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M. Cates
P O Box 214, 432 Pacific Rd., N. Bonneville, WA 24896

OBJECTIVE: Freelance Writer


EDUCATION
Master of Arts in English, Graduate Writing Program
Bachelor of Arts in Theater
Hollins University, Hollins, VA


WRITER, EDITOR, DESIGNER, MANAGER

2002-present. Small online business. Provide writing, editing, & design services. Provide design &/or content for business & personal communications/
marketing. Web-site design. Portraits & graphic-art illustrations, using Photoshop. Newsletters (with content), fliers, invitations, logos, business cards, personal cards & special projects.

FREELANCE WRITER / EDITOR / PHOTOGRAPHER, 1990-present. Journalism: Interviews, feature stories, humor. Published in magazines, newspapers, & online. Creative Writing: My plays & musicals produced in academic & professional venues. Also published in literary magazines & anthologies. Photography/Adobe Photoshop: Extensive experience in digital & film photography & Adobe Photoshop. At times, used to enhance income by working as a “temp.”

WEB SITES (design & content)

1. writEditDesign.com offers writing, editing & design products & services
2. "The Edgy Bookstore," Amazon-associate e-store, offering edgy books & DVDs of film-noir movies, that includes book descriptions & reviews.
3. “The Edgy Life,” a good-natured, yet satirical, outlook on life. Original illustrations.
4. additional recent freelance journalism (not my design)

PRODUCT MARKETING ASSOCIATE, Learning Tree International, Reston, VA, 2000- 2002. Wrote & edited catalog & brochure copy. Responsible for editing a wide variety of IT courses, as they evolved. Project-managed marketing deliverables for IT courses. Worked with Mac & PC. Team member for new course meetings that included course authors, technical editors, & product managers. Deadline-driven, requiring poise under pressure.

DIVISION MANAGER, Publisher of the Writings of Mary Eddy, Boston, MA. Designed, wrote & edited newsletters (using QuarkXPress) & e-newsletters. Project-managed speaking bureau, members of which gave bookstore talks. Managed communication with university students/faculty. Supervised Administrative Assistant & interns. Trained & managed 21 field Coordinators in 19 countries, including the U.S., & led monthly conference-call meetings with all Coordinators.

COMPUTER SKILLS
Windows XP, MS Office, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Adobe Reader, Adobe Photoshop, Digital & Film Photography, Macromedia Shockwave, Yahoo! SiteBuilder, Windows Live Spaces, QuarkXPress. PC & Mac experience. In process of learning Adobe CS3 web-design programs. Experienced in Internet research & basic pc administration.

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