Patrick Stephenson Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, MN, US

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• As the Manager of the Enterprise Proposal Center's Writing & Editing Team, my responsibilities and accomplishments include:
• Direct oversight of three full-time writers and two full-time copyeditors, including two team leads
• Indirect oversight of three on-call writers and six on-call copyeditors, who are directly overseen by the aforementioned team leads
• Mentoring writers and editors based on my own years of experience as a writer and editor
• Brainstorming team strategy and overseeing goals for growth
• Ensuring my direct reports stay on track with their goals for growth

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• As a Senior Writer with ICF's Enterprise Proposal Center, I interpret customer requirements and work with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to write clear, concise, compliant RFP responses. I've contributed to.
• Writing persuasive proposal sections, translating technical information into easily understandable copy.
• Developing new content and refreshing already-existing content.
• Ensuring win themes, key messages, discriminators, benefits, and proof points are clearly and effectively communicated.
• Interviewing SMEs (including program directors, deputy program directors, and other key staff) to develop proposal material.
• Collaborating with graphic designers to ensure images included in responses support or correctly reflect our narrative.My assignments include management plans, executive summaries, technical content, past performance.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• As a Copywriter & Marketing Consultant with Salt Solutions, my responsibilities include:
• Building an entirely new brand from the ground up, based on audience research, competitive research, and client needs.
• Brainstorming marketing campaign concepts and executions.
• Working directly with the Brand Director to create compelling marketing that stands out in the Chartered Financial Analyst® category.
• Writing all Salt Solutions web copy, including the marketing website and user-focused copy on the platform side.
• Interviewing SMEs (including the platform lead designer, instructor, and content creators) to define brand tone and voice.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

I created 30 Days of Biking in 2010. This pledge to ride your bike every day in April and share your adventures online has united thousands of joyful riders worldwide, helped reshape Twin Cities biking culture, and led to thriving chapters throughout Minnesota, the U.S. and the world — from Spain to Belarus and Ukraine. Our 2017 kickoff ride had 600.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

I managed Freewheel Bike's Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts, creating friendly, informative, community-focused content that puts a human face on the often intimidating world of bike shops. I also consulted on other marketing, including the Freewheel Fanatics email and the Freewheel Bike website. My achievements included: establishing the Freewheel.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• I was the first full-time copywriter hired for ICF Next’s Content Studio, which grew to include six full-time copywriters working alongside a team of dozens of people across North America. My responsibilities included:
• Writing web copy, advertising copy, social media, headlines, banner ads, video scripts, blog entries, long-form content, micro copy, and more
• Advocating for audience needs through copy that synthesizes SEO, UX, strategy, account and client input
• Speaking to our audience in a clear, conversational, inspiring way and including just the right amount of information to entice conversion
• Building UX content maps and determining hierarchies for website renovations
• Mentoring fellow copywriters and reviewing, copyediting and providing feedback on work

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

I spent Summer 2017 at Nice Ride Minnesota, one of the nation's first bike-sharing organizations. My responsibilities included: leading their social media channels, guiding marketing campaigns, organizing a public hearing, steering communications through the organization's adoption of dock-less bikes, writing the 2017 annual report, leading an.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• In 2013, I leapt from proofreading to copywriting and joined one of the nation’s premier public radio services as sole copywriter on its internal creative services team. My responsibilities included:
• Teaming up with designers, production artists, marketing managers, data analysts and other creatives on a huge variety of local, regional and national projects
• Writing copy for print campaigns, on-air promos, social media, OOH, web advertising, and more
• Working with the Events division to create quarterly brochures showcasing events at MPR’s Fitzgerald Theater
• Collaborating with the Membership division to conceptualize and execute quarterly campaigns, comprising headlines, banner ads, on-air promos, print collateral, direct mail, and more
• Building an interactive, cohesive experience at the organization’s annual Minnesota State Fair presence

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

I co-hosted and helped direct Pedal Hub, MPR News’ podcast about the bike life. Every week, with MNDOT’s Amber Dallman and One on One Bicycle Studio’s Gene Oberpriller, I tackled events, issues and stories in the bicycling community with friendly and accessible conversation. Our first live event had more than 100 attendees. Our social platforms, which I.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Olson (now called ICF Next) is a next-generation, omnichannel advertising agency committed to community building. When I arrived at the agency in 2009, I built its proofreading department inside the Olson Studio, defining the department's structure, processes, and standards. I collaborated with staff from across the agency and managed one full-time.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

I began my career at one of advertising’s most respected, awarded and professionally demanding agencies. As one of Fallon’s two proofreaders, I contributed to major new business projects and maintained the three copy Cs (correctness, concision, clarity) for its extensive portfolio of clients, including the New York Stock Exchange, Travelers Insurance, NBC.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

As a summer intern at this Nobel Prize–winning non-profit publisher, I evaluated manuscripts, created a marketing campaign for a Percival Everett novel, and (in 2007) became Graywolf’s social media expert. The Twitter account I created for Graywolf now has almost 300,000 followers.