Web editor/writer/proofreader looking in L.A.
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I'm Lary Crews. My resume is available at www.larycrews.com
or here, in text:
Lary Crews
lary.crews@gmail.com lary.crews@ymail.com
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Web Content Writer/Editor/Researcher/Proofreader
Los Angeles CA 18 years on the Internet
While it's true I did not help Al Gore invent the Internet, I have worked on the web since 1990. I am a writer, editor, researcher, proofreader and photographer with singular expertise in grammar, spelling, editing and proofreading web content. Computer user since 1983. Online since 1989.
WORK HISTORY
10/2005 - 5/2008 Writer/Researcher i4cp Inc Seattle WA (Salary: $38k)
I am, by temperament, a self-sufficient, self-motivated worker but I love functioning on a team devoted to a common goal. With the team at think tank i4cp, I learned to be effective in a fast-paced atmosphere with colliding deadlines and to schedule my time efficiently.
I was the primary writer/editor of my six critical HR issues and worked with marketing, graphics, sales and IT. We supplied our member firms (typically Fortune 500 companies) with superlative encapsulated research on HR best practices in their business sectors. (The Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) is the world's largest private network of corporations focused on improving workforce productivity.)
I was the resident authority on Flexible Work Arrangements such as telecommuting, job sharing and flextime. I also managed the Mental Health in the Workplace, Substance Abuse, Relocation, Health Promotion and Wellness and Work Ethic and Attitudes knowledge centers.
Daily, I read my collected research, analyzing and choosing articles that would most benefit our members. I would then recapitulate the article in two paragraphs with proper APA citation and – after editing and proofing – I would place it online at www.i4cp.com. We created these “continuous update” summaries weekly, covering issues in all six of our Knowledge Centers. In addition, I wrote three published Highlight Reports – Benefit Trends, Retirement Benefits and Flexible Work Arrangements. These 25-page reports were published both online and in paper editions.
(Note: i4cp was formerly known as the Human Resource Institute.)
1/200-8/2005 Developer/Owner/Operator Hollywood HQ Burbank CA (Salary: $40k)
I owned and operated my own Internet retail company selling books, CDs, DVDs and Hollywood souvenirs on Amazon.com and eBay. I wrote our advertising and listing copy, created and maintained our website, and supervised the product procurement, online listing, ordering, shipping and customer contact departments. We grossed an average $75,000 a year with a net of approximately $45,000 annually. I reluctantly closed HHQ to move back to Florida to care for my 84-year old mother.
8/1993-12/2000 Online Writing Instructor America Online Vienna VA (Salary: $35K)
Over 7 years, via AOL’s Online Campus, I taught more than 4,000 students how to write their first novel, meeting with them in a virtual classroom twice a week. We AOL teachers lead the way in the use of interactive chat scripts to teach our classes. We paved the way for future E-learning classes. We used organized chat rooms, monitored message boards and extensive Email to teach our students.
“Lary was one of the most popular teachers in what was a very early offering in the online classes’ space on AOL. He managed to work within what was one of the earliest online course-ware offerings, patched together from our standard community technology, and was consistently praised by the folks running the program, and even managed to be noticed by the earliest chroniclers of the adventure that was AOL.” June 20, 2008
Paul Hyland, Producer, America Online
10/1983-3/1998 Freelance Writer Sarasota FL (Income: from 22K to $45K)
I pursued a full-time freelance writing career, writing more than 1,000 magazine articles/columns, mostly for business magazines, which were hot at the time. Noted for my ability to pick up the technical argot of clients quickly and effectively, I wrote radio, television and magazine ad copy for a half-dozen local advertising agencies. I was Managing Editor of the Sarasotan Quarterly glossy city mag and the Florida Business Journal bi-weekly tab newspaper.
While freelancing, I taught workshops at 40 writers conferences and put on my own day-long writing seminars a half-dozen times. I was the keynote speaker at the Romance Writers of America National Convention in Kansas City in 1992 and have served as an emcee on two dozen occasions through the years. In addition, I wrote four published books (two of which are still in print) and appeared on local television more than two dozen times promoting my books. Two of my books –Kill Cue and Extreme-Close-Up - have been reprinted and are available from Amazon.com.
