Re: Job hunters here - post your resume

I am a medical writer/healthcare marketing communications specialist who relocated to the Valley from NYC in June 2004. I am currently telecommuting part-time for a NYC-based agency and am looking for additional part-time work in the local area, though I would consider a full-time position under the right circumstances. Although the bulk of my experience is in healthcare communications, I would be interested in any position that would allow me to utilize my writing and editorial skills in helping an organization attain its marketing and communications objectives. My resume is posted below (it is rather lengthy, but I hope you find it worth reviewing).

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PETER D. STEINBERG
100 Cardinal Way
Florence, MA 01062
Tel./Fax.: 413-585-8047
Mobile: 917-593-9824
peterdsteinberg@comcast.net

MEDICAL WRITER/HEALTHCARE MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS COUNSELOR
Specialist in development and refinement of messages for professional and consumer audiences, based on analysis and interpretation of clinical data. Eighteen years? experience in providing specialized editorial services and strategic counsel to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, medical device manufacturers, managed care organizations and medical specialty societies. Expertise in oncology, nephrology, infectious diseases (including HIV/AIDS), cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorders, endocrine disorders, pain management, central nervous system disorders and genomics.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

SENSEI MASTERFUL HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS, New York, NY
Director, Scientific Content, 2/03-present
Coordinate development and dissemination of scientific content of numerous communications programs, with a special focus on issues management. Clients include:
? Bayer® Aspirin: Manage issues management programs to support the brand?s positioning in cardioprevention. Secured third-party support for Bayer?s primary prevention Citizen Petition through preparation of briefing documents and positioning statements. Enhanced brand awareness through development of physician-bylined articles and promotional materials focusing on major clinical studies, aspirin?s safety profile, use in special populations and other issues.
? Tibotec Therapeutics: Prepared slide content, educational brochures and media materials for highly successful awareness-building campaign in ovarian cancer, resulting in more than 21 million impressions in its first month. Provide ongoing support for Doxil® clinical program through data-driven communications and preparation of media/educational materials.
? Provide specialized editorial services, medical meeting support, opinion leader liaison and marketing communications counsel for other clients including Boehringer Ingelheim, Ortho Biotech and the Research Institute for Genetic and Human Therapy (RIGHT).

BURSON-MARSTELLER, New York, NY
Director, 5/01-1/03
Managed scientific communications programs for various clients within Healthcare Practice, with special focus on medical writing and editorial services. Consulted other agency practices on scientific outreach for special health-related issues.
? AstraZeneca: Provided a range of strategic and editorial services for CNS, Pain and Infection Therapeutic Area, including physician-bylined article programs, materials development and pre-launch communications for emerging and currently marketed products.
? Affymetrix: Managed scientific communications to support data publications, product launches and other activities initiated by Affymetrix and its research partners.
? Vasogen: Coordinated pre-launch communications program for immunomodulatory therapy technology.
? Eli Lilly & Company: Developed content for physician section of diabetes_sight.org, a diabetic neuropathy Web site jointly developed by Lilly and Prevent Blindness America.
? Coordinated various aspects of scientific communications for Wyeth, Aventis, Cephalon, National Institute of Environmental Health Services and other Healthcare clients.

OGILVY PUBLIC RELATIONS WORLDWIDE, New York, NY
Vice President, 1/00-4/01
Strengthened positioning of Health and Medical Practice through management of communications programs and development of practice marketing tools.
? Amgen Inc.: Managed bylined article program and liaison with nephrology and oncology opinion leaders, generating significant pre-launch visibility for Aranesp?. Influenced launch positioning through analysis of pertinent developments in anemia research and medical literature.
? Aradigm Corporation: Coordinated clinical communications program and publication plan to support Aradigm?s aerosolized pulmonary drug delivery technology, with applications in inhaled insulin, pain management, cystic fibrosis and other disease areas. Enabled strategic synergies with investor relations and business development through identification of viable publication opportunities.
? Titan Pharmaceuticals Inc.: Managed cross-practice communications program with Investor Relations group, supporting clinical development programs in Parkinson?s disease, schizophrenia, oncology and substance abuse treatment. Supervised development of clinical content for Titan?s Web site, resulting in concise, effective positioning of products and research programs.
? WebMD: Developed and coordinated payor communications plan, enabling WebMD to forge and strengthen relationships with major insurers and managed care organizations. Enhanced company visibility through development of conference presentations and bylined articles for WebMD?s CEO and other executives.
? Launched Health Matters, a series of reports on healthcare communications distributed to more than 400 marketing and communications professionals throughout healthcare industry. Raised agency?s profile through reporting and analysis of issues such as Rx-to-OTC switches and industry/nonprofit partnerships.

STRATIS-KPR, New York, NY
Vice President/Account Supervisor, 6/99-12/99
Supervised communications programs for Hoffmann-La Roche?s Xenical®, agency?s largest account. Facilitated highly successful product launch driven entirely by marketing communications. Coordinated post-launch media tours in 58 markets involving more than 100 physician and patient spokespersons. Managed network of 12 regional agencies executing local market plans, securing significant penetration in each market. Supervised 15-member account team responsible for media relations, physician/patient outreach, constituency/third-party liaison and media monitoring/analysis.

MEDISPHERE COMMUNICATIONS, INC., New York, NY
Senior Vice President, 4/99-6/99
Vice President/Editorial Director, 9/96-4/99
? Developed data-driven materials and supervised communications programs for Bristol-Myers Squibb Company?s HIV franchise, focusing on Zerit®, Videx® and Droxia®. Managed communications activities at major HIV-oriented medical conferences and outreach programs targeting African-Americans, enhancing visibility for BMS among key professional and consumer audiences.
? Managed Power Over Osteoarthritis Pain initiative for Tylenol® (McNeil Consumer Healthcare) and American College of Rheumatology, including orchestration of patient education seminar and development of physician monograph, patient brochure and journal supplement. Coordinated all media activities to support initiative, which generated more than 10 million impressions.
? Provided strategic counsel and media/editorial services to American Geriatrics Society and American Society of Hypertension, including on-site meeting support, message development and preparation of press materials.

