Adam Arthur, CDC Virtual Platform Initiative Lead, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Adam B. Arthur attended Marshall University, where he majored in Business Information Systems. He has a sixteen year background as an entrepreneur in the marketing, public relations, and professional music industries. In recent years, Adam served in the West Virginia Department of Health & Human Resources as a media specialist. He primarily focused on public information management, media coordination, branding design, Web 2.0 applications and Internet technology. Adam has frequently consulted for Web 2.0-savvy businesses in the areas of interactive technologies, SaaS applications, marketing, branding, web/print graphic design, and sales/business management. He is one of fifty-five GovLoop.com Community Leaders, a member of the U.S. Federal Government Web Content Managers Forum, a member of the Accessibility, Technology and Innovation, and Training and Development Sub-Councils, and has participated in several well known software beta-testing projects. More recently, Adam joined the Communities of Practice Program (CoPP) and NCPHI Communications Team at CDC, located within the National Center for Public Health Informatics in the Division of Alliance Management and Consultation. After agency reorganization, Adam briefly served as a CDC SharePoint council member, the site collection administrator for CDC’s Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support (OSTLTS/CDC), and site administrator for phConnect.org- a co-operated collaboration project for public health workers. Arthur also served as a liaison in the newly re-purposed Communities of Practice Program, under the Knowledge Management branch (OSTLTS/CDC). Adam is currently working in the Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services (OSELS) at CDC, running the Virtual Platform Initiative and the Public Health Informatics Virtual Conference. In his spare time, he does media production and designs virtual environments for various platforms. Specialties Marketing & Advertising, New Technologies, SaaS, Web 2.0, Gov 2.0, Virtual Worlds, Social Networking/Marketing, W3C Standards, Sales, Government, Human Resources, Public Relations & Communications, Media Production, Graphic Design, Non-Profit Organizations, Print Media, Community Health, Research, Online Media, Internet, Social Marketing, Interactive Media, SEO, SEM, PPC, Management Consulting, Professional Training & Coaching, Photography, Computer Hardware, Computer Software, Analytics.
