Carma Spence-Pothitt's profile answers

The two most important factors of my work environment are: 1) do I enjoy what I'm doing?, and 2) do I enjoy the people with whom I'm working? That said, I thrive in entrepreneurial environments where I can balance independent work with team interaction. I prefer a casual/business casual dress code because I work better when I'm comfortably dressed....

I'm looking for a position where I can maximize my marketing and communications skills, exercise my "big-picture" strategic thinking talents, and use my creative skills to improve business processes. I've spent more than 15 years working on implementation with out much opportunity to flex my strategy development skills. I'm looking for a position that will allow me to make that next step in my career....

Because I was working on several periodicals simultaneously, my biggest challenge was to make sure several competing time lines were being met. To meet this challenge I developed a calendar list time management tool that helped me focus on what I needed to be doing today, while making sure I always remember what I needed to be doing in the future....

I learned two things during my time working on genome.gov: 1) I'm a lot more technically savvy that I thought I was and 2) I don't really want to spend 40 hours a week working on HTML code.

Of all the four sections of the database -- Newspaper, Magazine, Radio and Television -- managing the Magazine portion was the most challenging. There are so many more magazines being published that newspapers, radio stations or television stations. Also, because each magazine is so unique in what it covers, tagging each one to the appropriate category code, and training others to do so correctly without supervision, what very challenging. But, I was fortunate to work with some great people and had a wonderful team to help me accomplish that job....

1. Small, entrepreneurial environment where I got to where many hats and contribute to the overall success of the company.
2. The upper management were true visionaries from whom I learned quite a bit.
3. KidsGrowth Professional was ahead of its time and provided a truly unique service to pediatric professionals, helping them improve their business....

I managed up to 8 newsletters, writing content, editing content, and overall managing the publications process. While I was there, I helped launch a new publication and managed the process of re-designing several others.

Managed content for KidsGrowth Professional, including writing features, basic content, recruiting and hiring freelance writers, managing freelance budget, editing staff writer's work. Resulted in growth of site from a dozen pages to more than 200. AviaHealth purchased website in less than two years....

I wrote and edited web content, including adding HTML code and entering content into a proprietary content management system. I helped develop a redesign of the website, which included improving navigation and usability.

I managed a team of 2-3 senior media researchers and 8-16 media researchers in building and maintaining the magazine portion of a media contact database. This entailed writing and editing outlet and contact profiles, interviewing and hiring staff, and managing a variety of related projects.