covered?
For corporate clients: public policy issues, breakthrough technologies, corporate responsibility, investor information and, most of all, operations, ranging from industrial development in western China to iceberg-friendly oil platforms offshore Canada.
For media clients: local color, history, issues and personal profiles (e.g., a team of housekeepers, a collector of antique barometers, the former chairman of Royal Dutch Shell)
Work Samples
 
Corporate Magazine Features  
(The Lamp, ExxonMobil, 9/1/2009)
Oiling an international boom in alternative energy (page 5).
(The Lamp, ExxonMobil, 6/1/2009)
Hurricane planning, preparation and response along the vital U.S. refining and supply chain (page 7).
(ExxonMobil - The Lamp, 12/1/2008)
A burgeoning market economy embraces premium products, including high-performance autos and the lubes that keep them at their peak. (See pages 23-25.)
(ExxonMobil - The Lamp, 8/1/2008)
An R&D executive counts the ways strategic technologies are solving problems in energy conservation, environmental protection and even the price at the pump. (See pages 9-11.)
(ExxonMobil - The Lamp, 4/1/2008)
Lightweight lithium batteries aren't just for cell phones and laptops anymore. Now they're powering electric and hybrid cars, too. (See pages 3-5.)
(The Lamp, ExxonMobil, 12/1/2007)
New Jersey high school students journey to Kenya, learning first-hand the potential of charitable giving on behalf of world health and education. (See pages 11-13.)
(ExxonMobil - The Lamp, 9/1/2007)
In partnership with Fortune Magazine and the U.S. State Department, women executives mentor tomorrow's female business leaders across the globe. (See pages 13-14.)
(The Lamp, ExxonMobil, 7/1/2007)
Math and science education gets a shot in the arm to help the U.S. rebuild its ability to innovate and compete in the world economy. (See pages 15-16.)
(The Lamp, ExxonMobil, 10/1/2006)
The plastics industry in China secures a vital feedstock. (See page 15.)
(The Lamp, ExxonMobil, 6/1/2006)
In New Orleans, a company's emergency responders pull Hurricane Katrina survivors to safety via pontoon boat. (See p. 14 in "Bringing Out the Best.")
(The Lamp, ExxonMobil, 6/1/2006)
From Bill Gates to Bill Clinton, world leaders convene to tackle persistent health crises in developing countries. (See page 30.)
(The Lamp, ExxonMobil, 9/1/2005)
A workplace AIDS education program achieves early success in sub-Saharan Africa. (See page 17.)
(The Lamp, ExxonMobil, 3/1/2005)
An emerging technology improves a life-saving barrier between man and mosquito.
(The Lamp, ExxonMobil, 3/1/2005)
With foundation support, the philanthropic community curbs the spread of Africa's deadliest disease.
(The BP Magazine, 3/1/2005)
A global company responds to a year of humanitarian disasters
(The Lamp, ExxonMobil, 10/1/2003)
From China to EuroDisney: Extending, improving and even colorizing the world's pavements
(The Lamp, ExxonMobil, 2/1/2003)
A profile of the world's third largest oil exporter.
(The Lamp, ExxonMobil, 2/1/2003)
Oil platform offshore Newfoundland, built to evade fate of The Titanic
(The Lamp, ExxonMobil, 5/1/2002)
Europe's largest natural gas field transforms the energy and economy of a nation.
(The Lamp, ExxonMobil, 2/1/2002)
The logistics of supplying marine fuels to the world's major and minor ports
(The Lamp, ExxonMobil, 10/1/2001)
A retrospective exhibition celebrating a leading light in American art
(The Lamp, ExxonMobil, 5/1/2001)
Market growth in Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of the Iron Curtain.
(The Lamp, ExxonMobil, 5/1/2000)
After the ExxonMobil merger, senior executives look back on the new company's first quarter.
