Jennifer Boyce Ciroli

Advanced Software Product Design Professional, IBM Software Group

Email: jciroli@us.ibm.com

Courses Taught:

Software Documentation

Thomas O’Boyle

Circulation Marketing Manager, Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Email: toboyle@post-gazette.com

Courses Taught:

Advanced Journalism

Jennifer Keating-Miller, Ph.D.

Assistant Director of Undergraduate Research and National Fellowships, Carnegie Mellon University

Email: jkeating@andrew.cmu.edu

Courses Taught:

British and Irish Modernism
Nineteenth Century British and Literary Studies: The New Woman
Presenting a Public Self

Ronald Placone, Ph.D.

AVP – HR & Learning and Development, Carnegie Mellon University

Email: rplacone@andrew.cmu.edu

Courses Taught:

Organizational Communication

Mark Roth

Senior Staff Writer, Former Science Editor and Assistant Managing Editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Email: mroth@post-gazette.com

Courses Taught:

Science Writing

Eric Sloss

Director of Communications, Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

Email: esloss@paconserve.org

Courses Taught:

Marketing, Public Relations and Corporate Communications 

Effective marketing and communications are essential to the success of businesses, nonprofit agencies, academic institutions, public interest groups, and other entities that have a shared purpose and identity to promote. To succeed, communicators must be able to identify and articulate the communication needs of the organizations they represent, develop well-informed strategies for advancing organizational objectives, think and act quickly in high-pressure situations, and write clear and persuasive prose. This course explores marketing and communications in organizational settings, where professional communicators manage relationships with a wide variety of constituencies. 

Eric is the director of communications for the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.   He promotes the Conservancy's diverse, yet synergetic, preservation efforts in land and water conservation, art and architecture, urban greening and environmental science. Prior to joining the Conservancy, Eric was the director of Public Relations for the Carnegie Mellon University's College of Fine Arts. He managed public relations for the economic development nonprofit Mon Valley Initiative and has worked in agency, private and nonprofit sectors. Eric was selected by Pittsburgh Magazine and Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project as one of Pittsburgh's "40 under 40" for making a positive impact on the western Pennsylvania region. He has been recognized with a number of local and national professional awards in art, new media and marketing.

Brian Staszel

Multimedia Designer, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Website: staszel@cmu.edu

Courses Taught:

Writing for Multimedia

Steve Twedt

Staff Writer, Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Email: stwedt@post-gazette.com

Courses Taught:

Introduction to Journalism & Investigative Journalism Project