David Pearl Email & Phone Number

San Diego, California

200-lawyer firm with 10 U.S. offices, specializing in class action litigation that protects market investors from corporate fraud. The firm’s Portfolio Monitoring Program® provides valuable financial services to hundreds of pension funds & institutional investors.• Design, test, & coordinate rollout of web-based platforms and features.• Manage or help coordinate projects of varying size & scope.• Provide technical support & write documentation for dozens of in-house software users.• Produce monthly Portfolio Monitoring reports for hundreds of clients using advanced spreadsheet techniques.• Normalize, upload, & modify complex financial data in various databases.

Cleveland, Ohio

• Designed & developed brand-new center’s website (PRCHN.org). Oversaw contributions from 4 staff members & wrote or edited 75+ pages.• Site averaged 2500 hits/mo. first 9 months & helped secure the center's $800k Year 2 grant extension from the CDC.

Cleveland, Ohio

• Led Drupal developer & graphic designer in full redesign of Coalition’s website (CCCFoodPolicy.org). Launched blog, created comprehensive press coverage archive, & produced mixed-media narratives about the Coalition’s body of work.• Coordinated the Northeast Ohio Local Food Assessment & Plan. Throughout the 9-month study served as a liaison between consultants, steering organizations, & political leaders (including City of Cleveland officials & a U.S. Senator).

Cleveland, Ohio

• Wrote, edited & conducted on-camera interviews for PBS-featured documentary, PolyCultures: Food Where We Live.• Presented movie at 3 well-attended film festivals & coordinated high-profile airing with Food Inc. on NE Ohio’s PBS affiliate.• Cultivated PolyCultures community by facilitating 20+ screenings & regularly using social media (e.g. polycultures.blogspot.com).

San Diego, California

• Programmed & maintained back-end uploading scripts for hundreds of financial data formats using Perl & XML.• Helped firm triple its institutional investor client base by broadly facilitating transition to 2nd-gen. database application. PHP-based interface created with 3 in-house developers dramatically improved uploading efficiency, accuracy & usability.• Trained users on new features & gathered feedback. Wrote & edited technical docs for in-application help & internal wiki.

San Diego, California

Delray Beach, Florida

Cleveland, Ohio

• 50 pieces published in NEXT (weekly section for teens)