William Freedman

West Hempstead, NY USA
Website: http://freedmanfreelance@wordpress.com

Professional Experience

MBA with Wall Street experience 25 years of bylines as freelancer and staffer Adept at writing in and editing AP style Skilled at both straight reporting and column/blog writing Well-traveled through North America, western Europe, Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa Expertise in: BUSINESS Securities Corporate finance Project and export finance Hedge funds and other alternative investments TECHNOLOGY Cloud computing Enterprise mobility and consumerization of IT IT strategy

Expertise

Book Author
5 Years
Writer
25 Years
Technical Writer
15 Years

Specialty

Business (general)
25 Years
Technology
15 Years
Finance
20 Years

Industries


Magazine - Trade magazines/publications (B2B)
20 Years
Newspaper - Local/Regional
5 Years
Book Publishing Consumer
5 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

25 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Hedge Fund Marketing/Job Search Digest (10+), Money-Media (10+), The Economist Group (10+)

Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

IBM (10+)

Other Work History

Equity analyst, Deutsche Bank Finance editor, Chemical Week Research fellow, The American University, Kogod College of Business Administration Special sections writer, (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) Sun-Sentinel Reporter, New York Times Regional Media Group Information analyst, Rodale Press

Technical Skills

social media, SEO

Foreign Language Skills

Some Spanish and Hebrew. Enough French and Italian to get directions or order off a menu

Computer Skills

Word, Excel (including macros and pivot tables), PowerPoint, HTML, Visual Basic

Equipment

MacBook Air, iPhone 5s, Call Recorder, Skype, VideoLab, Microsoft Excel suite

References

provided upon requests

Awards

National Press Foundation fellowships (2) MIT-Sloan Center for Information Systems Research summer program, 2012

Associations

New York Financial Writers Association

Showcase

General

Recent clips
(Trades & Tombstones, Alpha Calling, others 12/17/2013)
A list of some of my recent clips. There are also archival clips pages on the site