David Pittman

Email: abp4aw@r.postjobfree.com

Address: **** *. ******** ****

City: Tucson

State: AZ

Zip: 85741

Country: USA

Phone: 520-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $45,000

Primary Skills/Experience:

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Educational Background:

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Job History / Details:

DAVID B. PITTMAN

(A Business Super Hero)

8010 N. Tackroom Lane

Tucson, AZ 85741

Phone: 520-***-****

E-mail: abp4aw@r.postjobfree.com

A versatile, creative, organized, diplomatic and hardworking award-winning writer, editor and successful trade association director - with wide ranging skills in communications, public relations, marketing, governmental affairs, management, community service, graphic design, fundraising, sales and strategic planning - is seeking a challenging and rewarding professional position in Southern Arizona.

Employment:

Currently working as owner/operator of DPPR Services, which serves such clients as the Southern Arizona Home Builders Association and Sustaining Edge Solutions, Inc. Also working as a public relations consultant for Bolchalk Frey Marketing, Advertising & Public Relations and as a freelance writer and editor for such publications as BizTucson magazine and Inside Tucson Business.

August 1, 2006 to April 19, 2011 - Southern Arizona Director of the Arizona Builders` Alliance (ABA), a non-profit trade association representing about 150 firms in the commercial construction industry in the Tucson area.

May 1985 to July 2006 - Reporter, bureau chief, editor and columnist for the Tucson Citizen covering government, politics, courts, business and sports.

September 1978 to April 1985 - Worked at a pair of newspapers in Central Illinois, The Daily Pantagraph (Bloomington) and the Paxton Daily Record as a general assignment reporter, editor and photographer.

Accomplishments:

Member of the political campaign committee that successfully achieved voter approval in November 2006 for Proposition 400, creating a Joint Technological Education District (JTED) to reinvigorate vocational education in Pima County. Personally raised about $32,000 in contributions in support of the campaign.

Member of the political campaign committee that successfully defeated Proposition 200, an anti-growth initiative in Tucson that would have done great harm to Southern Arizona`s economy. Seventy-two percent of Tucson voters cast ballots against the proposition in November 2007. Personally raised about $40,000 in contributions to help defeat Prop. 200.

Instrumental in creating an Apprenticeship Training Ordinance that was approved by the Tucson City Council in 2007. Most of the provisions of the ordinance, which directs funding to local apprenticeship training programs, were later adopted administratively by Pima County.

Worked to create the ABA Learning Laboratory at Catalina Magnet High School and oversaw a tripling of both apprenticeship training classes offered and the number of students in ABA apprenticeship programs.

Served on a stakeholder group that in 2008 successfully recommended passage by the Tucson City Council of the nation`s first rainwater harvesting ordinance.

Integral member of a stakeholder group that met regularly over an eight-month period developing proposals to significantly reduce fees and streamline processes in the Pima County Development Services Department. The Pima County Board of Supervisors approved recommendations advanced by the stakeholder group in April 2011.

As ABA director, helped plan and execute five Volunteer Day charitable projects that resulted in approximately $685,000 in materials and labor being donated to such non-profit, charitable agencies as Tucson Nursery School, Marshall Home for Men, Compass Health Care, The Haven and New Beginnings for Women & Children.

As ABA director, coordinated fundraising campaigns over a five-year period that provided more than $120,000 for scholarship programs benefiting outstanding University of Arizona engineering and architecture students.

Boards & Committees:

Served on the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the JTED Board and as chairman of the JTED Construction Industry Subcommittee from 2007 to 2011. In those positions helped create and served as master of ceremonies of the annual JTED Construction Awards Banquet, honoring outstanding students in vocational education construction programs.

Member of the Board of Managers at the Northwest YMCA since 2008. Member of the Board of Directors of Cornerstone Alliance against Cancer since 2010. Formerly served as a member of the Good Scout Award Luncheon Steering Committee from 2007 to 2011, the Board of Directors at The Haven from 2007 to 2010, and the Board of Directors of the Arizona Press Club from 1990 through 1992.

Journalism Awards & Honors:

First place award for business column writing among all state publications in 2005 from the Arizona Press Club.

One of three winners of the John Kolbe Award for Politics and Government Reporting in 2003 from the Arizona Press Club.

Received third place award for public service reporting in 2003 from The Arizona Associated Press Managing Editors Association.

Third place award for Business Writing in 1999 from The Arizona Associated Press Managing Editors Association.

Third place award for deadline reporting in 1997 from The Associated Press for coverage of the criminal trial of Gov. Fife Symington.

Third place award for spot news reporting from the Arizona Press Club for stories on the adjournment of the 1989 regular session of the state legislature.

Second Place award from The Associated Press for spot news reporting in 1988 for coverage of the impeachment conviction of Gov. Evan Mecham.

One of three recipients of the 1985 Polly Robinson Feature Writing Contest sponsored by Southern Illinois University.

Winner of the 1982 Illinois Media Award from the National Association of Retarded Citizens for outstanding news coverage.

Education:

Bachelor`s degree in journalism, 1978, College of Communications, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

Associate`s degree in general studies, 1976, Parkland Community College in Champaign, IL.

References:

Hank Amos, president and chairman of Tucson Realty & Trust, office: 520-***-****, cell: 520-***-****, email: abp4aw@r.postjobfree.com

Michael Bolchalk, president & CEO of Bolchalk Frey Marketing, Advertising & Public Relations, office: 520-***-****, e-mail: abp4aw@r.postjobfree.com

I. Michael Kasser, president Holualoa Companies, office: 520-***-****, cell: 520-***-****, e-mail: abp4aw@r.postjobfree.com

Cindy Parseghian, president of the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation, office: 520-***-****, home: 520-***-****, email: abp4aw@r.postjobfree.com

Ron Shoopman, president of the Southern Arizona Leadership Council, office: 520-***-****, cell: 520-***-****, email: rshoopmansalc.org

Walter Richter, administrator of corporate public affairs at Southwest Gas Corp., office: 520-***-****, cell: 520-***-****.

Larry Copenhaver, craft training coordinator for Arizona Builders` Alliance and ex-Tucson Citizen reporter, cell 520-***-****, office 520-***-****, email:abp4aw@r.postjobfree.com

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