Open Water Communications

VYPE High School Sports Magazine

4524 Timberhurst Dr.

Raleigh, N.C. 27612

PH: 919-781-9284

CELL: 919-604-0288

EMAIL: terisaylor@hotmail.com

http://twitter.com/terisaylor

http://misscongeniality.wordpress.com

CAREER SUMMARY

• Full time magazine editor and part time freelance writer and photographer. Resourceful and creative with outstanding communication skills
• Extensive association management, strategic planning, public policy, internal and external communications and special events planning experience
• Strong background in journalism, writing, editing, government affairs and marketing
• Entrepreneur with successful start-up ventures including VYPE Magazine; Who’s Got Game column in The News & Observer; successful column profiling newspaper publishers throughout the country in the National Newspaper Association’s Publisher’s Auxiliary; N.C. Press Services, an advertising and marketing initiative for newspapers; the N.C. Press Foundation, an educational foundation to promote literacy and Newspapers in Education; the N.C. Press Association Federal Credit Union chartered to provide credit union services for newspaper employees and their families
  

CAREER

VYPE High School Sports Magazine                            May 2008 – Present

• Editor
  

Open Water Communications                                     August 2005 – Present

• Consultant, writer, editor
  

Writing

Editor of VYPE High School Sports Magazine

• In charge of all editorial content in monthly magazine covering high school sports in the Triangle area of North Carolina
  

Column and features for:

• North Raleigh News and Midtown News sections of The News & Observer www.northraleighnews.com www.midtownraleighnews.com
• Publishers’ Auxiliary, the National Newspaper Association’s monthly newspaper,

Consulting

Facilitated strategic planning sessions for:

• Association Executives of North Carolina
• North Carolina Business Travel Association
• North Carolina Manufactured Housing Institute
• Suburban Newspapers of America Foundation

Conducted an association audit for:

• N.C. Roofing And Sheet Metal Contractors Association

Facilitated media relations program for:

• North Carolina Utility Contractors Association
  

Association Management

For three years, managed a variety of trade associations, professional societies and educational foundations:

• Mid-Atlantic Newspaper Advertising and Marketing Executives
• N.C. Society of Health Care Attorneys
• North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging

Other:

At work on an oral history project chronicling the history of North Carolina newspapers

First Point Management Resources March 2006 – May 2008

Account executive with First Point, an association management and consulting company, located in Raleigh, NC. Started as an independent contractor In 2006 managing the N. C. Licensed Home Inspectors  Association. Currently on the company’s staff as manager of the North American Society for Cardiac Imaging and the North Carolina Society of  Health Care Attorneys.

Open Water Communications August 2006 – Present

A small consulting firm developed to provide strategic planning services, association management and freelance writing.

North Carolina Press Association

Executive Director

Hired from previous job as an account executive with Olson Management Group to serve as fulltime executive director of NCPA. Accountable to the NCPA Board of Directors, with a staff of 19 employees.

Olson Management Group

Account Executive

Multi – Association Management Company. Five years as an account executive and support staff managing and supporting a variety of tax-exempt client trade associations and professional societies, including the N.C. Press Association. Responsibilities included generating copy and overseeing production of newsletters, planning conventions, seminars and special events. Staff liaison for committees, and administered member services. Six years spent as principal account executive with exclusive responsibility for the North Carolina Press Association and its for-profit subsidiary, N.C. Press Services, as executive director.  As clerk to the Board of Directors, ensured board policies were followed. Performed day-to-day financial management, and supervised and guided the NCPA and NCPS staff to the fulfillment of the organization’s goals and objectives. Worked closely with the association’s legislative committee and lobbyist, helping them carry out the association’s legislative goals. Served in an administrative capacity for the North Carolina Press Foundation

The Roanoke Beacon

Reporter/Photographer

.Weekly Newspaper. Worked in the trenches as a one-person news/photo staff for a 4,600-circulation weekly newspaper. Coverage of local government, courts, crime, education, and sports.  News and feature writing and photography

EDUCATION Bachelor of Arts from North Carolina State University with a double major in English and Communication.

Undergraduate and graduate-level courses in Accounting and Association Management.

PROFESSIONAL

Triangle Social Media Club

Member of a networking group learning and using technology and social media to build communities

Association Executives of North Carolina (AENC)

Past president

Facilitated strategic planning goals and objectives

Led in transition from association management-run organization to a fulltime operation with two employees, and served on a search committee hire a second and third executive director following retirement of original director

American Society of Association Executives (ASAE)

Certified Association Executive

Outstanding CEO Award

Member of Newspaper Association Managers (NAM)

Completed a term on NAM Board of Directors

Served as NAM secretary (2004-2005)

Chaired National Newspaper Week (2005)

Other

Media chair for the N.C. Roadrunners Club and Umstead Ultra Marathon

Photography exhibit at the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University