Chris Hoadley Email & Phone Number

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States

Reviews advisory and breaking news articles, case summaries, newsletters, pamphlets, Powerpoints, and ancillaries for an educational law publisher with a focus on Title I and special education. Posts content to websites, prepares subscriber enewsletters, and curates roundup webpages. Coordinates with other copy editors, legal editors and other departments.

Lake Mary, Florida

Edits blog posts and social media for various businesses, including home improvement, finance, and therapy clients. Addresses grammar errors while improving sentence structure and clarity.

Port Saint Lucie, FL

Assists college, high-school, and ESL students with completing assignments for English, psychology, history, and other courses. Provides diagnostic tests for PERT and TABE exams as well as tracks progress through skill development curriculum. Evaluates essays and offers advice on content, grammar, thesis, and MLA/APA citation. Assists with writing handouts.

Creates study guides for nonfiction books and graphic novels totaling 10K to 15K words per project. Completes sections on plot summary, chapter and character analysis, themes, important quotes, and essay topics. Follows style guidelines and organizes tasks to meet long-term deadlines.

Fort Pierce, Florida Area

Wrote proposals, applications, and letters on behalf of nonprofit organizations involved in human services, homelessness, and animal-related causes. Created content while ensuring that information contained relevant statistics, met target organization guidelines, and included appropriate financial documents. Conducted research on potential funders. Edited.

Maitland, FL

• Wrote resumes and directed marketing letters for an executive career service. Customized letters to specific contacts in target organizations. Coordinated with team members to make revisions and address client.
• Completed around 100 letter writing annually campaigns with 25-75 individual companies for high-level managers in financial, IT, healthcare, HR, logistics, and other fields.
• Developed a training guide to help new writers learn how to seek out stories and customize letters.

San Franciso, CA (Remote Position)

• Monitored articles and story comments for video-game website partially driven by community-created content. Edited and selected community articles for promotion. Moderated comments, communicated with writers, removed.
• Tracked down and removed spam links in community articles that posed as regular stories.

San Franciso, CA (Remote Position)

• Wrote over 100 articles including news briefs, opinion pieces, interviews, comics, and an e-mail roundtable. Increased readership by promoting major articles to other websites and social media. Moderated comments to.
• Created writing prompts over two years for the Bitmob Writing Challenge that inspired community members to make articles based on a specific topic.

Port St. Lucie, FL

• Edited webpages to improve their search engine presence for a small website design firm on a contractor basis. Used keywords, meta descriptions, and relevant links to increase page ranks based on white-hat principles.
• Optimized HTML coding of 300 web pages in order to improve a university client’s Google placement.
• Researched and wrote articles for commercial websites.

Port St. Lucie, FL

• Explained rules of Medicare health and prescription drug insurance plans to Humana members during 2011 Annual Enrollment Period. Operated an automated dialer and completed forms in a call-center environment. Followed.
• Coordinated with managers to answer specific questions and ensure customer satisfaction.

Stuart, Florida

• Proofread and designed local, national, and reader-submitted stories for daily newspapers across three counties during paper re-design and 2010 mid-term elections. Wrote headlines and edited Associated Press stories.
• Updated listings and wrote sections for the 2011 Treasure Guide, an annual supplement highlighting points of interests for new residents.

Fort Pierce, Florida Area

• Maintained Sunrise Theatre News blog published twice a week, posting over 70 posts promoting upcoming acts. Incorporated trivia about artists, performance reviews, videos, and photographs of the historic Fort Pierce.
• Wrote and proofread previews for 2010-2011 season playbill.

Port St. Lucie, FL

Canvassed houses and completed questionnaires for 2010 United States Census. Optimized schedule to meet homeowners at convenient times as well as to participate in daily crew meetings. Completed questionnaires over the phone.

Orlando, FL

• Copy edited over 400 news, sports, variety and opinion articles for university newspaper published three times a week. Contacted and discussed story problems with reporters and section editors.
• Worked as sole copy editor for majority of the fall semester; supervised team of two copy editors for student newspaper in spring semester.

B.A., Creative Writing, Magazine Journalism

Activities and Societies: Worked for Central Florida Future student newspaper, Ed2010Graduated Magna Cum Laude

A.A., English

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta KappaGraduated Summa Cum Laude