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Weston, Massachusetts, United States

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

I used this time to write a History M.A. Thesis at U. Mass Boston as well as to take my History MTELs as I look toward a future career in education.

Weston, Massachusetts, United States

• Worked as a 1:1 paraprofessional partnered with one 9th grade student.• Provided in-class support for this student, while rotating to support several other students at times.• Assisted additional 9th grade students in completing their in-class assignments and staying on task.

Uxbridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Held a temporary, long-term substitute position in a Social Studies department for nine weeks.• Taught two sections of Global I course with 40 students (mostly U.S. History: Westward Expansion, Causes of the American Civil War, and the American Civil War Units) and an elective Sociology course.• Presented lessons to the class, collaborated with the department, and graded student work.• Co-led two sections of an Extended Learning study period in which I provided 1:1 support to help encourage students academically to complete their work and providing support on specific assignments

Westborough, Massachusetts, United States

Greater Boston Area

In this role, I focused on making sure the new course materials we developed for English and History courses at Cengage are designed to meet students' needs while also supporting instructors in their teaching. This means thinking about student needs in undergraduate survey courses like Composition I, Intro to U.S. History, and World History, and thinking more broadly about the skills that students who are either non-majors or majors can get from these courses and their education more generally.● Used a learning rubric to evaluate product quality and develop related learning design plans.● Planned and executed market research projects to further understand teaching and learning needs.● Designed assessment content plan for print and digital products on new and existing platforms.● Reviewed and gave input to strategies designed by English and History content product managers.● Organized in-depth reviews to uncover Inclusivity and Diversity concerns in U.S. History textbooks. ● Participated in 2020 committee work to design an inclusivity review tool for Learning Designers.● Communicated with internal and external audiences such as instructors and students.● Maintained good working relationships with a variety of internal and external team members.● Developed a plan to improve PowerPoint quality in Copyright 2021 History products to address customer needs.

Greater Boston Area

As a Senior Content Developer, I worked with authors and freelance content creators to envision, create, develop, edit, and license fantastic higher education content for use online and in print. In this role, I was committed to making the best content possible on various platforms to address instructors' and students' challenges. Types of content we used in our products included text readings, assessment questions of all types, flat and interactive maps, our own and licensed videos, images, audio content, and assessment tools. Responsibilities:• Motivated authors and subject matter experts to deliver quality content within time and budget allotted. Work closely with authors and other outside parties throughout the course of a project.• Collaborated with in-house online and print production teams as well as external vendors to develop or license innovative content for products (such as narrative text, media, and assessments.)• Managed and wrote specifications to permission complex content (text, images, and videos).• Provided support and informal mentoring to content developers newer to the role or content area.• Listened to instructors and students to gain quantitative and qualitative market feedback.• Drafted product marketing copy and edited it collaboratively with product and marketing managers.

Greater Boston Area

In this role, I developed online products across the History list as well as reaching out to instructors to demo products, to better understand the market, and to ensure that the products we designed work for the end user. • Developed History content for online products including educational content for a new mapping tool.• Created proof of concept website demos developed with the prototyping tool Balsamiq to communicate about website functionality with both customers and internal Cengage Learning stakeholders.• Planned ten remote meetings per year of the History Technology Advisory Board, including recruiting new members annually, instituting a phone interview process, developing agendas, designing surveys and reviews, and planning one in-person meeting.• Trained two Associate Content Developers in MindTap content development, Summer and Fall 2013.• Led monthly content developer meetings with the goal of collaborating and sharing expertise, 2012.

In this role, I developed educational content for Political Science online courses, integrated video from the BBC Motion Gallery into the 2009 and 2010 copyright year products, and maintained product schedules. I conducted successful market development activities for an introductory brief world history text, increased the amount of licensed Political Science and History-related videos by 50%, and worked with authors on print textbook development.● Executed class tests in 7 courses to kick off the Hansen Voyages in World History Map App’s product release in Summer/Fall 2011, garnering enthusiastic feedback from 25 instructors and 150 students.● Assisted in the content delivery and content QA of Political Science products and BlackBoard courses.● Researched competitors’ product information on features and pricing to share with team members.● Proactively selected and acquired 50% increase in licensed video content in History and Political Science.● Updated training materials to improve delivery processes of video content from the vendor to the Cengage production team.

In this role, I worked with editors, freelance employees, media partners, and vendors to edit and manage the creation of print and online supplemental material for the higher education and advanced and electives markets. I acted as development editor for two AA and A level print textbooks. I was responsible for maintaining the budget, schedule, production process, vendor relationships, and permissions needs for the products that I managed.● Managed the creation of supplemental content, the selection and acquisition of Political Science video content, and a swiftly-developed print supplement covering President Obama’s historic election within budget and annual book publication cycle time constraints.● Led a team of content developer volunteers in creating early video training tutorials on editorial tasks to meet training needs within the company.● Managed the development of two upper-level Political Science textbooks; helped the authors through manuscript revision, permissions, production, manuscript preparation to on-time, in-budget publication.

