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Chicago, IL

• Storybook library component testing and React front-end testing involving the following:
• Conducted detailed manual and automated web application testing for front and backend services as part of an agile team; used dev tools to find HTML, CSS, console, network, visual, and logic errors. Used Mongo Compass.
• Performed extensive smoke, regression, permission, timezone, error state, negative, integration/cross-browser-OS,… Show more Storybook library component testing and React front-end testing involving the following:
• Performed extensive smoke, regression, permission, timezone, error state, negative, integration/cross-browser-OS, and UI manual testing; owned testing process for UI team, including writing, maintaining, and executing.
• Basic scala and selenium script writing and extensive automated test suite troubleshooting. Managed local dev and testing environments, git and version control
• Part of an agile team, with daily and weekly meetings to clarify plans and keep projects on goal across teams* Created and conducted interviews for new testers, helped to conduct interviews for new developers on the.

• Owner, founder, and editor for independent press that offers translation services for Japanese artists
• Worked with Inori (I'm in Love With the Villainess), irua, N.Bakery, 6th Manager, and many more indie yuri creators.
• Engaged in constant market analysis to inform product and service development for the press
• Coordinated daily with a global team to produce scripts and localized comics on deadlines
• Frequent, intensive copyediting and typesetting reviews to produce polished… Show more
• Frequent, intensive copyediting and typesetting reviews to produce polished drafts of scripts and comicshttps://twitter.com/PressMacaron Show less

• I've been a copyeditor, proofreader, or sometimes both, on 250 projects as of July 2020
• Copyeditor for the Danmaku!! Lunatic Extra board game
• The Macaron Press: Collaborated daily to copyedit and proofread narration, dialogue, and image-editing as part of an international localization team; maintained style guide

Chicago, IL

• Conducted detailed, thorough regression, smoke, and automated testing for health benefits counseling software, creating clarity out of vague testing expectations; ramped up to standard analyst expectations within a month
• Logged, verified, and regressed bugs; created templates for bug creation, testing notes, and proper documentation
• Created and ran clear, effective, consistent test case suites; utilized extensive, efficient documentation
• Reviewed all vendor-completed testing… Show more
• Reviewed all vendor-completed testing and defect tickets, clarifying them for our English-speaking teams, preventing WADNABs and duplicates, verifying correct testing procedures, and providing feedback to measurably.
• Researched, conveyed, and implemented QA best practices on my team and wherever possible

Manhattan, KS

• Assist copyeditors in proofreading, editing, querying and fact-checking manuscripts for the Winter 2016 issue
• Worked with manuscripts before and after they were sent to an experienced, freelance copyeditor
• Read and studied copyediting, grammar, usage, and proofreading manuals, including Chicago style, copyediting, and house style guidelines; learned the publishing process from start to finish
• Searched for, acquired, and wrote captions for photos relevant to manuscripts;… Show more
• Searched for, acquired, and wrote captions for photos relevant to manuscripts; coordinated photo acquisition from local museums, newspapers, and historical societies
• Fact-checked and copyedited manuscript footnotes and endnotes for clarity, consistency, and correctness Show less

Manhattan, KS

• Taught multiple lecture and discussion-based classes of English composition focusing on group activities; developed and presented Power Point slides to facilitate learning and enhance written/verbal communication
• Designed and applied an advanced level independent study course based around user-experience
• Graded and helped revise approximately 1000 papers for 160 students, providing extensive feedback
• Conducted extensive research for multiple papers and projects… Show more
• Conducted extensive research for multiple papers and projects simultaneously
• Produced 450 pages of written work and read 25,000 pages of text, meeting daily deadlines; 60 hour work weeks

Schiller Park, IL

Ran a daily sales route with a coworker, taking orders from and delivering parts to customersDaily written, face-to-face, or phone communication between employees, other branch locations, and vendorsDaily efficient use of “FastNet” computer network to order parts and manage inventory/salesPhysically systemized and documented inventory for efficient use and.

Schaumburg, IL

• Researched online website builder software, created new website and transferred all electronic data from old website to a new content management system, wrote new and copyedited over 600 existing product descriptions.
• Assembled/dissembled plastic winding and film running machines; operated shipping and receiving
• Regularly noticed and fixed imperfections of less than 1/10" by eye

Bartlett, IL

October 2011–November 2012

Master’S Degree, English Language And Literature, General, 3.7

Activities and Societies: Touchstone Literary Magazine Fiction Team, Jacobin Reading Group

Bachelor’S Degree, Anthropology, 3.2

Activities and Societies: Alpha Sigma Xi executive board

Associate’S Degree, Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies, 3.2

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society