I AM
- A professional writer with a talent for simplifying the complex and confusing.
- A superb communicator, punctilious grammarian, and meticulous editor.
- A well-organized multi-tasker.
- A team player who works well independently and under deadlines.
I'VE LEARNED
Microsoft Office Suite - Highly Proficient
Quark Xpress - Highly Proficient
Adobe CS (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator)
RoboHelp
PageMaker
Filemaker Pro
Corel Draw
I'VE WORKED
Cathay Pacific Airways (January 2005 - July 2005)
MARKETING WRITER
RESPONSIBILITIES: Developing online "Cathay Voice," readable online content and headlines that grab, sensible restructuring of FAQ, and brochures that stir travel cravings.
SKILLS: Meticulous grammar, reserved humor, humbly seductive marketing, direct communication, and honest professionalism.
Passion Press (April 2001 - May 2004)
MANAGING EDITOR
RESPONSIBILITIES: Editing of all publications with precision, selecting titillating literary content for publishing, managing existing inventory, skillful budgeting, conceiving realistic and innovative business plans, and execution (of business plans, not employees).
SKILLS: Exquisite editing, complex multi-tasking, creative management, boldly seductive marketing, and remaining calm under pressure.
AUDIOBOOK PRODUCER
RESPONSIBILITIES: Scouting sensual voices, producing erotic audiobooks of literary merit, directing recording sessions, writing audiobook insert content, and ensuring tastefully torrid cover design.
HealthCare Communications, Inc. (1991 - 1997)
TECHNICAL WRITER (1993 - 1997)
RESPONSIBILITIES: Developing corporate style guide, writing software user manuals for medical practice management, and documenting engineering product development technical notes.
SKILLS: Boiling down highly complex processes into simple, easy-to-follow guides, making dry material enjoyable to read, creating and maintaining a consistent voice, and working closely with engineers.
Brintech, Inc. (June/July 1997)
TECHNICAL WRITER
RESPONSIBILITIES: Writing software user guide for banks to manage Y2K issues on a company-wide scale.
SKILLS: Making simple sense of the painfully dull and highly technical, achieving the impossible with a "can-do" attitude, and conceiving creative working solutions to difficult, unforeseen problems.
I'VE MANAGED AND SUPERVISED
Open Enterprises, Inc. (October 2002 - May 2004)
VICE PRESIDENT - Board of Directors
RESPONSIBILITIES: Developing annual business plans, strategic plans, compensation packages, and budgets for multi-million dollar international corporation.
SKILLS: Diplomacy, strategic thinking with economic consideration, long-term visioning, and more diplomacy.
Egreetings.com (April 1999 - October 2000)
PURCHASING MANAGER (April 2000 - November 2000)
RESPONSIBILITIES: Controlling all aspects of inventory, requisition, purchasing, shipping, and receiving processes. Supervising facilities assistants.
SKILLS: Organization and delegation of duties.
FACILITIES SUPERVISOR (October 1999 - April 2000)
FACILITIES ASSISTANT (April 1999 - October 1999)
Open Enterprises, Inc. (Sept. 1997 - April 1999)
INVENTORY MANAGER
RESPONSIBILITIES: Managing all aspects of inventory for nationwide mail order distribution center. Supervising inventory assistant.
SKILLS: Organization of massive amounts of inventory.
I'VE STUDIED
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
BACHELOR, COLLEGE OF JOURNALISM, 1991
Advertising Major and English Major
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