Skills

• Solid writing and editing abilities; knowledge of Chicago, APA, AP styles.
• Familiarity with Macintosh, PCs, Internet
• Experience with word processing and page design software: Word, Adobe InCopy, WordPerfect, QuarkXpress, Adobe InDesign, PageMaker, DTI PageSpeed, CCI
• Knowledge of Web design programs: FrontPage, Composer, Dreamweaver, Nvu; exposure to HTML.
• Use of other software: Excel, PowerPoint, PastPerfect, etc.

Work Experience

• Cashier. Sears. (Part time.) May 2008-present. Ringing up sales, making change, selling credit to customers, answering customers' questions.
• Production specialist. CVS/Caremark. May 2007-present. Layout and editing of brochures, booklets, formularies, etc. Miscellaneous office duties as assigned. Have received several commendations for excellent performance.
• Associate. Marshalls Department Store. February 2007-May 2007. Putting away clothes, acting as cashier, serving as fitting room attendant. Received several commendations for outstanding service.
• Copyeditor. East Valley Tribune. January 2006-January 2007. Editing copy, writing headlines, designing pages, proofreading pages. Was responsible for choosing content for and laying out a weekly publication called Tribune Connection.
• Pet sitter. TLC ... While You’re Away. (Part time.) September 2006-present. Taking care of pets while owners are out of town, taking out the garbage, watering plants, collecting the mail, etc.
• Copyeditor. Arizona Republic. June 2005-January 2006. Editing text, writing headlines and captions, proofreading pages.
• Graduate assistant/copyeditor/co-webmaster. ASU Southwest Center for Education Equity and Language Diversity & Bilingual Research Journal. December 2002-May 2005. Edited text, proofread blue-lines, uploaded content to the Web. 
• Freelance copyeditor. Spring 2002-present. Have edited a variety of projects, in areas ranging from education to science. Specialty, however, is history.
• Webmaster/co-editor. Phi Alpha Theta honorary history fraternity, Iota Gamma chapter (ASU). 2003-2004. Put together Web site and newsletter for fraternity.
• Editorial intern. Doral Publishing (Phoenix). Summer 2002. Copyedited several books on the subject of dogs, performed data entry, took orders.
• Webmaster. ASU History Department. 2001-2002. Maintained content on the department Web site.
• Teaching assistant. ASU History Department. 2001-2002. Graded papers and exams. 
• Weekend coordinator. Pabst Mansion house museum (Milwaukee). November 1999-August 2001. Supervised volunteers, gave tours, acted as cashier. 
• Curatorial intern. Milwaukee County Zoo. Summer 2001. Performed research projects. 
• Volunteer. Milwaukee Public Museum. Spring 1999-August 2001. Provided information in the butterfly garden. 
• Curatorial intern. Waukesha County Museum. Summer 2000. Helped put together an exhibit on the Civil War. (E.g., wrote labels.)
• Historical intern. City of Glendale (WI). November 1999-July 2000. Along with co-intern, developed a historic driving tour and exhibit for the city's 50th anniversary. Results were well-received. 
• Teaching assistant. UWM History Department. August 1999-January 2000. Led discussion sections, graded papers and exams.
• Shelver. UWM Golda Meir Library. February 1999-August 1999. Placed books on shelves, retrieved books for patrons, "read" shelves to ensure books were in the right place.
• Copyeditor & designer. Green Bay (WI) Press-Gazette. October 1997-December 1998. Edited text, wrote headlines and captions, designed pages.
• Assistant news editor/copyeditor & designer. Times-News (Twin Falls, ID). August 1996-October 1997. Began as copyeditor/designer and was promoted to assistant news editor. As assistant news editor, supervised the news desk, and selected stories and photos. As copyeditor/designer, edited text, wrote headlines and captions, and designed pages.
• Reporter (Pulliam fellow). The Indianapolis Star. Summer 1996. Served as a reporter, worked with a writing coach.
• Copyeditor. Dayton Daily News. (Part time.) March 1995-June 1996. Edited text, wrote headlines and captions. 
• Editorial intern. Dayton Monthly magazine. Spring 1995. Performed data entry.
• Senior editor. University of Dayton Flyer News, 1995. Began as entertainment reporter and worked my way up through the ranks to senior editor. As senior editor, was responsible for copyediting the entire newspaper.
• File clerk. St. Francis Hospital (Milwaukee). Summer 1993 and Summer 1994. Filing medical records paperwork.

Publications

• Book review, "The Madness of Mary Todd Lincoln," by Jason Emerson. Journal of Illinois History. Autumn 2007. 
• “Was Mary Lincoln Bipolar?” Journal of Illinois History. Winter 2005.
• “Acts of Remembrance: Mary Todd Lincoln and Her Husband’s Legacy.” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. Summer 2004.

Conference papers

• “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary: A Psychological Examination of Mary Lincoln’s Many Conflicts.” Conference on Illinois History, Springfield, IL. October 2003. 
• “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary: A Psychological Examination of Mary Lincoln’s Many Conflicts.” Women and Conflict: Historical Perspectives conference. University of California at Santa Barbara. October 2003. Amended and abridged version of the above.
•  “Acts of Remembrance: Mary Todd Lincoln and Her Husband’s Legacy.” Southwest/Texas/Popular Culture Association conference. February 2002. Published in revised form in the Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, Summer 2004.