Stewart Cole Email & Phone Number

Topeka, Kansas Area

• Work with project staff to plan and execute communications strategies.• Perform layout/design of publications.• Serve as primary resource for video production.• Serve as photographer for events and staff.• Design marketing and other collateral material to support KHI brand.• Manage KHI’s website for design and graphics.• Schedule and execute social media posts.• Oversee analytics of social, email and web messaging.• Maintain image library and oversee design templates.• Served as interim Communications Director

Topeka, Kansas Area

• Supervised production and execution of all niche projects, including concept, marketing, design, copy editing, pagination and digital presence.• Served as a checks and balances person between advertising, editorial and design teams.• Oversaw editing and print deadlines.• Served as lead champion and project manager for improving processes of niche publications from start to finish throughout all products.• Ensured cross-promotion with editorial products and identified opportunities to deliver content through varying formats.• Conceptualized new ways for niche revenue and audience growth, whether through new, internal projects or by identifying venues to promote interactive and user-friendly core products.• Navigated daily deadlines while remaining focused on larger projects.• Worked within the Adobe Creative Suite family on Macintosh and PC platforms.

St. Louis, Missouri

• Supervised editorial design and ensured quality for all Dolan publications, a publishing company with offices spanning from Long Island, N.Y., to Portland, Ore.• Managed three direct senior-level reports, 11 designers and six production assistants across two design hubs in St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo., while continuing to handle special projects.• Communicated and planned alongside publishers, editors and advertising directors remotely to convey goals and design standards to staff.• Hired and trained staff, performed evaluations, planned and operated within budget.• Identified cross-platform issues and organized work flow to operate remotely.• Key in overseeing the transition of Dolan’s migration to the central design hubs.

1111 Main St., Conway, Ar

• Created content packages for print and digital platforms, including the daily newspaper, website, niche publications and advertising.• Planned and coordinated staff assignments for production of magazine, daily newspaper and niche print products.• Supervised news editor and copy editor staff and functions for the daily paper and digital products.• Assisted the editor in considering storytelling methods, traditional and nontraditional.• Considered and anticipated news developments, helping assign needed elements for various platforms.• Served as lead champion and project manager for improving processes of news and information delivery from start to finish throughout products.• Ensured cross promotion with editorial products and identified opportunities for content to be leveraged through different formats.• Trained staff on news postings, packaging and production, designed best practices and developed efficient workflows for digital products. Worked in close partnership with the online manager.• Analyzed site traffic, developed new features, integrated new tools and researched changes in customer needs.• Assisted the circulation and marketing departments, identifying opportunities to market products and gain audience.• Was responsible for meeting the deadlines necessary for print production cycle and served as lead communicator with remote printing operations regarding delivery of camera-ready pages.• Proofed, checked and ensured quality and adherence to style with copy and design in all products.• Scheduled work to ensure maximum audience and traffic among platforms.• Served as a liaison with iPad development teams at Morris.

1000 S. Caraway Road, Jonesboro, Ar

• Hired and supervised a staff of an editor, advertising director, two reporters, three advertising representatives and a graphic designer.• Supervised design of weekly publication and advertisements.• Served as liaison between our publication and various venues for promotional events.• Set up all advertising rates and trade, where needed, with other media outlets.• Handled all office duties, including payroll, commissions and insurance.• Coordinated all printing and personally delivered publication throughout community.• Organized fundraising events.• Worked with area bands for promotion, and brought in local videographer to offer music videos.• Established a working relationship with Arkansas State University.

518 Carson St., Jonesboro, Ar

• Supervised the news design staff, which included three paginators, a features editor, the managing editor and news editor.• Worked directly with reporters to brainstorm ideas on how to illustrate articles and features.• Was brought on board midway through a major redesign, and was tasked with assuring new thought processes and design ideas were carried through.• Designed in-house promotional materials.• Was involved in all editorial planning and review meetings.• Was one of three editors tasked with creating a monthly city magazine and served as sole editorial designer.• Designed and launched an additional quarterly hunting magazine.