Assistant Engineering

Raj Sharma

Freelance Writer - Self-employed

South Windsor, CT

***********@*****.*** - 860-***-****

WORK EXPERIENCE

Freelance Writer

Self-employed - May 2009 to Present

Responsible for writing articles which range in topic and depth. Length of work commissioned ranges

typically ranges from 150 to 15000 words per piece. Articles ranged from ghostwritten fiction and

nonfiction, blog posts, and copy. Ability to effectively communicate and negotiate required. Work contracted

through www.ratracerebellion.com, www.odesk.com, www.elance.com, www.aws.amazon.com/mturk/, and

www.freelancer.com.

Search Engine Evaluator

Self-employed - Waltham, MA - May 2013 to October 2013

Tasked primarily with performance testing search engine algorithms as they pertain to the user's input. Job

included but was not limited to transcription of user's spoken request, ensuring that the each search query's

landing page was applicable and relevant to the user's desired request. Companies' that used Lionbridge's

service's during my tenure include Google, Youtube, Bing and Yahoo.

Research Assistant

American Society - West Hartford, CT - June 2006 to August 2006

worked aggregating the data used for the bulk of the CETA ongoing projects during my tenure.

• Major responsibilities included coauthoring and researched Dr. Manzione's paper "The Changing Engineering

Pipeline" presented at the American Society for Engineering Education. Research specific to the project was

unique in that it required the convergence of normally acrimonious sets of data with scholarly texts. Empirical

data included but was not limited to phone surveys, university wide polls, and transcribing current and former

student interviews.

Front End Clerk

Cosmos International - West Hartford, CT - November 2005 to January 2006

Responsibilities included customer interaction and handling merchandise. Greeted customers upon entry

and assisted them with any queries they might have regarding merchandise and general aid. Answered the

telephone and assisted with any questions, concerns, and invoice inquiries. Loaded, unloaded and stocked

merchandise

Skills

• Mastery in the usage of HTML, Microsoft Sharepoint, Visual Basic. Net, and Microsoft Office, including but

not limited to Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint.

• Versed in APA, MLA, proper grammar, and an extremely analytical reader with the ability to digest densely

written/verbose material and break it down into easy to understand English

• Understanding and empathetic to a healthy point in customer relations, patient, hardworking, meticulous, and

some may say humorous, but that's for you the judge.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts in English

University of Connecticut - Storrs, CT

May 2009

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