Maria Erdmann

Chicago, IL USA
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Professional Experience

My experience lies in copyediting for finance and marketing, but I also welcome opportunities to edit and localize content for personal finance, publishers, nonprofits, and arts-based organizations. I am especially interested in working with NGOs to produce professional, high-quality communications that empower the everyday consumer. Past end-clients: Google, Aon, Groupon, Radisson Hotels, McCain Foods, FedEx, and the American Medical Association Materials Edited Corporate marketing: direct mail, free-standing inserts, take-one brochures, snap-pack mailers, buckslips, privacy notices Web (internal and external): social media blurbs, travel-focused blog articles, scripts for Internet-tool tutorials, employee profiles, e-mail blasts, equity research Other: trade-magazine articles, conference books, company newsletters and news magazines, press releases, corporate communications, industry reports, ESL students’ academic papers, sell-side research reports

Expertise

Copy Editor
10 Years
Other, Specify
10 Years
Social Media
1 Year

Specialty

Finance
6 Years
Business (general)
10 Years
Consumer Products
8 Years

Industries


PR (firm) - Small to mid-sized corp. clients
4 Years
Advertising agency
2 Years
Other
6 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

10 Years

Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Radisson Hotels (3-5), Google (6-10)

Other Work History

William Blair & Company – I edited equity-research reports and related content for four-and-a-half years. Discover Financial Services – As a member of an in-house creative team, I edited a wide array of marketing collateral, including direct mail and Web copy.

Technical Skills

I have used countless custom content management systems to publish edited work.

Computer Skills

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Acrobat, InDesign, Google Apps for Work, SharePoint, PC, Mac

Equipment

OSX Yosemite 10.10.1, Office 365

Associations

Chicago Women in Publishing (CWIP) – Board Member at Large Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA) American Copy Editors Society (ACES) Freelancers Union

Showcase

General

Copyediting and Localizing: Travel Blogs
(Radisson Blu and Radisson Park Inn Blogs 2/23/2015)
On behalf of a UK-based content marketing agency, I perform first-line edits on travel-focused blog entries for two of Radisson's hotel chains, Radisson Blu and Radisson Park Inn. I also remove overtly UK English terms for US English.
Localizing: Video-Tutorial Scripts
(Google: The Apps Show [Season Three] 2/23/2015)
I replace overt Britishisms for Americanisms in season-three scripts of The Apps Show, an Internet-tool tutorial that serves a global viewership.