Frank Gregorsky

Editor and Interviewer

Landline & voicemail (703) 281-1674
FrankGregorsky@aol.com    Oakton, Virginia

LONG-TERM STRENGTHS

Ø A three-decade track record in research, publishing and editorial management

Ø Understands the managerial need to “maintain a coalition," while also being

Ø skilled at weeding out delays, asking right questions, and dissipating the fog

For a May 2008 research sample, see www.ExactingEditor.com/GettingSerious.html

PLATFORMS BUILT

Founder of Interview Your Parents, a "family audio history" service organizing the discussions of family elders on sets of tracked and indexed stereo audiodiscs -- April 2002 to now

Founder, main writer and talent recruiter for www.Millennials.com, June 1998 to September 2003 (the site is no longer active, but slices of it are “cached” here and there)

Interviewer and sole writer for the book-length Women Business Owners in Post-Corporate America, published in January 1997 by the Joint Economic Committee of Congress -- hard copy no longer available, but here's the spinoff web display

ENDORSEMENTS -- please see www.ExactingEditor.com/FourTestimonials.html

POSITIONS HELD

Ø Research Director, The Public Governance Institute, a part-time but long-term "job" centered on producing a manuscript for two authors, one of them the Institute's founder, on complex change projects in the public sector -- April 2002 to September 2005

Ø Program Manager, Discovery Institute (Seattle) -- September 1996 to February 1999

Ø Publications Director, The Congressional Institute Inc. -- August 1991 to February 1994

Ø Special-Projects Director, The House Republican Conference -- December 1988 to May 1991

Ø Editor, The House Republican, a newsletter published by the House Republican Research Committee (1986-87) and then the Policy Committee (1987-88)

Ø Editor and co-writer of a newsletter for CEOs and political operatives, published by The Eddie Mahe Company -- April 1986 to February 1988, and a revamped version April to September 1991

Ø Staff Writer, White House Department of Public Affairs -- June to December 1985

Ø Editor, Republican Study Committee Bulletin -- August 1983 to June 1985

Ø Chief-of-Staff, Congressman Newt Gingrich -- November 1981 to July 1983

Ø Columnist for the Douglas County Sentinel (GA) -- June 1979 to July 1982

Ø Assembly-line worker for Xerox Corp. in NY and TX -- June 1973 to March 1978: Three periods of employment doing electronic assembly work (with two leaves of absence for college). By far the longest stretch was June 1975 to March ‘78, in the suburbs of Dallas, assembling and packing electronic document producers that used cassette tapes for data-storage. Ran for vice-president of the Union local -- Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers -- in October 1976 and was defeated 68 to 32%. Was later appointed deputy shop-steward for the night shift.

PLACES PUBLISHED

Christian Science Monitor, Human Events, Indianapolis Star, National Review, New York Times, Policy Review, Privatization Review, Regulation, Roll Call, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Times, Tacoma News-Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Washington Times

FORMAL EDUCATION

          West Georgia College (Carrollton), 1978-79 and 1981 -- 120 credits

          Richland Community College (Garland, Texas), 1976-77 -- 18 credits

          University of South Florida (Tampa), 1974-75 -- 60 credits

INFORMAL EDUCATION -- conveyed in www.ExactingEditor.com/BeyondMe.html

(703) 281-1674 FrankGregorsky@aol.com

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