Project Manager Management

David Sheets

Email: *********@********.***

Address: **** ****** ******

City: Saint Louis

State: MO

Zip: 63104

Country: USA

Phone: 314-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $75,000

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David Sheets

1106 Rutger Street, St. Louis, MO 63104 Mobile: 314-***-**** Email: ********@*****.*** Twitter: @DKSheets LinkedIn: DKSheets

Professional expertise: Content editing, creative direction, information design, leadership, news gathering and analysis, project management, public speaking, social media, teaching and training, writing

Core skills include: Access, Acrobat, Blox CMS, CSS, Dreamweaver, Excel, Final Cut, Fireworks, Flash, HTML, Illustrator, InCopy, InDesign, JavaScript, JazBox, Office, Photoshop, PowerPoint, QuarkXPress, SEO, SQL, WordPress, XHTML, XML

Freelance editor, writer, project manager

August 2012 - Present

Freelance professional who edits for content and clarity, writes for affect, and who helps businesses develop communications and public relations strategies.

Clients include:

* Peabody Energy, an S&P 500 company.

* BeyondNovember.org, a public policy resource in the St. Louis region.

Region 7 director

Society of Professional Journalists

September 2012 - Present

The Region 7 director serves as a liaison for SPJ chapters across a four-state region (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska) and helps administer national policy.

Responsibilities include:

* Organizing the regional convention each spring.

* Improving relationships among regional chapters and spurring their creativity.

Achievements:

* Recipient, Howard S. Dubin Outstanding Pro Member, a national award, 2012.

* Recipient, SPJ's national volunteer of the month award, April 2012.

* Editor, SPJ's digital freelance reporter's guidebook.

* Editor and contributor, "The Heartland Beat," a blog about Region 7 activities.

* Judge, Sigma Delta Chi Awards, 2011-2012.

* Chief judge for local and regional journalism contests in six different states.

* Creator of a strategy for virtual conferencing using social media technology.

National committee member

Society of Professional Journalists

October 2010 - Present

Policy consultant and volunteer coordinator for a national nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of a free press as a cornerstone of American liberty.

Responsibilities include:

* Contributing writer, "The Independent Journalist," a blog for freelance journalists.

* Contributing writer, "Net Worked," a blog about new technologies in journalism.

Content editor

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

June 1998 - July 2012

Curator, editor, designer and writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and STLtoday.com.

Achievements:

* Designed and edited the news, editorial and commentary pages.

* Wrote a weekly online column highlighting new and personal technology.

* Led an editing shift of 4 to 8 people on daily sports news coverage.

St. Louis chapter president

Society of Professional Journalists

June 2010 - June 2012

Led an association of St. Louis-area journalists striving to improve local journalism.

Achievements:

* Received SPJ's Circle of Excellence award, 2011-2012.

* Received SPJ's Most Outstanding Chapter award, 2010-2011, 2011-2012.

* Directed fundraising efforts that grew the chapter's finances tenfold in 10 months.

* Cut costs by one-third and turned money-losing programs into moneymaking ones.

Owner, founder

DKS Design

2000 - 2002

Built and maintained several commercial websites in a home-based business startup. Clients included Washington University, St. Louis; Patricia Stevens College, St. Louis; and La Salle Park, Community Information Network, St. Louis.

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