Looking for a Creative, Reliable Content Writer?
Danny Dourado is a positive team member with self-developed skills in video/audio editing (Photoshop and Premiere Pro).
Contact me: marvdourad@hotmail.co.uk | laughswhiletalking@gmail.com
Coventry University –
Marketing Content Assistant (Full-Time)
Danny worked for Coventry University for 2 years creating digital and physical collateral across five ‘CU’ campuses in Coventry, London, Scarborough and Poland. He also maintained CU websites, being trained to create SEO-friendly pages in the CMS (epiServer).
He assisted on creating recruitment copy for Prospectuses, Brochures, Web / Landing Pages and Social Media to tight deadlines, as well as ‘Student Life’ copy in Blogs and Case Studies. Post-COVID, he assisted in supportive campaigns to bring in mature audiences unsure about university.
For many projects he collaborated daily with stakeholders through Teams/Outlook including students, academics, vice-chancellors, recruitment, legal, press, finance and more.
The Leadership Hub –
Digital Content Officer (Part-Time)
Danny produced content for the Leadership Hub over 5 years (2013-2018), developing micro-lessons, email learning and blog posts for a FTSE 100 company (Intercontinental Hotels Group). He managed content creation and online discussion, creating micro-lessons and weekly emails for a closed community of 1500 leaders.
He also wrote the Leadership Hub blog, using resources from the team’s principal Leadership Development consultant and his own research to construct eye-catching / social-media friendly material on Leadership Development. This included writing the weekly / monthly emails, which grew to 1,000 subscribers in 2 years under his watch, as well as sourcing images and editing them in Photoshop.
Most of his writing at this time involved taking complex ideas or lengthy discussions and turning them into succinct, memorable, enjoyable material.
Freelance and
Personal Projects
- Danny founded the Hollaback Nerds, a Comedy Rap Battle YouTube channel. The first video has 1.2 million views.
He wrote scripts, filmed / edited in Premiere Pro / released the videos and acted in them. He collaborated closely with the music producer to release the audio. - Danny created Space Saga (In Space), a sci-fi comedy Podcast with thousands of plays.
He wrote scripts, directed, acted, edited the audio in Cubase LE and video elements in Premiere Pro.
- Danny provided brochure copy for Big Door Productions, a Not For Profit demystifying the job market for teenagers. He researched and wrote engaging but informative short reports (read one!) about UK economic sectors, highlighting how work for young people will change in the future.
- Danny’s official publications include Learning to Live with Huntington’s Disease: One Family’s Story, an autobiographical medical journal published by Jessica Kingsley Publishing, and a contribution to the Articulus anthology, published by Wardwood publishing.
He received a Joint Honours Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, University of London, at a 2:1 level. He also received 3 A’s at A-Level in English Lit/Lang, 20th Century History and Drama & Theatre Studies.