Alan R. Karls
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US Fleet Leasing

April 1997 - July 2000

Director of Marketing

  • Proposed, architected, wrote and coded the company’s first web site.  
  • Maintained site (content and html coding).
  • Produced 72 page, four color annual publication which listed specifications for all fleet-eligible vehicles.
  • Wrote and produced monthly corporate newsletters.
  • Wrote and produced customer brochures and direct mailings.
  • Managed correspondence with customers and prospects.
  • Proposed, wrote and coded display presentation for industry conventions; helped design display booths; attended conventions as spokesman, maintained and updated display presentations during conventions.
  • Wrote articles for placement in industry publications.

Clean Air Update - 1999 - This is an example of researching a highly complex issue with many different reporting requirements and definitions, and writing a simple narrative summarizing what fleet managers needed to know.

Clean Air Update - 2000 - Note particularly my discussion of fuel cell vehicles. This discussion was 6 months before the Wall Street Journal wrote its first article on fuel cells and gave the same basic information.