SHANDWICK USA, New York, NY
Vice President, 5/96-9/96
Account Supervisor, 5/95-5/96
Provided strategic counsel, editorial oversight, professional/media relations, issues/crisis management and inter-agency liaison for United HealthCare, Express Scripts and Bayer Actron®.

STRATIS HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS, New York, NY
Account Supervisor, 7/94-4/95
Coordinated media/professional relations, issues management and patient education initiatives for Burroughs Wellcome?s Zovirax® and Valtrex®.

PR,NY INCORPORATED, New York, NY
Director of Medical Communications, 2/92-6/94
Managed communications programs for Pfizer Labs, agency?s largest account. Coordinated media campaign to support launch of Norvasc®. Provided pre-launch strategic counsel for Zyrtec®.

RUDER-FINN, INC., New York, NY
Senior Account Executive, 2/90-1/92
Account Executive, 9/88-2/90
Assistant Account Executive, 1/88-9/88
Executive Trainee, 7/87-12/87
Managed marketeing communications programs for Glaxo, ICI, Boehringer Ingelheim, Carter-Wallace, Warner-Lambert and Novo Nordisk.

EDUCATION

M.B.A., Marketing, Stern School of Business Administration, New York University, New York, NY

A.B., English Literature, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. Graduated with College Honors

ASSOCIATIONS
Member, American Medical Writers Association

Re: Job hunters here - post your resume

My client, a NY Pharmaceutical Advertising Agency, is urgently seeking a Nephrologist to fill the role of VP, Associate Medical Director. This candidate must be a Nephrologist!!! Although agency or medical communications experience is preferred, it is not required. Please reply or forward resumes to alyson@imperativeresources.com.

Ticketing / Small Business Consultant

Contact information

Name: John Hamson
Address: 160 Suffolk St. Holyoke, MA 01040
Phone: 413-303-9879
Email: johnh@techiemon.net


Skills

Professional - asp, vbscript, javascript, html, css, dhtml, ms-sql, iis, tcp/ip networking & security
, web development, on-line commerce, report writing, windows NT-2003 server administration,
terminal services, citrix metaframe, box office software

Experienced - project management, customer service, php, mysql, ms office, open office, flash,
photoshop, ubuntu linux, osx

Newbie - OOP, Ruby on Rails, AJAX, open source development, .NET, Perl, Java


Work

2004-Present ? Web Developer

Iron Horse Entertainment Group (IHEG)
IHEG is the leading presenter of the performing arts in Northampton, MA ? and it also owns and operates three
major venues there.

Back-office Development: I oversee online and in-house box office software modifications, maintenance,
and updates. I lead continuous development and expansion of company corporate and ticketing
websites.

Onine development including: www.nbotickets.com and www.iheg.com by adding functionality and flexibility
(ASP, Javascript, SQL, HTML); the ticketing portals that I have grown have seen a 200% rise in
user traffic since this time last year, resulting in increased web sales. I also play a role in the
enhancement of numerous external t-shirt sales sites under the ES Sports (www.essports.com)
label. ES Sports is a sister company to IHEG.

Reporting: I've written several online financial management reporting portals using MS-2000 and IIS ASP
that have freed accounting staff from tedious end-of-day manual balancing.

System Administration: My 8+ years in Windows IT have been essential to the in-house network expansions.

Other achievements at IHEG:
50" LCD performer video/graphic display system - designed to be a distributed video display network;
the single display plays artist videos, images, websites, and audio, including an event ticker and
weekly highlights; this unit can be seen in the window at the NBO Tickets Box Office in downtown
Northampton, MA.

Interactive Screenprint Design application - development of an online shirt/product design application
using java applets and ajax "like" user interaction with IIS. Extensive use of GD, Perl, and some 3 party
objects for server side image rendering and text effects.

Server Relocation - Managed & executed the transition of servers hosted on the physical premises, saving
bandwidth costs and increasing reliability; specified the servers running on site; selected and installed mail
server and anti-spam software

MS SMS 2003 and VPN - Successfully implemented Exchange server and a VPN in order to facilitate telecommuting,
foreign distributors, and sales people


Previous Employment

eSRO Product Manager, Alliance Software Corporation, Washington, DC. ASP development and custom
installations. eSRO is now branded in the US as Patron Edge On-line by Blackbaud (www.blackbaud.com).

Owner/Operator of Techiemon Computer Services, Honolulu, HI. On-site and remote support and repair of
Windows systems and networks for business and residential customers; designed/maintained websites
for customers as well. In retirement.

VP of System Administration, Ticket Plus, Honolulu, HI. Managed 50 outlet (multi-island) ProTix ticketing
system, which was sold to Ticketmaster after my departure. Of note: I was the on-site support rep for
ProTix in the 16th Commonwealth Games in KL Malaysia. 36 Lan lines and VT100 terminals.


Interests

politics, philosophy, economics
comedy, culture
computers, electronics, gadgets, science, technology
live music, recorded music
home remodeling
mountains (hiking), running, swimming


Statement

I thrive on learning and thinking in an environment where an employer needs a self-directing go-to person to
expedite tech solutions needed for the growth of business.

In six years I plan to have developed begun distribution of a rich on-line ticketing system using Ruby on
Rails, an open system capable of overcoming all of the limits of today's platform-specific systems.