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Greater Los Angeles Area

Excelled in role requiring written materials for social media networks and the company website. Demonstrated ability to take on tasks beyond my role by redesigning images for product pages. Earned additional design responsibilities using Photoshop to create and slice images for all company web presences. Researched impact of marketing on social networks and refined social habits of company to better target its consumer market.

Bakersfield, California Area

Completed novels and short stories on an iMac. Learned iBooks Author to convert manuscripts to epub format and edit them in Apple’s iBooks. Send completed manuscripts and line notes back to the iMac to prepare them for submission to targeted publishers, agents and contests. Built and maintained web site using CSS 3 and Javascript for Ajax.

Riverside, Ca

Used the library and professors as primary resources to research multiple schools of pedagogical thought and crafted flexible curriculum and lesson plans. Achieved esteem with students, who filled my office hours to request feedback on their projects. Successfully conveyed the topics of the course, as evidenced by the students enjoyment of their projects and the quality of the work they produced. Per professor request, created a new, enhanced version of the grade book, automating computation of final course scores for all TA’s.

University Of California, Riverside

Spearheaded company transition to Adobe’s InDesign, drafting lesson plans and hand-outs to develop employee knowledge and design principles. Crafted a library of template parts for use by production staff, cutting production length from 12 to 7 hours. Excelled in coordinating between editorial departments and production assistants to ensure content was delivered on time and that proofs would be returned before deadline.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Taught twenty-five staff members all features of Blackberry Smartphones. On-call for Blackberry smartphone troubleshooting assistance and for further training. Responsible for implementation of company Blackberry smartphone program. Set-up Blackberry smartphones on LA Times Exchange Account. Checked-out Blackberry smartphones to staff. Ensured lay out and text of articles followed LA Times Style Guide. Returned corrected proofs to section editors. Assisted in editing articles for book department. Sorted incoming book proofs to find high profile authors and delivered to book review section editor. Managed transfer of mail from main mail room to departmental mail rooms and sorted into editors' boxes. Drove company vehicle to operations plant, retrieved early afternoon runoff, and delivered to editors for further proofing. Received copies of all major newspapers and delivered to section editors, LA Times editors, CEO, and publisher.

Santa Clarita, Ca

Successfully engaged editorial staff to meet deadlines on all operations of a weekly newspaper. Managed company software transition from Quark Xpress to InDesign, establishing a full set of templates for better consistency among future staffs. Instructed editorial staff on newspaper design using Adobe InDesign, leading one editor to achieve third place in News Judgement and Front Page Layout at the Journalism Association of Community Colleges convention.