Experience

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  Underhill House

  • Seattle, Washington, United States

  • Executive Director

    • Jun 2023 - Present
    • Seattle, Washington, United States

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  Self-employed

  • Seattle, Washington, United States

  • Mindset Coach / Spiritual Companion

    • 2020 - Present
    • Seattle, Washington, United States

    Coaching / mentoring for professionals & creatives seeking meaning and groundedness, facing big challenges, creative blocks, unhelpful habits and dissatisfaction. You can live more serenely on this wonderful crazy noisy planet while being more productive, making decisions and achieving goals — even if you didn’t get the rule book growing up. This isn’t about dropping out, blissing out or learning life hacks—it’s about changing your mindset, your posture toward life. Let’s connect for a free consult or to chat. Send me a DM or pick a time here: quietyourlife.com.

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  SDI

  • Seattle, Washington, United States

  • Editorial Director

    • Oct 2022 - Jun 2023
    • Seattle, Washington, United States

    As editorial director, Phil is editor-in-chief of the revered Presence Journal and SDI Press, as well as overseeing newsletters and other content.

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  Patheos, Inc.

  • Brooklyn, New York, United States

  • Director of Content

    • Oct 2017 - Mar 2020
    • Brooklyn, New York, United States

    Lead editorial for major content site on faith—from evangelical to atheist, Muslim to Pagan—with about 400 contributors, 100 posts a day, 6 million active readers, 15 million monthly pageviews.- Curate featured posts, newsletters & contributor recruitment; manage section editors.- Grow readers 66%, pageviews 34%.- Oversee editorial use of WordPress & Sitecore content management systems.- Develop, maintain and implement house style & acceptable content guides. - Address top level strategy and business concerns with CEO, CMO and CTO

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  Paraclete Press

  • Brooklyn, New York, United States

  • Editor

    • Aug 2015 - Jul 2017
    • Brooklyn, New York, United States

    Functionally editor-in-chief on all publishing projects at the press except poetry and fine art books.- Responsible for acquisitions, developmental edits, author negotiations and relationships. - Develop cover concepts and make publishing decisions with ME and consultant.- Develop and create product books. - Acquire 35 books.* Expand list into evangelical and fiction and strengthened progressive.

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  Busted Halo

  • Content Manager

    • 2008 - Jul 2015

    Acquiring and editing articles and managing the CMS.

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  Housing Works

  • Content Director

    • Feb 2004 - Jul 2008

    Manage internal and outside resources to produce and maintain internet content, inc. HTML, CSS, CMS, blogs, online fundraising, email newsletters; Kintera, Movable Type, Expression Engine

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  Clickradio

  • Director, Product Design

    • 1998 - 2001

    Led product design, including client application and server delivery process for the Clickradio digital radio network, with 47 stations and over 300,000 listeners. The Clickradio product combined client and server applications, song metadata and compressed encrypted audio delivery to create a digital radio experience with personalized song delivery based on past listening and song skipping during play.

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  First United Equities

  • Stockbroker

    • 1997 - 1998

    Series 7-certified stockbroker. (Highest Series 7 score in firm's history.)

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  CMP Media

  • Senior Technical Editor, Computer Reseller News

    • 1995 - 1996

    Expanded reviews section into full test center and led comparative reviews.

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  Mindful Technology

  • owner

    • 1991 - 1995

    Computer consulting and sales operation, specializing in environmental and health issues.

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  CMP Media

  • Technology Editor, Computer Reseller News

    • 1989 - 1991

    On senior editorial team of industry's top weekly publication with final signoff on pages. Launched and edited flagship Reviews section; established partnership with outside testing lab. Assigned and edited hundreds of stories; wrote two regular columns; spoke on conference panels. Interviewed industry leaders, including Bill Gates.

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  PC Magazine

  • PC Labs Project Leader

    • 1986 - 1989

    On the five-person team that launched the PC Labs (now the ZD Labs) at PC Magazine, developing test methodologies, designing and writing test suites and writing reports of results. Led testing for many comparative review projects including two annual printer blockbuster issues. Wrote feature articles and product reviews. Represented publication at major trade shows and monthly regional editorial events. Wrote landmark 1989 PC Magazine cover story profiling the Apple Mac user interface.

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  Information Builders Inc.

  • Quality Assurance Manager

    • 1984 - 1986

    Part of seven-person team that launched the PC division of Information Builders, maker of FOCUS, one of the first tools that let end users interact directly with mainframe databases — a precursor of SQL and data mining.

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  ProCompare

  • Content Director

    • 1900 - 1900

    Developed and managed content for consumer/vertical product comparison website