SKILLS
- Adobe InDesign CS3
- Adobe Photoshop CS3
- Adobe Premier CS3
- Microsoft Office 2007
- Microsoft FrontPage 2003
PUBLICATIONS
PARAGON LITERARY MAGAZINE, Colorado Christian University (2007–2008 )
Position: Technical Editor
Duties: To organize the music selection of the magazine’s first CD compilation; to assist in design layout and implementation; and to assist in the marketing of the magazine through event-planning.
Submission: “There is a Pinhole in My Wall,” “Revelation” (poetry, 2007)
Submission: “The Etiology of Poetry within Prose” (creative non-fiction, 2006)
ALMAGRE LITERARY MAGAZINE, Pikes Peak Community College (2005–2006)
Position: Poetry Chair
Submission: “The Bells of Notre Dame” (poetry)
POSITIONS
COLORADO CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY (2007–2008, concurrent positions)
Position: Student Staff Writer for Development
Duties: To write the monthly Alumni newsletter; to design a hardcopy version of the Alumni newsletter; and to construct End-of-Year “Ask” letters, as well as other writing tasks upon request.
Position: English Department Intern
Duties: To liaison between professors and students; to build the CCU Writing Lab website; to manage the department website; to search out literary events for students to participate; to develop flyers and notify students of upcoming events; to administer exams; to managerially assist professors; to encourage student/professor community within the department; and to organize monthly dinners, as well as other writing tasks upon request.
Position: Phone-a-thon Worker
Duties: To call alumni to update personal information, to request financial donations, and to inform of current school events.
HCJB GLOBAL (2007, June–August)
Position: Staff Writer Intern
Duties: To write press releases; to interview internal and international partners for feature articles; to redesign and write for fundraising fact sheets; to assist the launch of an intranet website; to sit on the organization’s stylebook committee; to write the organization’s first email “ask” in its 75 year history; to provide a slideshow for the 2007 Annual Members Meeting; and to co-script a video.
CONFERENCES
FESTIVAL OF FAITH AND WRITING, Calvin College
(April 17-19, 2008 )
NATIONAL UNDERGRADUATE LITERATURE CONFERENCE, Weber State University (March 29-31, 2007)
Presented: “Setting Creativity Free Through Constraint” (scholarly)
EDUCATION
COLORADO CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY, Senior
Degree: English with a Creative Writing emphasis
Focuses: Advanced Creative Writing (ACW) – Fiction, ACW – Poetry, Poetry Seminar, Literary Criticism, History and Structure of the English Language, American, British, and World Literature, and Classical Latin.
AIR ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL, graduated 30 May 2003
USAFA, CO
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
LITTLE LONDON WINDS, 2007 – Current (Summer, Substitute Performer)
COLORADO CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY WIND ENSEMBLE, 2006–Current (Spring, Winter)
COLORADO CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE, 2006–Current (Spring, Winter)
MATAMATA BRASS (New Zealand), 2005 (July–October)
COLORADO COLLEGE COMMUNITY BAND, 2002–2005 (Spring, Winter)
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