Fred Gooltz

  New York, New York 10025      fgooltz at gmail dot com

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

 

 

 

Director of Strategic Messaging, New York, NY

Advomatic, LLC

May 2006 – Present

  
 

Online Communications and Political Consultant for a wide array of Democratic and progressive clients. Specializing in complimentary peer-to-peer presence integration and secondary narrative work in blogs.

 

 

 

Office of the City Council President, Yonkers, NY

Director of Communications

Jan. 2006 – May 2006

 

 

Drafted speeches, daily press releases, talking points. Managed media to promote and helped to craft ‘First 100 Days’ agenda; open government initiatives, community partnerships for crime reduction, infrastructure modernization and $3.1 billion urban redevelopment project. (pop. 200,000)

 

 

Lesnick for Yonkers City Council President, Yonkers, NY

GOTV Director & Communications

Oct. 2005 – Jan. 2005

 

 

۰  Re-built existing campaign staff and volunteers into and aggressive GOTV operation that elected first city-wide Democrat victory since 1993.

۰  Online networks MySpace.com, MiGente.com utilized to recruit and coordinate volunteers.

۰  Designed GOTV plan then trained and organized canvassers and phone-bank crew to implement.

 

 

 

New Yorkers for Parks – Parks1 Campaign, New York, NY

Online Communications

Summer 2005

 

 

۰  Co-managed a “Common Space” advocacy campaign, injecting progressive issue into NYC elections.

۰  Built and ran daily blog, website and database that managed the 30,000 New Yorkers identified, the 386 partner groups we recruited and liased with, and the 84 candidates who agreed to NY4P’s policies.

۰  Vigorous media strategy, city-wide field operation, and direct political contact including Mayoral forum.

 

 

 

21st Century Democrats - Young Voter Project, Cleveland, OH

“VoteMob” GOTV Field Organizer

Oct - Nov 2004

 

 

۰  Coordinated and recruited crews of persuasion canvassers who increased Democratic performance in 30 targeted Ohio precincts by 97% over 2000 results.

۰  Identified and motivated 25,000 voters; voter retention achieved through at least 5 issue-specific contacts via telephone, IM, text-messaging or e-mail.

۰  Bolstered the creation of a master list of over 200,000 young, invested, Democratic voters.

 

 

 

Democratic National Committee, New York, NY

Co-coordinator of Volunteers, Convention “War Room”

Aug - Sep 2004

 

 

۰  During the GOP Convention in NYC, managed hundreds of volunteers, trained and dispatched crews to action at events around New York City. Tangentially, freelanced as a researcher and PR writer.

۰  Liaised with DNC Researchers to utilize volunteers’ mobility and proximity to press events.

۰  Provided timely and efficient support in an intense, mission-oriented campaign environment.

 

 

 

Do More Than Vote, Co-founder

Oct 2004

 

 

۰ Created a campaign “referral service” to match New Yorkers with best “Swing State”
volunteer opportunity for them. (“DMTV”)

۰ Assessed individually how to best utilize talent: whether in the field, on-line or over phones.

۰ Liaised with upwards of 15 local groups and campaigns.

 

 

 

Drinking Liberally, Executive Committee & Political Operations

2003 - Present

 

For Democratic social club with 136 chapters in 40 states, conceived and crafted
district-specific Do More Than Vote (“DMTV”) action plans for the chapters near competitive races.

 

 

INTERNET DEVELOPMENT

 

 

 

 

Spitzer2006.com, Netroots & Blogosphere Outreach

 

 

 

Recruited New Yorkers to join Eliot Spitzer’s blog, infiltrating existing networks

 

 

PrinciplesProject.org, Blog Outreach & Contributing Editor

 

 

 

Co-editor of “2020 Democrats” Declaration of Progressive Principles

 

 

Rapid Response Network, Local Coordinator

 

 

 

Writer / researcher for a national listserv of on-line volunteer “letters to the editor” writers who inject progressive values and frames into print media.

 

 

Cosmopolity.org, Steering Committee for progressive NYC umbrella organization

 

 

EDUCATION

 

 

 

B.A. in English Writing and Theatre
College of Arts and Sciences, Fairfield University, CT

2000

 

 

International Student in English Literature & Performance
Regent’s College, London, UK

1999

 

PERSONAL

 

 

Writing:  Contributed to "Person to Person: Harnessing The Political Power of Online Social Networks and User-Generated Content", Institute for Politics Democracy & The Internet; Fourth World Review, Future Majority, MyDD, BOPNews, AM New York .

Key Interests:  The role of the Internet in government & politics.  Guitar.