Bill Collins

About Bill Collins

BILL COLLINS 51••••••25 (p) w••••••••@gmail.com - Bill Collins currently works in the opiate addictions-treatment field, and is certified by the State of Ohio as a Chemical Dependency Counselor Assistant (CDCA). Previously, Bill Collins was an industry analyst, consultant and consumer research professional who focuses his work on the field of networked Digital Signage and Digital Place-based advertising networks. Digital Signage and Digital Place-based advertising networks are networked audio/visual media located in retail stores and other public venues. People view this media typically on flat-panel screens, sometimes interacting with the screens via touchscreens and/or their mobile phones. During his career in this sector, Collins: Co-authored the world’s first syndicated research report on Digital Signage. Established the Narrowcasting News from Bill Collins newsletter, the world’s first publication to cover the Digital Signage and Digital Place-based advertising market. Co-founded and edited AKA.TV – - the world’s first international publication to provide news and analysis on the global market for Digital Signage and Digital Place-based Advertising networks. Organized, convened and presided at the founding meeting of the Out-of-Home Video Advertising Bureau (now rebranded as the Digital Place-based Advertising Assn. or DPAA) in January 2006 in Las Vegas at the Venetian Hotel. Served clients such as Best Buy, 3M, Philips Design, Instrumental Media Group, C-nario, Barco, the Digital Place-based Advertising Assn.(DPAA), LocaModa, Christie Digital Systems, ActiveLight, VDC Research, Benjamin Moore & Company, the Digital Signage Group, Daintree Partners and Reflect Systems.

Experience

1. Case Manager

   Brightview Health

   Mar 2017 — Present · Cincinnati, OH, US

   Co-facilitating and facilitating group-therapy groups at Medically Assisted Treatment (MAT) outpatient alcohol-and-drug treatment facility that:* accepts all Ohio insurance (including Medicaid),* provides intensive group and individual therapy * provides extensive access to case managers to help patients access to housing, insurance, school/training, employment and mental-health services,* provides on-going access to staff MDs, and nursing staff to monitor medications and advocate to patients\' primary-care physicians (PCPs). In addition, part of Mr. Collins\' job responsibilities involves outreach work to complementary social-service, public-health and faith-based agencies and entities (alcohol detox centers, in-patient alcohol-and-drug treatment facilities, mental-health providers, Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, SMART Recovery, employment agencies, job-training agencies, houses or worship) to enable Brightview staff to work more closely with those agencies/entities to help our patients in ways that are tailored to and help empower each patient as they seek and maintain sobriety.

Education

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  B.A.

  1970 — 1975

• Wentworth Institute of Technology

  Electronics Certificate

  1986 — 1986

Skills

• Strategic Partnerships
• Competitive Analysis
• Digital Signage
• Marketing Strategy
• Market Research
• Digital Media
• Product Marketing