Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Extended resume: Dave Moore

DAVE MOORE
9917 Dameron Dr. • Silver Spring, Maryland 20902
214.542.2571 • dintymoore100@gmail.com
extended resume @ https://bit.ly/DaveMbio


For 32 years, I have reported, written and edited content describing the workings of local, state and national government, and U.S. businesses. 

_______________ PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE _______________

August 2016 to September 2022

Journalist/analyst/Ghost Writer
DALLAS REGIONAL CHAMBER                                    DALLAS, TEXAS                   August 2016-present                                                                             
Staff Journalist/Analyst
Supervisor: Duane Dankesreiter, senior vice president of Research & Innovation
Daytime contact: 469-223-5397
Write and collaborate in researching white papers that describe various industries in the Dallas Region. Also contributing writer to Dallas Innovates business news website and in-house journalist for organization events such as annual meetings, employment trend conferences and international business forums.

Work included:

-- Writing text and assisting in researching content for a report describing the region’s information technology economy (Where ‘Big D’ Stands For ‘Digital’).

-- Collaborating with the research team to write a summary of the Dallas Region’s user experience/user interface workforce (Design With a Big ‘D’).

-- Building, updating and maintaining a running listing of active smart city projects in the Dallas Region, including the use of experimental traffic control devices in Richardson, Texas, and subterranean robots in Arlington, Texas (Dallas-Fort Worth’s Smart City Breakthroughs).

-- Writing and assisting in researching text describing the region’s food sector (Why Dallas Food Industry).

-- Writing and assisting in analysis of U.S. Census Bureau PUMS data to produce Destination: Dallas. Used ArcGIS StoryMaps to write the story.

-- Collaborating with Dallas Regional Chamber partners to profile breakthroughs occurring in the Dallas Region; these include with USAA, HKS, Citi, BBVA and Walmart.

Other work :

  • Breaking the story of Audi Connect launching in Texas, which served as the company’s first inland site for vehicle-to-infrastructure technology. Worked with Audi partner Traffic Technology Services to land the exclusive story.

  • Leading coverage of cutting-edge technologies, including digital twinning, nanotechnology, and autonomous vehicles in Dallas-Fort Worth, primarily by consistently updating an exclusive, interactive map.

  • Rooting out the history of bullet trains in Japan, to describe what might be heading to Texas.

  • Several stories I’ve worked on have involved the intersection of innovation and public policy – especially personal data security in the health care, IT, and transportation spaces.

  • Writing about the inaugural launch and expanded use of the Milo autonomous vehicle in North Texas, including shooting a video interview for upload in our Wordpress-based website Dallas Innovates.

  • Using my data analytics skill to rank the Dallas Region as the second-most funded market for Texas Cancer Prevention and Research Institute (CPRIT) grants.

  • Working with Fortune 500 companies such as Siemens, Toyota, Lockheed Martin, Walmart and Goldman Sachs to write more than 150 articles describing innovations in the region, including the use of artificial intelligence, user experience design and digital twins to advance organizational missions. Click here for a complete list of articles/author bio.

  • Collaborating with C-level executives to ghost write content for other publications.

  • Producing virtual and hard-copy magazines that highlight educational, IT and business advances in the region involving nanotechnology, machine learning and user experience methods.

  • Collaborating with engineers, user experience experts and technologists – among others – to develop content that describes how tech and innovations work.

  • Communicate daily with our economic development and innovation department to coordinate communication efforts and to ensure they have the digital content they need.

Use online graphic generator tools such as DataWrapper and Infogram to visualize trends, and post content on the Wordpress news site Dallas Innovates, among other places.



April 2015 to August 2016
-- Working on a story with D CEO Magazine (D Magazine's business publication) examining the litigation and bankruptcy of Waco, Texas-based Life Partners.
-- Investigating the use of public park land in Dallas to house Rommel's Afrika Korps during and after World War II.
-- Launched LastCallTexas.com, which analyzed liquor sales trends in Texas.
-- Using Bureau of Labor Statistics data to reveal which industries are concentrated in particular counties and metro areas across the United States.

July 2010 to April 2015
Founder of Legal Data Analysis Department
Identified economic and legal trends using data analysis and helped lawyers break news in print and broadcast media.
* Used Bureau of Labor and U.S. Census statistics to determine that North Texas is one of the fastest-growing areas for software development. Former Dallas Morning News writer Hanah Cho used my analysis to write this story
* Analyzed thousands of federal court records to identify the spike in lawsuits against debt collectors. See the related CBS 11 (KTVT-TV) story here.
* Wrote columns with lawyers on timely topics, such as the Texas Rangers’ bankruptcy, changes to non-compete clause laws, and the need for judicial pay raises in Texas.

December 2009 to July 2010
U.S. Census Bureau
Dallas Regional Office
Dallas, TX
2010 Census media specialist
* Analyzed census data to determine that Dallas and Harris counties are among the top 10 counties in the United States with the largest number of hard-to-count populations in the United States. Findings were printed in an Associated Press story that was picked up by newspapers across Texas.

