Office Assistant
Resume:
MARK MANSFIELD
Geneva, NY **456
315-***-**** (home) 607-***-**** (cell)
*************@*********.**.***
EDUCATION
M.A., Writing, Johns Hopkins University, GPA 4.0
B.A., English, Virginia Commonwealth University, GPA 3.49
Westlaw Paralegal/Legal Assistant Certificate
EMPLOYMENT
01/2010–present
Substitute Teacher
Wayne-Finger Lakes Board of Cooperative Educational Services
Newark, NY
Teach at regional primary, elementary, middle, and high schools. Also work as a teacher’s aide at all levels, including pre-K.
08/2009–12/2009
Support Services Assistant (temporary position)
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
Rochester, NY
Assigned to the Publishing and Scholarship Support Center at the Wallace Library.
Edited faculty and student papers, and answered queries regarding editorial style, grammar, and usage, as well as publishing, copyright, and bindery issues.
Copyedited/rewrote RIT’s Graduate Thesis/Dissertation Guide, a shortened version of the Harvard System of Referencing Guide, and articles for Scholarship@RIT.
Revamped the Center’s online Scholarly Communication Tools.
Wrote RIT’s Open Access Week Overview, and edited RIT’s Open Access Week PowerPoint presentation.
Accepted theses/dissertations and prepared them for shipping to the bindery, acting as a liaison with the bindery and maintaining a spreadsheet to track students’ progress toward degree status.
Final-checked bound copies upon delivery from the bindery.
Quality-checked, approved, and loaded PDFs of theses/dissertations into ProQuest/UMI’s digital library and RIT’s Digital Media Library.
Designed a standardized thesis/dissertation title-page template for use throughout RIT’s graduate community.
04/2008–06/2009
Substitute Teacher
Wayne-Finger Lakes Board of Cooperative Educational Services
Newark, NY
Taught various subjects at regional high schools and middle schools. Also worked as a teacher’s aide.
08/2007– 04/2008
Paralegal (part-time)
Heaton & Venuti, L.L.P.
Geneva, NY
Managed caseload of ten to twelve clients. Specialized in estate administration and planning.
Drafted letters to clients, health care proxies, powers of attorney, wills, and Surrogate's Court documents for probating estates.
Prepared deeds and real estate tax documents.
Updated the status of estates.
Regularly communicated with clients and financial and insurance representatives.
Maintained case files, using Probate Plus software.
Registered business partnerships.
08/2002– 05/2005
Document Management Analyst
CACI
Arlington, VA
Assigned to the Motions & Trial Support Team for protracted litigation (U.S. v. Philip Morris USA, Inc., et al.). Specialized in computer-assisted research, document review, and preparations for court filings using CaseMap, Internet search engines, a proprietary Oracle database, and Excel and Quattro Pro spreadsheets.
Assisted attorneys with document retrieval by identifying documents using imaging software and indexing these documents to spreadsheets.
Performed research based on depositions and trial testimony.
Prepared and organized exhibits.
12/1992– 02/2001
Senior Publications Specialist
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.
Washington, DC
Edited/“bluebooked”/proofread documents germane to the firm's intellectual property practice. Documents ranged from contracts to litigation-related materials, such as briefs, complaints, depositions, motions, and memoranda.
Worked on high-profile litigation, often necessitating round-the-clock preparation and finalizing of court documents with drop-dead filing dates.
Helped attorneys revise opinions requested by clients.
Worked with the marketing and graphics departments to create advertising brochures, highlighting the firm’s strengths, expertise, and range of accomplishments.
Edited firm’s annual business plans, professional biographies for the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, and two monthly newsletters, Last Month at the Federal Circuit and The Federal Circuit Bar Association News.
Answered queries from attorneys and paralegal staff regarding style, grammar, punctuation, and usage.
Cowrote an in-house style manual, and wrote a quick-reference guide addressing typical Bluebook queries.
Created and taught a seminar on how to “bluebook.”
Prepared tables of cases and authorities.
Proofread patent applications.
Trained proofreaders.
05/1992–12/1992
Editor/Proofreader
Keens Company
Falls Church, VA
Edited/proofread reports generated from transcripts of academic conferences, which chiefly focused on developing strategies to increase funding for environmental conservation, alternative energy, and the arts. A partial list of clients includes the Getty Arts Education Fund, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Pew Charitable Trusts, Dance/USA, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Transformed jargon-laden “policyspeak” into clear, concise prose.
Consistently met or beat assigned deadlines.
02/1985–05/1992
Assistant to the Publications Officer
Office of the Reporter of Decisions
U.S. Supreme Court
Washington, DC
Proofread/cite-checked the U.S. Reports, conforming language to the rules of the Supreme Court Style Manual, Office Manual of the Reporter of Decisions, and the Government Printing Office Style Manual.
Oversaw production-editing of the U.S. Reports.
Maintained the production schedule for the U.S. Reports.
Regularly communicated with the Government Printing Office regarding production status.
Helped decrease the lag time between publication of the U.S. Reports as preliminary prints and as bound volumes.
Assisted in the Court’s transition from photocomposition to computerized typesetting by drafting a paper outlining the advantages of computerized composition.
10/1982– 02/1985
Proofreader
Carver Photocomposition, Inc.
Arlington, VA
Proofread ads, financial printing, legal briefs, magazines (e.g., Smithsonian), newsletters, and research journals.
Prioritized work for typesetters.
04/1981– 07/1982
Chief Proofreader
Agnew-Tech Tran, Inc.
Woodland Hills, CA
Managed the proofreading department.
Trained proofreaders.
Checked foreign-language hyphenation.
Edited the company’s monthly newspaper.
08/1979–03/1981
Proofreader
The Phototype House
Los Angeles, CA
Proofread ads, annual business reports, copy for record jackets and labels, financial printing, legal documents, magazines, and newsletters.
04/1977–04/1979
Production Editor
Glencoe Publishing Company
Encino, CA
Oversaw annual production of approximately fifteen titles, many of which were part of a police- and fire-science series of textbooks intended for adoption at the junior-college level.
Production-edited an English composition textbook and a college chemistry textbook.
Maintained a production schedule for assigned titles and wrote a weekly production report.
Monitored progress on work contracted out to free-lance illustrators/artists and proofreaders.
COMPUTER SKILLS
Amicus, Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Quattro Pro, Westlaw
STYLE MANUALS
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, The Chicago Manual of Style, The MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual
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