As the head of Shapinsky MultiMedia, a production and consulting business, he has worked with various clients on a variety of projects involving multimedia and communications strategy, information management, as well as production services. Among Shapinsky MultiMedia's recent clients are The Salzburg Seminar, The National Medical Association, Capitol News Connection with PRI, and Howard University's Genome Center.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Multimedia and Communications Consultant, Shapinsky MultiMedia, 2005-present
Develop and implement communication strategies for corporate, government, and non-profit clients.
• Conduct media outreach, write press materials, and arrange for news coverage of issues and events.
• Advise clients on web management, multimedia, and social networking strategies.
• Develop executive level seminars on new media, open source intelligence, and strategic communications.
• Provide in-house multimedia support using video, audio, web, and graphic software and digital equipment.

Adjunct Professor, Department of Journalism, Howard University, 2005-2006
Taught broadcast journalism to seniors and juniors with an emphasis on preparing them for a multimedia news business.
• Provided instruction on how to produce, research, shoot, edit, light, and write for broadcast.
• Brought media leaders into the classroom to talk about journalism, the news business, and new technology. Speakers included Adam Clayton Powell, Tom Bettag, Steve Handelsman, Mary Major, and Renee Poussaint.

Senior Producer, Howard University Television, WHUT PBS, 2003-2005
Led an editorial/production team that used creative and cost-effective approaches to produce award-winning programs.
• Supervised 4 producers along with freelance producers and correspondents, and a large number of students/interns.
• Developed partnerships with other journalists, which allowed WHUT to cover breaking news with our own reports from China and Capitol Hill.
• Oversaw live productions of weekly shows from control room, working with host, producers, director, and crew.
• Researched, developed, wrote, and produced documentary and health shows.
• Managed launch and production of three new weekly series – On Africa, On Health, and The DC Politics Hour with WAMU Radio – as well as several new regular segments on arts and current events for Evening Exchange.

Executive Producer, kaisernetwork.org, Kaiser Family Foundation, 2000-2002
Oversaw designing, building, managing, and growing a new non-profit webcasting service focused on health policy.
• Directed coverage of conferences, press briefings, congressional hearings, United Nations sessions, and other events.
• Managed four-person staff and an annual budget of several hundred thousand dollars while providing editorial oversight for webcasts and related web pages.
• Developed partnerships and special coverage relationships with broadcast news and online media organizations, such as CQ, WAMU, WHUT, WETA, PRI, ABC, NBC, PBS, NPR, and CNN.
• Wrote marketing materials and board proposals aimed at building the service.
• Created a low-cost operation capable of responding to national or international events by developing creative partnerships, negotiating deals with production houses/web hosting firms, and developing a strong team spirit.
• Oversaw production team at the XIV International AIDS Conference from Barcelona, Spain, providing what the Wall Street Journal described as “some of the best” coverage of the 6 day conference.
• Helped design firms devise plans for a high-tech conference center with advanced multimedia capabilities.

Producer, Writer, and Reporter, ABC News, 1993 – 2000
Researched, reported, and produced for World News Tonight, ABCNews.com, 20/20, PrimeTime Live, and Nightline.
• Worked with various correspondents, including Sam Donaldson, Diane Sawyer, and Dave Marash.
• Wrote a weekly news analysis for ABCNews.com, which examined complex or controversial issues, including Medicare, the WTO, education, racism, juvenile justice, China, and the Mid-East.
• Produced high-profile investigative stories, undercover shoots, and multi-camera interviews.
• Developed and co-produced a variety of stories about Congress -- on campaign finance, health, education, the economy, and other issues for World News Tonight.

Director of Governmental and Strategic Studies, Citizens Against Government Waste, 1992-1993. Responsible for conducting research, writing, and editing CAGW publications.

Visiting Assistant Professor of History, College of Wooster, 1990-1992
Designed and taught courses in American foreign policy, international relations, world history, East Asian history, and recent U.S. history.

Research Analyst/Staffer, Board of Ethics and Mayor’s Office, City of Chicago, 1986-1987
Worked closely with Mayor Harold Washington's staff to establish the Board of Ethics, the first such department in the history of Chicago.

SELECT HONORS/AWARDS
• 2004 Telly Award as producer for On Health with George Strait: Global HIV/AIDS (WHUT)
• 1995 Peabody as reportorial producer for PrimeTime Live's Rush to Read, an investigation of pap smear labs (ABC News)
• 1995 Emmy Award given to PrimeTime Live's Rush to Read (ABC News)

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in History, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1990
• Dissertation, “The Wilsonian Vision.” examined the origins of Southern internationalism and late-nineteenth-century views of the world.
• Expertise: U.S. Diplomatic History; International History; 19th and 20th Century American History; Southern History; African-American History; U.S and S.E. Asian relations.
• Advisor: Professor Akira Iriye, Harvard University; Dr. James Grossman, Newberry Library; and Professor Kathleen Conzen, University of Chicago.

MA in History, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1983
BA in History and Sociology, Pitzer College, Claremont, California, 1982