Mikki Stacey
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Credentials
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Digital Humanities Certification
University of VirginiaMay, 2021- Sep, 2024
Experience
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MacroSys, LLC
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United States
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Government Relations Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Communication Specialist
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Apr 2022 - Present
I support contracts with federal clients, including the Department of Education and Department of Transportation. My work includes desktop publishing in Adobe InDesign, remediating documents in CommonLook PDF and Adobe Acrobat to meet WCAG and Section 508 standards, and writing and editing a range of technical documents. I support contracts with federal clients, including the Department of Education and Department of Transportation. My work includes desktop publishing in Adobe InDesign, remediating documents in CommonLook PDF and Adobe Acrobat to meet WCAG and Section 508 standards, and writing and editing a range of technical documents.
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Bixal
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United States
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Business Consulting and Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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Writer/Editor
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Dec 2019 - Apr 2022
Day to day, my roles were writer, editor, content strategist, and researcher supporting internal operations and contract work with federal clients. I developed and maintained resources that help the marketing-and-communications team deliver accurate and consistent work. I have also written and/or edited blogs, case studies, capability statements, job ads, and responses to RFPs and RFIs for our corporate marketing and business-development teams. The following is an overview of my contract work: Content Specialist—U.S. Web Design System, September 2021–April 2022: I worked in a team comprising content strategists, user-experience (UX) researchers, and developers to maintain and expand the Design System site and product. I helped identify and solve problems; participated in user-testing sessions to best advocate for and implement solutions that improve accessibility, readability, and usability; and maintained a site audit to ensure content was updated and relayed in plain language. Technical Editor—Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), December 2019–February 2021: Depending on need, I conducted basic copy edits up to extensive substantive edits on a range of technical documents, including brochures, fact sheets, technical briefs (5–30 pages), reports (30–100+ pages), and report series. I ensured consistency within each document (and across documents for series or companion pieces), grammatical accuracy, and style-guide and legal compliance. Throughout the process, I worked with authors (civil engineers), FHWA personnel, and other editors to maintain the publication schedule while producing high-quality documents that are accessible to the broadest possible audience. Show less
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University of Virginia
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Assistant
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Sep 2019 - Apr 2021
While working on my master's degree, I aided two English professors with their respective research projects—one focusing on multiethnic literature and the other focusing on Victorian women and the genre of collective biography. For the former, I conducted research for her book project, compiling and summarizing relevant materials for easy reference. I also copy edited several chapters. For the latter, I worked within a team to collect data on the conventions of collective biography as a genre. These conventions are illustrated in the digital project “Collective Biographies of Women: How Books Reshape Lives” (CBW). CBW is a relational database comprising more than 1,200 bibliographic entries of all-female collections published between 1830 and 1940. The bulk of my work on this project was conducting “BESS” (Biographical Elements and Structure Schema) analyses; I created and revised XML files to tag elements of biographies in a separate TEI document using a fixed vocabulary. I also created content for the project’s blog based on patterns I observed during my analyses. My posts, “Sister of Notable Woman: Henrietta Bird” and “Characterization Up Front: The Influence of Frontmatter in Collective Biography,” note that CBW is also an editorial act on the subject women’s lives. Show less
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Weris, Inc.
