Manager Management
Resume:
WOLCOTT WHEELER
Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522
Cell (Preferred): 914-***-****
Home Phone: 914-***-****
E-mail: **************@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
• Accomplished, versatile senior marketing and corporate communications writer, editor, and speechwriter with a diversified range of experience, specializing in financial services and wealth management.
• Accustomed to high-output, deadline-driven environments.
• Have adapted writing style to appeal to widely varying target audiences.
• Helped develop Internet and Intranet portals for two major financial institutions. Record of advancement into progressively more responsible and challenging positions.
Areas of professional skill/knowledge:
Corporate Communications
Financial Communications
Marketing Communications
Client Communications
Project Management
Internal Publications
Internet & Intranet Content Development
Executive Speechwriting
Video & Film Scripting
Advertising & Promotional Copywriting
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
The Capital Group – New York, NY January 2012
Writing and research consultant
• Revised, edited, and fact-checked quarterly and year-end financial analysis reports for institutional investors
• Two-week consulting assignment
BNY Mellon – New York, NY October 2007 to March 2011
Vice President and Senior Marketing Writer and Manager – Depositary Receipts Division
• Acted as the chief writer and editor for the Marketing division of a prominent U.S. financial services firm, specializing in the marketing of Depositary Receipts (DRs), a $3 trillion-a-year international industry.
• Wrote, revised, and copyedited industry reports, brochures, press releases, white papers, ghostwritten articles, product briefs, Web copy, client letters and associated documentation.
• Originated, edited and wrote the highly acclaimed internal newsletter.
• Acted as division manager of internal communications.
• Active member of the division’s Employee Engagement Committee and head of the Communications subcommittee.
• Helped develop the division’s Intranet.
HNW, Inc. – New York, NY July 2007 to September 2007
Writing Consultant
• Acted as a writing consultant for a leading New York marketing and software agency specializing in helping major financial institutions sell to the affluent.
• Wrote, revised, and copyedited brochures, Web copy, fact sheets, and related promotional materials and contribute to the creation of promotional campaigns, rebranding efforts, financial seminars and the naming of financial products.
Menta Capital, LLC October 2006 to July 2007
Writing Consultant
• Acted as the writing resource of a new San Francisco hedge fund.
• Assisted senior management in writing documents such as SEC filings and marketing and promotional materials.
U.S. Trust Company July 2000 to April 2006
Assistant Vice President and Senior Financial Writer
• Chief writer for one of the oldest (founded 1853) and most prestigious financial institutions in the U.S., focused on wealth management.
• Wrote on a very wide variety of financial topics and investment tools, strategies, and styles, including the institutional market, mutual funds, and alternative investments.
• Composed speeches and Power Point presentations for CEO and senior management.
• Authored articles for the annual report and wrote a high volume of client letters, executive e-mails, talking points, FAQs, Q&As, statement stuffers, and advertising copy.
• Did extensive copyediting and proofreading of others’ work, including annual report.
• Edited firm’s biweekly Economic Commentary for Internet publication.
• Managed multiple projects from beginning to end, supervised both staff and freelancers, and worked closely with Legal & Compliance.
GreenPoint Financial Corporation December 1996 to July 2000
Senior Staff Writer
• Responsible for all significant writing duties for a leading national mortgage banking firm (GreenPoint Mortgage) and local commercial bank (GreenPoint Bank).
• Wrote high volume of retail promotional and informational brochures, press releases, customer letters, statement stuffers, and news bulletins.
• Authored shareholder communications such as quarterly report letters, year-end financial statements, and financial press releases.
• Composed speeches and PowerPoint presentations for CEO and senior management.
• Created and wrote all company Internet and Intranet website content and responsible for maintaining and updating Internet and Intranet websites.
• Conceived and wrote entire contents of popular company monthly internal newsletter, Pointer.
Japanese Ministry of Education August 1995 to August 1996
Himeji Commercial High School (Himeji, Japan)
JET Program English teacher
Chosen by the Japanese government to teach English in Japan in the JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching) Program, an extremely competitive and selective international exchange program.
Queens College, City University of New York September 1994 to June 1995
Graduate student
Ernst & Young LLP December 1990 to September 1994
Editor and Writer
Wrote, edited, and proofread corporate and real estate valuation reports, client proposals, executive correspondence, and internal communications for National Valuation Group.
Additional Experience
Columbia Pictures, Burbank, CA
Screenwriter
• Selected out of a field of over 100 writers to write a full-length screenplay for the Columbia Pictures Talent Program, the studio’s extremely competitive national screenwriting workshop.
• Columbia subsequently purchased my motion picture screenplay DIVIDE AND CONQUER.
Mayor’s Office – City of Atlantic City, NJ
Aide to the Mayor and Speechwriter
• Worked as special assistant to Mayor Joseph Lazarow, who brought legalized casino gambling to Atlantic City.
• Acted as chief speechwriter and personal representative and wrote city PR materials.
Various teaching positions
• Taught class in Television Production and Drama for gifted children grades 4-6 for the Southern New Jersey Consortium for Gifted and Talented Children, a program sponsored by Johns Hopkins University in Galloway Township, NJ.
• Taught high-school level (10th to 12th grade) English in Wilmington and New Castle, Delaware.
EDUCATION
M.A., Queens College, City University of New York
• Major: English/Creative Writing
• Earned a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.84
A.B., Princeton University, cum laude
• Major: English Literature/Creative Writing
• Appointed to the highly selective University Scholar Program for independent study on the basis of “outstanding scholastic achievement” and “exceptional talent and accomplishment in an academic or creative field”
• Recipient of F. Scott Fitzgerald Prize for outstanding achievement by an undergraduate in creative writing
PUBLICATIONS
• Available upon request
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