Objective

    Looking to learn on the job!  Seeking a summer full or part-time position ideally involving public relations/communications - related skills
 

Experience

Embassy of Australia                                                    January 2000-      Washington, DC 20016
   Public Affairs Intern
   Creating/maintaining media contact databases, invitation lists, sending press releases, writing news shorts for embassy website

American University Residential Life and Housing         August 1999-        Washington, DC 20016
    Desk Receptionist Letts Hall
    Dorm access/security, screening/connecting resident phone calls, mail/package tracking, crisis management

Novartis Pharmaceuticals                                             June-Aug. 1999     Suffern, NY 10901
    Product Quality Inspector/Assured Quality Level
    Inspecting product for defects, 2nd week promotion - random sample AQL, supervise running of inspection line

Bloomberg News, National Press Bldg.                         November 11th 1998     Washington, DC 20016
    Election Night Intern
    Monitored election results, both via television and Internet news

Bell Atlantic Mobile                                                      June - Aug. 1998     Orangeburg, NY 10962
    Activations desk support
    Activating cellular phones, customer service, tech support and information

Friedheim Journalism Center , American University       August 1997 - May 1998    Washington, DC 20016
    Computer Lab Assistant
    Operating help desk, assisting School of Communications classes
 

Education

American University, School of Communications September 1997 -
Print Journalism Major/History Minor Washington, DC 20016
 

• Honors Student; Dean's Scholarship; Dean's List - Spring '98
• Managed 400+ ticket sales/discretionary cash funds for Burma Freedom Dinner; AIDS Walk; community service/volunteer work; assistant managing editor for start-up online student newspaper
• Relevant Course Work: Cross-Cultural Communications, Reporting, Writing for Mass Communications, Irish Revolutionary Traditions, Politics of Peace in N. Ireland, Japan & the U.S.
• Published: The International Library of Poetry 1999 Anthology America at the Millennium

Skills

• Netscape, Explorer - Internet research skills, Composer/HTML web design
• Word Perfect and Microsoft Word proficiency; Some PowerPoint, Excel, Access

Conversational Italian