Quality Control High School

Objective: Obtain a permanent position where my diverse editorial skills

can be fully utilized.

Work History

Cognitive Arts

January 2008-Present

Content Developer (full-time contractor)

. Writing e-learning courses and instructor-led classroom guides

. Interviewing subject matter experts and conducting source-content

research

. Interfacing and consulting with clients to deliver desired products

. Managing video shoots, voice over recording and offshore animation

builds

Encyclopedia Britannica December

2007 - Present

Index Editor (part-time contractor)

. Creating, editing, and organizing indexes for electronic and print

products

. Mapping external content to encyclopedia topics

World Color

September 2006 - December 2009 Copywriter/Proofreader/Indexer

(full-time contractor)

. Writing retail catalog copy and indexing software usage manual

. Proofreading catalogs, in-store signage, brochures and FSIs

. Testing indexing software and indexing retail catalogs

Tighe Publishing Services

December 2004 - August 2006

Copyeditor/Editor

. Editing Scott Foresman National Tests to conform to individual state

standards

. Copyediting and proofreading Scott Foresman Reading Street textbooks

. Writing test material for science and history

. Proofreading, fact-checking, and copyediting for various K-8 textbooks

and tests

Blackman, Kallick, Bartelstein

August 2003 - December 2004

Quality Control Tech/Proofreader

. Proofing/editing financial statement copy, newsletters, and marketing

materials

. Formatting statements to apply to auditing standards and BKB style

. Diagnostic testing of accountant formulas and amounts

Encyclopedia Britannica

February 2000 - May 2003

Index Editor

. Analyzing and proofing encyclopedia content for integration into

searchable database

. Creating, editing, and organizing indexes for electronic and print

encyclopedia

. Fact-checking and editing bibliographies for electronic and print

products

. Construction and analysis of search engines using MS Access and SQL

Additional Contract Experience

Clients:

Learning Seed (12/09-1/10)

90/94 Pictures (1/00-5/09)

True Value University (5/09)

Dream Town (7/07-8/07)

Lumino Magazine (7/07)

New Control (12/07-1/08)

Discover Card (2/07)

Quarasan (3/07)

. Writing: K-12 educational video scripts; Web articles; Independent

film/video

. Editing and Proofreading: Legal statements; Direct Mail; K-12

textbooks and workbooks

. Other: Directing, producing and screenwriting of independent

film/video

Education

Columbia College

B.A. Liberal Arts (concentration in fiction writing)

. Editor South Loop Review

. Published in South Loop Review and Poetry Review

St. Patrick High School

. NHS Award for Humanities

. NHS Award for Composition

Computer Skills

MAC and PC literate, Quark, InDesign, InCopy, MS Office (Word, Excel,

PowerPoint, Access, Outlook), Final Cut, Adobe FrameMaker, Springbok,

Lectora

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