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Schaumburg, Illinois, United States

• Revise, edit, and correct online courses in partner-chosen learning management systems using WYSIWYG HTML tools and snippets.• Edits online course/module materials for quality, consistency, accuracy, conformity to standards, and effective use of language. • Copyedits and proofs a variety of on-screen content, checking for and correcting errors in grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation, as well as technical consistency in capitalization, font usage, numerals, and hyphenation.• Revises content for accuracy, consistency, style, clarity, and academic-level appropriateness.• Support and advise on the development of interactive learning objects including technical implications, accessibility, and implementation within a course.• Manage competing projects, deadlines, and resource implications and communicate these effectively to manager.

Illinois State University

• Designed complex interior for FC2 (Fiction Collective 2) novel Drain Songs by Grant Maierhofer• Typeset Drain Songs using Adobe InDesign CC 2018• Proofread and line edited Drain Songs using The Chicago Manual of Style (17th ed.) and added edits to PDF using Adobe Acrobat’s Comments feature.• Created and checked several rounds of page proofs for the novel using Adobe Acrobat Pro• Entered edits from proofreader and author into layout• Prepared and tagged Drain Songs manuscript for Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication (LOC CIP) program, submitted the information using ECIP interface• Checked and prepared grayscale images for Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora issue 44.2 using Adobe Photoshop CC 2018• Placed the images into layout using Adobe InDesign CC 2018• Entered the finished manuscript for issue 44.2 into the Online Journal System• Edited various poems and prose pieces to ensure they were ready for layout for the ISU Writing Project’s Summer Institute 2019 Anthology• Designed the interior for Summer Institute 2019 Anthology using Adobe InDesign CC 2018 and redesigned the cover using a template, then typeset the manuscript into InDesign• Edited images of newspaper films using Adobe Photoshop CC 2018• Performed line by line copyediting for the Downstate Legacy novel Treading the Winepress• Entered new subscribers, renewals, and Editors’ Prize contestants into SRPR’s SubTrack content management system.• Collaborated with Publications Unit staff to complete a 2,000-piece mailing for SRPR, and then a subsequent mailing of Obsidian• Participated in weekly staff meetings in which staff reviewed current projects, discussed pertinent current events in literary and scholarly publishing, and built upon weekly work by participating in professional development workshops and activities

Normal First United Methodist Church

• Edited website using WordPress• Wrote articles and blurbs for promotional purposes• Wrote blogs for website• Researched information on various topics in the bible to facilitate discussions during services• Co-lead worship services on Wednesday nights• Advertised for Merge through Preview activities by giving out coffee and information

Publications Unit At Illinois State University

• Collaborated with three other individuals and the PRESS 254 editor to produce the chapbook Voids Before the Abyss by Michael Gibson Wollitz• Completed a mechanical editing checklist to prepare the chapbook’s text for layout• Copy edited the manuscript with the guidance of The Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.)• Discussed and negotiated edits collaboratively with group members and prepared an edited PDF using the Comments feature of Adobe Acrobat Pro• Worked with PRESS 254 editor and group members to conceptualize a cover design• Sketched a design for an interior layout using Adobe InDesign CS6• Typeset the master layout according to specifications from the editor using Adobe InDesign CS6• Prepared PDF proofs for the editor and author using Adobe InDesign CS6 and Adobe Acrobat Pro• Designed a promotional poster for the chapbook• Coauthored a press release about the publication of the book and the launch reading and distributed the release to local media outlets• Planned and staffed a launch reading event for the chapbook• Hand-stitched copies of the chapbook using a pamphlet binding style

Peru, Illinois

My duties included helping customers find what they were looking for, working the register to ring customers up, and keeping the store clean and organized.

English, Publishing, 3.8 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Merge at ISU Wesley, Sigma Tau Delta (International English Honor Society)

Education record

Activities and Societies: Book Club, Renaissance Club, Polar Plunge