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United States
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Editorial Assistant
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Oct 2017 - Jun 2019
Though I was hired as an administrative assistant, I transitioned to a technical editing role within my first month at Weris. My manager, aware of my interest, gave me the opportunity to demonstrate my competence as an editor and quickly began assigning me work on our publication contract with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). I came to this role with a deep understanding of and enthusiasm for the rules and conventions of English grammar and learned on the job the nuances of government regulations, such as Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. By the end of this contract, I had a hand (either as the lead or quality-assurance editor) in nearly every publication FHWA sent to us and a newfound interest in web accessibility. In this role, I also maintained a master spreadsheet of all ongoing and completed jobs and maintained communication with our team of remote editors to ensure adherence to our deadline-driven schedule and consistency across the publications we edited. I produced and disseminated monthly updates to keep remote members of the team apprised of changes/clarifications to our process, feedback from our contracting officer’s representative, and milestones we’d met. While working on this contract, I had the opportunity to help write and edit proposals, and when this contract wrapped up, I worked on the proposal team full time, assisting at every stage. Of course, I continued to write and edit, but I also maintained the pipeline of upcoming opportunities, corresponded with subcontractors, helped make the schedule for each proposal, and collaborated in color-team review meetings. Show less
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The Gettysburg Review
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United States
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Writing and Editing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Intern
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Jan 2017 - May 2017
Interning at the Gettysburg Review required going through all the steps of producing a quarterly literary magazine. After familiarizing myself with the typical content of the magazine, I vetted fiction and essay submissions (received from all over the world) for potential publication. From here, I copy edited several accepted pieces using Track Changes and following the Chicago Manual of Style. As part of the editing process, I also conducted fact checks. I then participated in the process of orally proofreading and correcting the galleys. Show less
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Office Worker
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Apr 2016 - May 2017
In the office, I maintained the Review's submission database using both Microsoft Access and Submittable, logging new, accepted, rejected, and withdrawn manuscripts. Updating the database required keeping the slush pile organized for the convenience of the editors. I also researched contributors to generate web content, helped organize local promotional events, responded to customer and submitter inquiries, and processed new subscriptions. Beyond managing the database, I kept track of inventory and performed general filing and other miscellaneous clerical tasks. Show less
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Writing Tutor
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Mar 2014 - Dec 2016
For three years, I taught students from a range of backgrounds, skill levels, and disciplines how to improve their prose in Gettysburg College's Writing Center by helping them identify their strengths and weaknesses in their academic and creative writing. This job was wonderful partially because it reinforced in what I already knew (i.e., I couldn't just know that something was a rule; I had to know why it was a rule). I learned to effectively explain the rules and conventions of the English language in a way that made sense to students who were native speakers and for whom English was a second language.Through tutoring, I familiarized myself with the styles and conventions of all the majors offered at Gettysburg: English, Economics, Psychology, Chemistry, and so on. I developed a working knowledge of many style guides (MLA, AP, Chicago, etc.) and the ability to pick up the rules of new style guides quickly—a skill that has been valuable to me in the long term. Show less
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Mellon Scholar
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May 2016 - Aug 2016
Through my Mellon Scholarship, I had the opportunity to conceive of, develop, and publish an independent research project. Over the course of a summer, I built “A Lady's Tour of Europe, Narrated Through Letters Home (1862–1868)” in Scalar. This project was a digital condensed and annotated edition of “Letters from Abroad,” a fair-copy collection of 120 letters that cover over 200 dates (900+ hand-written pages). My research delved into Victorian culture, Victorian travel practices, and of course, the lives of the collection's three authors: Louisa Augusta Webb (Augusta), Louisa Melena Black (Mena), and Frances Ellen Julia Blck (Julie). As they followed the path of the Grand Tour, these sisters wrote back to their aunts in Devon, England.I provided transcriptions and scans of letters that highlight the sisters’ experiences of major historical events and included an interactive timeline showing the relationship between these events and epistles. The events described include the unification of Italy (risorgimento), the Austro-Prussian War, and the Fourth Cholera Pandemic. My goal for this project was to make these letters more accessible and digestible for the general public (as the collection was stored in Gettysburg College's Special Collection); the Webb–Black sisters provide an entertaining and human access point to understanding major events in European history. Show less
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Research Archivist
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Nov 2014 - May 2016
Aware of my love for the Victorian Era and literary theory, my professor asked me to work with her as she researched and wrote on Victorian diarist Anne Lister. I transcribed and interpreted eighteenth- and nineteenth-century documents (diaries, wills, letters, etc.), which not only made them easier to read but also made them searchable for key names and words. As I transcribed, I created brief but detailed summaries for each document so they could be more easily found according to keyword or theme and referred back to. I, of course, kept notes during this process to help draw connections between documents and interpret them as a body. As questions arose, I researched Lister, her family, and the Victorian period more broadly (particularly its legal practices). Show less
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Education
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2019 - 2021
University of Virginia
Master of Arts - MA, English Literature -
2013 - 2017
Gettysburg College
Bachelor of Arts - BA, English with a Writing concentration (Classical Studies minor)
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