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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Editorial Assistant / Hyperion Books
New York, NY, Street Address /2013
Associate Editor / The Overlook Press Provided dependable and efficient support for VP, Executive Editor
New York, NY, 9/20142/2016 and Director of Synergy
Solely responsible for as many as 80 frontlist fiction and nonfiction + Spearheaded department clean-up and oversaw secure storage
titles per year, from acquisition to shelf and disposal of paper archives in preparation for office move
+ Represented Overlook at ABAs Winter Institute, increasing sales + Developed synergy content individually and in multi-day Disney-
and author events at independent bookstores facilitated story workshops
+ Leveraged personal connections to generate publicity for books + Worked closely with digital marketing manager to revitalize brand
outside normal scope of Overlooks publicity capabilities identity on social platforms and increase followers and engagement
+ Implemented chat-based communication system to facilitate
Editor / Magination Press
information-sharing and workplace efficiency
Washington, DC, 9/20108/2011
+ Mentored interns and younger colleagues
Developed 68 titles per year from acquisition to bound book;
Assistant Editor / Grand Central Publishing provided managing editorial support for entire imprint
New York, NY, 1/20139/2014 + Instituted database and file system for tracking and generating
Provided dependable, and efficient editorial and administrative data related to hundreds of unsolicited paper submissions
support for an executive editor and a senior editor while editing and + Launched Magination Press social media initiative and managed
pursuing acquisitions of my own social accounts
+ Co-founded and ran The League of Assistant Editors, a
Production Editor / CQ Press
professional organization offering results-oriented networking
Washington, DC, 7/20079/2010
events for young agents and editors, with the enthusiastic support
Solely responsible for 48 textbook and reference works per year
of Grand Central Publishings editorial department
from copy edit to bound book
+ Participated in corporate strategy conversations and materially
+ Led transition to all-digital workflow and trained senior colleagues
assisted with Hachettes acquisition of Hyperion Books in June 2013
on new technologies
+ Created and managed weekly Twitter hashtag campaigns (in
+ Instituted database system for tracking and paying freelancers
consultation with digital marketing manager), one of which trended
working on multi-volume reference works
nationally for hours; posted regularly to brand Twitter and Tumblr
+ Led brainstorming and design-thinking sessions for Health and
Proofreader, copy editor / EEI Communications
Wellness Committee to determine office wellness needs and
Arlington, VA, Summers 2005, 2006
appropriate next actions
Vigilantly protected client projects from typos and style errors
(see next page for long-term volunteer work, education, digital competencies, etc.)
Candidate's Name
LONG-TERM VOLUNTEER WORK EDUCATION
Colby College, Waterville, Maine
Ombudsperson, BinderCon* LA 2015
B.A. in Philosophy, May 2007
+ Friendly but firm primary point of contact at LA conference site,
+ Deans List, summa cum laude, honors and distinction in
available to address any attendee, speaker, or staff concerns
Philosophy
+ Drafted, with input from BinderCon staff and founders, internal
+ Honors Thesis, Philosophy: 60 page, 5-chapter thesis examining
useonly talking points and statements for communicating sensitive
collective moral responsibility and corporate ethics
positions to the community
+ Awardee, James Grant Memorial Prize from the University of
Co-chair of Programming, BinderCon NYC 2014
Edinburgh
+ Generated keynote, panel, and event ideas, and contacted and
+ Post-graduate non-credit coursework in business fundamentals
signed speakers and workshop leads for inaugural professional
and tactics at General Assembly (course completed May 2014) and
conference of women and gender nonconforming writers
film studies at The New School (course completed May 2013)
(Participants included Jill Abramson, Leslie Jamison, Jenny Lumet,
Jenna Wortham, Amanda Hess, and dozens more agents and
DIGITAL COMPETENCIES
published writers)
+ Expert user and trainer: Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Acrobat
+ Worked with founders to launch monthly workshop series for
Pro, Tweetdeck, Hootsuite, Slack, Google Apps, Google Trends
professional writers
+ Proficient user: Wordpress, Squarespace, Adobe Creative Suite,
826DC** Core Volunteer, 3/20089/2011 Google Analytics, Citrix, SAP, BAITS
+ Co-managed the Young Adult Book Project and oversaw editing
and publication of the project's print book capstone ETC.
+ Co-organized annual Moustache-a-Thona month-long
Ive taught existential philosophy at the Brooklyn Brainery,
fundraising event with weekly check-ins
participated in a Design Gym user interface design workshop with
+ Tutored after school and at in-center field trips, staffed the
the Mozilla Developer Network, jumped rope to music in the Punk
storefront, copy edited volunteer communications, prescreened
Rope Games, and attended a radical creativity retreat in the Hudson
potential volunteers at new-volunteer orientations, assisted with
Valley. When I was 17, Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips thanked
anything else, from folding 'zines to converting InDesign files to
me, in writing, for being organized.
pouring wine at fundraisers, whenever I could, as needed
*BinderCon is a professional development conference for women and gender-nonconforming writers, launched in 2014
**826DC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering creative and expository writing skills in students ages 618; it is part of a
national family of writing centers founded by the author Dave Eggers in San Francisco in 2002
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