Mark Thomas Onosko

**** ************ *****, **. ********, WI 53403 phone: 262-***-****

**** ** *** *******, **** Coral, FL 33993 phone: 239-***-****

email: acgha9@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Account Executive, Sun Coast Media Group, Post Charlotte, FL, Responsible for: advertising sales and design for

the Charlotte Sun, Punta Gorda Herald and Charlotte Herald and related weekly and specialty products. I also

received extensive training in SEO and SEM and various digital advertising and social media products through

Growthweaver of Denver Colorado for "Sun Digital", a subsidiary of Sun Coast Media. 2013–2014 I am currently

retired and "snow birding" between Wisconsin and Florida.

Publisher/Editor, The Labor Paper, Kenosha, WI. (Union Cooperative Publishing) Responsible for: management of

outside sales and service, revenue tracking, goal projections, generation of sales reports, strategic planning and

market analysis, budgeting, sales training and supervision of sales, business, circulation and art department staff for

the last weekly Labor publication in the State of Wisconsin (one of four weekly Labor publications nationally). In

addition, during my tenure with The Labor Paper, retail advertising revenues in the past had grown by 118%,

circulation has grown from 4,300 copies per week to 8,400 and they published Labor Paper EXTRA!, a general

interest monthly bulk-drop shopper with a circulation of 10,000 in addition to their weekly publication. I also

directed the merger of The Labor Paper with the Racine Labor in 2000 and The Rockford Labor News in 2012.

Website: www.laborpaper.com . The papers closed 8 months after my retirement. 1999 to 2013

General Manager/Media Consultant, Morganmedia, Racine, WI. Media company representing weekly and monthly

publications, internet advertising sources and consulting work for small to mid-sized newspapers. 1997 to 1999

Advertising Director, Travel Your Way Magazine, Chicago, IL. (MHR Media) Full color, tabloid size, 100K

circulation specialty magazine inserted monthly in the New York Times midwest and southwest regions. 1997

Account Executive, The News-Sun, Waukegan, IL. (Copley Chicago Newspapers) Daily newspaper with 30K

circulation throughout northern Illinois. 1994 to 1997

Senior Account Executive, The Racine County Shopper, The Journal Times, Racine, WI. (Lee Enterprises) Bulk

drop, tabloid size weekly shopper with 20K circulation throughout southeastern Wisconsin. 1989 to 1994

Publisher/Advertising Director, Young At Heart Magazine and Southeast Wisconsin Magazine, Kenosha, WI. (Press

One Kenosha) Specialty products each with 50K monthly circulation throughout southeastern Wisconsin. 1987 to

1989

Advertising Coordinator, Rath Companies, Janesville, WI. Manufacturing corporation with products ranging from

electronics to stainless steel tubing. 1985 to 1987

Assistant Art Director, Community Telephone Directories, Kenilworth IL. Telephone Directory Publishing

Company. 1983 to 1985

Advertising Director, Onosko/Meyer Media, Kenosha WI. Full service advertising agency and publisher of The

Kenosha Tribune and The Madison Independent weekly newspapers and a quarterly dining guide each with a 20K

circulation. 1980 to 1983

Mark Thomas Onosko

6235 Lincolnshire Drive, Mt. Pleasant, WI 53403 phone: 262-***-****

1609 NW 8th Terrace, Cape Coral, FL 33993 phone: 239-***-****

email: acgha9@r.postjobfree.com

OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE:

25 years freelance design work, additional print and broadcast sales experience, photography, freelance journalism,

political campaign planning, television and radio commercial production. I have worked for United Press

International and Associated Press as a regional correspondent.

EDUCATION:

Double Major, Art/Business. Minor in English. 1973 to 1977

ADDITIONAL TRAINING:

Lee Executive Advertising Program (LEAP), 1990, recognized by Human Resources as a leader in the “Countering

Objections” segment of this 8 week ongoing training program. I personally lead this segment with the help of

Human Resources Manager Delores Fergus.

Sales Results Incorporated (SRI) Executive Advertising Program, 1994, recognized as a “future leader” by trainer

and Company President Tim O’Donnell.

Various Brian Tracy and Zig Ziglar sales seminars, 1995 - 1997.

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS:

Lee Enterprises “Pinned by the Publisher” Award for employee excellence, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994. Award

presented by Journal Times Publisher Bob Fusie.

Lee Enterprises “We’re Nuts for You” Award for going above and beyond the call of duty, 1990, 1992. Award

presented by Journal Times Publisher Bob Fusie.

Lee Enterprises “Volunteer of the Year Award” for outspend community service. 1989, 1990. Award presented by

Journal Times Marketing Manager James Wardrip, and General Manager Loretta Breslin.

Copley Newspapers Department Leader, 1996, Award presented by Advertising Director John Rung.

VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES:

Lighthouse Run, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, Racine, Wisconsin

Animal Crackers Jazz Series, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, Racine, Wisconsin

St. Casimir Parish Festival 1989 through 1999, Kenosha, Wisconsin

St. Sebastian’s Parish Festival, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998. Sturtevant, Wisconsin

St. John Nepoumonk Parish Festival, 1995, 1996, Racine, Wisconsin

LABORFEST, 2000 through 2013, Kenosha, Wisconsin/Racine Wisconsin

REFERENCES:

Peter W Barca, State Representative, Madison, Wisconsin, 262-***-****

Mark Gumbinger, Documentary Filmmaker, Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, 262-***-****

Mike Bjorn, Retailer, Kenosha, Wisconsin, 262-***-****

Kurt Marquardt, Retired, Racine, Wisconsin, 262-***-****

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