Pete Simon Email & Phone Number

I am a freelance writer, working on a novel, and am involved in the local Arts scene with fundraising activities. I also volunteer with public radio KUVO, hosting Jazz and Blues Programs, and have written one of what I hope to be a number of music reviews for the station.

Greater Denver Area

Provided voice over narration for instructional video class on Airport Operations.

Department Of Energy - Golden, CO

Served as Contracting Officer and Grants Specialist. Created hundreds of awards for renewable energy research and then served on the Closeout Team, responsible for closing more than 2,000 awards. Previously worked as Contracting Officer Representative, serving as a liaison between Contract Officers and other key personnel in the Golden Field Office to.

Over 25 years I served at various locales as a Station Manager, Program Director, Production Director, News Director, and Music Program Producer. Locations include WHYY-FM, Philadelphia; KUVO-Denver; KPRN/ Colorado Public Radio, Grand Junction; KVNF, Paonia; and WXDR/WVUD at the University of Delaware

I served as Program Director and Public Affairs Producer for a rural public radio station in Western Colorado, with a network of radio translators that delivers KVNF's signal to seven Western Colorado counties; the potential audience reached is between 150,000 and 200,000 people. Station broadcasts include a variety of locally-produced music, news, and.

For 7 years, I was based in Grand Junction and traveled extensively in Western Colorado to report on a wide array of topics, including rural health care and electrification; the extensive role of various Federal agencies including the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and Bureau of Reclamation. More than half of the land in Western Colorado.

Colorado State University, Fort Collins

Station Manager for three years; overseeing budget, personnel, and programming decisions at an NPR affiliate. Wrote successful U.S. Department of Commerce PTFP grant for transmitter and studio equipment.Operations Manager for one year; overseeing programming and announcer schedule, operation logs and equipment update logs and maintenance issues.News and.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Served as a Reporter for nightly news program "91 Report"​; worked with five Reporters to assist them with their news production efforts, when called upon (I usually wasn't needed for this role, but was rather assigned my own stories for the program). Reports included: City politics, including a disruptive city council meeting following the ABSCAM.

University Of Delaware - Newark

Served as Program Director as WXDR signed on as an FM radio station. I was one of several students involved in getting the station on the air. It was a 3 year effort involving a lot of work and cooperation from a once reluctant university administration. We laid the groundwork for a station to present a wide variety of music and news/discussion programming.

Liberal Arts, Polictical Science, American History, Speech Communications

Activities and Societies: News and Program Director - WXDR-FMDeveloped strategy and plan with several other students to establish.

Summer Session - Radio And Video Production, Community Media Program - Summer 1976

Activities and Societies: Interned as a Reporter/Producer at the Democratic National Convention in New York City in 1976.Radio and video.

Ba Liberal Studies, Communications, Political Science, American History

Activities and Societies: Campus radio.Studied Political Science, American History, and Speech- Communications. I was part of a small.