Stephen Lewis

Stephen Lewis


Contact Information:
E-mail: Stephen.Edward.Lewis@Gmail.Com

Mobile Phones: BG: +359-88-9624685; NL: +31-651-219661; US: +1-646-270-5543
Nationality:
Dual Citizen, USA and the Netherlands; Valid Residence/Work Permit, Republic of Bulgaria.

Education:
MA, Urban Affairs and Policy Analysis, New School for Social Research; Graduate Fellow, Philosophy, Boston College; AB, Philosophy, Guilford College; Honors: Wm. J. Fulbright Research Scholar in the History of Art and Architecture.
Languages:
Fluent English and Dutch; conversational Bulgarian, German, and Spanish; some French and Hebrew; rudimentary Turkish.


Private and Public Sector Expertise:

• Specialist in the formation and analysis of public policy and corporate strategy;

• Consultant in marketing communications and public information;

• Trained expert in urban development and the promotion of cities, regions and countries;

• Interim manager and advisor on organizational change;

• Experienced trainer, coach, and mentor;

• Proposals manager for large-scale multinational industrial and technical projects;

• Writer, researcher, and translator serving clients in the private and public sectors.

Industry and Sector Experience:
• Accountancy and management consultancy, architectural and historical preservation, digitization and information technology, engineering and construction, film and broadcasting, oil and gas, printing and publishing, telecommunications and the internet, urban and regional development, and numerous other fields.

Geographic Experience:
• Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, Caribbean, Near East, Southeast Asia.

Parallel Activities:
• Writer, lecturer, and grant recipient in history, architectural history, and urban studies.

• Grant-winning and collected still photographer.



Selected Experience:

2003-7. Southeast-Europe-Based Independent Consultancy:
Consultancy and interim management for small- and medium-sized companies;
Training in project management, proposals management, and human resources;
Marketing communications and editorial services.

2003-2005. Client: The United States Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad. Research and fieldwork services documenting the numbers, condition, and importance of architectural monuments associated with the history and cultures of religious and ethnic minorities within the boundaries of Republic of Bulgaria.

2002. Client: The Koç Group. Member of a team advising Turkey’s leading industrial conglomerate on their proposal for purchasing a controlling share of the national telephone company of the Republic of Bulgaria.
2000-2005. Client: The Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam. Advice, editorial, and translation services for fundraising, multimedia presentations, academic papers, and internet-based educational tools.
1998-2001. Client: KPN International Consultancy, former international consulting division of KPN Royal Dutch Telecom:
Strategy development for telecommunications operators and service providers in established and emerging markets;
Internet strategy and information architecture;
Consultancy in organizational change, training, and inter-cultural relations;
Conception and writing of technical and marketing publications targeting international markets.

1998-2001. Client: KPN Czech Republic, former Czech operating division of KPN Royal Dutch Telecom.

Proposal management and editorial services in support of a successful bid for a $700 million contract to improve the operations of the former state telecommunications monopoly of the Czech Republic.
Proposals management for a series of projects for the opening of the Czech telecommunications network to competing service providers in compliance with EU regulations.
Project management for a study evaluating the data network division of Czech Telecom.

2001. Client: KPN Asia BV. Marketing communications and editorial services for the Asian division of KPN Royal Dutch Telecom.

2001. Client: Ministry of Culture of the Netherlands. Consultancy on the development of a mission and strategy for a government-sponsored foundation supporting the cultural and social needs of the Netherlands’ Dutch-Indonesian minority in the 21st century.
1999. Client: The Rockefeller University, Department of Development. Strategies, tools, and training for communicating the role of the Rockefeller University in advanced genetic and biomedical research to major donors.
1996-7. Sabbatical: Wm. J. Fulbright Research Fellow in the History of Art and Architecture. Research, photography, and lectures on the history, contemporary importance, and condition of the remaining architectural patrimony of the former Ottoman Empire within the boundaries of the present-day Republic of Bulgaria.

1995-6. Client: The Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency and Netherlands Economic Information Service. Consultancy and editorial services on behalf of the North American investment attraction programs of the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs; contributor to publications promoting the economies of Dutch cities and regions abroad.

