Resume

Richard K. Palmer
Professional Experience


Committee Communications Representative/Lead Equipment Service 
Northwest/Delta Airlines, 2006 — 2011

• Conceived, designed, and maintain intranet employee website
• Redesigned and maintained district CEO’s website
• Wrote feature articles, photographed events, interviewed subjects for website
• Designed special publications: posters, handbills, brochures, and PowerPoint presentations
• Taught basic website creation to peers
• Designed fundraising cookbook
• Performed various communications/PR duties and projects, successfully meeting objectives and timelines
Communications Representative 
International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers, 1998 — 2006

• Performed various communications duties as needed for 600,000-member organization
• Managed multiple simultaneous projects, successfully meeting objectives and timelines
• Wrote feature articles, photographed events, interviewed subjects for full color magazine and website
• Conceived and designed twice-weekly online bulletin
• Wrote and designed special publications: handbills, brochures, and PowerPoint presentations
• Taught basic website creation and developed training material for classroom use
• Taught layout and design of newsletters and brochures
• Performed public relations duties and responded to media inquiries
• Designed organization calendar
• Conceived and performed news podcasts
• Wrote speeches, operated teleprompter
 

Communications Director 
Air Transport District 143, 1991 — 1998

 

• Wrote, edited, photographed, designed 16-page monthly for 43,000 member organization 
• Designed special publications
• Designed and implemented multi-page website
• Performed public relations duties and responded to media inquiries

 

Editor 
Detroit Air Transport Local Lodge 141, 1987 — 1991

 

• Designed 8-page monthly publication for 3,500 member union local 
• Wrote featured articles, edited content, photographed people and events


Technical Summary


 

• Taught week-long workshops on basic website creation (html and wysiwyg) in Dreamweaverand Frontpage
• Taught week-long layout and design workshops — creating newsletters and brochures in Pagemaker
• Developed training materials/manuals for classroom use
• Extensive experience with Dreamweaver and FrontPage in development of professional websites
• Proficient working with Pagemaker and InDesign for the creation of print material
• Skilled in both Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop for graphic design
• Familiar with many software applications: word processing, multimedia, file transfer, content management


Professional Training


 

• Dreamweaver website development and maintenance, ICS Institute, Alexandria, Virginia — 2004
• Final Cut video editing, Macintosh Users Group, Towson, Maryland — 2002 
• Video shooting and editing, Minnesota Telecommunications Network, Minneapolis, Minnesota
— 1996   


Employment History


• Northwest/Delta Airlines, Romulus, Michigan 1979 – 1991,  2006 – 2011
• International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers, Upper Marlboro, Maryland 1998 – 2006
 Air Transport District 143, Mendota Heights, Minnesota 1991 – 1998  

Education


 Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan 1971 – 1974


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