Marilyn's Profile

If you need editing, proofreading, or other secretarial work, please contact me.

Editing Rates

General

Editor's Level	Scored 93% on editing test.  Test score 100% .  Test score 85% or higher.  Test score 70% to 84%.  Test score less than 70%.
First name	Marilyn
Country	United States
City	Pahrump
Profile	Editor for http://partyplancompanies.com, 2004 to present. Duties: Editing website for content, spelling, grammar, tracking contacts for different companies whose ads are on the site, editor for newsletter starting June 7, 2007 to present. Edited Book “A Mormon Odyssey” published by Xlibris in 2003. http://www.amazon.com/Mormon-Odyssey-Journey-Center-Soul/dp/1413418783/ref=sr_1_1/104-9963032-3734346?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183220716&sr=1-1 Edited book for punctuation, grammar and spelling before final publication. Back of the Book Indexer for Book “Reassessing the Presidency” published by the Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 2001. See information about the book here: http://www.mises.org/store/product1.aspx?Product_ID=109 Created a back of the book index for this 745 page book. Set-up Typist, September 2000 to September 2001, MailBox News/Elko Independent. Duties: Set up of classified page for weekly publication Assistant to Editor, September 1999 to September 4, 2000, Elko Daily Free Press. Duties: Clean-up and format e-mails and snail-mail articles and letters to the editor to be inserted in newspaper, paginated editorial page for daily paper. Clean-up Typist, February 1999 to August 1999: Elko Independent newspaper. Duties: Retrieving faxes from computer, cleaning them up for insertion in the paper, typing up articles received through the mail, also posting relevant articles to the website. Executive Secretary, December 1990 to September 1998, Nevada Cattlemen's Association, Elko, NV. Duties: Filing, office manager, billings for membership, membership records, bulk mailings, correspondence, supply ordering, all other general secretarial duties and bookkeeping. Organized tradeshow for annual meeting. Put together program for Annual Meeting. Organized tradeshow for annual Bull Sale. Also organized entries for the Bull Sale, putting them in catalog form for mailing to prospective buyers. Formatted and edited a monthly newsletter sent out to the membership. Administrative Assistant, 1985 to August 1988, A&M Biosciences, a testing service for animal allergies, Mesa AZ. Duties: Set up of computer mailing list and input for over 3,000 doctors on dBase 3, monthly billing and filing, ordering supplies for the lab, other general office duties including typing letters, memos, and answering the phone. Transcriptionist, October 1981 to July 1984, Chapman & Associates, Court Reporters, Phoenix, AZ. Duties: Transcribed court proceedings from audio tape to formal court documents. Personal Secretary, June 1979 to May 1981, Dr. John Cowley, Physics Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Duties: Typing of formal papers for submission to professional journals; letters, and filing. Also typing of theses and dissertations for undergraduate and graduate students under Dr. Cowley. Word Processing Center Assistant Supervisor, August 1975 to November 1975, Instructional Psychology Dept., Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. Duties: Data entry of professional papers, letters and other documents required by the professors in the department. Skills: Data processing, typing, editing, proofreading, formatting, back-of-the-book indexing, billing, membership records, bulk mailings, correspondence, ordering, general secretarial duties. Organized tradeshows for annual convention for eight years.
Education degree	BA
Major specialization	Other, Music
Second specialization	Office Administration
First language	English
Areas of specialization	Not selected

Work experience

Computer experience

TOP --- HOME