Objective

Seeking English Teaching Position

Experience

Teaching:

Guitar Instructor

June 1995 to Present

§         Teaching guitar performance, fretboard theory, music theory, as a private instructor to individuals and small groups.

Editing:

Copy Editor

Feb. 2004 to Jan. 2006, McGraw-Hill Companies, New York, N.Y.

§     Editing and proofing news copy, for Associated Press style, on deadline for Engineering News-Record, Constructor, ENR Sourcebook, and other magazines.

§     Creating weekly content page for ENR, including writing headlines, captions, and blurbs.

§     Managing pre-print production, checking final pre-press copies.

Associate Editor

Jan. 2006 to Jan. 2007, McGraw-Hill Companies, New York, N.Y.

§     Managing editorial production of Engineering News-Record Sourcebook quarterly.

§     Hiring and managing freelance writing and photography staff, assigning stories, editing and writing copy, writing headlines, fact checking and researching, invoicing, maintaining files and editorial calendar, interfacing with clients.

§     Managing production and art staff, directing graphics and layout, proofing, guiding pre-print production of 150-page publication on deadline.

Writing:

Newswriter

Feb. 2004 to present, McGraw-Hill Companies, New York, N.Y.

§     Writing news stories on weekly and monthly basis for McGraw-Hill Companies magazines, both as a staff editor and freelance writer, including assigned and self-generated coverage of complex international commodities, design, and construction markets.

§     Tasks include doing extensive research, arranging interviews, conducting telephone and voice-conference interviews with global analysts and CEO-level industry representatives.

Newswriter

Feb. 2001 to Jan. 2003, Cecil Whig, Elkton, Md.

§     Writing daily news stories, covering government, education, and police beats.

Newswriter

Aug. 1999 to Dec. 2000, Star-Gazette, Elmira, N.Y.

§     Writing daily news stories, covering general news.

Newswriter

May 1997 to June 1998  Daily Review, Towanda, Pa.

§     Writing daily news stories, covering courts, police, education, government.

Education

City Vision College, Kansas City, Mo.

2010 to 2011

§     Bachelors of Science, Non-Profit Management

Tompkins Cortland Community College, Dryden, N.Y.

1996 to 1998

§     Liberal Arts coursework

Department of Defense Information School, Ft. Meade, Md.

1986 to 1987

§         Journalism, Military Occupational Specialty