Randy Schmieder

I have served as a periodic consultant and communications strategist for private companies, NGOs, international organizations & government organizations since 1997. • Includes managing, communications & project strategy for Burrito Bookers, a band booking and event management program. Responsibilities include communication strategy & realization, target market analysis, logo design, product development and placement, writing, shooting, & editing videos, managing teams, budgeting, & crisis management

• Primary communications strategist and project leader for multinational NGO • Highly diverse and challenging work has included leading projects in all media, from web to print, writing, press releases, client relations, public speaking, and training • Among many projects, I have designed print reports, CD-ROMs, training programs, and cross-sector partnerships that unite volunteer efforts & IT technologies to provide concrete results

• Acted as a project manager, led migration and guided the technical teams (web, database) • Analyzed needs in terms of web-empowered communication strategy • Gathered information, determined overall goals & objectives, created project plan and establish requirements for UNCTAD’s migration project

• Specialization in communication of science • Hired immediately for Life on The Edge, voted “Top 50 Books of 1994”

• Thesis Honors • Thesis cited in Federal Register influencing legislation