| Stanley Nelson 187 Stardust Court Pueblo, CO 81007 US nelson@aculink.net |
Primary Phone:719-547-1654 Fax:719-547-1654 |
| Communicator, editor, Web veteran |
| OBJECTIVE | Implement extensive experience aind ability to innovate in print and electronic media and internal and external communications to meet new challenges. |
| TARGET JOB | Target Job Title: | Editor, manager, director |
| Desired Job Type: | Employee |
| Desired Status: | Full-Time |
| Site Location: | No Preference |
| Description of my perfect job: The ideal position not only would apply my experience and qualifications but would offer daily challenges to grow and learn - and to apply what I learn so the company, its leaders and its employees can achieve their goals. |
| Career Level: | Management (Manager/Director of Staff) |
| Date of Availability: | From 1 to 3 months |
| TARGET COMPANY | Company Size: | No Preference |
| TARGET LOCATIONS | Relocate: | Yes |
| US-KS | US-OK |
| WORK STATUS | US | I am authorized to work in this country for any employer. |
| EXPERIENCE | 3/2002 - Present | Pueblo Chieftain | Pueblo, Colorado |
| news editor |
| Responsible for story selection and editing and directing design of page 1 and wire news pages for 50,000-circulation 7-day AM daily covering southern Colorado. Adapted to using a proprietary system built on a relational database run on Sun servers. Responsible for developing a printed and online stylebook for newsroom with staff of 45. |
| 6/2001 - 2/2002 | Benton Courier | Benton AR |
| Editor |
| Oversee staff of three editors and four reporters for 8,000-circulation, seven-day morning daily newspaper in central Arkansas. Duties include hiring, training, editorial decisions and direction, writing columns and editorials, editing copy, planning stories and story packages. In less than two months I have redesigned the Courier and introduced innovative and time-saving ideas for news management. Also redesigned the Malvern Daily Record, a sister paper of smaller circulation. Proposed and developed materials for design and news management consultation within Horizon Publications, the parent group of the Courier, the Daily Record and 16 other daily newspapers. |
| 9/1996 - 5/2001 | ALLTEL | Little Rock, AR |
| Director-Media Services |
| Among accomplishments: - Founded, developed, strategized and managed content for the company's only official employee intranet site. - Redesigned the intranet site twice: once in 1997 and again in late 2000, each time leading to an increase in usage and ease of use. - Pioneered strategies for putting major company announcements on the intranet site, including major reorganization information, promotion of company-wide initiatives and handling company-wide employee involvement campaigns. Among these strategies were surveying techniques, employee sign-ups for activities and video streaming of major announcements. - Founded the company's principal Internet site integrating several formerly separate company Web sites to build a unified marketing presence. - Principal designer and production specialist for the company's monthly news magazine. - Key participant in the origin of the company's quarterly human-interest magazine. - Oversight and training of a staff of as many as five. - Evaluation of and decisions to implement standards and technology for internal Web development and internal communication. - Resolution and tracking of issues for internal and external customers. - Web-based competitive research. - Preparation and output of corporate news releases for ALLTEL and its subsidiaries, including working with Investor Relations and legal officers. These releases included all major and material announcements. - Preparation and production of ALLTEL media material, including electronic and printed media kits. - Decision-making on internal communication and messaging. - Team leader for the successful intranet and Internet transition during ALLTEL's largest merger to date. - Developed templates, standards and project plan for a comprehensive internal Web presence for ALLTEL's Marketing and Sales & Distribution groups, including a total redesigning of Sales & Distribution's Marketing Research site. - Originated work on and participated in ALLTEL's Year 2000 rollover crisis communications plan. |
| 10/1992 - 9/1996 | Northwest Arkansas Times | Fayetteville, AR |
| Editor |
| Among accomplishments: -Guided the Times to win awards for news coverage and news layout in competition against much larger papers - Increased circulation by 30 percent (from about 12,000 to about 16,000). - Guided the implementation of digital photography, full page output to film - Developed the state's third newspaper Web site (1995). - Introduced attractive, reader-friendly design - Led a newsroom of more than 25 reporters, editors and photographers. - Upgraded the paper's from an antiquated editing and story database system to a new Baseview publishing system, which I proposed, budgeted, spearheaded, participated in its installation and maintained. - Upgraded the paper's network from 10Base2 to 10BaseT with three separate network zones, which I installed and configured. - Budgeted, ordered and configured new PowerBooks for reporters and PowerMacs for editors. - Maintenance and configuration of imagesetters. - Hired and trained reporters to write and manage their sources. - Redesigned the Times twice: in 1992 and 1995. - Configured and administered the Times' first in-house e-mail server. - Origination of Northwest Arkansas' first weekly business coverage tabloid. - Originated innovatively designed weekend sports and entertainment sections and a midweek education tabloid section. - Principal in the development of "The Times Cares," the paper's first organized effort to support charitable organizations in Northwest Arkansas. |
