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Professional Experience

COPYWRITER/SOCIAL MEDIA SPECIALIST Simply Design – Albuquerque, NM

Wrote marketing blogs, online articles, and posts for clients' social media sites

 

TECHNICAL WRITER/EDITOR Northrop Grumman – Albuquerque, NM

Among the many projects I worked on while at Northrop, I:

  • Wrote text for new, revamped Trusted Traveler Program website

  • Provided writing, editing, and instructional design support for numerous web-based training courses, including courses on UX, ethics, and intellectual property

  • Provided writing support creating quick guides for new Electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance System for CDC

  • Headed QC process for GCSS-Army, a major project that created hundreds of hours of web-based training

  • Edited technical papers for satellite engineering group 

 

FREELANCE WRITER

Wrote blogs and articles on varied subjects for various websites, from the informative to the amusing

 

REPORTER Mountain View Telegraph– Moriarty, NM

Wrote award-winning articles on local community members, government meetings, and events

 

COPY EDITOR John Wiley and Sons, Inc. – Hoboken, NJ

Edited journals such as Birth Defects Research A: Clinical and Molecular Teratology, Journal of Neurobiology, and Journal of Orthopædic Research for grammar, clarity, and style

 

ASSOCIATE PRODUCTION EDITOR John Wiley and Sons, Inc. – New York, NY

Oversaw the production of two research journals, from receiving the original manuscript, to communicating with copyeditors and authors, to performing a check of the final print and on-line versions, ensuring quality every step of the way

 

PRODUCTION EDITORIAL ASSISTANT John Wiley and Sons, Inc. – New York, NY

Assisted production editors by logging in manuscripts at the beginning of the journal production process

Education

Bachelor of Arts Degree, Professional Writing·University of New Mexico

 

New York University Summer Publishing Institute·New York University

 

Copyediting and Proofreading Fundamentals Course·New York University

 

Certificate in Scientific Writing·Johns Hopkins University

 

Awards and Publications

New Mexico Press Association – First Place, Breaking News Story, Weekly Newspapers Class II

 

New Mexico Press Association – Second Place, Feature Writing, Weekly Newspapers Class II

 

 

 

 

The Gallup Post – weekly newspaper serving the Gallup, New Mexico area

 

Mountain View Telegraph – weekly newspaper serving the Estancia Valley and East Mountains in Central New Mexico

 

catpajamas.hubpages.com – personal comedy blog

 

Albuquerque the Magazine – monthly magazine highlighting the latest in the Duke City

 

Daily Lobo – college newspaper

 

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