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Ms.
Jo Hawke
Professional
Writer / Copywriter
I offer organizational skills and
extreme attention to detail. I also offer a flexible
outlook and a creative spark. Dead-line oriented; I
work well alone or as part of a team.
I love a challenge.
Description
of my ideal company:
My ideal company appreciates originality and attention
to detail. I would like to work for a team that thinks
‘outside the box,’ where creativity is appreciated
alongside organization and professionalism.
WORK STATUS
in US:
I am authorized to work in this country
for any employer.
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EXPERIENCE
3/2003 - current
AEBN.com
North Carolina
704-529-1600
Level 3 Copywriter / Publicist
I research and then publish promotional articles
for our company in national magazines such as Klixxx
Magazine and AVN Online magazine as well as numerous
internet magazines. I also write and publish company
press releases. (The bulk of my published articles are
available Online as links, at your request.)
My current projects include:
Text editing corporate correspondence, text editing
the company newsletters, editorial copy and marketing
materials. Creation of prospective Affiliate hand-out,
prospective Feed Client hand-out, Introducing AEBN hand-out,
Introducing GayStreams.com hand-out, editing and creation
of corporate correspondence and negotiating radio publicity
with SinCity.com.
In addition I also:
- Initiate interviews and editorial calls, responding
to Internet inquires, researching corporate/brand standards,
web strategy and content, writing news articles for
associate communication channels (newsletters, web sites,
e-mail), researching potential publishers for said news
articles, leveraging technical communications to create
motivating, non-technical exchanges and maintaining
a publisher (and potential publisher) database.
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9/2001 - 6/2002
AEBN Inc
North Carolina
704-529-1600
ANS Advertising Assistant &
Promotions
Duties:
In the Promotions and Marketing department in support
of an Internet entertainment website, I conducted Internet
research for advertising leads and ways to promote my
company through: publication in magazines, radio interviews
and television.
As well as implementing
the more traditional marketing assistant duties, I personally
set-up promotional radio and television interviews.
I researched and then published promotional articles
for our company in national magazines such as Klixxx
Magazine and AVN Online magazine as well as numerous
internet magazines. I also wrote and published company
press releases.
I was also responsible
for: initiating sales calls, responding to Internet
inquires, scheduling sales appointments via telephone,
coordinating email and internet advertising campaigns,
researching corporate/brand standards, web strategy
and content, writing news articles for associate communication
channels (newsletters, web sites, e-mail), researching
potential publishers for said news articles, leverage
technical communications to create motivating, non-technical
communications and maintaining a customer (and potential
customer) database.
Company President: Scott
Coffman
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9/2001 - 6/2001
V2 Magazine
Charlotte NC
704-529-5159
Associate Editor / Writer
Duties:
Writing fiction and
non-fiction articles. Editing and writing articles submitted
in part or in whole, by the magazine editor and other
contributing writers.
Magazine Owner: Kim
Coffman
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10/2000 - 3/2001
After Thoughts
Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem NC
336-760-1245
Assistant Manager
Duties:
Open & close.
Note - Employee of the Month for
November 2000, awarded for higest Average Dollar Sales
in Region.
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5/2000 - 9/2000
Frederick's of Hollywood
Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem NC
336-659-9429
Sales Associate
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2/2000 - 3/2000
Blue Rhino
(Todays, Temp. Employment Agency) Winston-Salem NC
Administrative Assistant
Duties:
Administrative Assistant / Data Entry
Data Entry & generation of purchase
orders (PO's) & sales orders with light telephone,
customer service. The programs used to maintain the
databases for order entry were PowerCerv - Financials,
MS Excel97, MS Word 97 & MS Outlook 98.
Created, corrected, updated and revised
several customer databases. Generation of reports from
databases as well as envelopes and labels.
Organization, & light filing.
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3/1999 - 8/1999
EMCO Wheaton DTM
(Option One, Temp. Employment Agency) Morrisville NC
Company moved to TN
Administrative Assistant
Duties:
Administrative Assistant / Data Entry / Receptionist
duties
Data Entry of customer purchase orders
(PO's) with light telephone, customer service. The programs
used to maintain the databases for order entry were
Dataflow 5.4 & Wintegrate V3.0. UNIX Dataworks,
MS Word 97, MS Excell 97 & Eudora Pro.
Created, corrected, updated and revised
several customer databases. Generation of reports from
databases as well as mailing lists, envelopes and labels.
Copyediting of customer order documents
for use in Catalogs.
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8/1998 - 1/1999
Creative Stage Design (CSD)
Charlotte NC - Company closed.
Administrative Assistant
Duties:
Administrative Assistant / Graphics Design / Desktop
Publishing / Data Entry
Corrected, updated and revised two
customer databases with over 1700 listings. The programs
maintaining these databases were MS Outlook and Peachtree
Accounting.
Wrote a training manual and procedure
for the generation and printing of customer records
and receipts. For the Peachtree Accounting program.
Designed and produced the CSD catalog,
mailers, flyers, business cards, stationary, envelopes,
Fax forms, forms and other graphics projects. Stayed
on or ahead of schedule while completing multiple jobs
on a daily basis, utilizing Adobe PhotoShop, PrintShop
Publishing Suite and MS Word 97.
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5/1996 - 5/1998
ARCH Paging SE
(formerly known as Page South)
Charlotte NC
Disconnect Administrater
Duties:
Clerical / Data Entry / Pager Programming / Telephone
Support / Billing Assistant / Administrative Assistant
duties
Created an MS Access 97 database
tracking third party accounts that allowed resolution
of billing errors. Organized and processed customer
disconnects requests daily for fourteen cities in a
three-state area.
Researched, established and produced
four vital procedures that were non-existent, for the
Cincinnati Bell Information System (CBIS) and one for
the Glenayre system. This resulted in shortening the
training period of new Pager Programmers from two weeks
to four days.
Set up new accounts, programmed pagers,
troubleshooting and assisted sales representatives with
telephone technical support using the CBIS & Glenayre
systems.
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8/1995 - Present
Carolina Renaissance Festival
Huntersville NC
Entertainer
Duties:
Contracted Entertainer / Performer
Have worked at this seven-week festival
under contract as a weekend performer since 1994.
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EDUCATION
1998 New Horizons Computer Training School US-NC-Charlotte
Beginning Access 97, Certified 1998
6/1984 Palm Beach Junior College US-Florida-West
Palm Beach
Some College Coursework Completed
Creative Writing and Public Speaking
1982 John F. Kennedy HS US-CT-Waterbury
High School - graduated.
Private Tutors US-NC-Charlotte
MS Dos, MS Windows 3.1, MS Windows 95, MS Word 95 & 97
SKILLS
Skill Name - Skill Level
Microsoft Office 95,97,2000 - Intermediate
MS Word 95, 97, 2000 - Expert
MS Excel 95, 97, 2000 - Intermediate
MS Outlook & Express 97, 2000 - Intermediate
MS Access 97, 2000 - Beginner
Adobe Photoshop - Intermediate
PrintShop - Expert
Macromedia Fireworks - Intermediate
Macromedia Dreamweaver - Intermediate
Web
Design
References upon Request
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