STEVEN E. BLACKWELDER

**** ****** ** *** ***

PALMDALE CA 93551-2725

Cell phone: 661-***-****

Home phone: 661-***-****

E-mail: abjg6e@r.postjobfree.com

Summary:

You require a contribution to correct, smooth operations. I will produce,

store, retrieve, move or sell items to the company's complete satisfaction

by using my insurance-sales, language-teaching and technology-licensing

experience with passionate attention to detail.

Job Objective:

Operations: lab work, assembly, warehouse, shipping and receiving, inside

sales.

Experience:

Independent Agent, Insurance

Aflac, Palmdale, CA

6/10 to present, part-time; will suspend or discontinue for the right job

position.

Prospecting locally for sales. Selling and servicing supplemental

insurance in the categories of life, accident and health. Will not prospect

in a concurrent job or to anyone connected to a concurrent job.

Classroom Instructor

POLY Languages Institute, Pasadena, CA

1/01 to 3/10

Taught English as a Second Language and TOEFL Test Preparation to

adults. Often recommended among students and consulted by colleagues.

Resigned five months after greatly lengthening daily commute.

Policy and Procedures Writer

Electra-Cal Contractors, Pacoima, CA

8/00

Adapted boilerplate material into 38-page Employee Manual and 27-page

Internal Procedures manual. Full-time, project-length employment.

Technical Sales, OEM Licensing

First Byte, Torrance, CA

10/96 to 7/99

Qualified queries into contacts by technical competence and

willingness to pay royalties. Communicated between sales and engineering.

Assisted Finance collecting royalties long-distance from UK licensees. Laid

off when company suspended operations.

R. and D., Linguistics

First Byte, Torrance, CA

8/90 to 10/96

Helped produce and improve text-to-speech technology for PCs and

small devices. Simultaneously interpreted for engineers from a Chinese-

speaking licensee. Trained each of five newly-hired linguists to use the

internal software tools.

Skills:

Basic database management, word processing, teaching, training, Mandarin

Chinese, French, reading ancient Greek

Education:

California Insurance License for Life, Accident, and Health

Bachelor of Arts, Linguistics, UCLA

California Driver's License Class: C (passenger car)

Additional Comments:

Completed one course in Technical Writing at UCLA Extension, summer 06. Did

postgraduate coursework, no degree, at Fuller Theological Seminary,

Pasadena, CA, full-time fall 99 to spring 00, part-time fall 01 and fall

02. Have taught elementary ancient Greek to a friend.

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