Trent Alan Rhode Editor (Human & AI)

Resume

Editorial leadership, AI systems, SEO performance, and long-form communications experience.

Editor and content operator who helps teams publish more cleanly, improve quality control, and build workflows that hold up under real production pressure.

Professional summary

Versatile editor, writer, and content strategist with 20+ years of experience improving newsroom operations, content quality, engagement, and SEO performance across journalism, content marketing, and AI-native editorial systems. Proven record of building scalable workflows, editing high-volume content, mentoring writers, and translating complex subjects into clear, accurate, audience-focused material. Brings a second substantial professional track in environmental communications, sustainability, nonprofit storytelling, cooperative systems, permaculture education, and community-based programming.

Experience

Selected experience

Editor, Copy Editor, AI Editor

ClickOut Media / CryptoNews.com

January 2024 to February 2026

  • Edited and QA'd AI-generated and human-written content for search intent alignment, engagement, grammar, accuracy, clarity, structure, and on-page SEO best practices including AI SEO, AEO, and GEO.
  • Applied on-page SEO best practices by optimizing title tags, meta descriptions, heading structure, internal linking, and featured snippet formatting.
  • Designed and refined AI editing prompt chains and in-house automations, reducing editing turnaround time by 40% while maintaining high output velocity.
  • Developed and maintained editorial style guides, SOPs, templates, format standards, and AI-humanizing guidelines to ensure content quality, brand consistency, and undetectable AI assistance across all publications.
  • Developed journalistic, research, and SEO training materials adopted company-wide.
  • Mentored, onboarded, and managed 10+ writers and freelance content producers.
  • Oversaw publication quality control and QA processes, ensuring tone, accuracy, format alignment, and brand consistency across multiple publications.
  • Applied scaled upgrade workflows to optimize existing content based on performance data, competitive gaps, SERP analysis, and ranking blockers.

Achievements

  • Increased total article views by 177% in the first month.
  • Boosted average views per writer by 740% within three months.
  • Produced and QA'd 260 to 300+ articles per month while maintaining content quality.
  • Regularly published 80,000+ view/month articles with #1 rankings and multiple top 3 keyword rankings.

Journalist

ClickOut Media / CryptoNews.com

November 2022 to January 2024

  • Authored SEO-optimized journalistic articles and advertorials at scale.
  • Conducted interviews, keyword research, and data analysis for DeFi and blockchain projects.
  • Helped raise $100M+ in project funding through journalistic content.
  • Managed article publishing on WordPress and image sourcing, designing, and editing.
  • Used Midjourney, Gemini, and OpenAI for AI image generation and editing.

Lead Editor, SEO Content Strategist, Content Marketing

Leads Panda

September 2019 to November 2022

  • Managed and edited SEO articles, whitepapers, and video scripts for clients in tech and education via a content marketing agency, ensuring accuracy, clarity, structure, and brand consistency.
  • Created comprehensive content strategy SOPs, detailed templates, and training materials to ensure consistency and precision across all client deliverables.
  • Reduced production time by 89% for AirVape through workflow improvements and structured processes.
  • Improved engagement by 54% for CloudiVize and 67% social engagement for VestTech.

Writer, Editor, Content Marketer

Freelance (Various Clients)

October 2002 to Present

  • Partnered with 50+ clients across iGaming, tech, finance, blockchain, education, sustainability, and nonprofit work.
  • Wrote over 3,000 articles and edited over 8,000 pieces of content, from blogs and websites to whitepapers and eBooks.
  • Provided SEO-optimized writing, content strategy, and editing for clients such as Dan Aykroyd's Crystal Head Vodka, ClickOut Media, Legend, Casino.org, and AT&T.
  • Produced engaging multi-format content including long-form journalism, varied copywriting, whitepapers, marketing assets, newsletters, and brand communications.
  • Produced content at scale across multiple publications using structured workflows, format standards, and templates to ensure consistency and precision.
  • Completed mission-driven communications, editing, and strategy work for environmental, cooperative, wellness, and community-focused initiatives alongside commercial client work.

Communications Coordinator and Content Strategist

Fair and Free Portals, Deventer, Netherlands (remote)

March 2009 to January 2019

  • Managed external and internal communications aligned with organizational strategy and the platform's cooperative and sustainability mission.
  • Developed content and edited business plans, offering memoranda, articles, and web content for a complex, multi-stakeholder organization.
  • Contributed to the design of business systems and enterprise logic, working directly alongside founders and advisors with decades of entrepreneurial and marketing experience.
  • Supported marketing and project management for an organization operating at the intersection of sustainable business, cooperative economics, and emerging digital technology.

Co-Founder, Board Member, Marketing & Promotions, Writer, Editor

Transition Town Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario

August 2008 to September 2017

  • Managed public relations and social media marketing for the organization.
  • Edited and coordinated content for the Community Greenzine, the organization's environmental magazine.
  • Wrote media releases and newsletters and organized community events.
  • Coordinated permaculture projects and facilitated and taught permaculture and ecological gardening classes.

Communications and Marketing Coordinator

GreenUp, Peterborough, Ontario

October 2007 to October 2008

  • Managed public relations and marketing for the organization.
  • Authored the weekly "Green It Up!" environmental column for the Peterborough Examiner and hosted regular CHEX TV Green Update segments.
  • Created and edited content across multiple media formats for various departments.

Marketing Director

Living Yoga, Peterborough, Ontario

2013 to 2021

  • Managed marketing and communications for a yoga school offering teacher trainings, retreats, online classes, and community programming.
  • Created and edited promotional copy, web content, program descriptions, email content, and brand materials for trainings and events.
  • Created and edited promotional videos in Adobe Premiere to support retreat, training, and program marketing.
  • Supported communication for embodied learning, mindfulness practice, and community-based education with a tone suited to wellness and values-led audiences.

Director of Communications

EcoFacilitation, Netherlands

2006 to 2008

  • Developed communications for a sustainability research initiative exploring cooperative business frameworks, ecological economics, and alternative enterprise models.
  • Contributed to the early conceptual development of what later became Fair and Free Portals.
  • Helped shape materials linking ecology, economics, digital platforms, and fair trade structures.