1995-6. Client: Office of the Mayor, City of Rotterdam. Consulting writer on issues relating to international trade and the economic attractiveness of the port and city of Rotterdam.

1995. Client: ING Bank and the European Commission. Co-author of a report on the entrepreneurial potential of Europe’s long-term unemployed.

1994. Client: Aramco Services Company. Written and photographic documentation on the history and contemporary situation of the Muslim minority in the Republic of Bulgaria.
1992-6. Clients: Magazines of the Netherlands Ministries of Economic Affairs and Agriculture. Regular contributor reporting on the international activities of Dutch companies, institutions, and personalities.
1990-4. Clients: PTT Telecom, Philips NV, and Wilma Vastgoed BV. Marketing communications programs and services for Transpolis Schiphol Airport, a pioneering high-technology office park and regional development anchor adjacent to the main international air and ground distribution hub of the Netherlands.

1990. Client: SDU (the former state publishing house of the Netherlands). Organizational consultancy in the wake of privatization.
1989. Client: Rotterdam Land and Harbor Authorities. Strategies and presentations for attracting foreign investment to Rotterdam, the world’s largest deep-water harbor.

1988-90. Client: Duphar NV,( now Solvay Fine Chemicals). Content for annual reports and brochures targeting international markets; consultancy on communications crisis management.

1988-90. Client: Korn/Ferry International. Conceived and produced marketing communications publications for the European subsidiaries of this top-ranking executive search firm. Provided briefings on management requirements in Eastern Europe that led to the selection of Korn/Ferry as Eastern European human resources advisors to the Coca-Cola Corporation.

1986-7. Client: Metro Creative Graphics. During a one-year interim management assignment restructured operations, trained staff, improved products and productivity, and prepared for the introduction of computerized production systems at this New York-based supplier of advertising and graphic design materials for newspapers worldwide.

1986. Client: PTT Telecom, The Netherlands. Marketing and communications support to the launch of Memocom, an experimental precursor of e-mail and the internet.

1985-90. Venture: Coast-to-Coast Communications, Rotterdam. Co-founder and partner. Conceived, wrote, and produced promotional and documentary films, videos, and computer-based presentations for clients in industry, government, the arts and sciences, and broadcasting.
1983-6. Client: KMG (now KPMG). Conceived and implemented communications programs shaping a common practice and identity for the US and European member firms of this one-time international accountancy giant. Managed major multi-country proposal efforts; developed training programs in the formulation and management of proposals and published a proposals management manual for use by accountants and consultancy professionals.
1982-3. Client: World Trade Center Amsterdam. Communications strategies, public relations, and presentation materials for the planning and start-up of this important addition to the economic and urban infrastructure of the city of Amsterdam.
1982. Client: The Cabinet and Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands Antilles. Conceived, wrote, and photographed audiovisual programs promoting the economic and tourism potential of these semi-autonomous Caribbean republics.

1982-1988. Client: WNET-TV and the US Public Broadcasting System. Research and logistical support to major international documentary productions: Benelux location manager and research consultant for segments of the 12-hour television documentary series ‘Civilization and the Jews;’ location and research consultant to the PBS/ITV co-production ‘Art and the Western World.’

1980-1. Client: ARAMCO (The Arabian American Oil Company). Consultant to the Project Manager, Abqaiq and Ghawar oil field redevelopment project. Created written and visual materials documenting one of the largest capital development projects ever undertaken, the first to apply decentralized modular construction techniques to industrial projects in isolated, inhospitable locations.

1974-80. Employer: The Lummus Company (designers and builders of petrochemical and process plants, today a subsidiary of ABB). Manager of Marketing Services for Europe, the Middle East, and South East Asia. Implemented marketing and sales support programs worldwide; advised national oil companies in Finland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, China, Indonesia, and elsewhere on training, public information, and the social and economic impact of large-scale industrial development programs; co-author of numerous papers on petrochemical technology, training, regional development, and project management and controls.
1972-4. Employer: Center for New York City Affairs, New School for Social Research. Researcher and analyst on public policy questions facing the City of New York, including water supply, emergency medical services, parks maintenance, training, and the attraction of private sector investment (the latter in association with McKinsey and Co.).
1970-2. Employer: King Wilkinson Engineering, The Hague, the Netherlands. Manager of Public Relations.



