LANE BARNHOLTZ

P.O. Box *** * Chesterfield, MO **006 *

abhxtn@r.postjobfree.com * 314-***-****

PROFILE

Writer-editor with more than fifteen years of contract and full-time

experience in web and print, marketing and fundraising, trade and academic

publishing, and magazine and newspaper, as well as business-development and

project-management experience and nearly five years teaching college

writing courses.

ONLINE EDITORIAL

Contract Web Copywriter

Cina Structural Integration-St. Louis, Missouri

March-May 2013

www.rolfstl.com

Wrote website and designed site architecture for St. Louis therapeutic-

healing office that practices a unique technique: structural

integration.

Since launch owners report a 33 percent increase in business directly

attributable to the website and far-less need to explain their

practice to new and potential clients-because clients report reading

the website cover to cover.

(Did not design site; wrote text.)

Managing Editor and Director of Business Development

www.VAjoe.com-Columbia, Missouri

Feb. 2006-Jan. 2008

. Directed the startup and managed all editorial, design, and business

aspects of VAjoe.com, an online community for America's active-duty

military personnel and veterans. Team of four highly successful

entrepreneurs (two Inc. 500 websites at the time) approached me and

offered co-ownership. Left after co-owners offered a buyout of my

stake.

. Wrote approximately 75 percent of the 700 pages of content on VAjoe.

Uploaded and maintained 75 percent of the site's content with a

content management system. Created and implemented viral marketing

campaigns. Hired and supervised freelance and staff writers, remote

discussion-board moderators, and in-house and remote web designers.

Handled all press inquiries, including interviews with CNN, Fox News,

and other media.

Instructional Editor

Center for Distance and Independent Study

University of Missouri-Columbia-Columbia, Missouri

Oct. 2002-Feb. 2006

The Center for Distance and Independent Study annually serves 25,000

university and K-12 students across the country by creating and

administering print and online independent-study courses. It is one of

the oldest independent-study providers in the country.

Project managed, edited, and designed online and print independent-

study courses. One of my projects, "Civics: Participating in

Government," received the Meritorious Award in the University

Continuing Education Association (the field's largest professional

organization) 2004 competition for outstanding K-12 course.

Contract Web Editor

Pearson Benjamin Cummings -Columbia, Missouri

March-April 2001

www.rolfstl.com

Copyedited biology-course website for grammar, punctuation, house

style, and clarity.

MARKETING AND FUNDRAISING

Information Specialist

Mizzou Annual Fund

University of Missouri-Columbia-Columbia, Missouri

Aug. 2001-Oct. 2002

The Mizzou Annual Fund administers fundraising campaigns for the

University of Missouri-Columbia. First person to hold this newly

created position. My first year at the fund was its second-most

successful up to that time.

Wrote, edited, and graphic designed marketing materials for university

schools, colleges, organizations, and special-events fundraising

campaigns. Collaborated with deans, faculty, and staff across campus.

Helped supervise and hire seventy work-study students.

PRINT EDITORIAL

Fiction Author

Winter Harvest: Jewish Writing in St. Louis-St. Louis, Missouri

April 2011

. Short story "Pavel Spits on Stalin" published in this literary

anthology. Longest piece in the anthology.

Contract Project Manager and Technical Editor

John Wiley & Sons-Columbia, Missouri

March-Sept. 2001

. Project managed 1,500-page Novell's Guide to NetWare 6 Networks.

. Managed two authors and a contract copy editor. Book sold more than

100,000 copies

Copy Editor

Hungry Minds-Foster City, California

Nov. 1998-Feb. 2001

. Hungry Minds published numerous best-selling book series, such as the

For Dummies books (Windows for Dummies, Yoga for Dummies, etc.).

Unfortunately, Hungry Minds went bankrupt in 2001 and the entire

Foster City office was laid off.

. Although my title was copy editor, I had numerous project-management

responsibilities, and Hungry Minds' top-selling author, David James

Clarke IV, requested I edit all of his books. Promoted to trainer for

new copy editors.

Freelance Journalist-Foster City, California

Air & Space Smithsonian Magazine

July 1998

. Wrote "Heavy Metal," an article about the fates of demilitarized U.S.

aircraft carriers.

Associate Editor

Prison Life Magazine-Columbia, Missouri

May. 1992-May 1993

. Part of start-up team for national bimonthly targeted at inmates and

their relatives. Magazine covered subjects ranging from prison

privatization, in-cell cooking, rehabilitation programs and AIDS.

. Responsible for one-third of the stories in every issue. Either wrote

or assigned stories. Managed in-house and freelance writers and

photographers. Magazine relocated to New York City in May 1993.

Reporter Internship

Columbia Missourian-Columbia, Missouri

May 1992-Aug. 1992

. Wrote feature stories on topics ranging from an expose of a local

basketball star who was drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers to a humor

piece on the local ramifications of Leap Second Day, when a second was

added to the world's time.

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR

Adjunct Assistant Professor: Communications, Cornerstone, and English

St. Louis Community College-St. Louis, Missouri

Aug. 2009-Dec. 2013

In my teaching evaluations, the Forest Park campus general-education

coordinator noted that I set the bar for how to teach cornerstone

(interdisciplinary) classes. Following are classes I taught primarily at

Forest Park, but also at Wildwood:

. Communications and Cornerstone Classes

Journalism I / Cornerstone: Representations of Race, Class, Gender,

and Sexuality in American Media /

Cornerstone: Communication Breakdown (Mix of Introduction to Mass

Communications and Media Literacy)

. English Classes

Introduction to College Writing / Composition I / Composition II

. Faculty Layout Adviser for The Scene, Forest Park Campus Newspaper

At the 2011 Missouri College Media Association Convention, The Scene

won nineteen individual awards and second-place overall honors in the

two-year school division.

EDUCATION

University of Missouri-Columbia-Columbia, Missouri Washington

University-St. Louis, Missouri

Master of Arts, Journalism, 3.9 GPA Bachelor of

Arts, History and Psychology, 3.5 GPA

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