John A. Mcentire V Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas

• Research and analyze legal and financial documents for Asset Revitalization Solutions’ commercial real estate portfolios and future loan sale bids.
• Managed insurance for over 100 different commercial assets for distressed real estate hedge fund.
• Developed policies and procedures for procuring, cataloguing, and maintaining borrower insurance.
• Analyzed, edited, and updated promotional materials, executive documents, and investor presentations.
• Audited, researched, and analyzed legal document compliance for over 100 individual loans, including note term agreements, restructured rate and settlement term agreements, servicing processes, and insurance policies.
• Wrote copy for the website, including mission statement, company history, staff member bios, and articles on the opportunities in distressed asset investing and Asset Revitalization Solution’s investment platform.

Austin, Texas

• Manage the editorial process; solicit articles, art, and content; evaluate distribution data; coordinate custom advertisements with sales team; and oversee layout and design for Infowars Magazine, a monthly.
• Identify and analyze trends in American and international politics in order to develop print issues that are timely, yet remain relevant throughout the month in a fast-paced news cycle.
• Contribute to development of Android and Apple digital editions of Infowars Magazine, as well as the development of a magazine-specific website, designed for interactive reader engagement.
• Copyedit daily content on Infowars.com and Prisonplanet.com, seen by over 10 million unique monthly visitors.
• Edit promotional materials, contributing advertisement ideas and copy to Infowars.com and Infowars Magazine.

Austin, Texas

• Involved in the editorial process and content generation for start-up green architecture and design magazine.
• Researched developing trends in environmentally conscious architecture and consumer products.
• Wrote weekly column on male-centric design and interior decoration, “Thinking Outside the Xbox.”

• Involved in research, writing, and editing for Baylor University’s quarterly magazine with a circulation of over 120,000 students, families, and alumni.
• Profiled distinguished alumni, reviewed campus events, and wrote a feature story on the development of a new academic department and degree program.
• Compiled, edited, and wrote information for “Class Notes” alumni section and “Along 5th Street” university news section.
• Helped coordinate local town and campus distribution.

Waco, Texas

• Led solicitation, evaluation, and publication of the best poetry, prose, and art submissions from undergraduate and graduate students for Baylor University’s yearly magazine of literature and art.
• Reorganized the structure of the staff and wrote charter to strengthen relationship between the English department and The Phoenix for more efficient and successful operation and growth.
• Significantly increased budget, distribution, and received submissions each year by implementing new advertising campaigns, promotional events, and digital content.
• Led archiving project to digitize the past 52 years of The Phoenix publications and provided the content to Baylor University's Texas Collection archives, Electronic Library, and English department. Complete past.

Conway, Arkansas

• Responsible for research, editing, fact-checking, and promotion for national award-winning Southern literary and general interest magazine.
• Worked with authors directly for fact-checking and editing articles.
• Interviewed filmmakers Sean Bridgers and Ed Leydecker, Hollywood visual effects artist Michael "Ffish" Hemschoot, and six Southern Governors for online features.
• Contributed reviews of music and poetry to "Editors' Picks" features and event experience to "Southbeat" blog.
• Assisted in production of OA special events: Tale of Two Farms, a garden-fresh culinary experience hosted by PBS personality P. Allen Smith, and The Most Southern Weekend on Earth, a weekend in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Wenham, Massachusetts

• Helped to bring the "Art, Music, Justice" national tour, featuring five award-winning, national musicians performing to raise awareness for social justice worldwide.
• Responsible for handling budgeted funds to purchase advertisement and radio commercials and fulfill requests in the concert rider contract.
• Booked several local shows and monthly coffee house open mic performances.

• Involved in the entire editorial for process nationally-distributed, bi-monthly rock and metal music magazine, including content selection and solicitation, editing, layout, and subscriber management.
• Contributing writer for issues #133–135: wrote artist, album, film, book, and event reviews, as well as a feature article on an established band and a smaller “featurettes” on successful newcomers.
• Responsible for communication with artists, promoters, and music labels for soliciting press releases, artist data, and tour schedules.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Professional Writing

Activities and Societies: The Phoenix Magazine of Literature and the Arts

Education record

Activities and Societies: Campus Events Council