Experience in political strategy, web technology and design, field campaigns, advocacy,
communications, and staff development and management.
Experience
- 2008: Principal, Messagehall. (MH)
- 2007: Assistant Director of Communications, UNITE HERE. (UH)
- 2003 - 2007: Political Director, South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council. (SBLC)
- 2002: Campaign Manager, San Jose City Council campaign.
- 2000 - 2002: Senior Designer, Adobe Systems, Inc. (ADBE)
- 1997 - 2000: Director of Young Heroes, Web Developer, City Year. (CY)
- Named one of "Forty People to Watch" by the Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal.
- Attended The Ohio State University, Philosophy major.
Full academic scholarship, Distinguished Scholar, National Merit Scholar, Dean's List.
Political strategy
- Planned, implemented and managed successful political, policy and organizing campaigns for Santa Clara County, California, including identifying budgetary, staff and campaign targets. (SBLC)
- Facilitated involvement of broad coalition of partners in campaign work, including Democratic Party, local advocacy and non-profit organizations, and the faith community. (SBLC)
- Responsible for all components of independent expenditure and coordinated political campaigns, including voter contact and volunteer goal determination, development of message for voter contact (polling, mail and phone message creation, print design and production), developing volunteer recruitment, tracking and training systems and databases. (SBLC)
Web technology and design
- Created numerous web sites and applications as an independent communications consultant. URLs available upon request. (MH)
- Developed web-based systems to improve organizational messaging and member outreach, including: building presences and applications on Facebook, using micro-blogging tools to distribute news updates from a custom CMS, and creating issue-specific micro-sites. (MH)
- Acted as Adobe Subject Matter Expert, curriculum developer, and sole Adobe contact during development of Adobe-sponsored Cisco Networking Academy Fundamentals of Web Design curriculum (course launch 8/2001). (ADBE)
- Designed graphics and lessons for Adobe Classrooms in a Book (Photoshop 6, GoLive 5, LiveMotion) and on-line application tips (Illustrator, LiveMotion, GoLive). (ADBE)
- Solely responsible for maintaining and growing City Year's organizational web presence. Developed strategy for organizational intranet as part of a small team. (CY)
- Fluent in Javascript, XHTML, CSS, PHP, Perl, MySQL, RSS, and API integration including Twitter, Flickr, Google Maps and TinyURL.
Field campaigns and advocacy
- Directed county-wide political campaigns for Labor Council and Democratic Party including federal races, statewide initiative campaigns, State Senate and Assembly campaigns, Mayoral and City Council campaigns. Direction ranged from grass-roots volunteer recruitment to data management and target assignation, to polling, to message development and tracking. (SBLC)
- Evolved and managed sophisticated candidate education and endorsement process, including candidate issue briefings, one-on-one interviews, coordinating affiliate involvement in and facilitating endorsement interviews, and endorsed-candidate campaign training. (SBLC)
- Primarily responsible for maintaining communication and issue awareness with elected officials at a local, state and national level, including acquiring votes for critical policy campaigns, securing endorsements for candidates and organizing campaigns, and organizational positioning. (SBLC)
Communications
- Prepared press releases and advisories, pitched stories and generated coverage for a variety of events and issues.
- Wrote speeches, grant proposals, newsletter content and press materials. (MH)
- Compiled, edited and wrote a weekly organizational newsletter distributed to over 20,000 members, allies and activists. (UH)
- Extensive media outreach and interaction, including interviews with the San Jose Mercury News and San Francisco Chronicle, local community and ethnic newspapers, Bay Area radio and television news programs, and "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." Primarily responsible for preparing Executive Officer of organization for media interviews and appearances. (SBLC)
- Provided event direction and art directed executive presentation for a series of international executive briefings. (ADBE)
Staff development and management
- Managed four staff in the development and production of communications strategies and materials, including web, print and video. (UH)
- Hired and managed between one and seven staff in campaign and non-campaign work. Responsible for day-to-day job duties of staff, including volunteer outreach, campaign implementation, affiliate support and organizing. (SBLC)
- Led a team of three City Year corps members full-time and 95 volunteers in the development and execution of an award-winning 16 Saturday service initiative ("Young Heroes") and leadership development curriculum for 6th through 9th graders. (CY)
Personal blog at pbump.net. Writing samples available at The Huffington Post. Design portfolio available, in part, at Messagehall.com.