Boston, Ma

In this role, I worked alongside one event manager within a marketing team of ten people to plan and execute all of Course Technology's customer-facing educational training events for computing instructors. The largest event, the Course Technology Conference, consisted of 3 days of conference sessions attended by 500 customers annually. In an average year, the event manager and I also managed planning for a week-long summer training event attended by around 150 people, four regional one-day events with 100+ attendees, and 5 - 10 online seminars each year. I communicated daily with presenters, customers, vendors, and hotel staff, wrote marketing copy for the event agenda, set up event registration websites, determined the speakers' technical needs, and developed detailed event schedules.● Developed close working relationships with key textbook authors, also tapped as workshop presenters.● Negotiated with presenters, hotel vendors, and event staff on pressing technology needs and other event costs.● Improved usability and design of our event registration web sites in response to customer needs. ● Prepared authors to lead online seminar meetings and managed seminars often with over 100 attendees each.● One of ten employees nominated for Rookie of the Year Award, March 2007.

As a marketing assistant, I worked with a product marketing manager and a larger educational content team to promote Economics and Finance titles to the sales force and college instructors. My main focus was to provide ready support to the sales force in securing adoptions and helping existing customers. To achieve these goals, I also traveled to academic conferences where I met with customers face-to-face.I gained more experience in event planning in this role as well -- coordinating events such as a book publication dinner in Chicago during a Financial Management Association meeting and a two-day MyEconLab development meeting for faculty advocates.● Promoted key titles to the sales force with marketing emails, print promotions, and sales plans.● Planned a two-day MyEconLab development meeting, a first edition book event dinner, and book exhibits.● Received Top Performer 2004 award, presented in May 2005.

Boston, Ma

As an archival assistant, I handled incoming archival materials for existing collections, and communicated with long-distance researchers to help them determine if a visit to the archive would yield the research materials they needed. I wrote summaries of collections and archived a small collection, the Beatrice Lillie collection, assessing, preserving and cataloging materials received. I also trained work-study students on archiving processes for specific projects. Along with other staff members, I provided support and event assistance for on-site events including assisting the Public Relations manager to write promotional copy for the the archives' centennial anniversary.

East Boston, Ma

In this position, I was a member of a team of five people hired to help with the support of families being moved from Maverick Gardens public housing development in East Boston during the building's remake into mixed-income rental units. I regularly met with and coordinated services for education, employment, and benefits for thirty families as well as individuals, who were facing the reality of housing relocation, temporary or permanent.Our team also worked to establish trust within the community, as we sought to ease the transition for these families.

South Lake Tahoe, California

At Tallac, I assisted the museum's director with exhibit preparation by selecting photographs, writing display copy, and physically assembling exhibits. Additionally, I drafted articles and took photographs to document onsite events and contacted local media groups to publicize the museum's work. Along with another intern, I managed the daily schedules and work of ten to twenty museum volunteers.

Chicago, Il

During this year-long internship organized through Northwestern, I helped to organize an annual fundraising event. Along with another intern, I reported to a new Communications Director and drafted press releases, short articles, and editorials to promote the Center's work. I had the opportunity to support the Center's Housing Team in raising awareness about the needs of residents in Chicago Public Housing. Additionally, I interviewed the Center's clients and legal aid veterans for articles published in the annual report and the company website.

Evanston, Il

For three years at the Northwestern U. Archives, I worked part-time for ten hours a week, and- Wrote descriptions for new acquisitions - Located information for patrons -- including book authors and the Alumni Magazine.- Researched and compiled data for patrons by special request- Organized information for storage

Minneapolis, Mn

While interning at the IHRC, I accessioned a 500-book collection from the former Southeast Asian Refugee Studies Center and researched the history of Hmong immigration from Thailand and Laos to the United States.

Chicago, Il

As a summer intern with Zagnoli, McEvoy, Foley, LLC, I conducted research for speeches; assisted legal communications consultants in drafting reports; collaborated with the Public Relations Chairperson in organizing activities for visiting law firms; digitized videotapes for clients' presentations in court; and created promotional pamphlets.

Chicago, Il

- Researched, fact-checked, and edited magazine articles- Wrote short journalistic profiles for biography and sports sections.- Facilitated communication between editorial team and the university media services

Master'S Degree, American History (United States), 3.9

I worked full-time in publishing while I did all of my History coursework. Now, I am briefly a full-time student working on a culminating.

Master Of Arts, Publishing And Writing

Course: Writing For Public Relations And Marketing

Activities and Societies: This is a course I took in my spare time while working full-time at Pearson Education.

Course: Fundamentals Of Journalism

Activities and Societies: This was a course I took in Journalism while working full-time as an Archival Assistant.

Graduate Certificate In Publishing, Publishing

Bachelor Of Science, Communications Studies, History Dual Degree, 3.4

Activities and Societies: - Habitat for Humanity publicity chairperson, Senior year. - Northwestern University Archives employee - Gamma.