Experience

Advent Creative

• United States
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Quality Assurance/Proofreader

  • Jun 2016 - Present

  StoneArch: Quality assurance. Proofread for spelling, grammar, and style for different clients, and house style. Media include brochures/marketing, web sites, emails, videos, proposals, media releases, and blogs. Create and maintain style guides for clients, which include Medela, Medtronic, Oticon, Hill-Rom, Veracyte, Veran. StoneArch: Quality assurance. Proofread for spelling, grammar, and style for different clients, and house style. Media include brochures/marketing, web sites, emails, videos, proposals, media releases, and blogs. Create and maintain style guides for clients, which include Medela, Medtronic, Oticon, Hill-Rom, Veracyte, Veran.



Aquent

• United States
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Copy Editor/Proofreader

  • Jan 2005 - Present

  Copy edited marketing materials, including medical, product, and service advertisements and brochures. Target: Copy edited for Web site advertising and sales. Macy’s: Copy edited national weekly inserts. Ernst & Young: Proofread financial statements, various legal letters, audit committee reports, proposals, and graphics, ensuring corporate identity and strict legal standards; footing and tying of figures and tables. CRC Marketing Solutions: Proofread for content, consistency, and layout of marketing catalogs for West Thomson Group. Show less



LA Fitness

• United States
• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Master Personal Trainer

  • Dec 2012 - Aug 2016

  ISSA certified personal trainer, and certified group trainer. Trained clients for strength gain, muscle mass gain, fat loss; increase in balance, stability, conditioning, and confidence. Weight resistance and body weight exercises; holistic approach to fitness. ISSA certified personal trainer, and certified group trainer. Trained clients for strength gain, muscle mass gain, fat loss; increase in balance, stability, conditioning, and confidence. Weight resistance and body weight exercises; holistic approach to fitness.



Masterson Personnel Inc

• United States

• Document Reviewing Specialist

  • Nov 2015 - May 2016

  Questar Assessment: Proofread state standardized tests for spelling, content, sense, and consistency; format and style against projects’ style guides. Checked text against previous version, previous year’s booklets, and item bank. Constructed questions with company’s programs, including graphics. Checked demographic pages against provided specifications. Performed final quality checks. Questar Assessment: Proofread state standardized tests for spelling, content, sense, and consistency; format and style against projects’ style guides. Checked text against previous version, previous year’s booklets, and item bank. Constructed questions with company’s programs, including graphics. Checked demographic pages against provided specifications. Performed final quality checks.



Creatis

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Copy Editor/Proofreader

  • Jan 2003 - Jan 2005

  Best Buy Experience Design Group: Proofread in-store temporary signage, collateral and signage in support of in-store redesign initiative; responsible for upholding corporate identity standards in the midst of complicated redesign. Medtronic, Cardiac Rhythm Management: Proofread print collateral in support of new product launch, including brochures, sell sheets, tradeshow signage, and graphics; responsible for maintenance of corporate identity standards. Campbell Mithun: Proofread weekly inserts; created style/content checklist, ensuring consistency and expediency in all areas of production. Power Sentry: Copy edited product/marketing catalogs. Creatis studio: Copy edited, primarily Thrivent Financial for Lutherans’ informational and training catalogs, advertising, and business cards; also copy edited peripheral clients’ last-minute, rush work, usually marketing material. Show less



Data Recognition Corporation

• United States
• Education Management
• 700 & Above Employee

• Reader/Scorer (Temporary Position)

  • Jan 2003 - Feb 2003

  Read and scored high school papers based on criteria of content, style, formation, usage, mechanics, and spelling. Read and scored high school papers based on criteria of content, style, formation, usage, mechanics, and spelling.



QUORUM LITIGATION SERVICES

• Group Lead (Temporary Position)

  • Jan 2003 - Feb 2003

  Lead of 16 employees in composing and coding financial and legal documents for litigation service. Trained; assigned and quality-checked work, giving feedback; composed and coded; conducted reviews and layoffs. Lead of 16 employees in composing and coding financial and legal documents for litigation service. Trained; assigned and quality-checked work, giving feedback; composed and coded; conducted reviews and layoffs.



MERRILL CORPORATION

• Core Lead/Proofreader/Editor/Writer

  • Jan 1999 - Jan 2002

  Led “core group” – which consisted of typesetters, graphic artists, and proofreaders – focusing on some of the most demanding, largest revenue-earning clients. Monitored workflow, prioritized jobs according to due times and work involved, and issued work. Created style checklists, detailing client-specific requirements for consistency, often including point measurements. Edited and contributed to company newsletter distributed via Intranet throughout U.S. and international locations; authored numerous articles in each issue. Proofread financial documents, including annual and semi-annual reports, prospectuses, SEC transmissions, and graphics, for style and content; performed most of the quality checks – the last eyes before sending the work to the clients. Trained and mentored new and existing employees. Performed reviews. Show less