Mike Kersmarki Email & Phone Number

Florida, United States

Tampa, Fl

Tampa, Fl

The authority offers tax-exempt financing for new, job-creating projects and expansions for manufacturers and certain not-for-profit operations, such as hospitals. Authority members are appointed by the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Developed content, including commentary, for political Web sites and the healthcare and manufactured housing industries. • Copywriter for TampaBayCigars.com, ManageThePress.com as well as copywriting, editing and proofreading advertising copy for LinkedIn and related social media content for Facebook and Twitter.• Have provided crisis communications services through ManageThePress.com. One banking CEO said my “guidance helped defuse what could have been a disaster into a non-event.” • Also have managed residential real estate and own a related 2,000-member LinkedIn network for short sales, loan modifications and real estate.• Licensed as a Florida mortgage broker in good standing 2009-2010.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Researched and developed future business reports at IQPC, which organizes executive seminars.• Detailed, technical proposals included a focus on advanced and digital manufacturing, analyzing the potential for new business, target markets, competitors and SEO applications. • Contacted more than 200 executives and analyzed hundreds of documents; also researched the business potential of conferences on digital oilfields and other technology.• Assembled speakers, suggested topics and created marketing/web content.• Wrote smaller reports on crisis management and retail shrinkage.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Lead copywriter/ researcher for a 50-page white paper on the future relevance of four-day national political conventions in the digital age.• Created the GOP’s first-ever convention blog for delegates and community outreach. Complied with a rigorous approval process and managed an editorial calendar.• Coordinated the production of 150 surrogate biographies/ press releases for national and international radio shows that were broadcast live on site during convention week.• Developed more than 100 blogs, newsletters and other deliverables, as well as involvement in outreach efforts on Facebook, Twitter and Google.

Bay Gulf's Audit Committee, also known as the Supervisory Committee, was composed of five to seven credit union members and ultimately performed a 'watchdog' role to ensure that the board of directors was safeguarding assets, and that management complied with their policies and plans.This included hiring an outside auditor to complete an annual audit of the credit union's finances and present those findings to the Bay Gulf Board of Directors. It was our responsibility to review the examination and audit findings and follow-up to ensure that management takes the necessary corrective action. Among our other periodic duties:- Verify members' accounts.- Review internal controls.- Ensure compliance with state and federal regulations, such as the Bank Secrecy Act.

Tallahassee, Florida Area

• Researched and wrote more than 100 communications deliverables for Southeastern states.• Deliverables included but were not limited to:1. Surrogate speeches for former Gov. Jeb Bush and other party leaders in Florida, as well as background papers for campaign stops by Gov. Sarah Palin. 2. Newspaper op-eds with topics ranging from the Senator’s proposed national healthcare plan to economic and foreign policy issues. 3. Managed content for a daily newsletter relating campaign messaging to national and regional news. It was e-mailed more than 100,000 times to military veterans living in Florida.4. Developed an Excel spreadsheet of programming at more than 100 radio stations in the Southeast.5. Organized surrogate recruitment among North Carolina physicians.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• At the Tribune’s main office in Tampa, centerpiece story output was doubled under my leadership of a new, inter-departmental collaboration to improve long-range planning and reporter productivity.• In Pasco County, two new offices were opened during my tenure, news coverage was reorganized and circulation increased. I managed a 12-person team spread across three offices in a 50-mile-wide county at the Tribune’s largest news bureau. • My Pasco performance was rewarded with a promotion to help lead business news at the main office.• As Team Leader/ Business News, I assigned and edited the newspaper's daily business coverage, including TBO.com. This included working across departments to develop daily photos and graphics.• Managed breaking news, including the organization of coverage plans for multiple business reporters.• Monitored wire services, including Bloomberg and the Associated Press.• Analyzed reader trends for business readers, adjusting content to improve market penetration.• Wrote scripts for daily televised morning business report for New Channel 8, then a sister television station in Tampa.

Bachelor'S Degree

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