Profileimage by Anne Cagle Writer from Issaquah

Anne Cagle

available

Last update: 06.09.2022

Writer

Graduation: BA
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: English (Native or Bilingual) | French (Elementary)

Attachments

RESUME2.doc

Skills

Office Suites
  • Microsoft Office Suite and LibreOffice Suite
  • Google Docs/Drive with creation and use of spreadsheets, text documents and presentations.
  • Word processing with track changes
  • Spreadsheets with Excel and Calc
  • PowerPoint creation and editing
  • Ebook editing/viewing with Calibre and Sigil
PDF Editing
  • PDF-XChange Editor
  • Ableword
Cloud solutions/CMS
  • Blogger
  • Drupal with member account administration and editing rights. Account administration with creating user accounts and preparing video, promotional and text content for publication.
  • WordPress with blogging.
  • SEO with WordPress Yoast SEO meta-tagging plugin for SEO, title tag optimization, meta descriptions, and h1 tag optimization.
Graphic Software
  • GIMP, a free Photoshop software replacement
  • Draw and Impress for graphics (LibreOffice Suite)
Style and Bibliography Management
  • Associated Press Style
  • Chicago Manual of Style
  • American Psychological Association Style
  • JabRef  bibliography software
  • Zotero bibliography software
Project Management
  • Basecamp and Freecamp as project management platforms.
HTML Editing
  • BlueFish
  • BlueGriffon
Foreign Language
Reading, writing, and proofreading French.
Script Editing
Trelby, an open source scripting software that imports screenplay formatted text, Final Draft XML (.fdx), Celtx (.celtx), Fountain (.fountain), Adobe Story (.astx) and Fade In Pro (.fadein). It exports in PDF, formatted text, HTML, RTF, Final Draft XML (.fdx) and Fountain (.fountain).
Video Editing
  • Various open-source video editing applications.
  • Audio Editing
  • Audacity, an audio editing tool

Project history

03/2018 - Present
Writer
CopyPress (Marketing, PR and Design, 250-500 employees)

 

  • Law Writer with work in writing about limited partnerships, patent law, real estate law, tax law.
  • Business Writer with work in business entrepreneurship, human resources, marketing with focus on service industries, pension funds.  
  • Ideation Creator with work in ideated automotive blogs using Google Spreadsheets with light experience in testing URL security and giving minor technical advice on Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption. 
  • Human Resources Writer for Indeed.com, writing about career changes, career education and salaries.

09/2018 - 01/2020
Copy Editor
Cognitive World (Internet and Information Technology, 10-50 employees)

Associated Press style copyediting, fact-checking and proofreading in British and American English for a website focused on artificial intelligence, robotics, social media, climate change, gaming, medicine, tech entrepreneurship, VC funding, and transhumanism.

Use of Drupal for formatting, tagging and uploading articles for publication. Managing and posting event listings on tight deadlines. Bug hunting and ticketing of CMS issues for technical staff. Selecting images from image databases. Light photo editing and cropping with The GIMP, an open source image editing program. Flagging rights permissions such as copyright infringement and potential violation of model contracts for technical staff and writers.


02/2017 - 12/2017
Biography Writer
EBSCO (Media and Publishers, 10-50 employees)

Researched contemporary and historical writers. Wrote biographical articles and literary summaries for a humanities database. Used MLA 8 style and bibliography software to format citations.


04/2017 - 09/2017
ELA Curriculum Writer
Liberty Source/TANGO Software (Other, 50-250 employees)

Researched and wrote test assessments in English literature for K-12 students. Writer of short fiction and nonfiction passages as reading comprehension content for test questions.


05/2016 - 09/2017
Legal Marketing Writer
SLS Consulting (Marketing, PR and Design, 50-250 employees)

Wrote B2C legal content about workplace accidents, medical malpractice and injury, and automobile injury. Created content about property law and injury, divorce and child custody, and product liability and injury. Writer for property maintenance articles.


10/2016 - 12/2016
Beta Website Tester
Disney Research (Other, >10.000 employees)

Beta tested a website for user interface, content, and functionality. Wrote short stories to test a content management system. Tested site on different browsers for browser compatibility.


08/2009 - 07/2014
Writer
Yahoo! Contributor Network (Marketing, PR and Design, >10.000 employees)

Wrote fashion, food, lifestyle and sports content for a consumer audience including product listicles for holiday shopping. Created content about health including difficult subjects such as mental health with sensitivity and clinical accuracy.


10/2007 - 02/2008
Website Tester
Webby Awards (1000-5000 employees)

Reviewed websites about entertainment (computer games and technology), fashion, medicine, politics, sports. The review perimeters were content, design and color scheme, functionality, navigation and structure, and interactive content (social networking, e-mail communication, chat)


Local Availability

Only available in these countries: USA
I would like to work remote.
Profileimage by Anne Cagle Writer from Issaquah Writer
Register