This document is a curriculum vitae for Susan Victoria Gaynor Mottram. It summarizes her professional experience and qualifications. She has over 25 years of experience in corporate communications, public relations, and publishing. She currently owns her own business, Headline News CC, which provides services such as editorial work, design, publications production, and social media marketing. Previously she worked as a reporter for MNET News and has volunteered for community organizations focused on crime prevention. She holds qualifications in secretarial studies, public relations, and communications.

1. CURRICULUM
VITAE
susan@headline.co.za
082 465 8718
011 467 0281
Douglasdale
Seeking: Freelance/contractual work in corporate communications and PR.
Copy writer, publications’ designer, corporate communications professional, event and project manager.
Company owner, Headline News C.C. (corporate communications and publishing).
The basics
Full name: Susan Victoria Gaynor Mottram.•
Born in Singapore on 23 March 1961.•
Identity number: 6103230170082.•
South African citizen.•
Holder of valid driver’s licence.•
Languages spoken: English with a smattering of Afrikaans.•
Married.•
Residence: Douglasdale•
Has driver’s licence, own vehicle and valid passport.•
Experience and expertise
Editorial services, design and layout for print industry and electronic platforms.•
Production and management of internal newsletters/magazines, from design concept through news•
gathering, writing, design, print and delivery.
Production of corporate and marketing publications including company profiles, SHE and sustainable de-•
velopment annual reports and manuals, marketing brochures and posters.
Copywriting for, and publishing on, social media e.g. Facebook, websites, LinkedIn, BizCommunity, Twitter.•
Facebook administrator.
Media liaison: Media releases to, and engagement with, the print media (newspapers and trade maga-•
zines), radio and television.
PR: Generation of publicity for clients and causes through PR events supported by news releases.•
Client liaison from CEO to shopfloor level.•
Project management.•
AppleMac competent, specifically Photoshop and InDesign.•
Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Outlook Express competent.•
Susan Mottram

2. Accomplishments 2.
Own business: Succeeded in own business for more than 20 years.
Susan founded Headline News C.C. in 2001, but has been a consultant in the communications industry for
more than 25 years; writing, designing and managing publications, informational material and marketing bro-
chures. As communications officer, she left the former Haggie business, now a Scaw Metals’ company, to start
her own business in 1994, operating under her maiden name, Susan Doyle Communications. She consulted to
Scaw, producing a host of its publications and marketing material, between 1994 and 2015.
Please go to: www.headline.co.za
MNET reporter: Susan was appointed as a reporter for the short lived MNET News called Camera 7. This
channel covered the celebrations for the Independence of Namibia in 1990, attended by Her Royal Highness,
Queen Elizabeth II (the show was called The Queen in Namibia), the 1990 New Year celebrations televised
from MNET studios in Randburg and at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town and The Sinking of the Oceanus
(1991), etc. Susan presented an insert, with script writing and stand-ups, for The Queen in Namibia, and a live
stand-up from the V&A Waterfront for the on-the-spot televising of the 1990 New Year celebrations.
Volunteer, community anti-crime, anti-grime campaigns: She has successfully spearheaded campaigns for
cleaner and safer streets in the Douglasdale/Fourways to North Riding areas. She continues to uplift the areas
through ad hoc community events that she organises and publicises via print and social media. By mobilising
residents and business owners to support her anti-grime, anti-crime vision, Susan has, over the last seven
years, planted pavement gardens as a way of beautifying the environment, keeping it clean and discouraging
by-law infringements and crime.
Director of Future City Fourways, a non profit company for social upliftment in and around Fourways
In 2015, Susan was invited to join Future City Fourways, a non profit company formed to establish a privatised
street cleaning and security services in Fourways to reverse urban decay and reduce crime in the area. This is
currently in progress. Susan is a director of FCF and conducts the PR, communication, customer liaison and
administration for the NPC – this involves print and social media, and events.
Education and qualifications
Northview High School in Highlands North: Matriculation Certificate (1979).•
Anchor Secretarial College: Secretarial Diploma (1981).•
Public Relations Institute of South Africa (PRISA): PR Diploma (1986).•
University of South Africa (UNISA): BA Degree majoring in Communications and English (1993).•
Work history
Nedbank (administration) –1980.•
Philips (secretarial) –1981-1982.•
Barclays Industrial Bank (public relations) 1982-1987.•
Haggie, now Scaw Metals Group (communications) - 1988-1991.•
Own business: Headline News C.C. – 1991-current.•

3. Awards and acknowledgements 3/last
Industrial Editors of South Africa award for internal publications.•
One year academic (performance) bursary from UNISA midway through degree.•
Nominated and elected as chair of the Community Police Forum, Douglasdale, in 2009.•
Fourways Review/Hirsch’s Community Champion of the Month - July 2013 – for consistently making a•
positive difference to the environment and community.
Nominated and elected as chair of Douglasdale Business Forum in 2014.•
Associations
Douglasdale Community Police Forum (CPF): Susan was asked by Douglasdale SAPS to join the CPF as•
Sector 4 chair in 2009, following her public efforts to clean up the area. As chair, Sector 4, Susan estab-
lished an anti-grime, anti-crime programme based on her belief that “Cleaner spaces are safer places”,
a term she coined and applied in every clean-up and pavement garden project she implemented.
Douglasdale Business Forum (DBF): In 2013, Susan established the DBF with six other businesses in•
Douglasdale. She is chair of the DBF. Headline News is one of the members to fund the weekly mainte-
nance of two garden pavements at the intersection of Douglas Drive and Leslie Avenue West in Douglas-
dale, planted in 2010 under Susan’s leadership when she was chair of CPF Sector 4.
Director of Future City Fourways non profit company.•
Strengths
Strong communications skills – verbal, written, design and layout.•
High work ethic, principled and trustworthy.•
Self-driven, high energy levels, committed to excellence and attention to detail.•
Good with clients and their employees.•
Works well in a team, but also enjoys alone time when a project requires individual focus.•
Organised and good at meeting deadlines.•
References
Markus Hannemann, CEO, Scaw Metals Group
011 621 1560 • 082 456 6444 • markus.hannemann@scaw.co.za
Jane Erasmus, human resources manager, Scaw Metals Group
082 229 1919 • jane.erasmus@scaw.co.za
Heather Robinson, director, THJ Consulting (formerly of Nestlé)
076 907 3414 • heather@radius.co.za
Penny Carrington, owner, Sterling Communication
083 310 0780 • sterlingco@plz.co.za
Garth Johnson, MD, Dekra Automotive (Pty) Limited
083 450 7027 • gjohnson@dekraauto.co.za
Advocate Jean Berdou, chair, Douglasdale Community Police Forum.
082 871 0117 • jberdou@mweb.co.za