Sam Mittelsteadt Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, Az, Us

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Oversee and manage creative editorial and design staffs for two monthly titles and regularly scheduled special issues, as well as online content geared toward an incredibly engaged audience of dental industry professionals. (Our message boards get millions of views a month.) Solicit contributing writers to formulate and hone articles and columns for publication.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Planned, developed, shepherded and occasionally wrote buzzworthy content for print, web, apps, social media and emails. All to maximize reader interest—and client ROI.• For almost 8 years I was the lead staff editor on Watch!, our client CBS’ glossy bimonthly fashion, lifestyle and entertainment magazine. It earned my team a “Best In Show” award for the most impressive product the company developed and produced in 2014.• I also prototyped, pitched and eventually produced custom publications and web content for multiple healthcare clients, including one quarterly title with a $1 million-plus annual contract that includes six regional versions. I tackled the same tasks for clients in the luxury, retail and travel sectors.• I was personally responsible for more than 160 pages’ worth of print content during a typical quarter. As a senior editor, I also directed the creation and delivery of an additional 150 pages’ worth of content during the same timeframe.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

In addition to what you'll read in Manifest, above, I've attached a few extraordinary examples of workmanship developed during the McMurry/TMG era. 1. In the fall of 2014 we redesigned CBS Watch magazine—and its website, which totally reconceived the architecture, styles and and presentation of this client's content.2. On the side, I developed and executed random acts of company coolness, like planning a series of a dozen different envy-enducing mystery team-building trips for groups of co-workers. (I even wrote and designed the invites, then sneaked into the office after hours to distribute them to the appropriate folks.)

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Started as a copy editor and page designer for the newspaper's startup weekly entertainment magazine, Get Out, and moved through the ranks to a style and general lifestyle writing position, then up to lifestyle editor. In essence, at some point or another, I assigned the story, wrote the story, assigned the photos and graphics, edited the story, laid out the package and signed off on the pages before they went to press. (Sometimes all at once.) Blogged for four years about everything from local stores to the trainwrecks of "America's Next Top Model."

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Contributed Phoenix/Scottsdale area reviews to Condé Nast magazine's monthly themed "Directory"​ section. (Ask how, as a guy, I tackled these women's-service assignments. It's pretty crafty.)

Grand Junction, Colorado Area

Responsible for editing, headlines and design of all sections, from Page One to Sunday Business. Awards:• Best of Cox, headlines, first place, 1995.• Best of Cox, headlines, runner-up, 1994.

Missoula, Montana Area

Bachelor'S, English, Spanish

Major: English Literature / Minor: Spanish