Allyson Rudolph acujnr@r.postjobfree.com / 630-***-**** / @allysonrudolph

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Editorial Assistant / Hyperion Books

New York, NY, 11/20111/2013

Associate Editor / The Overlook Press Provided dependable and efficient support for VP, Executive Editor

New York, NY, 9/20142/2016 and Director of Synergy

Solely responsible for as many as 80 frontlist fiction and nonfiction + Spearheaded department clean-up and oversaw secure storage

titles per year, from acquisition to shelf and disposal of paper archives in preparation for office move

+ Represented Overlook at ABAs Winter Institute, increasing sales + Developed synergy content individually and in multi-day Disney-

and author events at independent bookstores facilitated story workshops

+ Leveraged personal connections to generate publicity for books + Worked closely with digital marketing manager to revitalize brand

outside normal scope of Overlooks publicity capabilities identity on social platforms and increase followers and engagement

+ Implemented chat-based communication system to facilitate

Editor / Magination Press

information-sharing and workplace efficiency

Washington, DC, 9/20108/2011

+ Mentored interns and younger colleagues

Developed 68 titles per year from acquisition to bound book;

Assistant Editor / Grand Central Publishing provided managing editorial support for entire imprint

New York, NY, 1/20139/2014 + Instituted database and file system for tracking and generating

Provided dependable, and efficient editorial and administrative data related to hundreds of unsolicited paper submissions

support for an executive editor and a senior editor while editing and + Launched Magination Press social media initiative and managed

pursuing acquisitions of my own social accounts

+ Co-founded and ran The League of Assistant Editors, a

Production Editor / CQ Press

professional organization offering results-oriented networking

Washington, DC, 7/20079/2010

events for young agents and editors, with the enthusiastic support

Solely responsible for 48 textbook and reference works per year

of Grand Central Publishings editorial department

from copy edit to bound book

+ Participated in corporate strategy conversations and materially

+ Led transition to all-digital workflow and trained senior colleagues

assisted with Hachettes acquisition of Hyperion Books in June 2013

on new technologies

+ Created and managed weekly Twitter hashtag campaigns (in

+ Instituted database system for tracking and paying freelancers

consultation with digital marketing manager), one of which trended

working on multi-volume reference works

nationally for hours; posted regularly to brand Twitter and Tumblr

+ Led brainstorming and design-thinking sessions for Health and

Proofreader, copy editor / EEI Communications

Wellness Committee to determine office wellness needs and

Arlington, VA, Summers 2005, 2006

appropriate next actions

Vigilantly protected client projects from typos and style errors

(see next page for long-term volunteer work, education, digital competencies, etc.)

Allyson Rudolph acujnr@r.postjobfree.com / 630-***-**** / @allysonrudolph

LONG-TERM VOLUNTEER WORK EDUCATION

Colby College, Waterville, Maine

Ombudsperson, BinderCon* LA 2015

B.A. in Philosophy, May 2007

+ Friendly but firm primary point of contact at LA conference site,

+ Deans List, summa cum laude, honors and distinction in

available to address any attendee, speaker, or staff concerns

Philosophy

+ Drafted, with input from BinderCon staff and founders, internal

+ Honors Thesis, Philosophy: 60 page, 5-chapter thesis examining

useonly talking points and statements for communicating sensitive

collective moral responsibility and corporate ethics

positions to the community

+ Awardee, James Grant Memorial Prize from the University of

Co-chair of Programming, BinderCon NYC 2014

Edinburgh

+ Generated keynote, panel, and event ideas, and contacted and

+ Post-graduate non-credit coursework in business fundamentals

signed speakers and workshop leads for inaugural professional

and tactics at General Assembly (course completed May 2014) and

conference of women and gender nonconforming writers

film studies at The New School (course completed May 2013)

(Participants included Jill Abramson, Leslie Jamison, Jenny Lumet,

Jenna Wortham, Amanda Hess, and dozens more agents and

DIGITAL COMPETENCIES

published writers)

+ Expert user and trainer: Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Acrobat

+ Worked with founders to launch monthly workshop series for

Pro, Tweetdeck, Hootsuite, Slack, Google Apps, Google Trends

professional writers

+ Proficient user: Wordpress, Squarespace, Adobe Creative Suite,

826DC** Core Volunteer, 3/20089/2011 Google Analytics, Citrix, SAP, BAITS

+ Co-managed the Young Adult Book Project and oversaw editing

and publication of the project's print book capstone ETC.

+ Co-organized annual Moustache-a-Thona month-long

Ive taught existential philosophy at the Brooklyn Brainery,

fundraising event with weekly check-ins

participated in a Design Gym user interface design workshop with

+ Tutored after school and at in-center field trips, staffed the

the Mozilla Developer Network, jumped rope to music in the Punk

storefront, copy edited volunteer communications, prescreened

Rope Games, and attended a radical creativity retreat in the Hudson

potential volunteers at new-volunteer orientations, assisted with

Valley. When I was 17, Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips thanked

anything else, from folding 'zines to converting InDesign files to

me, in writing, for being organized.

pouring wine at fundraisers, whenever I could, as needed

*BinderCon is a professional development conference for women and gender-nonconforming writers, launched in 2014

**826DC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering creative and expository writing skills in students ages 618; it is part of a

national family of writing centers founded by the author Dave Eggers in San Francisco in 2002

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