P.O. Box 84
Grand Isle, ME 04746
Tel. 207-895-3451
E-mail: [email protected]
Objective: I am looking for a job in Van Buren or Madawaska, Maine, doing almost anything.
Computer skills: I type 60 words per minute on Microsoft Word. I use Microsoft Internet Explorer, and I write in HTML format to run a home Internet newsletter. I also balance my checkbook on Excel.
Licenses: I possess a resident license to sell life/health insurance in the state of Maine. I also possess non-resident licenses to sell life/health insurance in 40-something other states.
Experience: Licensed insurance verifier at Sitel Corp. in Loring, Maine, since June 2005.
I verify sales that were started by telemarketers and also verify my own sales (depending upon where I am needed).
Telemarketer at Sitel Corp. in Loring, Maine, from Nov. 23, 2004 to June 2005. I called hundreds of clients per shift.
Editorial assistant (renamed editorial office coordinator in 2003) at the weekly newspaper chain Hometown Publications in Shelton, Connecticut, 1999 to Oct. 28, 2004.
I personally typed more than 100 documents per week for 10 weekly newspapers and two advertisers. The work included typing and lightly pre-editing obituaries, press releases, sports schedules and birth announcements.
I was in charge of a full-time typist and several part-time typists and interns to ensure that the editorial content of the newspapers were ready for the copyeditors by deadline.
I worked and cooperated with copyeditors to ensure documents are typed according to Associated
Press and Hometown Publications styles.
I answered public phone calls about deadlines, birth announcements, obituaries, etc.
Freelancer for several of Hometown Publication's weekly newspapers from 1998 to 2001 (sometimes worked up to 12 hours a day as an editorial assitant and then went to nighttime events for the newspaper).
I covered meetings including Boards of Selectmen, Boards of Aldermen, tax boards, Conservation commissions and Planning & Zoning commissions.
I visited police stations to get information about the latest crimes and arrests.
Substitute teacher in Orange, Connecticut, from 1997 to 1999 and Woodbridge, Connecticut, from 1998 to 1999.
I took charge of classrooms for absent teachers.
I carried out instructions left behind by the teachers.
I improvised and created lesson plans when some teachers left none behind for me.
Education: Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT. Master of Arts, History, January 1998. GPA 3.8. University of New Haven, West Haven, CT. Bachelor of Arts, History, May 1994 .
Minor: Political science. GPA 3.8.
Languages: I can read French with minimal use of a dictionary. I can speak enough French to get what I want when I visit Quebec, New Brunswick and France. I could probably become proficient in Valley French if I was given a chance to work in a bilingual job environment for a few weeks.
Affiliations: President, Phi Alpha Theta (University of New Haven�s Historical Honor Society), 1993-94.
Accomplishments: I wrote an article about Internet chat forums for one of the chain's papers, which earned the newspaper third place in the AFCP 2000 Editorial awards.
I was one of three people nominated for "Employee of the Year" for the Loring site of Sitel in 2006.
I am also the publisher/editor of an online newsletter about the St. John Valley titled "Le Journal du Maudit Gratteux" at http://www.geocities.com/josephct1972/mauditgratteux.html
