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Objectives

Web design: To organize and maintain the content and navigation of Web sites, ensuring that they are attractive, accurate, and well-edited.
Communications: To create on-line and printed communications pieces that have a consistent appearance and tone.
Programming: To broaden my knowledge of programming languages such as Visual Basic, SQL, and Internet scripting languages in order to create user applications and interactive Web sites.

Web design: Five years creating and maintaining Web sites, ensuring intuitive navigation, easy content management, accuracy of information, and consistency of formatting.
Communications: Five years creating literature for print and PDF output; five years of writing and proofreading brochures, Web content, legal documents, and other communications.
Interactive forms: Four years creating interactive Microsoft Word forms using Visual Basic for Applications.
Programming: Knowledge of HTML, Visual Basic for Applications, and some JavaScript.

Designed the layout, navigation, functionality, and content management of HR On-line, Human Resources' intranet site.
Worked with implementation-team members to determine the site's content and appearance. Maintained the content and look of the site, responding to user feedback from other departments and ensuring that the site complied with the firm's branding standards. With 10,000 page views per week, HR On-line was the company's third-most-visited intranet site.
Created JavaScript applications, including a vacation calculator and a report-request form.
Served on the team that designed the content and appearance of the firm's Internet job-posting site, which included daily updated job listings and an on-line resume form. With a coworker, maintained the site's content.

Designed the appearance of For Your Benefit, a Human Resources-published newsletter that provided periodic updates on benefits to employees firm-wide. Designed the appearance of on-line PDF brochures, ensuring that they can be easily updated.
Worked with other Human Resources personnel to determine whether literature should be printed or available on-line. For printed literature, worked with vendors to manage the printing process.
Ensured that all literature conformed to the firm's branding standards. Used QuarkXPress, Microsoft Word, and Adobe Acrobat as necessary to create literature.

Wrote policies, newsletters, brochures, and legally required summary benefit-plan descriptions.
Wrote one-off messages sent to the organization via e-mail.

Using Visual Basic for Applications and Microsoft Word, created 34 interactive forms that guided users through completion, responding to the information that they entered. Designed a process for easily updating the forms with department lists and job titles from the firm's database.

Edited and proofread the first two children's books published by Atori Publishing.
Edited and proofread marketing materials for Dingles & Company (a publisher of children's books), Circle T Partners (an investment-management firm), CAC Industries (a manufacturer of children's toys), and several other companies.

B.A. with honors in music, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., 1996.