Technician Marketing

Mark A. Siagh

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New York, NY 10031

Phone: 347-***-****

Email: **********@*****.***

Experienced, dedicated, detail-oriented Proofreading professional.

Background in legal and publishing work. Focused and responsible team member; interact directly with high-level attorneys; able to work under pressure and meet critical deadlines. Seeking to apply my training to a rewarding and challenging position with the opportunity for career growth.

Experience

Freelance Proofreading, New York, NY 1998-Present

Legal Proofreading

Retained for long-term temporary position at Akin Gump law firm from fall of 2003 to spring 2005; long-term position at Clifford Chance from spring of 2006 to present; long-term position at Wachtell Lipton from 2011 to present.

Specifically requested by document production managers at Clifford Chance, Akin Gump, LeBoeuf Lamb, Fried Frank, Schulte Roth, Debevoise and Allen & Overy.

Responsible for proofing, blacklining and redlining legal documents; work includes full reads, cold reads and attorney revisions.

Perform slugging, check cross-references, Edgar, Bates number checking, cataloguing and audio-visual proofing of tape transcriptions.

Work closely with high-powered, difficult and demanding attorneys.

Knopf, Inc., New York, NY 1997-Present

Freelance Proofreader

Responsible for the proofreading of fiction and nonfiction works.

Work with editors and authors, proofing editing marks and changes.

Proof for spelling, punctuation, bad breaks, widows and orphans, and stacks.

Read for sense and flow, provide comments and suggestions as needed.

Perform proofreading of print galleys and final press runs.

Direct Marketing Association, New York, NY 2006-2008

Freelance Proofreading

Proofing/copy editing of various marketing documents.

GTC Mason Labs, Worcester, MA 1995-1997

Laboratory Technician

Monitored inventory levels and requisitioned lab supplies.

Processed whole blood samples using centrifuge.

Ensured calibration of laboratory equipment.

Education

Quinsigamond Community College, Worcester, MA

Biotechnology Technician Certificate, 1995

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