By Dave Phillips

Career Highlights

A few of my major accomplishments, most rewarding projects and favorite moments at work.

Led a complete website redesign project, all the way from the Requests For Proposals (RFP) process through completion. We selected Teal Media to be our web vendor and I worked alongside them to accomplish the goals laid out by a cross-functional internal team that I also led. The result is a visually-engaging site with concise text, ensuring that our message gets through without bogging the reader down with details. This project occurred simultaneously with a brand redesign led by United Way Worldwide.
Revamped, wrote, built and edited a weekly internal staff newsletter. I now oversee this work and still edit it every Friday morning. We use Microsoft Sway to produce this piece, accepting and compiling submissions from staff members.
Five years of management experience, leading a small team in writing, building and sending mass emails and text messages as well as maintaining our website.
Earned a Telly Award for work on on a story about Access For All, a skilled trades program.

Primarily covered cops and courts for the daily newspaper with a circulation of about 60,000 at that time, based in Pontiac.
Earned more than a dozen reporting awards from multiple media organizations.
Appeared on various television news programs as an expert discussing court cases, including Jane Velez Mitchell, “Tokudane!” in Japan and more.

Teamed with friends to launch a volunteer-led, low-power FM radio station housed in The Rust Belt Market in Ferndale. We went live in November 2017.
Broadcasting at 100.7 FM in and around Ferndale and streaming across the globe at FerndaleRadio.com/stream