Hi. I’m Steve.
Thank you for visiting my website.
I am a media, communications, and writing professional.
That means I create stuff, magical stuff, out of other stuff.
I’m interested in working on exciting projects as a permanent employee, freelancer, or business partner.
Especially interested in working with writers, artists, and tech companies with great ideas.
Resume available upon request. Contact me here.
A bit about me
I’m a creative writer and communications manager with more than 20 years of business experience.
I have been working in marketing, specifically content marketing, since 2015. It’s not my dream career, but it has enabled me to flex my creative muscles as I pursue other projects.
Over the years, I have developed a wide variety of skills by working in various roles and positions for an impossibly broad range of companies, organizations, and projects.
Some of my stronger skills, aside from writing, include web design, media production (audio, video, graphics), communications, and CRM.
Despite my wide range of skills, I consider myself to be primarily a writer, as I have dedicated the last 24 years of my life to language and the written word.
I continue dedicating my life’s work to the study of writing, primarily in English.
My personal projects include novel writing, screen writing, and web building.
I have hosted and maintained several websites since 2004, including this website, an online magazine, and a podcast.
Work experience
Born and raised in New York City, I moved to Berlin in 2013 thanks to my dual American and Italian citizenship. I started out in Berlin bartending before transforming my personal projects in blogging and content creation into a career in content marketing in 2015.
Since then, I have worked as a writer and communications manager for successful startups and established companies. These include Lamudi (Rocket), Webgears, and Lernidee Erlebnisreisen.
Most recently, I was hired as a copywriter at PACE Aerospace & IT (TXT). There, I soon replaced my supervisor as the Head of Marketing and Communications after her departure. My main tasks involved corporate marketing communications, which had me performing roles in copywriting, graphics production, event organization, logistics, HR, internal communications, and sometimes even building management.
Before 2015, I worked in a wide variety of industries and roles, including hospitality, translation and localization, human resources, sales, logistics, business development, and consumer communications.
Companies I worked for in New York include the Estee Lauder Companies, where I was a Global Consumer Communications team lead, and Bodum, where I was a Major Accounts Sales and Logistics Coordinator (US, Canada and South America).
In addition to having lived and worked in NYC and Berlin, I have lived and worked in Argentina and Colombia as a Business Development Manager for translation and localization company Andovar.
Work samples
The majority of my career has been as a contracted employee in the service of companies who own the exclusive rights to my work.
Therefore, I kindly ask that any work samples you find here that are not publicly available be regarded as confidential and used only for assessment purposes.
Some of my published work can be found at popular entertainment news publication ScreenRant, where I wrote more than 100 articles about movies and TV.
These work samples are not intended to be the best of what I have done, but to be an indication of what I can do.
Education
I received a bachelor’s degree in English and creative writing with a minor in music theory from CUNY Hunter College in 2003.
Previously, I had attended CUNY Queens College and graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School with a specialized New York State Regents Diploma and a BTHS Specialized Diploma in Media and Communications.
After 2003, I continued to study language and linguistics at Hunter College with course work in literary theory; at the CUNY Grad Center with course work in general linguistics and psycholinguistics. From 2006 to 2008, I returned to Queens College where I earned 18 credits toward a master’s degree in applied linguistics and TESOL.
Thanks again for visiting my portfolio page. I look forward to hearing from you soon and possibly working together on exciting projects!
Sincerely,
Steve Cuffari