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This page has my public relations résumé.
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Tom Fox-Sellers
tom_foxsellers@hotmail.com
www.tfsweb.net |
| Objective |
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Public Relations Manager and Web Strategist |
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| Personal Summary |
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Exploiting my enthusiasm, creativity, and experience,
I would like to take a leadership role in defining and developing
corporate messaging to better inform press, analysts, customers,
shareholders, partners, employees, and other stakeholders. |
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| Experience |
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Internet Content Producer and
Public Relations Manager |
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2001-present
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Seagate Technology
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Scotts Valley, CA
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- Advised business partners on news-worthiness, trends,
and processes to better communicate external and internal
messages.
- Enhanced web strategy and executed plan for timely dissemination
of corporate information to better serve key audiences.
- Improved Global Citizenship web presence to enhance company
image with employees, investors, press and non-government
organizations.
- Raised employee awareness of corporate strategy by writing
content for company intranet.
- Developed SVP and VP presentations for quarterly pitches
and industry events.
- Led effort to consolidate 12 internal-facing publications
into a single web-based newsletter to ensure consistent
messaging across international locations.
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Public Relations Manager |
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2001 |
eGain Communications Corp. |
Sunnyvale, CA |
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- Set expectations and defined deliverables and timelines
for product PR campaign.
- Brought daily PR activities in-house within two weeks
of hire, including customer successes, editorial opportunities,
and industry analyst communications.
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Public Relations Manager and
Web Specialist |
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1998-2001 |
The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. |
Santa Cruz, CA |
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- Publicized time-sensitive acquisition news with less
than 24 hours notice.
- Improved company visibility by writing corporate strategy
and product press releases.
- Increased targeted Web traffic by 40% after virtual newsroom
redesign.
- Established new media contacts and identified Web-based
outlets for publicizing company news.
- Enhanced employee awareness of company news and strategy
by writing over 90 issues of a weekly newsletter.
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| Education |
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1997 |
Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy |
University of California at Santa Cruz |
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| Skills, Tools and Memberships |
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- Member, PRSA, Silicon Valley Chapter.
- Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Project and Visio.
Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop; Macromedia Dreamweaver.
- Bacon’s MediaMap; Biz360.
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