Professional Experience
Education is my specialty - writing promotional material (brochures, ads, convention handouts, customer interviews and testimonials), curriculum content and advertising, all grade levels K-college. Also, education feature reporter.
Expertise
Promotions
17 Years
Sales Manager/Exec.
7 Years
Book Author
12 Years
Industries
Marketing (in-house) - Small to mid-sized corp. cl
10 Years
Academia Teaching
14 Years
PR (in-house) - Fortune 1000 corp. clients
Total Media Industry Experience
28 Years
Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
The New York Times (10+), Lee Canter & Associates (3-5), Random House (3-5)
Other Work History
Summary of three careers:
• Marketing Manager
• Writer – marketing communications, advertising, news features, WWII history
• H.S. Teacher and College Instructor
MARKETING
1994 – Present - Impact Creative Services
Marketing Communications Manager and Contract Writer
This company creates a full-page weekly youth feature called Kid Scoop that has been sold to and appears in hundreds of newspapers with a combined circulation of 7.5 million, nationally and internationally. (The web site is www.kidscoop.com.) From 1994 to August of 2020, I was a contract writer of advertising and promotion as well as curriculum projects for this company (while simultaneously employed full-time at three newspapers). We partnered on projects for The New York Times where I was employed full-time, winning national awards.
Since August, 2020, I have been on retainer with the for-profit branch of the company as Marketing Communications Manager. I have written a dozen interviews with publishers of the feature. These
