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Resume updated 21 February 2010

Name: Lucy Day Hobor

Education: Bachelor's degree, computer science and bachelor's degree, linguistics
Experience: 5+ years (in publishing industry)
Employment situation: employed
Type of employment: Full Time
Gender: Female
Marital status: Married
Own transport: No
Driver's license: No
Citizenship: United States of America
English ability: Native U.S. English
Mandarin ability: None

Education details

University of Chicago, 1999 to 2003

• B.S. Computer Science, B.A. Linguistics, Honors in the college, 2003
• Cumulative GPA: 3.706500

Woodward Academy, 1995 to 1999

• High school diploma, summa cum laude graduate, 5th out of 238 students
• Gold Eagle Honor Roll (1995 to 1999)
• Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) score 1590 (possible 1600)
• University Scholar (merit-based scholarship of USD$8,000 from the University of Chicago)
• National Merit Scholar (merit-based scholarship of USD$2,000)
• Various foreign language awards for French and Spanish language study

Employment history

China Knowledge. February 2009 to the present.

• Editor. Job duties include editing business, finance, and economic news articles for China Knowledge Newswires written by staff in China; helping my supervisor oversee the production and quality of the daily quota of articles; filling in as news supervisor as needed; editing business and industrial guidebook materials for publication by China Knowledge Press; helping train new and junior writers; expanding and maintaining the style guide and writing manual; working with sales and technical teams to improve the interface, security, and traffic of the China Knowledge Online web portal. Miscellaneous duties have also included attending meetings with potential clients, interviewing job candidates, and acting as MC for the opening of an exhibit of the paintings of Mr Lee Khoon Choy at the National Library, an event attended by the President of Singapore.

Princeton University Press. March 2004 to October 2008.

• Production Editor and Author-Compositor Coordinator. January 2008 to October 2008. Associate Production Editor and Author-Compositor Coordinator. July 2005 to January 2008.
  • simultaneously managed projects of varying difficulty and priority from unedited manuscript through printing and binding
  • collaborated successfully with internal departments (editorial, design, illustration) as well as suppliers (freelance copyeditors, compositors)
  • upheld expectations for schedule and quality
  • improved handling of TeX copyediting and typesetting of math books
  • improved public website materials relating to books typeset with TeX
  • provided direct support to authors with technical difficulties
  • provided support and training for colleagues in multiple departments
• Sales Assistant. March 2004 to July 2005.
  • gained knowledge of scholarly publishing
  • provided administrative/clerical support for sales staff
  • produced sales documents in Word, Photoshop & Quark; organized data and tasks in Excel; tracked e-mails in Outlook; tracked letters to authors using Access
  • photocopied, filed, and mailed sales materials
  • provided some customer service by phone and e-mail
  • scheduled inter-departmental meetings
  • categorized each season's books in 5 subject code systems.
  • earned praise for prompt completion of assignments and systematic organization of tasks
  • provided training and materials for replacement

Office Team. Full-time, January to March 2004.

• Competitive Intelligence Research Assistant. Temporary worker for Educational Testing Service. Performed Internet research using Internet Explorer and data entry using Excel. Trained other data entry assistants. Earned praise for efficiency and responsibility.

University of Chicago Department of Computer Science. Part-time, September 2002 to June 2003.

• Tutor. Aided college students with technical and conceptual computer programming problems in Scheme and C++ using Unix and Mac. Earned praise for helpful advice with problem-solving puzzles.

American Computer Experience. Full-time, July to August 2001.

• Camp Counselor/Instructor. Taught and inspired teens to program in C++.

John Goldsmith in the University of Chicago Department of Linguistics.

• Research Assistant. Implemented text analyses of the Voynich Manuscript using Perl. Set own goals and hours. Part-time, January to June 2001.

Skills and qualifications

Editing. Ability to edit text for clarity, consistency, and correctness according to specified style guide.

Software. Extensive classroom, work-related, and self-taught experience in Windows, Unix, and Mac. Daily use of MS Office (Word, Outlook, Excel, and Access); daily use of Adobe Acrobat Professional with PitStop; daily use of TeX software, such as TexnicCenter. Some experience with Photoshop, Quark, and Dreamweaver.

Web Design. Self-taught beginning in 2001. Learning has proceeded both by direct experimentation and by reading relevant technical and conceptual books. Originally conceived as a vehicle for my book collection, my personal website has become not only an end in itself, but a driving passion. I'm now building my site in HTML with CSS styling and PHP scripts that retrieve data from a MySQL database. I have grappled with questions of visual design and information architecture. For pages I've worked on, please see my online portfolio.

Personal characteristics

Ambitious, enthusiastic, and self-motivated, ability to interact with a wide range of people.

Contact information

Handphone: +65.8382.9302
Email address: LucyDay at spjg.com

References and university transcript available upon request.

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