Quality Assurance Manager

Michael Anthony Minadeo

Anaheim, CA ***** ?714-***-****? *******.*******@*****.***

SUMMARY

A detail-oriented professional with a strong branding, marketing, and

social media background.

? Social Media ? Editing/Copywriting ? Newsletters

? Print/Digital ? Email Campaigns ? Project Management

Communications

KEY COMPETENCIES

WORK EXPERIENCE

California Long-Term Care Education Center October 2012 -

January 2013

Grant Communications Manager

. Responsible for preparing marketing and education materials, along

with complex grant

documentation and reports for the largest non-profit homecare training

center in California.

. Improved website for consistency and responsible for bi-weekly blog

posts.

. Developed and monitored quality assurance systems to ensure contract

timeliness and accuracy.

. Facilitated the completion and submission of required progress reports

for government funding.

railLA - High Speed Rail Coalition November

2010 - October 2012

Co-chair of Marketing and Communications

. Creating a realistic vision about the future of high speed rail with mail

campaigns, targeted marketing collateral, website task forces, press

releases, and media advertising.

. Managing grassroots marketing initiatives and building coalitions with

like-minded organizations.

. Dapper Day on the Subway: Collaborating with transit venues to host art

shows, tours, and interactive events along the rail lines in Los Angeles

to reinvigorate a sense of nostalgia for train travel.

Homecare Workers Training Center October 2009 -

November 2010

Independent Communications Consultant

. Contracted to research, survey focus groups, and conduct on-site

interviews for Nursing Home Training and Education Fund.

SEIU United Long-Term Care Workers' Union 2005-October 2009

Communications Department Lead

. Duties included newsletters, promotional campaigns, copywriting,

mailings, website maintenance, SEO, press releases, and media outreach

for 190,000 union members.

. Spearheaded (from concept to production) the change of the old union

newspaper into "Dignity", a

40 page multilingual magazine.

. Created a "Member Reporter" training program where activists learned how

to take documentary photographs and conduct interviews during news

events.

EDUCATION

B. F.A. Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

SOFTWARE SKILLS

. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Microsoft Office Suite, PowerPoint,

Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Hootsuite

Dashboard, Crawlytics), SEO (ClickDensity, Wordtracker, Google

Analytics), Email (Constant Contact, MailChimp)

AWARDS

2011 Grand Prize winner of The Roy Amara Prize for Participatory Foresight

(http://californiadreams.org/)

2011 British Airways "Face of Opportunity" Semi-Finalist

(http://britishairways.promo.eprize.com/contest/gallery)

VOLUNTEERING

2011-2012 Orange County Braille Institute

Instructor- Photography for the Visually Impaired

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