Steve Sears
Bloomfield, New Jersey 07003
Phone: (862) 703-8770
E-mail: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-sears-7231b110b
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Career Summary:
Experienced online and print publication article writer since 1996, with niches in the bridal, business/personal profile, and hospitality realms. Also experienced in blogging, ghostwriting, and teaching writing workshops.
Writing Experience:
● Shaw Data/SunGard/FIS Global: October 1986 – January 2010, January 2013 – June 2017
○ Created computer operations department procedures, and maintained procedure
books and manuals
○ Updated periodically when former clients exited, and newer clients joined our
system, and when an operating system was upgraded
Conducted interviews (in person and by phone) and wrote articles for the following publications:
● Dining Out New Jersey Bergen/Hudson
○ “Patsy’s Italian Restaurant: A True Italian Tradition,” Spring 2018
● green LIFE NJ
○ “Rethinking Plastics, the Ocean and the Environment” and “The Rebirth of Chef
David Burke,” Spring 2018
● Various community-based articles for New View Media Group LLC publications,
March 2018 – Present
● NJ Tech Weekly
○ “Fairfield-based Teleran Uses Big Data Analytics, AI to Help Fortune 1000
Clients,” March 2018
● Hagerstown Magazine
○ “Hope in the Digital Age of Worry,” January/February 2018
● NJ Tech Weekly
○ “NJ Startup Auto i is Favorite of Audience and Investors at TechLaunch BullPen
#5,” October 2017
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Blue Ridge Country, Business Matters Magazine, Entrepreneur, Hudson Valley Magazine, Indie Reader. La Bella Bride, New Jersey Life & Leisure, Mercer Business Magazine, Mine Your Business, New Jersey Gateway Guide, New Jersey Lifestyle, New Jersey Monthly, Northern Virginia Magazine, Patch.com, Space Coast Bride & Groom, TapInto.net, The Hudson Independent, TravelThruHistory.com, US Review of Books, What’s Up? Weddings!
Skills:
Bloomfield, New Jersey 07003
Phone: (862) 703-8770
E-mail: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-sears-7231b110b
____________________________________________________________________________
Career Summary:
Experienced online and print publication article writer since 1996, with niches in the bridal, business/personal profile, and hospitality realms. Also experienced in blogging, ghostwriting, and teaching writing workshops.
Writing Experience:
● Shaw Data/SunGard/FIS Global: October 1986 – January 2010, January 2013 – June 2017
○ Created computer operations department procedures, and maintained procedure
books and manuals
○ Updated periodically when former clients exited, and newer clients joined our
system, and when an operating system was upgraded
Conducted interviews (in person and by phone) and wrote articles for the following publications:
● Dining Out New Jersey Bergen/Hudson
○ “Patsy’s Italian Restaurant: A True Italian Tradition,” Spring 2018
● green LIFE NJ
○ “Rethinking Plastics, the Ocean and the Environment” and “The Rebirth of Chef
David Burke,” Spring 2018
● Various community-based articles for New View Media Group LLC publications,
March 2018 – Present
● NJ Tech Weekly
○ “Fairfield-based Teleran Uses Big Data Analytics, AI to Help Fortune 1000
Clients,” March 2018
● Hagerstown Magazine
○ “Hope in the Digital Age of Worry,” January/February 2018
● NJ Tech Weekly
○ “NJ Startup Auto i is Favorite of Audience and Investors at TechLaunch BullPen
#5,” October 2017
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Blue Ridge Country, Business Matters Magazine, Entrepreneur, Hudson Valley Magazine, Indie Reader. La Bella Bride, New Jersey Life & Leisure, Mercer Business Magazine, Mine Your Business, New Jersey Gateway Guide, New Jersey Lifestyle, New Jersey Monthly, Northern Virginia Magazine, Patch.com, Space Coast Bride & Groom, TapInto.net, The Hudson Independent, TravelThruHistory.com, US Review of Books, What’s Up? Weddings!
Skills:
- Writing/Editing, Blogging
- Interviewing
- Detailed, Organized
- Computer/Internet/E-mail/Social Media
- Microsoft Office, especially Word
- Communication, Speaking
- Pitching article ideas
- Writing workshops