EDUCATION
BA in Journalism with a minor in Theater
Kent State University Kent/Ravenna OH
I'm Lary Crews. My resume is available at www.larycrews.com
or here, in text:
Lary Crews
lary.crews@gmail.com lary.crews@ymail.com
Resume website: view link
Personal blog: view link
Web Content Writer/Editor/Researcher/Proofreader
Los Angeles CA 18 years on the Internet
While it's true I did not help Al Gore invent the Internet, I have worked on the web since 1990. I am a writer, editor, researcher, proofreader and photographer with singular expertise in grammar, spelling, editing and proofreading web content. Computer user since 1983. Online since 1989.
WORK HISTORY
10/2005 - 5/2008 Writer/Researcher i4cp Inc Seattle WA (Salary: $38k)
I am, by temperament, a self-sufficient, self-motivated worker but I love functioning on a team devoted to a common goal. With the team at think tank i4cp, I learned to be effective in a fast-paced atmosphere with colliding deadlines and to schedule my time efficiently.
I was the primary writer/editor of my six critical HR issues and worked with marketing, graphics, sales and IT. We supplied our member firms (typically Fortune 500 companies) with superlative encapsulated research on HR best practices in their business sectors. (The Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) is the world's largest private network of corporations focused on improving workforce productivity.)
I was the resident authority on Flexible Work Arrangements such as telecommuting, job sharing and flextime. I also managed the Mental Health in the Workplace, Substance Abuse, Relocation, Health Promotion and Wellness and Work Ethic and Attitudes knowledge centers.
Daily, I read my collected research, analyzing and choosing articles that would most benefit our members. I would then recapitulate the article in two paragraphs with proper APA citation and – after editing and proofing – I would place it online at www.i4cp.com. We created these “continuous update” summaries weekly, covering issues in all six of our Knowledge Centers. In addition, I wrote three published Highlight Reports – Benefit Trends, Retirement Benefits and Flexible Work Arrangements. These 25-page reports were published both online and in paper editions.
(Note: i4cp was formerly known as the Human Resource Institute.)
1/200-8/2005 Developer/Owner/Operator Hollywood HQ Burbank CA (Salary: $40k)
I owned and operated my own Internet retail company selling books, CDs, DVDs and Hollywood souvenirs on Amazon.com and eBay. I wrote our advertising and listing copy, created and maintained our website, and supervised the product procurement, online listing, ordering, shipping and customer contact departments. We grossed an average $75,000 a year with a net of approximately $45,000 annually. I reluctantly closed HHQ to move back to Florida to care for my 84-year old mother.
8/1993-12/2000 Online Writing Instructor America Online Vienna VA (Salary: $35K)
Over 7 years, via AOL’s Online Campus, I taught more than 4,000 students how to write their first novel, meeting with them in a virtual classroom twice a week. We AOL teachers lead the way in the use of interactive chat scripts to teach our classes. We paved the way for future E-learning classes. We used organized chat rooms, monitored message boards and extensive Email to teach our students.
“Lary was one of the most popular teachers in what was a very early offering in the online classes’ space on AOL. He managed to work within what was one of the earliest online course-ware offerings, patched together from our standard community technology, and was consistently praised by the folks running the program, and even managed to be noticed by the earliest chroniclers of the adventure that was AOL.” June 20, 2008
Paul Hyland, Producer, America Online
10/1983-3/1998 Freelance Writer Sarasota FL (Income: from 22K to $45K)
I pursued a full-time freelance writing career, writing more than 1,000 magazine articles/columns, mostly for business magazines, which were hot at the time. Noted for my ability to pick up the technical argot of clients quickly and effectively, I wrote radio, television and magazine ad copy for a half-dozen local advertising agencies. I was Managing Editor of the Sarasotan Quarterly glossy city mag and the Florida Business Journal bi-weekly tab newspaper.
While freelancing, I taught workshops at 40 writers conferences and put on my own day-long writing seminars a half-dozen times. I was the keynote speaker at the Romance Writers of America National Convention in Kansas City in 1992 and have served as an emcee on two dozen occasions through the years. In addition, I wrote four published books (two of which are still in print) and appeared on local television more than two dozen times promoting my books. Two of my books –Kill Cue and Extreme-Close-Up - have been reprinted and are available from Amazon.com.
EDUCATION
BA in Journalism with a minor in Theater
Kent State University Kent/Ravenna OH
