Mike Mcallister Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• I partner with agencies and business stakeholders in a range of industries to strategize, create, and edit content that engages and converts. • Current clients include organizations in the AI industry, B2B SaaS fintech, B2C manufacturing, residential home construction, and a leading content agency that "Only lets in the top 5% of freelance writers."• Specializing in expert-level blogs, I also research, develop, edit, and deliver content, branded messaging, ghostwriting, and editing for websites, emails, social media posts, newsletters, and more.• My personal essays and stories have appeared in national literary journals and The New York Times, including a story adapted for their weekly Modern Love podcast. I am also developing stories for a separate podcast aimed at a general audience.• I work with AI industry clients, evaluating and rating generative AI and large language model (LLM) responses, annotating data, and producing and editing AI-generated content to improve accuracy and impact.

New York, Us

• Following Accenture's acquisition of Projectline Services, I continued my role (see below) developing content for a major cloud services provider.• In my next role for a $200 million client, I developed and edited messaging for their projects leveraging technology, human ingenuity, and innovation to redefine what a utility is capable of and meet challenges like climate change, grid resiliency, and wildfire mitigation. • Wrote for their entire portfolio of digital solutions powered by technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), extended reality (XR), and generative AI. • My storytelling helped the client win six industry awards and four invitations to present at conferences in one year, raising their visibility and strengthening their position as thought leaders in the energy sector.• Working with stakeholders across Accenture and our client's enterprise, I conceived and produced content and performed project management for video scripts, immersive mixed reality and virtual reality experiences, websites, executive messaging, newsletters, product magazines, and new product branding.

• Conceived, wrote, ghostwrote, edited, and delivered customer stories, product highlights, new developments, and monthly/annual recaps for the Google Cloud Blog, Google's Keyword Blog and the Google Cloud/Forbes online partnership.• Reimagined and adapted content from videos, podcasts, articles, interviews, presentations, press releases. and white papers for multi-channel marketing.• Wrote across the entirety of Google Cloud product areas, including data management and analytics, application development, containerization, API management, migration, and machine learning and artificial intelligence.• Collaborated with internal and external stakeholders including Google executives, customers, developer advocates, content leads, and product managers, as well as teams for editorial, public relations, and social media. Edited and revised content based on feedback from multiple stakeholders.

Springfield, Massachusetts, Us

• Crafted engaging and actionable copywriting and content marketing narratives for clients of a full-service marketing, advertising, and public relations agency. Delivered collateral including digital campaigns (posts, blogs, emails, and ads), creative (print, digital, outdoor and broadcast advertisements), corporate communications, website content, new business proposals, and press releases.• Developed and executed a brand voice for each client across the entirety of their content.• Met and collaborated with clients and account executives to drive authentic, consistent, and compelling messaging across multiple channels under fast-paced deadlines.• Wrote for clients from industries including healthcare, manufacturing, real estate, retail, legal, insurance, government, education, renewable energy, construction, finance and banking, and others.

Amherst, Massachusetts, Us

Coordinated HR services for the School of Public Health & Health Sciences (SPHHS). Initiated and developed the documentation of rapidly evolving university hiring procedures to boost productivity and efficiency. Processed hires, reappointments, and funding changes for faculty, professional staff, students, postdocs, and temporary workers. Analyzed budget and personnel reports. Trained staff and student workers on university procedures.

Amherst, Massachusetts, Us

Managed operations for the Dean of Students Office. Analyzed, created, and updated office procedures and practices. Supervised 6–10 student staff members including searching, hiring, training, and evaluations. Recruited and supervised University Help Line staff.

Amherst, Massachusetts, Us

Coordinated human resource actions for faculty, professional staff, postdocs, students, and temporary workers at the School of Public Health and Health Sciences.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Joined the Alexa Data Services (ADS) organization which provides data creation, curation, and analytics services to help develop, test, and train the Alexa AI. Worked closely with Amazon Machine Learning (ML) Science and modeling teams, providing the critical data they needed to improve Alexa's speech recognition and language understanding capabilities.• Worked with text, speech, and other types of data and attached tags to the contents, at scale, using in-house software and tools.• Delivered high-quality labeled data, leveraging guidelines to meet specific key performance indicators.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Joined Amazon's Alexa Data Services team. Six weeks into the six-month contract, Amazon offered me a permanent position.

Washington, Dc, Us

Managed a global legal firm’s file system for its San Francisco office, including the indexing of pleadings and correspondence, database management, filing, scanning, and supplies ordering. Collaborated with colleagues and attorneys to streamline system during a firm merger.

New York, Ny, Us

Solicited, reviewed, and edited manuscripts for Columbia Journal, a literary magazine with national distribution.

New York, Ny, Us

Working on a merit-based fellowship, I provided research assistance to author Brad Gooch for his biography of Flannery O'Connor, "Flannery: A Life," published in 2009 by Little, Brown, and Co.

M.F.A, Writing (Nonfiction Concentration)

B.A., Sociology