Steven McGuire

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• 15 years of experience in communications, public affairs, journalism, and development
• 10-plus years of staff management, policy, and budget responsibilities
• Award-winning publications
• Ability to work well with individuals at all levels, from board members to support staff
• Strategic focus, coupled to attention to project details
• Projects completed within or below budget

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1996-present: Self-employed

• Writer; editor; communications, development, planning, and management consultant

1994-1996: TPA Network (HIV/AIDS service organization)

• Associate director, communications and development

1993-1994: TPA Network

• Editor, Positively Aware

1992-1993: Physicians Association for AIDS Care

• Managing editor, PAACNOTES

1988-1991: Donors Forum of Chicago

• Director of publications

1987-1988: Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, Department of Public Affairs

• Publications editor

1984-1987: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

• Managing editor

1980-1984: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

• Associate editor (1982-1984), assistant editor (1981-1982), editorial assistant (1980-1981)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE

Publishing

• Directed start-up, planning, and management of periodicals on science, healthcare, and public policy issues
• Reporter, interviewer, book reviewer, editorial writer
• Oversaw editing and production of a nontechnical magazine of science and world affairs
• Started bimonthly newspaper, FORUM, on philanthropic and nonprofit issues
• Established desktop publishing systems and departmental computerization
• Commissioned redesigns of magazines and logos: PAACNOTES and Positively Aware
• Hired, trained, and managed editorial and production staffs and coordinated work of outside vendors (designers, writers, printers, artists, photographers)
• Co-editor, Assessing the Nuclear Age
• Winner, Best Single-Topic Issue, 1986, American Society of Magazine Editors
• Winner, Best in Category, 1989, Printing Industries of America Graphic Arts Award

Management

• Planned and directed agency communications and public affairs activities: Donors Forum, TPA Network
• Consolidated design and production into one staff position for annual savings of $15,000: PAACNOTES
• Negotiated new printing contract for annual savings of $100,000: PAACNOTES
• Established cooperative arrangements with development and marketing departments: Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center
• Brought production of monthly newspaper in-house for annual savings of $10,000: Michael Reese Hospital
• Revamped and managed publication of public affairs and communications vehicles (annual reports, newsletters, directories, brochures): Michael Reese Hospital, Donors Forum, TPA Network
• Prepared and managed project and organizational budgets: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Michael Reese Hospital, Donors Forum, TPA Network

Development

• Research and write grant proposals
• Develop agency funding strategies
• Supervise development staff
• Member, Communications Network in Philanthropy, 1988-1991

EDUCATION

University of Chicago: Ph.D. student, Committee on Social Thought and the Divinity School

Ohio State University: Master of Arts, Classics

Ohio State University: Bachelor of Arts, Greek

CLIENT LIST

Autodesk, Inc. (software company)

Clinical Communications, Inc.

Donors Forum of Chicago

Glaxo Wellcome

HealthCare Communications Group (Internet-based physician education)

International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care

The Joyce Foundation

Manning, Selvage & Lee (public relations firm)

Northwestern Memorial Foundation (Northwestern Memorial Hospital)

Physicians Association for AIDS Care

TPA Network (HIV social services agency)

The Willow Group (CME publications)

World Health Communications

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