Resume – Cindy Wagner

 

Experience Owner of Editing Ink, St. Louis, Missouri. Improve the quality of written communications through freelance copyediting and proofreading. Was featured in the March 14, 2000, issue of Inc. Technology magazine.

 
  1989-1998 Copy Editor for Maritz Inc., St. Louis, Missouri (a $2 billion, privately held company serving 76 percent of Fortune 500 companies). Dealt directly with corporate executives, project managers, art directors and designers. Edited and proofread for correctness of grammar, punctuation, content, typography and spelling, for consistency and against layout. Served as the Maritz corporate standards, grammar, punctuation, style and business-reply-mail resource. Sole copy editor of corporate communications, including the Maritz annual report, monthly newsletter and organization charts.

 

Accomplishments:

  • Provided quality control analysis for corporate organization chart updates – checking for consistency across six companies, one subsidiary and 14 divisions, and detailing more than 300 executive positions. Appointed primary editorial authority in 1991.
     
  • Earned a $1,000 award for conceptualizing, creating, editing and overseeing publication of the Maritz Glossary (a 200-page dictionary of Maritz terms).
     
  • Edited the Project Management Manual (a 350-page volume that provided the guidelines for doing business at Maritz Performance Improvement Company).
     
  • Conceptualized, documented all specs for and edited the Maritz Stationery and Graphic Styles Manual.
     
  • Edited and proofread A Centennial History of Maritz.
     
  • Won Creative Commitment Award in 1993, and Peak Performer Award in 1990 and 1993; nominated for Creative Commitment Award in 1992, and Creative Contributor of the Year Award in 1989.
  1985-1989 Proofreader/VideoShow Operator/Typesetter for Maritz. Proofreading: Read in-house, typeset copy, with emphasis on consistency, spelling, point size, typeface, leading, line length, kerning and position against layout. Some editing allowed. VideoShow: Created presentations on disk using an AT&T PC6300, VideoShow 160 and 180 units, and PictureIt and Lotus Freelance Plus software. Chosen to create all Maritz corporate (i.e., board of directors, stockholders) shows. Typesetting: Used Type Processor One software on an IBM PC.

 
  1983-1985 Copy Editor/Typesetter/Office Coordinator for R.K. Communications, Inc. (advertising agency), St. Louis, Missouri. Edited, typeset and proofread all copy. Created and maintained all copy, art and office filing systems, including client sample books; competitors’ files; creative reference files; and magazine, photo and slide libraries.

 
Education University of Missouri–St. Louis, December 1982

 

B.A. English
B.A. Speech Communication
Minor Writing
 

Graduated magna cum laude (3.78 GPA on 4.00 scale)

 

Awarded Curators Scholarship 1978-1982 (full tuition based on cumulative GPA)

 

Selected for Who’s Who Among College Students, 1981 and 1982

 

 

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