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HIGHLIGHTS

• Technical Writing

• Marketing and Advertising

• Project/Program Management

• Public Relations

• Event Management

• Community Involvement


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Sterling M. Spangler
3404 Bitterwood Place  •  Laurel, MD 20724
h: 301-490-0775  •  c: 443-286-3088
sterling@sterlsnet.com



MULTI-SKILLED AND MISSION-ORIENTED

Multi-skilled mission-oriented leader with progressive 15 years of diversified experience. Self-motivated and innovative problem solver with proven writing, leadership, and problem resolution abilities.

  • Creative and resourceful science writer and multimedia designer; proficient in technical and science writing with proven results. Adept at using a wide range of desktop software such as InDesign, Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, and Dreamweaver (currently Adobe Creative Suite 3), QuarkXPress, MS Office Suite, and others. Can successfully take a project from concept, composition, design and layout.

  • Skilled in planning and execution of myriad events, large and small, including outreach, exhibits, conferences, and marketing campaigns. Experienced in working in contact with agencies from all over the world including locations from Missoula, Montana to Oslo, Norway. Volunteer for a metropolitan area law enforcement unit that maintains the function of supporting special communities, especially in the areas of hate crimes and domestic violence.

  • Possess instinctive entrepreneurial drive combined with technical knowledge on various multi-media applications. Skilled in project management with a reputation of completing quality projects on time and within budget. Effectively work in an independent and self-motivated environment as a freelancer in the solid management of clients such as the Society for Human Resource Management, Urban Land Institute, Department of Justice, Origene Technologies, National Association of Professional Organizers, and others.

  • Experienced Public Speaker and Community Leader; serving as primary spokesperson for Washington DC Chapter of Concerns of Police Survivors (DC-COPS) and chair of any/all committees. Oversee the submission of reports and documents as required by the National Chapter of COPS, the District of Columbia, and the federal government.

  • Key individual who proposed, developed, and won a much-coveted $100,000 grant for MPDC (the Innovations in American Government Award) from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. MPDC was featured in several government magazines and a PBS documentary, as well as positively described in an Amnesty International report.
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