Ginny Hillhouse

210 Vierling Drive
Silver Spring, MD,
20904
Home: 301-384-3470
Cell: 301-502-8499

Email: ginnyhouse@cs.com
View work at:
www.barnabyandtonic.com/ginnyhillhouse/

Experience

Communications Manager, Mechanical Service Contractors of America, May 5, 2008 - present.
I administrate every aspect of web and print, public relations and marketing work, for this trade association serving 1,400 companies, nationwide, and located in Rockville, MD. Work samples are available here.
Contact: Former CFO Gail Gannon, gailgannon@verizon.net.

Editorial Consultant, various clients, 2000-2008

Designer, photographer, researcher for Objects of Our Affection by Lisa Tracy, a personal history of inheritance, under contract with Random House, spring 2010.
Contact: Lisa Tracy, elizaktracy@embarqmail.com.
I have created and maintained strategic printed materials and Web sites for countywide campaigns, politicians and organizations.
Contact: Sharon Cox, sharonwcox@gmail.com.
I have worked as an environmental reporter with additional copy-editing duties for newsletter publisher Business Publishers Inc., Silver Spring, MD.
Contact: Mame Templeton, mametempleton@gmail.com.
I was Public Relations Chair, Public Television Chair and Vice President of Administration for the Montgomery County Council of PTA, Montgomery County, Md. 1995- 2004. I produced MCCPTA’s 200-page annual directory (2002) and created and hosted two television programs aired on the local cable network: Dealing with Report Cards and Bullying in the Schoolhouse. I handled press inquiries for MCCPTA and regularly prepared press releases and information packets distributed to more than 40 outlets in the DC metropolitan area.

Previous Experience

Editor, Connecticut Law Tribune, Stamford, Conn. 1988, 1989 (as Virginia D. Sederis)
Contact: Publisher Robert S. Steinbaum, RSteinbaum@alm.com .

Reporter/Writer, Hartford Courant, Hartford, Conn. 1985-1987 (as Virginia D. Sederis)
Contact: Former Specialties Editor Robert S. Capers, robert.capers@uconn.edu.

Associate Editor, New Jersey Reporter Magazine, the Center for Analysis of Public Issues, Princeton, N.J. 1983 – 1985. (As Virginia D. Sederis)
Contact: Former Executive Editor Rick Sinding, rsinding@njfuture.org.

Assistant Public Information Officer, New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety, Trenton, N.J. 1981 – 1983. (As Virginia D. Sederis)
Contact: Former Attorney General James R. Zazzali, JZazzali@gibbonslaw.com.

Training

Completed 25 hours toward Web Design and Media AA, Montgomery College, Rockville, Md.
Television Field Producer and Field Technician, Montgomery Community Television, Rockville, Md. (certification)
Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. national conferences, annually from 1979 through 1988. (I was a guest instructor on Organized Crime in New England, 1988)
Women in Politics, Eagleton Institute at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J, (certificate)
Photography for Publication, The Kodak School, Fort Wayne, Indiana (certificate)
BA English and Secondary Education, Limestone College, Gaffney, S.C.

Memberships and Awards

Honorary Maryland PTA Life Membership Award
Executive Board Member, Montgomery County Council of PTA
Board of Directors, Montgomery Community Television (2002-2006)
Member, Child Well-Being Committee, Collaboration Council for Youth and Families (2003-2006)
First Place Award from the Connecticut Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (1987)
The New Jersey State Bar Association Journalism Awards, First Place (1984 and 1985)
The Washington Monthly Journalism Award (1985)

Additional References: Web Designer Laura Sergovic, 301-613-7201, lsergovic@verizon.net; Sharon Cox, president of Synergetic Leadership Group, 301-540-0147, sharonwcox@gmail.com