Allen W.
Wright
Organizational
Skills: Developing and completing projects including
preparing work schedules, assigning articles, editing, consulting legal
advisors, coordinating with design teams and supervising finished product. Chairing
workshops on Canadian popular culture and the role of the Internet in education
at international academic conferences. Serving on the organizational committee
of conferences. Designing and promoting large display at university library and
promoting it on CityTV
Communication Skills: Outstanding communication skills, including
editing and writing for scholarly and popular publications, editing corporate
newsletters, making presentations to academic audiences, conducting extended
interviews with children’s, young adult and genre authors, politicians and
world-renown scholars
Research Skills: Superb research
skills, including finding visual footage for news organization under tight
deadlines, conducting extensive medical literature searches, providing
information and materials to award-winning documentaries, Broadway-bound
musicals, films in development, international students and teachers, producing
exhaustively-researched scholarly presentations on medieval literature and
modern popular culture for international conferences
Cataloguing
Skills: Creating and revising catalogue entries using
the principles of AACR2, Library of Congress Subject Headings and National Library
of Medicine Subject Headings, MARC coding and authority control, as well as
with non-standard formats
Analytic
and Creative Skills: Logic and problem-solving skills, identifying
connections and patterns and taking corrective action, developing alternative
solutions
Customer
Service Skills: Providing front-line customer service to
clients under tight deadlines.
General Management Skills: Motivating through clear
expectations, increasing ownership and validating contributions, scheduling, meeting
deadline requirements, budgeting, and identifying possible efficiencies
Technical Skills: Proficient in Word,
Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, e-mail and Internet, HTML and
PhotoShop
Experience
Clerical Staff, Kelly Services,
2005
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Create PowerPoint presentations and Word documents
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Send and receive correspondence
Literacy Test Marker, Drake International,
2004-2005
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Assessed
and marked Grade 10 Literacy tests. Analyzed and provided feedback on marking
schemes
Media
Librarian,
Visual Resources, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,
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Researched
and provided visual footage for reporters and producers
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Responded
to in-person, telephone and e-mail requests. Prepared news reports and stock
footage for transmission on satellite network
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Catalogued
(“shotlisted”) news and stock footage
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Collected
footage for use in promotions. Staffed the circulation desk, signed items in
and out of library, shelved videotapes
Audio-Visual
Librarian,
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Conducted
medical literature research for doctors and nurses
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Booked,
delivered and set-up audio-visual equipment for board meetings, educational
seminars and patients
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Made
and processed interlibrary loan requests for Regional Health Network,
delivering and receiving journals and books to and from other medical libraries
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Organized
and updated display of journals. Shelved items and handled circulation duties
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Updated
library catalogue
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Produced
electronic resource pathfinders and a brochure promoting library to hospital
staff
Office
assistant/Clerical worker/Customer Service Representative, Kelly Services,
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Processed Esso
fleet card applications from businesses and embassy staff
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Prepared business
responses to customers
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Data entry
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Handled inbound and
outbound customer service/collections telephone calls, correcting credit
card errors
Assistant
Editor,
Corporate Communications, Imperial Oil,
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Oversaw
the production of multiple corporate newsletters – including preparing budgets
and schedules, assigning articles, seeking legal clearances, and copy editing
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Copy
edited contests and promotional material
Copy
editor/Text Processing Specialist, INOFAS Integrated Systems,
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Corrected
errors in and formatted legal documents that had been converted to electronic
sources
Additional
Experience
Webmaster, Robin Hood – Bold
Outlaw of Barnsdale and Sherwood (www.boldoutlaw.com)
1997 to present
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Created
educational website that has won awards from Britannica.com and The Open
Directory Project
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Praised
on television, radio and in newspapers
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Many
university courses link to this site. Wrote scholarly and popular historical
articles
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Interviewed
best-selling authors and politicians
Editing: Features Editor, Ryersonian, 1996
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Assigned
and developed longer articles for campus newspaper
Writing: 1992-2000
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Contributed
articles to several arts and cultural publications, including Artery and Zdorov!
EDUCATION
Library and Information
Technician Program
(In progress, started 2003)
B.A.A. in Journalism for
Degree Graduates,
1996
Honours B.A. in History
and English,
1993
Select Publications
“’Begone, Knave! Robbery is out of fashion
hereabouts!’: Robin Hood and the Comics Code Authority” in The Outlaw Tradition: New Interdisciplinary Studies ,
edited by Helen Phillips, Manchester University Press (forthcoming – originally
presented at 1999 academic conference in
“Sketching
Thoughts” (art review) Zdorov!, The
Magazine of Ukrainian Things, Summer 1997.
REFERENCES: Available on request
JOURNALISM PORTFOLIO:
Available on request and online at http://www.boldoutlaw.com/portfolio.html