Project Management
Resume:
Barbara A. Saunders
Houston, TX 77072
**********@***.***
www.linkedin/in/bsaunders5155
Qualifications in Brief
Award winning communications specialist with experience spanning newspaper and
professional journal articles, media relations, social media, corporate communications,
Web content development, marketing communications, proposals, grants and reports.
Noted for clear, accurate handling of complex material. Substantive knowledge and
experience in the energy field (oil and gas, utilities and alternative,) as well as high
technology/computer/IT. Extremely strong computer skills, including Word, PowerPoint,
Access, Excel and Publisher. B.A., cum laude, in economics and history, with
departmental honors in both majors.
Experience
Communications Specialist, SB Media Services, Houston and Galveston, TX (2004
Present): Provide contract writing, editing, media relations and research services. Clients
since 2004 have spanned such diverse geographical locations as Seattle, WA, Houston and
Galveston, TX, Chicago, IL and Israel, primarily in the energy and high tech industries.
Approximately 90% of current work is technical, financial or scientific, and involves
collaborating on professional papers, presentations and articles, placement with editors of
technical and professional journals, project management, research, conceptual graphics
development, Web site development or upgrades, and preparing speeches or PowerPoint
slide presentations of major conferences. Clients have included Enterprise Performance
Group, Galveston Historical Foundation (Web site and media relations,) The Islander
Magazine, Hispanic Business Executive Quarterly, Diamond Offshore Drilling Co.,
Hewlett Packard, IHS, Paradigm Geophysical, Petris Technology, Society of Petroleum
Engineers (SPE,) and www.oiljobfinder.com.
Coordinator II, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Galveston, TX (2004):
Coordinated aspects of grants for women’s health science research center, assisted with
Web site and speaker luncheons. Gained familiarity with MedLine and extensive
government/other health science data bases, and NIH and foundation submissions
procedures. Contributed literature research in bone mineral density and estrogens.
Approved for early transfer/rehire when position was reclassified.
Account Supervisor, Bates Churchill Public Relations, Houston, TX, (1998 2001):
Served in a supervisory editorial capacity on the company’s energy and high technology
accounts. Actual roles varied depending on the account and project type. For example, as
associate editor of a client’s new launch magazine in technological advances in energy,
helped plan the content and design, set editorial standards, mentor newer writers, and edit
copy (the magazine won several major editorial awards during its launch year.) On other
projects, helped clients achieve measurably stronger media relations results through more
targeted, pro active campaigns and increased use of visuals. Also served as senior editorial
coordinator on several large, successful proposal and public information efforts.
Communications Specialist, Los Angeles, CA and Houston, TX, (1992 1998 and 2001
2004): Developed collaborative and original articles, reports, white papers, proposals and
business presentations, media relations strategies, special events and corporate
presentations. Clients included Fortune 500 companies, energy industry publishers and
large and small non profits. During this period also provided full time staff writer support
(1996 97) to the Oil and Gas Journal, and associate editor support (2002) to World
Refining magazines.
Listing of Previous Positions
West Coast Bureau Chief (1989 1992), Washington Correspondent (1986
1989), and Staff Writer (1984 1985) Whitney Publications, Los Angeles, CA and
Washington, D.C.
Research Associate, Planning & Management Associates and Planning Research
Corp., Washington, D.C. and Fairfax, VA (1979 1983)
Legislative Assistant, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. (1977 1978)
Researcher/Writer, National Public Television, WETA TV, Washington, D.C. (1975
1977)
Education
Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia
B.A., cum laude, economics and history (double major)
Awarded top departmental honors in both majors
Professional Affiliations and Honors
Phi Alpha Theta, National Historical Honorary Society
International Association of Business Communicators (IABC,) former board member
IABC Bronze Award, Technical Writing, 2000
Hart Publications Award for Editorial Excellence, 2002
Nominated for Newman Business Writing Award, 1996
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