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Objective:
To obtain an internship or job placement in the media and journalism fields; and, to use my communication skills and experience to write, edit, or design documents for print media.

Education:
B.A. in Communication - Concentration in Electronic and Print Journalism
Minor in Professional Writing
Virginia Tech, Graduated May 2009
Cumulative GPA 3.77
Honors: Magna Cum Laude

Summary of Qualifications:
  • Highly organized and quick-learning achiever who is responsible and dependable.
  • A confident worker with strong communication skills who works well in individual or team environments.
  • Talented, creative worker with strengths in writing, editing, style and design angles of Communications.

Related Work Experience:
Contributing Writer, Planet Blacksburg
Fall 2006, Fall 2008, Spring 2009
Contributing Writer
Wrote feature stories, reviews, and interviews

Contributing Writer, Bella Magazine - Roanoke, VA
May 2007 - November 2007
Wrote business profiles and feature stories for the magazine


Other Work Experience:
Administrative Assistant, Norfolk Southern - Roanoke, VA
January 2010 - Present

Manager, MaggieMoo's Ice Cream and Treatery - Roanoke, VA
Summer of 2005, 2006, 2007, and April 2009 - January 2010
  • Managed and counted out registers; opened and closed the stores; trained new employees, maintained and stocked inventory.
  • Ensured that all employees provided customers with the best service possible; communicated to customers the process of ordering and made sure they were clear about the pricing; did everything possible to guarantee a happy customer.

Work Study, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute - Blacksburg, VA
May 2008 - August 2009
  • Assisted Public Relations & Marketing Manager on special projects as needed
  • Helped researchers with special projects.
  • Organized & arranged meetings for researchers, other faculty & staff.
  • Aided in the coordination and implementation of special events.
  • Greeted and routed all visitors and research study participants to the appropriate personnel.
  • Performed a variety of administrative duties: answered telephone and routed calls for over 200 employees; sorted and delivered mail; prepared and shipped packages; responsible for copying, binding and shipping proposals on tight deadline; and completed other duties as assigned.

Employee, Caribbean Tan - Blacksburg, VA
May 2008 - May 2009
  • Counted and managed the register; opened and closed the stores; maintained and stocked inventory.
  • Laundry; maintained clean and sanitized tanning beds.
  • Provided excellent customer service.

Activities:
Delta Zeta Sorority - Kappa Theta Chapter
Spring 2007 - Present
Historian Fall 2007-Spring 2008
  • Attended and photographed multiple events, meetings, and community service activities and designed and created a scrapbook of the year’s events.
ARK Project Committee Head Fall 2007-Spring 2008
  • Organized times and locations for ARK benefit concerts; established sponsors; and secured entertainment. Instrumental in creating a variety of safety belt awareness ideas for the ARK Project. Created and designed a brochure and other written material about the ARK Project


Related Courses:
  • Professional Writing
  • Media Writing
  • Technical Editing and Style
  • Reporting
  • Visual Media
  • Designing Documents for Print
  • Creating User Documentation
  • Broadcast Writing
  • Writing for the Web
  • Principles of PR

Skills:
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Dreamweaver
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Powerpoint
  • HTML, XHTML
  • XML