Address: 4496 Ruggles Court, Annandale, VA 22003 Phone: 703-750-2793 E-Mail: jkelly2005@aol.com

Education

George Mason University, currently a first-year graduate student working for an M.A. in English with a concentration in Professional Writing and Editing (first-semester GPA of 3.67)

James Madison University, currently a first-year graduate student working for an M.A. in English with a concentration in Professional Writing and Editing (first-semester GPA of 3.67)

Work Experience

The World & I Online, Washington, DC (October 2006-present) Editorial Assistant: Currently working part-time to develop content for a monthly online educational magazine. The World & I Online magazine features articles covering a wide variety of academic topics for teachers and students to use, including sections on politics, history, world cultures, the arts, science, and more. Responsibilities include working closely with the publisher and managing editor to develop ideas for themes and topics to feature in the magazine, researching Internet sources for scholarly articles to reprint, organizing the articles into sections that appear on the website, and writing introductions to the sections discussing the subject matter.

SAGE Systems Technologies, LLC, United States Coast Guard Headquarters, Washington, DC (October 2005-August 2006) Technical Writer: Worked as a SAGE contractor for one of the company’s clients, the U.S. Coast Guard, in the Human Element and Ship Design Division at the Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, DC. Responsibilities included writing and editing numerous technical documents that promote the division’s voluntary programs in crew and ship safety.

Created and managed textual and graphical materials to support crew and ship safety programs. Produced a quarterly newsletter which included articles, summaries of news stories, hyperlinks, graphics, and upcoming events. Selected material to use for the newsletter and wrote drafts of the articles and news summaries. Wrote articles for the Coast Guard magazine Proceedings. Created and edited PowerPoint presentations for delivery.

The Times Community Newspapers, Reston, VA (May 2004-August 2004) Newspaper Intern: Summer intern for Steve Cahill, Executive Editor of The Times Community Newspapers. Duties included reporting and writing various news stories about events taking place throughout Fairfax County, while communicating directly with sources both by telephone and by field interviews. Received exclusive byline credit for eight news/feature articles published during the internship.

Fairfax County Government Center, Fairfax, VA (May 2003-August 2003) Administrative Intern: Summer intern for Katherine K. Hanley, Chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. Responsibilities included a variety of administrative and clerical assignments in support of the Chairman’s functions and activities. These tasks included researching local newspapers for the chair and sending letters to constituents.

Additional Experience and Qualifications

Frequent contributing columnist to the editorial page of the JMU student newspaper, The Breeze, writing opinion columns on numerous topics throughout college years

Extensive training and experience in writing expository essays and research papers for many college classes, including a course on Writing in the Public Sphere

Article published in the editorial section of the Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA daily newspaper)

Copy editor, features editor, and profiles editor for high school newspaper, The A-Blast (rated 6th in national competition), reporting and writing articles, editing copy for grammar, sentence structure and accuracy, and designing page layout. Earned membership in the Quill and Scroll Journalism Honor Society, received the Outstanding Contributor Award (Most Copy) twice in three years, and received the National Gold Key Award for excellence in Feature Writing (Quill and Scroll National Competition)

Four years of high school journalism courses

Staff member of the high school literary magazine, helping to edit and organize material submitted for the annual publication

750 on SAT II Writing; 720 on SAT I Verbal

Computer Skills

Proficient in page design programs such as PageMaker and Microsoft Publisher. Used Publisher to produce newsletter pages for the U.S. Coast Guard.

Successful completion of JMU information technology competency exams (skills tested include those relating to Windows operating system, word processing, PowerPoint presentations, Internet research, e-mail use, etc.); full year high school course in Desktop Publishing/Multimedia Presentations

References

Available upon request

Learn as much by writing as by reading --Lord Acton