Download
 PDF Version
 Word Version
Contact
Timothy C. Truxell
404.550.4561
E-Mail
«Return to flannelenigma.com |
Summary of Qualifications
| |
- 15 years of writing and editing experience
- Developing and implementing messaging strategies
- Writing and editing web content and marketing newsletters
- Coordinating resources and managing staff
- Writing copy for sales materials
- Proficient in numerous computer applications
- Working with a wide variety of clients
|
- Developing and implementing content strategies
- Creating communications strategies for marketing web sites
- Writing and editing marketing communications material
- Developing and managing editorial processes
- Researching and developing solutions
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Thriving in a team environment
|
|
Professional Skills
| |
Content Strategy & Management |
|
| |
- Over 12 years experience as editor and writer working with a wide range of clients
- Devising content strategies to include the content features and types that would best suit clients’ needs
- Preparing editorial style, template, and nomenclature documentation to guide content development and to ensure voice and tone are an expression of brand
- Creating migration plans and maintenance strategies for a variety of web sites
- Creating content and managing content creation using content management systems (Vignette, Interwoven TeamSite, LWWCM, BEA WebLogic)
- Managing content acquisition and integration for various web sites and marketing collateral
- Analyzing and writing content for web sites for major corporations and Internet startups
- Working with information architects and graphic designers to brainstorm organization and design of numerous web sites to ensure a good user experience
- Directing staff and coordinating freelance resources during editorial process
- Developing and implementing editorial processes; scheduling and prioritizing projects
- Tracking deadlines and delivery schedules to increase efficiency
- Providing content strategy input during proposal process and upselling content strategy to clients
- Writing scripts for Flash marketing minisites and instructional videos
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
Integrated Marketing |
|
| |
- Creating messaging strategies to take advance of cross-sell and up-sell opportunities
- Preparing strategies for e-mail and Internet marketing
- Creating communications plans to inform customers of enhancements to existing web sites
- Writing and editing marketing collateral and supervising content development
- Determining and producing editorial content for company’s newsletters, white papers, and web site
- Preparing e-mail newsletter templates used to support sales process
- Preparing corporate intranet content and introducing new collateral pieces
- Interviewing subject matter experts for input into written deliverables
- Helping to prepare presentations for sales and pitch meetings
- Creating templates for proposals and writing case studies
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
Technical Communications |
|
| |
- Writing technical design documents; installation, implementation, and operations manuals; business requirements, and functional specifications
- Editing scientific reports and peer-reviewed scientific articles for grammar, style, and technical consistency
- Writing and editing technical proposals for various potential clients
- Creating templates for technical documents to increase efficiency and support knowledge transfer
- Writing document-preparation protocol and style manual
- Preparing and editing technical presentations for audiences with varying degrees of technical knowledge
- Managing documentation projects for knowledge transfer process
|
|
Employment History
| |
2006 – |
Content Strategist: Sapient
Atlanta, Georgia |
|
| |
2004 – 2006 |
Senior Content Strategist: Genex
Atlanta, Georgia |
|
| |
1998 – 2006 |
Freelance Writer and Editor
Atlanta, Georgia
|
|
| |
2002 – 2004 |
Managing Editor, UPS.com, Content Strategist: UPS
Atlanta, Georgia |
|
| |
2001 |
Senior Writer:
MATRIX Resources
Atlanta, Georgia |
|
| |
2000 |
Editorial Director:
Xceed
Atlanta, Georgia |
|
| |
1998 – 2000 |
Content Strategist; Technical Writer: USWeb/CKS
Atlanta, Georgia |
|
| |
1994 – 1998 |
Managing Editor; Technical Editor: Integrated Science & Technology,
Marietta, Georgia |
|
| |
1993 – 1994 |
Instructor: Dominion Business School,
Staunton, Virginia |
|
Selected Clients
| |
- Ashland Chemical
- BellSouth.net
- Benjamin Moore
- British Petroleum
- Chase
- Coca-Cola
- Exxon
- Fieldcrest Cannon
- Georgia-Pacific
|
- NetBank
- PNC Bank
- Progress Energy
- Scion
- Spherion
- Sunbeam
- Suntory Water Group
- UPS
- WebMD
|
|
Education
| |
1991 – 1992 |
Master of Arts, English: The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. |
|
| |
|
- Researched, wrote, and revised master’s thesis: Sir Gareth’s Corporate Chivalry: Chivalric Guidebooks and Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur.
- Took and passed comprehensive examination in pursuit of degree with a grade of high pass.
- Fulfilled foreign language reading requirement in Spanish.
|
|
| |
1987 – 1991 |
Bachelor of Arts, English: Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia. |
|
| |
|
- Graduated cum laude with honors in English.
- Consistently appointed to Dean’s List and Honor Roll.
- Researched and wrote senior honor’s thesis: Lilies that Fester Smell Far Worse Than Weeds: The Role of Sir Gawain in the Works of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Chretien de Troyes, and Sir Thomas Malory.
- Earned score of distinction on required comprehensive examination.
|
|
|