* Used Census data to identify neighborhoods that were slow in mailing back Census forms to direct media coverage to those areas.
* Edited or wrote more than 200 press releases resulting in media coverage in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi for the nation's largest survey.
* Charged with updating the regional census bureau's Facebook page, regularly adding content and monitoring discussions and answering questions posted by the public.
* Tweeted Tweeted regularly on behalf of the Dallas Regional Census Center.

* Served as a source to aid reporters in identifying slow-in-responding census areas, to increase public participation in completing Census forms. See the resulting story in the Dallas Morning News here.


July 2009 to November 2009
KERA public radio and television
Dallas, TX
Contributing writer/researcher
KERA's Living With The Trinity web site.
* Reviewed federal government records to determine that at least nine pharmaceuticals -- including the insect repellent DEET and camphor (used for nail polish remover) -- have been identified in Dallas drinking water.
* Identified major wetlands in North Texas that were built to reduce nitrates and other chemicals from water before they reach spigots in homes.

2008 to November 2009
D CEO magazine
Dallas, TX
Senior Editor
* Profiled Davis Deadman and NexBank, which was founded by many of the same investors who started up hedge fund giant Highland Capital Management LP.
* Used the open-records act and City Hall connections to quickly obtain and post online Dallas’ 2008 swimming-pool inspections.
* Analyzed DFW’s executive Presidential campaign contributions to determine John McCain has more cash, but fewer donors than Barack Obama.
* Detailed Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons' successful 14-year effort to build a radioactive waste dump in West Texas.
* Popular contributor to frontburner (D Magazine's blog), where I posted updates on everything from 7-Eleven to the Dallas Cowboys.

* Used IRS migration data to reveal that Dallas' richest newcomers moved from St. Tammany Parrish, La., Hartford County, Conn., and other unlikely places.

2006 to 2008
Dallas Business Journal
Dallas, TX
Government/legal/sports reporter
* Broke the story about how the subprime lending market crash caused the new $1.2 billion Cowboys stadium in Arlington to become more expensive due to higher financing costs.
* Won a SABEW (Society of American Business Editors and Writers) award for a story that described how the Dallas Press Club president rigged the Katie regional journalism awards for years.
* Broke the story about a Dallas-area non-profit's director allegedly siphoning millions of his charity's money into his Nascar racing team. Story led to the director resigning from the charity.
* Analyzed presidential campaign spending to determine which Texas businesses are receiving tens of millions of dollars for services rendered.

* Built the newsroom's first public-records database library.
* Was among the first reporters in Texas to report about the impending dispute over whether to allow foreign investors to lease toll roads from Texas.
* Covered legal trends and legislation impacting businesses, including developments in the margin tax, tort reform and intellectual property litigation.

2004-2005
Denton Record-Chronicle
Denton, TX
County reporter
* Revealed that Denton County Commissioners spent up to $350,000 more than required by state law to cover bills in civil court cases. The judge who billed the county for the cases stopped doing so after the story was printed and didn’t seek re-election.

2003-2005
Columbia Daily Tribune
Columbia, MO
City hall reporter
* Used computer-assisted reporting to uncover eight years of worsening racial disparity in the arrests of black children by city police. Related story, "The Color of Justice," earned a second-place 2004 Missouri Associated Press Managing Editors award.

2002-2003
Bedford Now
Lambertville, MI
Coordinating editor/staff writer
* Uncovered the strategy by the city of Toledo, Ohio, to stop urban sprawl by limiting water sales to outlying areas such as Lambertville, Mich.

2001-2002
Perrysburg schools
Perrysburg, OH
Freelance writer/substitute teacher
* Traveled to Bosnia to document landmine-removal efforts. Related story was printed in the Houston Chronicle.

1998–2001
Toledo City Paper and Toledo Area Parent News
Toledo, OH
Editor/staff writer
* Revealed the dire shortage of mental-health workers and money for medications, 12 years after Toledo’s mentally ill were deinstitutionalized.

* Traveled to Bosnia-Herzegovina to chronicle the country's struggle to survive as a fledgling democracy. (Stories available upon request.)

1990-1998
Decatur Herald & Review
Decatur, IL
Staff writer
* Led a four-year investigation of gang activity in Decatur.
* Weekend crime reporter.
* Covered industrial accidents, chemical spills and worker-safety issues.
* Chief environmental writer, including air-quality issues in a city with some of the worst air quality in the United States.
1989-1990
Fostoria Review-Times
* City hall/cops/county government/features reporter, in a three-reporter news shop.
Education/skills
1984-1989
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
* Bachelor’s degree in liberal arts. Major: journalism; minor; political science

1996-present
National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting
Columbia, MO
* Ongoing training with Access, mapping software and other computer reporting tools.