Jon Barilone Email & Phone Number

Aliso Viejo, CA, US

Orange County, California, United States

Oakland, California, United States

• Wholly H2O catalyzes dynamic, informed connections between people and their watersheds via community and citizen science, art & green infrastructure education. As a volunteer Copy Editor, I am responsible for.
• Liaising with the Executive Director and the Tour Content Manager on copy editing assignments, especially via the project management tool Asana.
• Updating the organization's writing Style Guide. This has enabled multiple tour content authors to identify the organization's best practices while they draft content, streamlining the copy editing process.
• Notifying content authors if we need any significant edits, or whether they need to provide some additional information/context.
• Fact-checking tour content, including verifying proper media credit and geolocation information.
• Occasionally attending weekly writers' meetings to provide feedback on draft content and clarify questions.

Orange County, California

• Tripepi Smith is a marketing - communications - public affairs firm based in California that helps organizations communicate better, with a particular emphasis on the local government sector..
• Created multi-channel digital content strategy plans and oversaw their execution for a wide range of clients, projects and campaigns. On an annual average, managed a portfolio of 15-20 clients and approximately.
• Proactively became the agency's thought leader in multiple digital marketing areas, such as: local government-specific website content management systems, social media marketing, and generative artificial intelligence.
• Led Account Manager Training for the firm, including developing curriculum and live training sessions for 20+ teammates.
• Invented a custom monthly "dashboard report" model for clients to interpret quantitative & qualitative data from their digital marketing efforts and formulate insights for improving their content strategy.
• Wrote and/or proofread a wide range of content, from 600-word thought leadership pieces to 60-page assessment reports.

Santa Monica, CA

• The MacArthur Foundation launched their Digital Media & Learning (DML) initiative to create more opportunities for more youth to engage in learning that is relevant to their lives and prepares them for success in.
• Designed and implemented the Communications strategy for growing a distributed, international community around the Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning (DML) and Connected Learning Alliance (CLA) initiatives.
• Oversaw production of 100+ weekly webinar episodes that gained over 2 million viewer minutes across 135 countries.
• Responsible for content production and content curation for multiple social media sites, averaging 20 25 posts per day.
• Provided live event support, including 2014 international conference that saw event hashtag trending nationally on Twitter.

Santa Ana, CA

• Corinthian Colleges, Inc. (CCi) was a for-profit post-secondary education company in North America. Its subsidiaries offered career-oriented diploma and degree programs in health care, business, criminal justice.
• Two-time “Innovation Award” winner within the Marketing department.
• Invented a brand sentiment scoring system via Radian6 to produce customized monthly reports for the CMO.
• Grew social media Follower/Subscriber/Fan/Member counts from under 2,000 to over 30,000.
• Created the first companywide Social Media Policy and trained 100+ campuses on how to enforce it.

Santa Ana, CA

• SEOP, Inc. is a digital marketing firm with a wide range of professional services, namely search engine optimization (SEO), reputation management, and search engine marketing (SEM) / pay-per-click (PPC) advertising.
• Spearheaded a new company service, Online Reputation Management (ORM), producing $200,000+ revenue in Year 1.
• Managed content strategy, content production and website design on 300+ microsites and blogs for ORM clients.
• Generated over 200 qualified leads by enhancing SEOP's digital footprint on social media and search engine results.

Montclair, CA

• EnviroGuard designs, manufactures and sells the only patented, UL listed, NEBS approved battery spill containment system on the market.
• Taught myself Adobe Illustrator to standardize and revitalize company's catalog of 100+ products.
• Liaised with third-party partners to successfully expand company's product offering by 33%.
• Conducted domestic and international market research to inform expansion efforts into Asia.
• Assisted with successful company-wide ISO:9001 Quality Management certification.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Entertainment Today has been bringing local and global entertainment news since 1967 from Los Angeles.
• Wrote multiple film and music-related pieces, gaining three features on the magazine's front cover.
• Attended film screenings and press junkets for Oscar-nominated "Blood Diamond", critically acclaimed indie "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints", and the documentary "Deliver Us From Evil."
• Successfully pitched concert review and one-on-one interview pieces on indie rock band We Are Scientists.