Amber King
**********@*****.***
New York, NY 10032
Objective
To work in digital and social media
Education
Northwestern University, Evanston, Il
Bachelor of Science in Communications; Radio/Television/Film -
June 2004
Relevant Skills/Work Experience
Proficient in Mac and PC, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point,
Outlook), Adobe Creative Suite, Final Cut Pro, Avid, Avid Media Log,
Sublime, DVD Studio Pro, Compressor, HD Log, HTML, FileMaker; Can type 85+
wpm
Broadway Video Digital Media; New York, NY
Editor/Closed Captioner, November 2008 - present
* Serving as Final Cut Pro video content editor for television shows
and online media
* Providing closed captioning for various television shows, music
videos and feature length films
* DVD subtitling, authoring and duplicating
* Database maintenance of archived video footage
Bands In Town; New York, NY
Social Media Intern, June 2009 - present
* Writing content for the Bandsintown.com blog
* Updating the Bands in Town Twitter page
Spinner.com/AOL; New York, NY
Contributing Writer, February - March 2010
Conducting interviews and providing write-ups of biographies for featured
bands performing in March 2010's South By Southwest festival
New York Cares; New York, NY
Volunteer, January 2009 - present
Performing a variety of ongoing tasks for different organizations around
New York including, but not limited to:
* Counseling NY Medicare clients over the phone through the HMO appeals
process
* Assisting autistic children through horseback-riding therapy
* Making calls on behalf of the Fresh Air Fund with regards to summer
hosting for NY children
* Maintaining the habitats of exotic birds and reptiles at Roberto
Clemente State Park
* Walking and socializing with dogs for NYC Animal Care and Control
Voltage Video; New York, NY
Closed Captioner, September 2005 - November 2008
Transcribing, timing and providing quality assurance for the
closed captions of a variety of television programs
Pangolin Pictures; New York, NY
Editing Assistant, February - August 2008
* Logging footage and transcribing interviews for A&E's 'Jacked'
* Scouring footage and writing content for online episodes
Sharp Entertainment; New York, NY
Editing Assistant, January - May 2007
Logging and transcribing raw footage for A&E's 'Confessions of a
Matchmaker'
GRB Entertainment/Rogue Post; New York, NY
Logger, September 2005 - March 2006
Logging footage for reality television shows: VH1's 'The Agency' and A&E's
'Inked'
A Current Affair; Secaucus, NJ
Transcriber, January - May 2005
Providing verbatim transcripts of raw footage and interviews
Court TV (now TruTV); New York, NY
Alternative Programming Intern, August 2004 - January 2005
Serving under the Executive Assistant and Director of reality television
programming with the aim of brainstorming ideas for new reality television
programming by researching current shows on the air