David Cow
Email: *********@********.***
Address: *** **** **** ****** - *
City: South Pasadena
State: CA
Zip: 91030
Country: USA
Phone: 626-***-****
Skill Level: Experienced
Salary Range: 80
Willing to Relocate
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David Clow
234 Fair Oaks Avenue, D
South Pasadena, CA 91030
*********@********.***
Samples and portfolio at www.davidclow.com
Communications Specialist / Copywriter / Project Manager
* Communications specialist in print, Web, video; project manager, team leader, author/journalist; extensive experience working with C-suite executives and subject matter experts for Fortune 500 market leaders and startups in utilities, technology, telecom, and medicine.
* Proven capabilities in media development, internal and external training, change management, executive communications, team leadership, project management and program design.
Specialties
* B-2-B, B-2-C Marketing Communications -- Internal and External Training -- Corporate Journalism -- Sales Support & Collateral -- Project Management -- Speeches & Newsletters -- Shareholder Communications -- Web Copywriting -- Video Scripting
Experience
Comcast, Marketing Copywriter / Project Manager - August 2011-Present
* Branding, sales support collateral: Researched, interviewed for, and wrote case studies and white papers on Comcast Ethernet for government, education and institutional applications: Comcast, Philadelphia, PA (Remote; based in CA)
Freelance Communications Specialist / Business Copy Writer - June 2009-Present
* Change management communications: Southern California Edison, Rosemead, CA
* Identity print and Web collateral: SunTech, DRI Energy, and Idealab
* Change management communications: Avery Dennison, Pasadena, CA
* Computer-based training: continuing education for nurses in -Care of the Bariatric Surgery Patient.- HealthStream, Nashville, TN
* Print journalism: features for Quest, the History of Spaceflight Quarterly
* Writing/editing: proposal preparation and content management; Inter-Con Security Systems, Pasadena, CA
* Web and print journalism: New Dentist magazine; newsletters and podcasts to dental professionals nationwide for McKenzie Management
Southern California Edison, Customer Experience Management, Communications Specialist - August 2005-June 2009
* Sales support collateral: produced a new line of fifty customer-facing Energy Management Case Studies (research, interviewing, writing and approvals) for print-and Web-delivered sales support
* Direct response customer communications, space ads, etc.: produced B-2-B, B-2-C technical and marketing copywriting for print, direct mail, presentations and Web on business and consumer sustainability and conservation tactics and strategies, demand response and energy efficiency
* Internal and external training: produced internal and external training on optimizing energy uses and ROI, utility rates, market conditions and renewable energy
* Writer/editor: wrote executive communications, newsletter articles, competition entries; handled a range of short-deadline assignments for SCE executives and staff
Freelance Communications Specialist / Business Copy Writer / Executive Coach - June 2002-June 2008
* Writer, Project Manager for two published books
- Six Lessons for Six Sons (Harmony, 2005; Three Rivers Press, 2006; Larousse (Brazil) 2007)
- A Few Words from the Chair - A Patient Speaks to Dentists (CreateSpace, 2008); www.fromthechair.com; revised version 2012
* Executive coach for over 150 healthcare professionals on delivering practice-building presentations to lay audiences (American Education Bureau - March-October 2004)
* Freelance writer/project manager for corporate/marketing communications, training and instructional design, for MCA, Great Western Bank, Amgen, AT&T, Fluor, American Express ENVOY, ENOVA Corporation, National Association of Realtors, Nissan Motor Corporation (June 2002-March 2004)
Intel - Communications Manager, Content - January 2001-June 2002
* Web architecture, Web copy-overhauled company Web site into a timely source for industry news and product information; wrote executive and management marketing messages and supervised content
* White papers, technical writing, marketing and training collateral, presentations, newsletters for a world-leading telecommunications protocols software company; liaison with internal customers. Awarded Presidential Certificate for Results Orientation
Quisic (formerly University Access) - Head Writer/Editor - June 1999-January 2001
* Writing and editing for award-winning business e-learning products producing over $2.5 million in revenues
* Head Writer/Team Leader--hired and supervised staff; served on merger teams for integrating new acquisitions and working processes
* Co-produced proprietary streamlined production tools; produced company writing style guide.
* Cited by management for excellence in performance
Photogenesis - Director of Communications - February 1994-June 1999
* Shareholder communications, patient and physician liaison--Prepared shareholder documents and reports, business plan, internal and external communications; liaison with research and clinical staff, physicians, press, patients for an early-stage medical device company
Additional projects in print, video and Web - 1980-1994
* Marketing Communications Writer, AT&T
* Journalist, USA Today, Philadelphia Magazine, Pennsylvania Outlook Business Quarterly
* Writer, Understanding Cities, award-winning five-part half-hour documentary series on the history and development of Rome, Paris, London, American cities, and the City of the Future
Education, Certifications, and Affiliations
* University of Pennsylvania, BA with honors, English and History
* Certificates in Multimedia Authoring, University of Southern California, American Film Institute
* Richmond College (London, England)
* American Medical Writers Association
* Authors Guild