Selected Publications (Business, Technology, and Public Affairs):
Contributor to Linux Journal on issues pertaining to public-access wireless networks, 2003-2004.

Creating New Entrepreneurs, A Manual for Fostering Self-Employment Amongst Europe’s Long-Term Unemployed, The Hague and Amsterdam, 1995. (With Prof. Dr. L. Verhoef, ING Bank and University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands.)
Strategy, Management, and Writing of Proposals for Multinational Auditing and Consultancy Engagements, a manual published by the international accountancy and consultancy firm KMG (later KPMG), Amsterdam, 1985.
Forecasting Techniques in the Environment of New York City Government, International Association of Administrative Sciences, Brussels, 1975.
Selected Papers, Articles, and Films (Anthropology, Architectural History, and Music):

Contributing writer on cultural affairs, “Standart” newspaper, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2005-6.

‘The Ottoman Architectural Patrimony of Bulgaria.’ Electronic Journal of Oriental Studies, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, March, 2003
‘The Ottoman Architectural Patrimony of Bulgaria.’ Eleventh International Congress of Turkish Art, 1999.

‘Architectural Monuments as Touchstones for Understanding Ethnology and History: The Tomb and former Dervish Monastery of Otman Baba in Bulgarian Thrace.’ EUROPAEA: Journal des Europeanistes, Brussels, Belgium, 1999.
‘Ottoman Architectural Monuments in Present-Day Bulgaria.’ Second World Conference of Ottoman Archaeology, Temimi Foundation for Islamic Studies, Zagouan, Tunisia, 1997.

‘Architectural Monuments as Touchstones in the Study of Anthropology and History: The Muslim Architecture of Bulgaria.’ Association of Balkan Anthropologists, Bucharest, Romania, 1997.

‘A Prophet Born of Stone – Legends of a Bektashi Shrine,’ in Parabola — Journal of Myth and Tradition, New York, 1996.
‘Islam in Bulgaria,’ Aramco World, Houston, May-June, 1994.

Romá: The People and Gypsy Summer, (1992 and 1993) documentary film scenarios purchased and produced by Canal Plus television, France.
Balkan Upheaval, a documentary film portrait of legendary Bulgarian-Turkish-Gypsy clarinetist Ivo Papasov and his Orchestra. 1989.

Selected Exhibitions and Published Photography:

Photography of Islamic Architectural Monuments. Regular contributor of photographs for articles on the histories of Balkan cities during the Ottoman period, Turkish Encyclopedia of Islam, 2004-2007 (in conjunction with Prof. Dr. Machiel Kiel, Netherlands Institute, Istanbul).

Major Museum Collection: Ten prints of medium-format black and white landscape, portrait, and architectural photographs selected for inclusion in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 2003.


Exhibition: Architectural details and portraiture, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1998, sponsored by the Alliance Français.

Exhibition: Architectural details and portraiture, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1998 (sponsored by of the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture and the United States Information Service).

Publications: Photographic coverage of landscape architecture for Empowered Gardens (PBC and Rizzoli) and Landscape Design, the Journal of the Landscape Architecture Institute of the United Kingdom, 1996.
Selected Volunteer Activities:
Regular speaker and conference participant on issues pertaining to the future and infrastructure of the internet, 2007.

Guest speaker on the historiography of national identities, University of Veliko Turnovo, Republic of Bulgaria, 2007.

Tutoring and mentoring support to Roma (Gypsy) university students, University of Veliko Turnovo, Republic of Bulgaria, 2006-7.

Collection of archeological samples for the application of advanced technology to the precise dating of Ottoman Turkish architectural monuments in Southeast Europe, 1998-9 (On behalf of the Universities of Utrecht (Netherlands) and Durham (UK).
Advocacy work for the preservation of Muslim, Jewish, and Protestant Christian architectural monuments in Southeast Europe, 1993-present.

Organizational advice and consultancy in project development, and implementation controls to non-governmental organizations; Republic of Bulgaria, 1996 - present.
Co-founder and board member, Diversity: A Balkan Foundation for Intercultural Education and Understanding, a voluntary organization specializing in the study and support of the educational needs of Roma (Gypsy) children; 1993 - present.