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Quality Assurance Assistant

Location:
New York, NY, 10032
Posted:
December 04, 2010

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Resume:

Amber King

**********@*****.***

973-***-****

*** *. ***** ******, *** 8

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



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