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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Created meaningful connections with customers, seeking to provide personalized recommendations and to bring joy, warmth, and enthusiasm to every customer’s in-store experience.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Assisted in facilitating the daily operations of a large retail store including opening and closing the store, supervising and coaching sales staff, maintaining visual merchandizing standards, and supporting the leadership team in daily and weekly workflow planning and execution.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Edited and proofread a variety of materials for traditional and digital publication including business communications, website content, novels, and academic papers.

Kanata, Ontario, Canada

Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

• Assessed and critiqued an existing organizational website, developed new site architecture, and created and uploaded appropriate content.• Managed the redesign of a website, including determining organizational needs, communicating with and providing feedback to a web design contractor, and obtaining and creating relevant content. • Wrote and edited press releases, promotional material, and annual reports for a non-profit organization.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Copyedited and proofread various textbook material and website content.• Oversaw the production of numerous textbooks in a fast-paced publishing environment, including contracting and supervising freelance editors, liaising with designers, formatters, developmental editors, and marketing managers, participating in design and cover development, checking page proofs, and monitoring progress throughout to maintain schedules.• Contracted freelance editors, including negotiating fees and schedules, and monitored their work to ensure adherence to house styles and standards.• Trained co-workers and freelancers to use advanced features of Microsoft Word in production editorial processes and provided technical support within the department.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Managed the development of textbooks and supplements, including providing guidance to authors, monitoring submission schedules, conducting manuscript reviews, and preparing manuscripts for launch.• Informed authors of various publishing guidelines including considerations of length, physical preparation of manuscripts, and permissions, and assessed manuscripts for compliance with these guidelines.• Initiated a review of various departmental administrative procedures and streamlined them to improve efficiency.

Master Of Arts - Ma, History

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, History