Lalaina Miner Email & Phone Number

Senior administrative assistant for the Office of Curriculum, Instruction, and Staffing under the Asst. Superintendent. Provides motivated, personable, and punctual support in interdepartmental communications, curriculum development, professional development, and staffing processes. Generates copy for memos, agendas, grant justifications and applications, emails, newsletters, announcements, course descriptions, and job postings. Coordinator for Homeschool Students, Student Teacher Placements, and Arts in Education Program. Schedules meetings and interviews. Arranges travel schedules for teachers and administrators in conjunction with the Business Office. Maintains records.

Scriptwriter for the Tapas Originals Program, outlining stories and scripting episodic content for “The Girlfriend Project” and “Love By the Book.” Adapted “Celeste Academy” into serialized webcomic format. Collaborated with Editor on story development. Responsible for crafting series outlines and episode scripts, and sourcing reference images for Artists as needed.

Adapted plots into episodic format and wrote the scripts for “Not Even Bones” and another NDA-covered series. Collaborated openly with authors of acquired IPs, Editorial Department, and Art Department. Delivered content on a fast-paced deadline schedule.

Assisted in editing translated Korean and Japanese webcomics for localization and grammatical errors.

Burlington, Vermont, United States

Wrote character breakdowns, dialogue, story beats, game events, and branching narrative paths. Head writer for supplemental comics and novels for games. Created series "bibles" for team to reference throughout production. Delivered progress reports. Participated in QA sessions. Created character designs, experimental visual assets, and environmental concepts.

Burlington, Vermont Area

Wrote romance and drama novels, both standalone and series installations for a small book packaging company. Wrote blurbs and landing copy for online storefront. Met aggressive deadlines, delivering fully written and edited books once a month. Kept in-line with NDA requirements.

Burlington, Vermont Area

Greater New York City Area

Wrote scripts for long- and short-form video content for marketing the app on social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Youtube). Generated copy for several historical and narrative aspects on the website, as well as a majority of marketing materials. Edited all copy put out by the office for all departments (Art and Marketing Production, Social Media Management, as well as for the CEO). Scheduled and planned strategies for various crowdfunding campaigns.

Burlington, Vermont Area

Cold-contacted local businesses, schools, and organizations to promote the Vermont International Film Festival, with the intent of increasing attendance. Solicited donations from local businesses. Generated copy for festival brochures.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Professional, Technical, Business, And Scientific Writing, Junior

Activities and Societies: Co-President of Anime Club (Fall 2014 - Spring 2016)Produced, directed, and storyboarded a short animatic film.

Foreign Language Minor

Educated in conversational Japanese, as well as basic grammar and sentence structures, hiragana, katakana, and basic kanji. Aware.