David Drickhamer

1632 Northland Ave., Lakewood, Ohio 44107
Office: 216-220-5121 ● Mobile: 216-337-7881
Home: 216-521-3134 ● Skype: david.drickhamer
info@drickhamer.com

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Editorial Director/Associate Publisher—Logistics Today, Aug. 2006-May 2007
Editor/Editorial Director/Associate Publisher—Material Handling Management, Dec. 2004-June 2007
Editorial Research Director—IndustryWeek, Jan. 1998-Dec. 2004
Managing Editor—Welding Design & Fabrication, Forging, Metal Heat Treating, July 1992-Jan. 1998

RESPONSIBILITIES

Project management

  • Plan annual editorial calendar and monthly lineup, manage budgets, make assignments, edit copy and coordinate monthly page production of Material Handling Management.
  • Plan annual editorial calendar and monthly lineup, manage budgets, make assignments, edit copy and coordinate monthly page production of Logistics Today magazine.
  • Project leader for Material Handling Management's “Census of Distribution” (with the Manufacturing Performance Institute), annual “Salary Surveys” and Industry Leadership Awards.
  • Manage staff of five editors and designer.
  • Manage website development and administration for mhmonline.com and logisticstoday.com.
  • Project leader for IndustryWeek’s North American Best Plants competition: Coordinate marketing; develop questionnaires; distribute and tabulate judging material; research, report, write and edit winner profiles; prepare statistical summary; coordinate annual Best Plants conference.
  • Project leader for IndustryWeek “Census of Manufacturers” (with the Manufacturing Performance Institute)
  • Project leader for five-part IndustryWeek Value Chain Survey (with IBM Consulting Services)
  • Project leader for the IndustryWeek IW1000, the world’s 1,000 largest publicly traded manufacturing companies, and the 100 Best Manufacturing Companies (with Mergent)
  • Other publishing projects : World-Class Communities (ranking of metropolitan areas by manufacturing prowess, with Cleveland State University  Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs); E-business survey (with CGE&Y); Information Technology survey (with Accenture).

Writing

  • Write monthly feature articles for Material Handling Management (72,000 circulation) and Logistics Today (80,000 circulation) on the equipment, trends and issues in warehousing, distribution and the supply chain.
  • Write monthly editorial, “Light Lifting” and “Logistically Speaking” on current topics and management issues.
  • Write, edit, format and manage distribution of weekly Logistics Today 's “Supply Chain Report” and Material Handling Management’s “Newsmakers” e-newsletters.
  • Lead editorial coverage of plant-level manufacturing issues for IndustryWeek (200,000 circulation), including quality, logistics and supplier management, workplace organization and operational best practices. Neal Award Winner 2004: "Manufacturing's Global Future."
  • Monthly columnist, “Continuous Improvement” for IndustryWeek, featuring conversations with industry thought leaders on operational strategies and practices.
  • Developed, wrote and oversaw production of summaries, white papers and full results of various research projects.

Client Relations

Represented Material Handling Management and Logistics Today with advertisers and at industry conferences, including ProMat, Conveyor Equipment Manufactures Institute (presenter), Material Handling Industry Association (participant), Supply Chain World, CSCMP, Industrial Truck Association, Warehouse Education Resource Council, and the National Industrial Transportation League.

Represented IndustryWeek at industry conferences, including: Northeastern Lean Enterprise Conference (presenter), National Manufacturing Week, Supply Chain Council Executive Summit, Association for Manufacturing Excellence Annual Conference, CLM Annual Conference (presenter), Motorola ACES Plant Quality Managers Forum (presenter), TBM Consulting Executive Exchange, Annual International Conference on Work Teams (presenter).

PAST EXPERIENCE

Forging, Metal Heat Treating, Welding Design & Fabrication magazines
Managed editorial production: Created editorial schedules. Assigned, edited, and wrote relevant trend and technology articles. Reported and wrote features and general industry news, safety and health, meetings, product news and literature departments. Oversaw and approved final page layouts. Developed, launched, and maintained Forging and WD&F websites.

FORMAL EDUCATION

  • Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass. Bachelor of Arts in English and American Literature, and American Studies. Summa cum laude. GPA in majors: 3.85; cumulative: 3.72
  • Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio. Executive MBA Program. August 2002-2004.

Computer software (PC and Mac): Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access and Powerpoint); SPSS (statistical analysis); Quark Xpress; Filemaker Pro; Adobe Acrobat and InDesign.