Writing, Editing and Publishing New York City Project Experience
Resume:
Isaiah A Negron
New York, NY 10025
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Professional Profile
Hardworking writing professional with solid customer service and administration background and education in many diverse styles of communication and the written word as well as efficiency, organization, multitasking and attention to detail.
Qualifications
• Highly experienced in working with a team as well as on my own
• Superior and flexible writing skills that allow me to write in an array of voices and formats to reach diverse audiences
• Work well while multitasking or under pressure.
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Quick learner
• Extremely organized
• Computer Literate
• Team player mentality and leadership potential
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel, Outlook and Adobe
Relevant Experience
Project Development
•Collaborated with team of writers in the further enhancement of a national online activity index.
Effective Communication
•Met with the team on a weekly basis to discuss goals, problems, ideas and successes.
Computer Proficiency
•Used Microsoft Excel and Power Point to develop and maintain activity description spreadsheets to track progress.
Supervision
•Was second-in-command at youth center and supervised a team of four student workers as well as numerous group members.
Experience
Intern
July 2011 to February 2012
Zerve, Inc. – New York, NY
•Was part of a research writing team and wrote descriptions of numerous activities from across the country that were being added to the company website, fulfilling a weekly quota of descriptions.
•Researched and updated all required materials needed for the team and project managers.
•Became more and more adept in the writing style and format with the more that I did and began doing them much more effectively and expeditiously.
•By the end of the internship my supervisor had bumped my quota up to 20 descriptions as a lowest goal for the week.
•Maintained the goal and many times went above the necessary amount requested.
Was also part of a customer service team and would answer calls for customers calling in to book an activity.
Sales Associate
February 2010 to March 2011
Bed Bath & Beyond – New York, NY
•Worked in the Home Accents Department.
•Had to learn all the items in the section, excel in superb customer service and product knowledge as well as check out customers as the register where I handled money and credit cards.
•Shifts ranged from early in the morning, as early as 7am, to doing overnights at peak season time.
Youth Activity Specialist
April 2009 to December 2009
Generation Q of the Queens Community House – Astoria, NY
•Was second-in-command in the daily operations of the youth center
•Responsible for setting up activities and lesson plans for the kids to do when they came in
•Organized outings and events such as parties and functions
•Went to schools telling other kids about the center and recruited many who solidly came almost every day
•Handled much of the organizational and paper work that running the center required done efficiently.
•Oversaw tasks and projects of four student workers who helped out at the center for community service credit
•Increased attendance and number of kids who participated in the program by over 50%
Sales Associate
July 2008 to November 2009
Levi’s Strauss & Co. – Soho, NY
Worked as both a sales floor associate and cashier
Responsibilities included performing exceptional customer service, manning dressing rooms, product knowledge, finding sizes and styles for customers, handling money, after-hours closings, and stocking overnights on occasion
Further developed already strong communication and customer service skills as well as how to work in a fast-paced environment and work together with fellow employees as a team
Education
¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬Hunter College of the City University of New York, 2012
New York, NY
Creative Writing / Journalism
B/A in English
Affiliations
¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬Member, Alumni Association
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