John Barker Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga

Earned the IRS Commissioner's Award for work on the IRS annual report.Develops, coordinates and participates in a service-wide content strategy for IRS corporate social media channels, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube. Produces video content for the IRS YouTube Channel in English, Spanish and American Sign Language.Maintains overall standards and policy for official social media channels.Provides administrative oversight for IRS corporate social media channels, including privacy assessments, terms of service agreements and metrics.Partners with channel managers and subject matter experts across the service to ensure consistent content timing and branding.Coordinates efforts within the Social Media Writing Group in the development of new channels and policies.Participates in the Customer Early Warning System to identify and elevate service issues discovered through social media channels.Uses software, apps and platforms such as SharePoint, Outlook, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Shutterstock and Microsoft Word. Advanced Photoshop certified and Hootsuite Enterprise certified.

Douglasville, Ga

Managed all aspects of 14 hyper-local online news and information websites for four counties. Promoted awareness of online news source and consistently grew pageviews, newsletter subscriptions and social media presence. Wrote, edited and curated hard news stories, feature stories and other content. Shot, edited and created video stories with voiceovers. Built and maintained relationships with other local media, government officials and law enforcement agencies, including county commissioners, mayors, city council members, district attorneys, sheriffs and city police.Authored or curated 10-14 stories per weekday • Exceeded monthly page views goal of 300,000 • Exceeded daily newsletter goals.Used software and apps such as Dataminr, SocialFlow, Slack, Facebook Business Manager, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, WebDAM, Shutterstock, Getty Images, Chartbeat, Photoshop, Microsoft Word and Hootsuite.

Mobile, Alabama

Served as the Public Affairs Officer in absence of District PAO. Led all community outreach and internal communications for the district, including running the district’s intranet as well as engaging the community through trade shows, fairs, social media and other regional and national opportunities.Developed and implemented effective, aggressive communication strategies and campaignsthat advanced the Corps’ priorities and promote the Corps’ collaboration with business and the community. Prepared and delivered briefings, talking points and speeches promoting the Corps’ programs and activities at national, state and local forums. Wrote dynamic stories about Corps’ work and people, creating a strong and lasting sense of community. This included writing feature stories and news releases, as well as producing videos and social media posts covering Corps activities.Covered and reported on local and regional joint conservation and restoration efforts and the positive impact these efforts had on key stakeholders, the environment, the economy, public lands, development and local governments. Identified, developed, and produced communications and content for the web, including newsletters, printed products, videos, presentations and social media posts.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Served as a public affairs specialist on a wide variety of complex, sometimes controversial, topics with tight deadlines. Developed and implemented strategic communication plans in coordination with colleagues. Actively promoted the mission of the U.S. Census Bureau. Established and maintained effective working relationships with internal/external contacts to develop and implement communications strategies and foster understanding of the agency's complex mission and responsibilities. Developed, wrote and disseminated communications products to national, regional and local audiences. Organized and coordinated media interviews for Census Bureau subject matter experts. Media trained subject matter experts in preparation for media interviews. Researched and responded/coordinated responses to requests for information about Census Bureau issues.

Douglasville, Georgia

Planned and developed news and feature stories for the Villa Rican, Times-Georgian and Sentinel newspapers. Gathered information for articles through research and interviews. Photograph people and events for online and print stories.*Edited articles for length, clarity, correct facts and grammar*Planned, designed and layedout newspaper for online and print publication*Promote articles on social media*Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with media contacts and local officials.

Douglasville, Georgia

As a Metro Atlanta-based photographer specializing in weddings and portraits, John's background as a photojournalist allowed him to seamlessly capture story-telling images that highlight the emotion of the moment. With more than 20 years of wedding and portrait experience, John and his team believe the bride and groom should enjoy their day with few intrusions. John's style captured natural and candid moments.Clients loved the ability of John and his team to make them feel comfortable and at ease, whether during a wedding or in the studio.John spent 8 years as a photojournalist in the military and studied photojournalism at the University of South Carolina. He has earned many photo awards over the years, including the military's prestigious Thomas Jefferson Award. He has photographed more than 600 weddings over his career. John is also proud to be a graduate of the Douglas County Chamber's Leadership Class of 2013 and is an active member in the Chamber and volunteers in the Douglas community."I am honored to be chosen by my clients to take part in one of the most important days of their lives. My goal to capture images that will reveal the personalities, joy and natural emotions of my clients.""Each member of our team is hand-picked and trained to be creative, unobtrusive and knowledgeable in the craft of photography."John and his wife, Marina, operated an indoor/outdoor studio at their home in Douglasville.

Douglasville, Dallas-Hiram

Managed all aspects of Douglasville.Patch.com and Dallas-Hiram.Patch.com, two hyper-local news and information Websites. Wrote, edited and curated hard news, feature stories as well as other content, including crime, law enforcement actions, legislation, trials, court decisions, school news, education and business news. Shot, edited and curated video stories. Built and maintained relationships with local government officials and law enforcement agencies, including county commissioners, mayors, city council members, district attorneys, sheriffs and city police. *Built start-up online unique visitors from 0 to more than 50,000 per month on each site.*Built start-up online newsletter participation from 0 to more than 5,000 daily on each site.*Built Facebook following from 0 to more than 3,500 on each site.*Built Twitter following from 0 to more than 1,000 on each site.*Had grass roots viewer participation that resulted in success stories like saving a man's business by recovering his stolen equipment and saving a soldier's home by helping to get donations for money owed the bank.

Supervised staff and all editorial responsibilities of the Douglas and Paulding weekly newspapers. Met with staff to plan story coverage and assigned stories to reporters and photographers. Created hard news, feature and sports stories, including photos. Edited and designed every page.

San Antonio, Texas Metropolitan Area

Covered hard news, feature and sports stories, including photos. Served as section photo editor when the photo editor was absent.

San Antonio, Texas Area

Created content and marketing material as well as developed a public relations strategy using numerous platforms for both internal and external audiences. Drafted, edited and distributed several press releases per month. Created official company statements, talking points and speeches. Produced biographies, fact sheets, quarterly newsletters, annual reports and company videos. Made public presentations representing the company. Planned and produced events such as annual Fiesta celebrations. Gave tours of facilities and informed the public of Goodwill's mission.

West Point, Ny; Seoul, Korea; Frankfurt, Germany

Assigned to the Directorate of Academy Relations, served as a writer and photographer for the Pointer View newspaper. Aided in the coordination of national news coverage for events featuring the Presidents of the United States, Ronald Reagan and George H. Bush, as well as Generals (retired) Norman Schwarzkopf and Colin Powell. Covered national stories such as West Point's first-ever female brigade commander and several Army-Navy Games.

Photojournalism, Photojournalism, 4.0

Journalism, Photojournalism, A

Activities and Societies: Photojournalism