Dennis Velasco Email & Phone Number

Memphis, TN, US

Mississippi, United States

• Create multimedia content - podcasts, testimonials, promotional videos, social media content, et cetera - with our Wiley Marketing departments, as well as our medical society publishing partners.
• Consult with internal colleagues during the pre-production phase of marketing campaigns to generate top-level effectiveness and messaging.
• Manage hosting of video and audio elements for internal and external distribution.
• Provide analytics for multimedia content pieces regarding engagement and performance.
• Maintain backend project management database for all tasks related to respective marketing campaigns.

Hoboken, New Jersey, United States

• Managed day-to-day tasks for two major medical society journals, one traditional paper publishing and the other digitally.
• Produced and edited multi-media components, audio and video, as well prepared content for several journal apps.
• Corresponded heavily on a daily basis with the advertising and marketing departments, authors, freelancers, editorial offices, journal societies, compositors and printers.
• Trained production staff in the various steps of journal production, both on an individual basis and organizing workshops that present concepts and workflow to the Production department team, particularly within.
• Supervised a team of freelancers, distributing and reviewing work, providing feedback regarding specific journal style and overall quality of returned assignments.

Memphis Metropolitan Area

• Curate the growth of youth basketball that is focused on player development in the Memphis area.
• Manage PSB programming throughout the year, including Team Memberships, Player Development Academies, clinics, and skill sessions.
• Lead a team of about a dozen youth basketball coaches, with duties that include planning practice and game schedules, tournament and league participation, and payroll.
• Utilize backend organizational and communication tools, LeagueApps and Airtable, to guide decision-making, marketing, and financials.
• Convert transactional relationships into transformational relationships with our PSB Memphis families, venue partners, tournament and league directors, and the youth basketball community at large.
• Create content for PSB Memphis social media.

Collierville, Tennessee, United States

• Manage all aspects of the Girls Basketball program, including practice and game scheduling, overseeing the growth of our Girls middle school program, and working with the Boys Basketball program and Athletics.
• Ensure compliance of our student-athletes within school policies.
• Create practice plans and review game and practice videos, using this information to improve both team and individual performance.
• Create content for Girls Basketball program social media.

Collierville, Tennessee, United States

• Follow the lead of head coach, Anthony Hall.
• Serve as quality control during practices and games.
• Record live game statistics for immediate use during halftime and end of game.

Charleston, South Carolina, United States

• Followed the lead of PSB Charleston City Director, Blake Hall.
• Created practice plans focused on player development, as well as in-game situational drills.
• Communicated with our PSB Charleston families to ensure their child was having a great experience.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Managed, produced, and edited content pertaining to the NBA.
• Created evergreen hubs of historical NBA information.
• Created fantasy basketball preseason lists and rankings, as well as in-season columns.
• Recruited and supervised a team of NBA bloggers that provided weekly articles and annual contributions.
• Performed SEO best practices.

New York, New York, United States

• Co-managed day-to-day operation of a major scientific journal.
• Supervised a team of 20 copyeditors, ensuring journal style was followed, as well as making certain work was returned on deadline and of high quality.
• Worked closely with in-house departments regarding advertising placement, marketability of specific manuscripts, and the design of cover and figure elements.
• Coordinated manuscript log-in process, sending copyedited materials to typesetter, and assembling issues in conjunction with medical society Editorial team regarding content.

New York, New York, United States

• Logged in accepted manuscripts from Editorial department into Wiley Production database.
• Assisted Production Editors with quality checks of issues, pre-publication.
• Managed day-to-day operation of several medical journals.
• Supervised a team of freelance copyeditors.

New York, New York, United States

• Organized and distributed business periodicals.
• Managed prospectus and annual reports library.
• Utilized various business databases to fulfill information requests from Morgan Stanley associates.
• Assisted with various Business Information Services tasks.

Bachelor'S Degree, English | Irish Studies (Minor)

Activities and Societies: Opinions Editor and Literature Editor, QC Quad (college newspaper)

Master'S Degree, Library Science

Activities and Societies: American Library Association, Sports Writer, QC Quad (college newspaper)