High School Assistant
Resume:
CHRIS BARTON
Anaheim, CA **804
***********@*********.***
OBJECTIVE: To obtain a Proofreader/Office Assistant position with Johnson
and Armel Consulting.
EDUCATION
California State University Long Beach: Master of the Arts in English, May
2010
California State University Fullerton: Bachelor of the Arts in English,
August 2005, California Single Subject Teaching Credential in English, June
2006
SKILLS
Over a decade of experience in proofreading, editing, and writing.
Extremely fast learner, efficiently organized, detail-oriented, capable of
multi-tasking, and able to focus on both immediate and long-term goals.
Familiar with Windows and the Microsoft Office suite.
EXPERIENCE
. Section Editor, British Literature: Watermark Journal, CSULB, 9/2008
to 5/2009
. Selected writing of the highest academic quality and
contemporary relevance.
. Worked directly with submitting authors in revising essays on
post-Renaissance British literature published in the English
Department's academic journal, Watermark.
. Billing Assistant: American Billing Company, Anaheim, 7/2007 to
Present
. Managed patient information, billing charges, and payments for
client offices.
. Performed various office duties including letter writing and
general administrative functions.
. English Teacher: Los Amigos High School, Garden Grove Unified School
District, 9/2006 to 6/2007
. Created and delivered daily lesson plans teaching vocabulary,
writing, and reading skills.
. Addressed the needs of English Language Learners.
. Met state educational standards.
. Participated in the school's WASC re-evaluation to help ensure
the highest possible score in state re-certification.
. Student English Teacher: John F. Kennedy High School, La Palma, 9/2005
to 6/2006
. Taught English while concurrently enrolled in CSU Fullerton's
Single Subject Credential Program.
. Quality Analyst and Production Assistant: SBC/AT&T Smart Yellow Pages,
Anaheim, 5/00 to 10/04
. Telephone audit, proofreading, and filing, mailing, copy
organization, and faxing.
. Participated in 2001 project to revamp and reorganize the
workflow and methods used in the Telephone Audit process.
. Directly participated in creating a method to coordinate
workflow between employees and contractors for translating
Spanish ads.
GRADUATE PROJECTS AND PAPERS
. Comprehensive Exams: Organized and synthesized academic scholarship on
twentieth-century American literature dealing with the
Modern/Postmodern transition, the dissolution of American identity and
individual autonomy, and Ecocriticism as a growing discourse in
American literature.
. Romantic Literature: Examined the relationship between Mary Shelley's
Frankenstein and scientific writing contemporary to Shelley.
. Restoration Literature: Examined Aphra Behn's Oroonoko as a
construction created through collective media-knowledge and eyewitness
reports.
. Post-WWII West Coast Literature: Examined texts portraying socially
imagined versions of Los Angeles, differences from reality therein,
and the commentary between the two on collective media influence.
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