Joe Dutra
VP Of Communications
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Dutra is a communications leader with eight years of experience crafting high-impact public affairs, media, and storytelling strategies across nonprofit and government sectors. Currently VP of Communications at Opportunity International after leading communications for Chicago’s largest human and social service funder, he blends journalism-honed writing with data-driven outreach to amplify mission-driven work. At Heartland Alliance he tripled social followings and increased earned media by 300% without ad spend, demonstrating an ability to grow visibility on limited budgets. He has a track record of building programs from the ground up—launching a workforce nonprofit and leading integrated campaigns that connect policy, fundraising, and frontline storytelling. Trained in journalism and public administration, Joe pairs newsroom discipline with strategic communications planning to influence stakeholders from community partners to national press. His GitHub bio—“Business of Technologic World”—hints at a curious, cross-disciplinary interest in how tech and communications intersect.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (A.A.), Journalism, Associate of Arts (A.A.), Journalism at Joliet Junior CollegeMaster of Public Administration (MPA), Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management, Master of Public Administration (MPA), Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management at Northern Illinois UniversityBachelors of Science, Journalism, Bachelors of Science, Journalism at Illinois State University
Github Skills (13)
venom10
whatsapp10
puppeteer10
chat10
chatbot9
api9
nodejs9
bots9
javascript8
meta8
ai8
typescript6
whatsapp-cloud-api4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
s2click/venom
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:18 pushes, 3 branches, 8 comments in 2 days
orkestral/venom
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Venom is a high-performance system developed with JavaScript to create a bot for WhatsApp, support for creating any interaction, such as customer service, media sending, sentence recognition based on artificial intelligence and all types of design architecture for WhatsApp.
Contributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 days
whatsappwhatsapp-webwhatsapp-apibotzap-api
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