Professional Experience
I am a highly educated writer with an interest in art, education, and science. Since earning my master's degree, I have taught writing, worked as a writer, editor, and proofreader, and spent my free time working on my creative writing projects. I enjoy traveling and have lived abroad in South Korea and Japan.
Expertise
Copy Editor
3 Years
Researcher
2 Years
Writer
4 Years
Specialty
Arts & Humanities
9 Years
Books & Literature
9 Years
Education
4 Years
Industries
Academia Teaching
5 Years
Newsletter - Trade
1 Year
Other
1 Year
Total Media Industry Experience
5 Years
Other Work History
Proofreader for the Texas Legislative Council during the 2011 and 2015 sessions; Literature, composition, and ESL lecturer at Akita International University in Japan for two years; Literature, composition, and ESL lecturer at Seoul National University in South Korea for one year; Graduate teaching assistant in rhetoric and composition at Pennsylvania State University for two years; Writer, editor, and proofreader for the Texas Pavement Preservation Center and the Engineering Education Research Center at UT Austin for one year (newsletters, engineering and education articles destined for academic or professional journals, trade journal articles, correspondence, etc.)
Foreign Language Skills
Basic Spanish, German, Japanese, and French skills
Computer Skills
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat, WordPress,
Moodle, databases, and others
Equipment
Dell laptop
Awards
Summa cum laude graduate in English from The University of Texas at Austin; Unrestricted Endowed Presidential Scholarship; Liberal Arts Benedict Scholarship; Honorable mention in the New Millennium Writings Short Short Fiction Contest, 2014, for "The Sirens of Lake Superior"