Evening and weekend editor for fool.com; I also perform a final edit on The Motley Fool's subscription newsletters before they go to press.

Sole proprietorship offering editorial services.

• Edited financial-oriented copy from a stable of contractors and freelancers, and published completed copy to the Web. Back-read stories that other editors published. Average workload was approximately 10 primary edits and 10 second reads per day.• Served as the company’s point person for matters of grammar. Offered frequent writing and grammar tips to our contract and freelance authors, most of whom were not professionally trained writers.• Ran the copy desk in supervisor’s absence.• Compiled and edited a daily e-mail digest of the top stories on The Motley Fool’s Web site. • Maintained a daily Excel spreadsheet to track the status of every story the copy desk handled, from first edit to last read. A typical workload for the copy desk was 70 to 80 stories per day.• Edited and prepared copy for the launch of a Web site promoting the company’s mutual fund. Assisted legal team in preparing the fund’s prospectus for SEC approval. Continued to implement additions and updates to the fund’s Web site. Edited the fund manager’s monthly letter to shareholders, and prepared a monthly e-mail digest delivered to shareholders.• Edited a monthly personal-finance column that The Motley Fool syndicated at Yahoo.• Assisted newsletter team by editing copy for monthly investment newsletters as needed. • Assisted supervisor in testing a new content-management system before it was put into daily use.• Twice nominated for the company’s “Unsung Hero” award.

• Edited news and analysis pieces for a weekly political-policy magazine, as well as for several special publications throughout the year. Members of Congress and their staff were the magazine’s target audience.• Traveled with the company to Boston and New York City to help cover the 2004 Democratic and Republican conventions. Copy desk edited a nightly convention newspaper, which was distributed to convention delegates.

• Edited client-provided copy, as part of a designer-editor team, for a wide variety of campus publications, including brochures, booklets, newsletters, magazines, ads, and posters. Helped clients to identify target audiences and offered suggestions for rewrites. Occasionally generated copy for client publications. Managed an average workload of 20 to 30 jobs at a time.• Annually led the production of the "Bulletin of Information, Undergraduate Programs." Edited copy, created a production schedule, maintained a campus contact list, distributed proofs and collected revisions for three rounds of changes, gave progress reports to the client and printer, coordinated photography sessions, entered updates into the electronic document, formatted electronic copy, and enforced deadlines. • Wrote and maintained a house style guide. Wrote the copy for the department’s Web site. Cowrote and edited the copy at mark.nd.edu, a resource page for a standardized graphic-identity system that our department created for the university. Wrote a test that our editorial candidates took as part of their application process. • Oversaw the work of the department’s junior editor and served as her mentor.

• Edited news copy and wrote headlines for four daily editions and other weekly publications. • Paginated the inside “A” section pages.• Served as the wire editor for the Saturday edition.• Updated stories and photos on the newspaper’s Web site twice weekly.

• Reported on area municipal-board meetings as part of an assigned beat and occasionally wrote feature stories for all three papers, beginning with the Gazette while still in college.