| 9/1979 - 9/1992 | The Tulsa Tribune | Tulsa, OK |
| Design editor |
| Highlights included the institution of Tribune "Today" sections that ran each publishing day (Monday-Saturday) and emphasized a different general subject for each day; editing of copy and layout for special sections and investigative reports. Was a charter member of the Tribune's design desk, which set standards for news layout for the entire paper and pioneered electronic pagination. Also served at different times as wire editor, assistant city editor and assistant features editor. Was principal designer for the Tribune's page 1 for the last year of the paper's life. |
| 10/1978 - 6/1979 | Bartlesville Morning American | Bartlesville, OK |
| Managing editor |
| Responsible for all operations of a newsroom of about a dozen people for a six-day morning daily newspaper of about 3,500 circulation. Duties included hiring and training of personnel, coordinating coverage and newsroom tasks, directing of editors, acting as source editor for reporters, development of technologies and processes related to producing the paper, budget management and resource management. |
| EDUCATION | 9/1977 | University of Oklahoma | US-OK-Norman |
| Associate Degree |
| Journalism major, recipient of McMahon Scholarship to H.H. Herbert School of Journalism. |
| 5/1974 | Rose State College | US-OK-Midwest City |
| Associate Degree |
| Journalism major, received college's "Outstanding Journalist" award for 1974. |
| SKILLS | Skill Name | Skill Level | Last Used | Experience |
| Macintosh OS | Expert | Currently used | 10 years |
| Windows95, 98, 2000, NT | Expert | Currently used | 5 years |
| Quark XPress | Expert | Currently used | 10 years |
| Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, etc.) | Expert | Currently used | 5 years |
| Photoshop | Expert | Currently used | 10 years |
| Graphics software | Expert | Currently used | 10 years |
| Mgmt/team building | Intermediate | Currently used | 20 years |
| Web research | Expert | Currently used | 7 years |
| Print publishing/production | Expert | Currently used | 20 years |
| Web development software | Intermediate | Currently used | 5 years |
| Web site management software | Expert | Currently used | 4 years |
| Computer troubleshooting | Expert | Currently used | 10 years |
| Writing (feature, news, documentation) | Expert | Currently used | 25 years |
| Editing of written materials | Expert | Currently used | 25 years |
| Publication design and layout | Expert | Currently used | 25 years |
| Speaking / presentation | Intermediate | Currently used | 20 years |
| Budget management | Intermediate | Currently used | 10 years |
| Linux | Beginner | Currently used | 1 years |
| Associated Press Stylebook | Expert | Currently used | 27 years |
| REFERENCES | Randy Wilbourn | ALLTEL | senior vice president - corporate communications |
| Phone Number: | 501-905-8148 |
| Email Address: | randy.wilbourn@alltel.com |
| Reference Type: | Professional |
| Randy Cope | Neosho Daily News | Publisher |
| Phone Number: | 417-451-1520 |
| Email Address: | rwcope@ipa.net |
| Reference Type: | Professional |
| Rev. Larry Jones | Santa Fe Baptist Church | Pastor |
| Phone Number: | 409-925-3411 |
| Email Address: | blawrencejones@hotmail.com |
| Reference Type: | Personal |
| Bob Rhodes | Mennonite Weekly Review | Assistant editor |
| Phone Number: | 316-283-3670 |
| Email Address: | editor@mennoweekly.org |
| Reference Type: | Professional |
| George S Smith | Washington Newspaper Publishers Association | Executive director |
| Phone Number: | 206-634-3838 |
| Email Address: | executivedirector@wnpa.com |
| Reference Type: | Professional |
| ADDITIONAL INFORMATION | - In 1996, helped lead the staff of the Benton (Arkansas) Courier in a redesign effort instituting typography and layout approaches still used today. - In 1995-96, served as a design and technology consultant within American Publishing Co. while at the Northwest Arkansas Times and after transitioning to ALLTEL. - Led design session for APC at summer retreat for Arkansas papers in 1996. - Won second place for Page One Deadline Layout in 1991 AP/Oklahoma News Executives annual Carl Rogan Memorial News Excellence Competition. - Won first place for Page 1 deadline layout at 1993 Arkansas Press Association competition. - Won Bronze Quill Award in 2000 for ALLTEL Times center spread highlighting the company's new employee extranet capability. |