Zack Tanner

Resume

Work Experience

Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh

President | June 2022-present
Unit Chair | November 2021-June 2022
Unit Delegate | 2015-2021

Represent two local units, totaling around 230 members at peak, in grievance, bargaining, workplace health and safety, and action committees.

Served on the bargaining and mobilizing committees for two successful contract campaigns with the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh Point Park University full time faculty unit representing up to 130 members. Faculty unit members saw substancial pay increases over the two contract campaigns, increased ownership in their work, locked in health care coverage and rates, and increased flexibility in their work life.

Presiding over the longest active strike in the country, which at it's peak saw over 120 workers, including 60 Newspaper Guild members, across five separate unions striking against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Manage multiple sources of community fundraising, union funds, and other income sources to the tume of over $1 million that went directly into the pockets of striking workers for emergency financial needs.

Create digital and printed union flyers, handbills, buttons, tri-folds, social media graphics, email graphics, and other graphics to support union actions and fundraising.

Manage social media posting, email newsletters, website postings, and press releases for local campaigns ranging from in-person rallies to social media actions.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Interaction Designer | November 2014-present

Work with reporters, photographers, and editors across the newsroom to create, design, code, and publish award winning story presentations and project sites.

Use a variety of programming languages such as Angular, jQuery, JSON, PHP, mySQL, among others, to build data widgets and displays to enhance individual stories.

Design and create internal newsroom tools to assist in reporting and story creation. Newsroom tools can range from front end user interfaces to add rich content to our core website, to back end tools to give more granular control to the user.

Research and design stories from start to finish. Research includes archival photographs, story ideas, open government data, business data, etc.

WQED Multimedia

Web Developer | October 2011-November 2014

Used PHP, Javascript, jQuery, HTML 5 and CSS 3 to maintain, build and upgrade WQED.org, which received an average of 85,000 page views and 55,000 unique visitors per month. Led the migration of WQED.org from HTML 4 to a responsive, modern layout.

Worked in Wordpress to build and maintain the first digital downloads shop for WQED. Managed the digital download assets and worked within the organization to train others to build our catalogue of downloads.

Produced, shot, and edited parts of the Pittsburgh Innovators Series, which featured different startups and indivduals working in new fields in Pittsburgh. Utilized handheld camcorders, iPhones, and Adobe Premiere to produce the 15-part series.

Took part in a year long strategic planning process to map out the next five years of the company, sitting on the New Media, Metrics, and Innovation Committees.

Pittsburgh Penguins

New Media Intern/Game Night Entertainment Staff | January 2011-April 2012

Worked as a member of the In-Game Entertainment team, managing multiple in-arena video board games played with fans during intermissions and media timeouts.

Worked in the NHL Content Management System producing photo galleries, news stories and feature stories to be viewed on the most visited NHL team website in the United States.

Education

Slippery Rock University

Communication, Concentration in Emerging Technology and Multimedia | May 2011

WSRU-TV | President, Station Manager

The Rocket, student newspaper | Web Editor, Contributor

Programs + Languages

Adobe Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, Illustrator, InDesign
Affinity Designer, Sketch, InVision, Wordpress, Drupal, PHP, jQuery, Javascript, AJAX, SQL, LESS, XML, JSON, Angular