Eric Gerod Ervin
Baltimore
Summary
Experienced regulatory communications professional with eight-plus years at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), specializing in document management and editing, compliance, and cross-functional collaboration. Proven ability to lead projects, manage workflows, and ensure regulatory accuracy under tight deadlines
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Substitute Teacher
Kelly Education
Baltimore, MD
12.2025 - Current
- Facilitated engaging learning environments by adapting lessons to meet diverse student needs.
- Followed lesson plans designed by absent teachers.
- Implemented classroom activities that fostered teamwork and collaboration among students during lessons.
- Monitored student progress and provided feedback to ensure comprehension and retention of material.
- Maintained clear communication with primary teachers regarding student behavior and academic performance.
- Developed strong rapport with students through consistent encouragement and support, fostering a positive learning atmosphere conducive to academic growth.
Writer-Editor
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Silver Spring, MD
02.2017 - 07.2025
- Managed end-to-end process for Federal Register notices, ensuring compliance with FDA and OFR guidelines.
- Coordinated with FDA executives and departments to secure timely approvals and signatures for regulatory documents.
- Led document submission and tracking for regulatory updates, meeting strict deadlines.
- Applied extensive regulatory knowledge to update U.S. Code Printbooks, supporting agency compliance.
- Facilitated communication between regulatory teams and external stakeholders.
- Wrote, edited, and copyedited Federal Register notices for the FDA, with focus on attention to detail and following strict guidelines and policies that have been established at the U.S. Office of the Federal Register (OFR).
- Consistently delivered high-quality regulatory documents under tight deadlines, ensuring accuracy and adherence to federal standards.
- Researched and applied FDA, OFR, and AP style guidelines to regulatory communications.
- Processed documents for acquiring digital and manual signatures of FDA executives, often under tight deadlines, and submitted the documents to the OFR’s online web portal.
- Hours per week: 40
- Series: 1082 - Grade: 11
Editorial Assistant
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA
06.2006 - 02.2017
- Analyzed and tracked incoming regulatory documents, assigning tasks to editorial team and ensuring timely completion.
- Maintained professional relationships with senior-ranking officials, supporting cross-agency project coordination.
- Assisted supervisor with event planning and timekeeping, demonstrating organizational and project support skills.
- Interviewed content experts, wrote creative content, and edited a variety of documents, including fact sheets, controlled correspondences, journal articles, and web copy, for spelling, grammar, and factual errors for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) using AP style, CDC style, and ATSDR style guides.
- Wrote articles for the organization’s “Your Health, Your Environment” series of online blogs.
- Kept records of the 10-person writer-editor team’s workflow and assisted the department supervisor with timekeeping and event planning of the yearly plan writing summit.
- Managed the department’s document-submission system in which agency physicians, scientists, and researchers submitted documents to be edited by a team of writer-editors that included myself.
- Management duties included analyzing incoming requests for the appropriate actions and tracking all incoming documents and other projects to ensure established deadlines were met.
- Maintained professional relationships with senior-ranking executives and officials throughout CDC’s national and international offices.
- Hours per week: 40
- Series: 1083 - Grade: 6
Education
Bachelor's degree - Communications, Political Science
University of South Alabama
Mobile, ALSkills
- Project Management
- Regulatory Document Preparation
- Workflow Coordination
- Stakeholder Communication
- Compliance and Quality Assurance
- Plain Language
- AP Style
- Chicago Style
- Microsoft
- Adobe
- Photojournalism
Language skills
French Spoken: Intermediate | Written: Intermediate | Read: Intermediate
Spanish Spoken: Novice | Written: Novice | Read: Novice
Timeline
Substitute Teacher
Kelly Education
12.2025 - Current
Writer-Editor
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
02.2017 - 07.2025
Editorial Assistant
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
06.2006 - 02.2017
Bachelor's degree - Communications, Political Science
University of South Alabama