Project Manager Content

Josh Oswald

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Jackson Heights, NY, 11372

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SUMMARY

(portfolio: http://www.creativehotlist.com/joswald2)

-- Product and service copywriting

-- Pitching creative concepts for high-level advertising campaigns

-- Web copywriting, content development and content management

-- Published author of "How to Play the Ukulele" (Barnes&Noble, 2008)

-- Content development for web start-ups

-- Creator of FakeMTA Twitter feed

-- Proficient in InDesign, Photoshop, QuarkXPress, HTML, Microsoft Office

Suite

-- Experience with content management systems

-- Coordinating and managing promotional contest with Underground Signs

(http://www.underground-signs.com/)

-- Extensive knowledge of AP, Chicago and Words into Type styles

-- Copy editing, line editing, fact checking and proofing layouts for

magazines, newspapers and web

PROFESSIONAL EXPRIENCE

2011

Copywriter/Campaign pitches, Mr. Youth (http://mryouth.com/)

-- Conceptualizing Total Rewards interactive experience for Caesars Palace

-- Writing copy for storyboard PDF and decks for pitch presentation

-- Pitching ideas to CEO, creative director, producer and project manager

-- Working with lead creative to consolidate individual concepts into

campaign pitch

2011

Copy Director, Fault Line Theatre, (http://faultlinetheatre.com/index.html)

-- Creating and editing text for web site, press releases and playbills

-- Responsible for developing and maintaining the company's voice for all

print and electronic communications

2010

Copywriter, (www.Groupon.com)

-- Writing and editing Daily Deal write-ups

-- Communicating needs of featured companies with Copy Director

-- Working with Copy Director to edit and revise copy

Copywriter, (www.Uncommongoods.com)

-- Writing product descriptions

-- Researching companies and featured products

2009

Content Developer, (www.Fitango.com)

-- Conceptualizing, writing and editing content for life-management guide

start-up

-- Creating, editing and posting content via proprietary content management

system

-- Testing usability of site interface

-- Identifying and submitting bugs to Web developers via Bugzilla

-- Promoting brand via Twitter (http://twitter.com/Fitango)

2008

Published Author of "How to Play the Ukulele" (Barnes&Noble, 2008)

-- Researching the history of the ukulele

-- Researching musical theory

-- Creating tablature (musical notation) for songs

2007-Present

Associate Editor, United Media, New York, N.Y.

(2004-2007 Assistant Editor)

-- Lead content editor for over 25 nationally and internationally

syndicated lifestyle, entertainment and political columns and features,

including:

-- "Miss Manners" by Judith Martin, author of over 10 books, including

"Miss Manners' Guide to a Surprisingly Dignified Wedding" (W. W.

Norton & Company, 2010)

-- "First Aid for the Ailing House" by Henri de Marne, author of

"About the House with Henri De Marne"

-- World Almanac, America's number-1 best-selling reference book of

all time

-- Adapting features for newspaper distribution: The New Republic,

Harper's, Parenting, Real Simple, Salon and Slate magazines

-- Formatting and proofing HTML templates for (www.Featurebank.com)

-- Promoting comic properties via Twitter

(http://twitter.com/comicsaddict), including:

-- Peanuts, Dilbert, Get Fuzzy, Marmaduke and Pearls Before Swine

-- Spearheading the acquisition and editing processes of Scripps Howard

News Service content

-- Maintaining deadlines with columnists and creators

-- Weekly intra-office activity update e-mail newsletter

-- Headline writing

-- Updating and maintaining style guides

-- Managing freelancers

2003-04 Designer/Writer, South East Ohio Magazine, Athens, Ohio

-- Developing design concepts for feature-length articles

-- Importing and paginating text with QuarkXPress and Photoshop

-- Writing feature-length human-interest pieces

-- Editing feature-length articles

Summer 2003 Intern, Restaurant Business Magazine, New York, N.Y

-- Copy editing columns and feature-length articles

-- Reporting on restaurant industry, food and business trends

-- Researching and writing food and alternative-venture pieces

EDUCATION

B.S. Magazine Journalism

E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University

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