(The Lamp, Exxon Corporation, 12/1/1999)
Several articles in special corporate merger issue: A Bigger World; What's New and Better about ExxonMobil?; Oil for the Lamps of China; A New Company, a New Logo; And the Rest is History
White Paper  
(Exxon Corporation, 3/1/1999)
A look at conditions in Prince William Sound, Alaska, a decade after the Valdez accident of 1989
Web content  
(ExxonMobil, 12/1/1999)
A century of industrial evolution culminating in the merger of two energy companies. Plus the history of a marketing icon: the tiger.
Books  
(Vineyard Stories, 11/19/2010)
A "coffee table" tome that celebrates nine special places on an idyllic island and peeks inside the houses of dwellers who have used one of the most creative design elements to bring home the features of the island that they love the best.
(Berkley Books, Penguin Putnam, 5/1/2000)
A trade paperback on the peculiarities of marrying in mid-life.
Popular Magazine Features  
(Martha's Vineyard Magazine, 11/1/2010)
Many creative Islanders find the quiet solitude of winter to be a most fertile environment for productivity, no matter the medium.
(Martha's Vineyard Magazine, 11/1/2009)
A popular inventive chef-restaurateur flows with the high seasons between two vacation islands.
(Martha's Vineyard Magazine Home & Gardens, 10/1/2009)
The most humble space in the house blossoms in form and function.
(Martha's Vineyard Magazine, 9/1/2009)
A love-hate story of enemy sympathizers in Red Sox Nation.
(Martha's Vineyard Magazine, 8/1/2009)
An historic roundup on first family vacations. (See Clinton section.)
(Martha's Vineyard Magazine, 9/1/2008)
A round-up of a few Vineyarders among many for whom age is no object. And no objection.
(Martha's Vineyard Magazine, 7/1/2008)
No problem: A work-starved island supplies a worker-starved island with a gratified pool of seasonal employees.
(Martha's Vineyard Magazine, 3/1/2008)
It's not your father's double-wide trailer: Modern-day modulars cross the waters to the island.
(Martha's Vineyard Island Weddings & Celebrations, 2/1/2008)
One elegant couple, one officiant and two barefoot young violinists celebrate nuptials before an ad hoc congregation of tourists at the Edgartown Light.
(Martha's Vineyard Magazine, 11/1/2007)
Inhabitants of "sister" islands look at each other askance -- if at all.
(Martha's Vineyard Magazine, 7/1/2007)
Artists trek to island beauty spots like Polly Hill Arboretum to capture the glories of the landscape.
(Martha's Vineyard Magazine, 7/1/2007)
From New England to the Rockies, cable television discovers the American resort market.
(Martha's Vineyard Magazine, 5/1/2007)
Two popular grandmothers sustain a 25-year business legacy.
(Martha's Vineyard Island Weddings & Celebrations, 4/1/2007)
An American meets a Brit in Israel, says "Yes" in Budapest and says "I do" in a lavish celebration at an idyllic, island homestead.
(Martha's Vineyard Magazine, 10/1/2006)
A glass fusion artisan creates an unusual array of decor for home and table.
Radio commentaries  
(WCAI, the Cape & Islands NPR station)
Random slices of life on a curious island
Work Info
 
Expertise
Account manager 2 Years
Editor 20 Years
Writer 25 Years
Specialty
Business (general) 25 Years
International 18 Years
Industrial 18 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
30 Years
Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Martha's Vineyard Magazine (11+), WCAI, the Cape and Islands NPR station (6-10)
Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
ExxonMobil (11+), BP International, Ltd. (6-10)
Other Work History
Former corporate communications specialist for Mobil Corporation and account executive for Burson-Marsteller Public Relations.
Past media clients: Ms., Essence, Black Enterprise.
Past institutional clients: Site2oil (web portal), IBM, Sony, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce.
A full, standard resume is available upon request.
Foreign Language Skills
Some French, Norwegian
Awards
International Assn. of Business Communicators; Women in Communications
Other
B.A., Syracuse University
M.A., Ed.M., Columbia University
Freelancer Availability
I freelance full-time. I am willing to travel anywhere. I have a driver's license. I have access to a car.