Updated February 2017
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Tamara Kaye Sellman - Digital Resume
Professional Experience
SLEEPYHEAD CENTRAL (Internet) – Founder/Curator [September 2013 - present]
- Write and maintain all aspects of this online sleep health information clearinghouse, including static website, blog, Twitter accounts and social media engagements
- Actively educate patients on multiple categories of sleep health, including general health literacy, public health risks and options for approaching and treating sleep health issues
- Partner with sleep health experts across multiple medical fields to promote sleep education
AMERICAN SLEEP APNEA ASSOCIATION (Washington DC) – Web Consultant [Janary 2017 - present]
KITSAP PULMONARY & SLEEP MEDICINE (Poulsbo, WA) – RPSGT [June 2013 - February 2015]- Organize, launch, and maintain new patient education blog
- Patient engagement via forums and social media
- Communications consulting for a broad base of related assets
INBOUNDMED (Soldotna, AK) – Chief Content Officer [November 2015 - January 2017]
- Provide content for multiple clients as well as for marketing products
- Manage the editorial calendars for several different client blogs
- Performed various overnight sleep tests (nocturnal PSGs, CPAP titrations, split night studies)
- Actively educated patients on sleep hygiene, benefits of CPAP usage and risks of noncompliance
- Managed CPAP equipment (disinfection/pasteurization/assembly)
- Performed various overnight sleep tests (nocturnal PSGs, CPAP titrations, split night studies)
- Actively educated patients on sleep hygiene, benefits of CPAP usage and risks of noncompliance
- Manage secretarial tasks for nonprofit professional society serving the state’s sleep technologists
- Assist with sleep conference planning at all levels
- Build and maintain website and online registration platforms
Developmental Editor/Writing Coach [October 2006 - December 2010]
- Provided coaching services (for groups or individuals) in time and priority management, self-help tactics for overcoming creative block and accountability via phone, teleconference or live meetings
- Provided deep developmental revision services for individual writers (primarily novelists)
- Created, designed and published an online literary anthology; served as chief curator
- Managed a staff (remotely) of five editors (greater Seattle area, Surrey BC, Ithaca NY)
- Handled copyrights, contracts and other legal communications
- Took responsibility for all final manuscript and design decisions
- Hosted panel discussions at writers conferences in NY, Vancouver BC, Seattle, and Chicago
- Organized promotional events for the magazine and its contributors on a regular basis
- Wrote editorial copy (reviews, opinion pieces and support content)
PUBLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL, LTD. (Lincolnwood, IL) – Production Editor/Cookbook Editor [June 1990 - March 1993]
Additional Skills
- CCSH credential. This specialty training in clinical sleep health education allows me to work as a sleep health consultant to individuals, as a sleep educator in public arenas or in a physician extender role in the sleep clinic environment, where I can maintain relationships with patients requiring long-term therapy, post diagnosis, once it has been established.
- Conference planning background. I organized much of the 2014 Washington State Sleep Society conference and two writers’ conferences for Field's End. Tasks included developing workshops (concept to final program), speaker acquisition for keynote/opening addresses, overseeing registration, managing hospitality, working with local business and organizing volunteers and vendors. In 2011, I also advised the Richard Hugo House writers’ conference.
- Social media engagement. I have skills in nationwide social networking, knowledge of SEO basics and experience building and maintaining sites and blogs. I actively use Twitter through Hootsuite client.
- Advocacy. I am an activist for Multiple Sclerosis research and awareness. I work with national podcasters/MS activists Deanna Kirkpatrick, Stuart Schlossman and Amy Gurowitz to admin the Multiple Sclerosis Unplugged Facebook group (about 12,000 members).
- Diversity in writing skills. I have written marketing copy (fliers, newsletters, promotional content), "soft" articles (human interest features), "hard" articles (interpretive), handbooks, educational/process materials, fiction and poetry, blog content, microblog content (“tweets”), technical manuscripts and business correspondence. My particular strengths: simplifying technical subjects for general audiences, and generating text that is accessible to the average reader.
- Editing strengths. I work well with individuals and groups to refine, simplify and clarify work. I have familiarity with style guides, can generate unique style guides and/or follow in-house style.
- Organization and focus. I’m a good time manager and understand priority setting and deadlines.
- Public presentation skills. I have coordinated, paneled, hosted and/or presented seminars and enjoy public speaking (most recently for the Washington State Sleep Society for AAST CEUs).