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Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

• Design, write and edit printed and online marketing materials and student manuals for professional development courses.• Implement and manage website content, design and online sales.• Coordinate travel, facility and document requirements for onsite training.• Implement and maintain expense management system.• Generate detailed and accurate quarterly financial statements.• Manage payroll and accounting services.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

• Taught hundreds of elementary and middle school art students for five academic years.• Researched and developed hundreds of art lesson plans and age-appropriate curriculum.• Recruited, scheduled and managed a staff of parent volunteers in the art classroom.• Implemented best practices for art instruction in the classroom including physical art portfolios.• Initiated and managed significant fundraising efforts to fund art room renovations and improvements and provide art materials and supplies that would otherwise be unavailable.• Implemented and maintained online digital art portfolios for all students by photographing individual art projects, editing photos, and uploading photos to each student's account.• Managed and completed the renovation of two art rooms on two different campuses to optimize the student art experience and atmosphere.• Inventoried and managed consumable and nonconsumable art supplies.• Developed relationships with community members to cultivate resource donations.• Maintained a clean and well-organized art room used for other school events such as board meetings and after-school activities.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

• Responsible for an all-school art show event showcasing student art for grades K-12 and attended by 500-700 parents, students and community members.• Recruited and managed a team of parent volunteers and school staff responsible for budget, publicity, judging, ribbons/awards, refreshments, mounting artwork, gallery set-up/take-down, live music, audio-visual elements and facility arrangements.• Worked with a professional engineer to design and build modular art display "pods" that can be easily set up and stored.• Acted as liaison with elementary, middle school and high-school PTOs to obtain art show funding, and raised remaining funds through parent donations.• Wrote an instruction manual for future art show coordinators.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

• Conceptualized, wrote and designed a variety of marketing materials including postcards, newsletters, flyers, buyer/seller handbooks, sales presentations and web site content.• Planned and coordinated annual marketing plans within specified budget constraints. • Managed over $6 million in annual sales transactions from contract to closing.• Developed systems to quickly and efficiently market new listings and manage contracts.• Taught agents how to improve productivity through the use of computer software.

Denver, Co

• Conceptualized, wrote and edited a regular column for a national genealogical magazine, feature articles for a national craft magazine and book text.• Wrote articles that simplified highly technical information on archival and conservation issues for a lay audience.

Broomfield, Co

• Planned, wrote and edited all copy for a national craft magazine from inception through its rapid growth to a circulation of 150,000.• Managed the transition from freelance editorial direction to salaried editorial staff.

Denver, Co

• Planned, designed, wrote, illustrated and published a variety of documents including user guides, product newsletters and course manuals.

Denver, Co

• Designed, wrote, illustrated and published software user guides and training manuals.• Initiated and led a team of software programmers, technical writers and training specialists in the development of software specifications and interface standards to improve software usability.• Received highest performance ratings and honored as outstanding employee.

Dallas, Tx

• Wrote, illustrated and published technical brochures, manuals and user guides.• Recognized for proposals outlining more efficient departmental procedures.• Achieved highest performance ratings.

Dallas, Tx

• Taught a course in technical writing theory and principles.

Manhattan, Ks

• Taught courses in technical writing, composition and remedial writing.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), English (Rhetoric & Technical Communication Emphasis)

Master's Report: "Revision: Research, Theory and Pedagogy"

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa (1986), Putnam Scholar (1982-86), National Presidential Scholar (1982)