EDWARD C. MAURER
142 Bobwhite Circle, Cape Carteret, NC 28584
(727) 772-3895 ecmaurer@gmail.com
Professional Summary
Professional with noteworthy experience in adult teaching, teamwork, mentoring, marketing, and written- and verbal communication. Major contributor who ensures goals and objectives are met through the effective use of time and assets. Creative problem solver who develops new and innovative solutions to challenges. Team player who views old roadblocks as new opportunities for success. Team builder who encourages a sense of ownership and active participation among all students and coworkers. Confidence builder and motivator who uses effective, powerful verbal imagery. Mentor who shares knowledge and encourages learning.
Professional Achievements
Teaching: Teaching GED course comprising reading, writing, social studies and natural science, and Written Communications courses at USMC SNCO Academy, Camp Johnson, via community college program. Result: Improving the reading, writing and comprehension skills of adults in the civilian and professional military communities.
Training/Mentoring: Instructed more than 1,000 industrial workers and managers in the proper use and handling of hazardous materials and the appropriate actions to take in the event of a chemical spill. Result: Reduced EPA-reportable spills by 80 % per year.
Facilitating/Presenting: Introduced disadvantaged high school students to classic literature. Result: Developed awareness of and a connection with the lyrical value of “The Odyssey” and how it is still realized in contemporary urban music and story telling.
Marketing: Developed and designed public radio station marketing products including station logo, brochures, media packs, print and broadcast advertising products. Result: Increased public and business community awareness of station by at least 50 percent.
Project Management: Guided creation or refinement of documents for a diverse company with interests and activities in real estate, investments, and online publishing. Result: All company documents met or exceeded industry standards and those of state and federal regulatory agencies.
Leadership/Program Management: Led an understaffed government industrial hygiene/environmental protection office by prioritizing job tasks; training and delegating appropriate responsibility of single-topic programs to less-experienced technicians. Result: Achieved compliance with USAF, OSHA, DOE and EPA regulations for a nuclear missile wing encompassing more than 10,000 square miles and 4,000 employees.
Teamwork: Led Air Force Rescue and Recovery Service rescue helicopter maintenance teams at NATO base, Keflavik, Iceland. Result: Achieved round-the-clock, 90 percent operational readiness stance resulting in complete fulfillment of rescue mission. Unit credited with 20 lives saved in a 12-month period; officially recognized by US and Icelandic governments and NATO.
Process Improvement: Served as lead US Air Force occupational and environmental health advisor to civil authorities in Maine, Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska. Result: Established and enhanced effective working relationship with civil authorities that improved communication and partnering.
Event Planning/Coordination: Conceived and managed a live public radio fund raising event by organizing a development committee of business leaders; coordinated support from local businesses. Result: Attracted several hundred patrons; raised more than $15K; improved relationships with business community.
Pertinent Work Experience
Educator Coastal Carolina Community College. Teach GED course comprising read, writing, social studies and natural science to adult students. Teach Written Communications to USMC SNCO Academy students.
Communications Consultant, Writer, Editor Self Employed. Provided editing services to companies, organizations and individuals. Edited and developed publications; wrote and published articles; recommended communications methodologies and strategies; provided pro bono assistance to high school and college students. Wrote press releases.
High School English Teacher (interim position) Orange County (Florida) Public Schools. Provided high school English curriculum in a meaningful manner. Maintained a classroom environment conducive to learning.
Development Executive Florida Tech, WFIT Public Radio. Raised operating capital through business, private and government sponsorships. Represented the station at chamber of commerce and other community meetings and events. Hosted news and public affairs program. Developed station marketing strategies.
Superintendent United States Air Force. Successfully managed and directed a 10-person occupational safety and health, and environmental protection office protecting more than 4,000 workers in three states. Managed $50,000 annual budget.
Education
University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida. 2003; BA, Liberal Studies [Communications/Letters] Minor: American Studies. Dean’s List.
Internships
Intersil Corporation Melbourne, FL. Marketing/Public Relations Dept. Wrote magazine articles explaining wireless networking and Internet security principles to a general audience.
The Wyoming Tribune-Eagle Cheyenne, WY. Wrote weekly high school and college sports briefs and stories, and a recurring outdoor column.
Editor Laramie County (Wyoming) Community College. Wingspan news magazine; The High Plains Register literary/arts magazine
Personal Publishing and Writing History
Numerous magazine and newspaper articles on a broad range of topics.
Several creative non-fiction and fiction works.
Online compendium of personal works and commentary.
Publisher, http://CanoeSailingMagazine.com
Awards and Recognition
Air Force Meritorious Service Medal for “outstanding professional skill, initiative. . . inspirational and dedicated leadership.”
Two Air Force Commendation Medals for leadership and personal sacrifice.
Air Force Achievement Medal for leading emergency response to incident in abandoned Atomic Energy Commission site.
American Scholastic Press Association first place with “Special Merit,” High Plains Register
American Scholastic Press Association first place with “Special Merit,” Wingspan
Rocky Mountain Collegiate Media Association first place sports column, Wingspan
Rocky Mountain Collegiate Media Association first place news writing, Wingspan
Wyoming Press Association first place sports column, Wingspan
Outstanding Editor, 1996-97, High Plains Register
Outstanding Student — Journalism, 1996-97
After retiring from the military and attending journalism school, I glommed onto the idea of publishing a magazine once I moved home to Florida. At first, it was to be a print fly fishing publication, but further study made me all too aware of the extraordinary cost of such a venture; it was put on hold. A few months later I researched the possibility of doing an online version, but found little support (okay—no support) for my concept. It seems a fly fishing magazine was not in the cards, though something else was, even though I didn’t know it then.
