Curriculum Vitæ

Educational Background:
M. A. in English, January 2005, from the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana. GPA 3.743.
B. A. in English, May 2002, with minor in Italian, from Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. GPA 3.904. Alumnus of the Honors Program. 2001-2002 Excellence in English Award. Dean's List, Fall 1998-Spring 2002. Summa cum laude graduation.

Software:

• Expert Proficiency—Microsoft Office 2003/2007 Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Visio
• Intermediate Proficiency—Microsoft SharePoint 2003, Microsoft SharePoint 2007, Microsoft Office Infopath 2007
• Basic Proficiency—Adobe InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3, SharePoint Designer

Scripting Languages:

• Advanced Proficiency—HTML 4.0, XHTML 1.0, XML 1.0, XSLT 1.0
• Basic Proficiency—PHP 5, ASP.NET 3.0 (VB), SQL, Javascript

Special Skills:

• Superior research skills
• Experienced and comfortable in public speaking roles
• Versed in multiple styles and orientations of writing, including academic, business, journalism and technical
• Foundational knowledge of standards and practices in web design and development
• Strong grasp of standards and practices in overseas trade
• Proven ability to negotiate across Western/Far Eastern cultural divisions
• Basic understanding of software design cycle
• Conversational and reading fluency in modern Italian
• Expert in medieval English language and literature, especially West-Saxon and Old English

Professional Positions:
Operations Manager/Chief Operating Officer, Tommy's Lock and Alarms, Inc.; Hammond, LA. Full-time position. May 2009-November 2010. Oversaw core business functions for company, prepared and maintained business plan and marketing treatments. Formal duties included capacity in the following business areas

• Business planning
• Finance
• Human resources
• Marketing
• Policy development and enforcement
• Product research and development
• Risk management
• Supply chain management

Informal activities included sales, design of company website, preparation of bids and proposals, project management on large-scale surveillance and physical security systems integration projects.

Proven capability as proposal writer, with successful bids grossing $240,000+ over the course of 1 year.

Freelance Writer/Editor, Hammond, LA. Part-time position. January 2006-present. Composed and/or edited projects for a variety of clients. Website design/development for a variety of clients.

Documentation Specialist, Strategic Staffing Services, Baton Rouge, LA. Full-time temporary position. June 2008-May 2009. Composed system and business process documentation concerned with the Facets insurance claims processing system used by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana. Participant in configuration and design of BCBSLA's corporate intranet portal on Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007.

English, Civics/Free Enterprise, and Publications Teacher, Loranger High School, Loranger, LA. Full-time position. August 2007-December 2007. Teaching duties covered English I, Civics/Free Enterprise, and Publications I and II courses. Other duties included budgeting, fund-raising, and oversight of publication of LHS's yearbook, oversight of coverage and content of yearbook, and editing, proofreading, and revision of material associated with the publication.

English and Photojournalism/Yearbook Teacher, Archbishop Hannan High School, Covington, LA. Full-time position. August 2006-June 2007. Taught English III, IV, and V (H) as well as Photojournalism/Yearbook, and moderated National Honor Society chapter. Duties also included fund-raising, budgeting, and oversight of publication of yearbook, procurement of hardware necessary for desktop publishing components of yearbook program, and editing, proofreading, and revision of material published in the book. Position included function as public information officer, primarily by gathering and providing designated information to media, and by writing and disseminating press releases.

Assembly Technician, Flambeaux Controls, Hammond, LA. Part-time position. May 2005-July 2006. Assembled electrical control systems for use in marine applications by the United States Navy and in industrial applications by various commercial clients. Tasks included assembly of complex electrical boards following technical diagrams and using soldiering iron, construction of electrical cabinets, and parts procurement.

English Teacher, Saint Thomas Aquinas Regional Catholic High School, Hammond, Louisiana. Temporary full-time position. September-December 2005. Taught English I, II, and IV. Class rosters composed entirely of students displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Research Assistant, English Department, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. Part-time position. August-December 2004. Performed extensive database research and proofed galleys for academic publication for professors in Notre Dame's English Department.

Teaching Assistant, First-Year Writing Program, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. Part-time position. 2003-2004. Designed and taught two courses in English composition, maintained scheduled office hours for conferences with students, and participated in regular peer support meetings to share successful teaching methods with other teaching assistants.

Teaching Assistant, Foreign Language Department, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana. Part-time position. Summer 2002. Taught beginning Italian during the 2002 Summer Abroad program in Verona, Italy.

References:
Available upon request.