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SUMMARY
- Anna Skinner is a researcher, writer and editor working to turn data into knowledge and knowledge into action through expert information-gathering, analysis and organization
- Twenty years' experience in the information industry as a corporate librarian, journalist and teacher
- Thorough, fast and detail-oriented
SKILLS
1. Reference smarts
- Able to quickly locate, organize, synthesize and summarize complex information.
- Skilled at tracking down timely and current answers to all kinds of reference questions.
- Experienced at meeting deadlines head-on, with aplomb.
2. Teaching and training
- Created a graduate-level information-gathering course for writers and others as an adjunct faculty member of Portland State University's book-publishing program.
- Developed a seminar on finding and evaluating the accuracy and reliability
of information for editors and reporters at the Portland Tribune and Community
Newspapers Inc.
- Helped train staff members at the high-tech PR firm Waggener Edstrom to find answers to their most common questions using print resources, databases and the Internet.
3. Rolling with change
- Committed to keeping up
to date on developments in technologies that help people share ideas and
resources. Adaptable in the search process and fluent with reference sources
from books to databases to blogs; skilled at locating information in "invisible
Web" resources that search engines can't see.
- Knowledgeable about historic
and expert resources that aren't online at all.
EXPERIENCE
- Fact wrangler and word herder, 2001-present
- Provide a variety of information services from grant writing to development support to Internet search training
- Researcher, Waggener Edstrom, 1998-2000
- Waggener Edstrom is a fast-paced international PR firm whose clients include Microsoft Corp. and other high-tech firms. As a member of its Research and Library Services team, answered reference questions, tracked and summarized technology and business news for senior executives and clients, helped train staff members, and managed special projects such as researching and writing an analysis and directory of firms in the bioinformatics sector.
- Editor and writer, 1984-1998
- Developed a sharp eye for detail, facility at conducting interviews, and skill in communicating with clients and sources as a journalist and editor of material from breaking news to novels to press releases. Worked for the Waggener Edstrom PR firm and newspapers including The New York Times, Willamette Week, the Anchorage Daily News, The Roanoke (Va.) Times & World-News. College internship with The Associated Press, Baltimore.
EDUCATION
- Master of library science, summa cum laude, Emporia State University, 2000
- Bachelor of science in journalism, University of Maryland, 1985
- Continuing education: Courses and workshops in nonprofit management and competitive intelligence
ETC.
Member:
- Willamette Valley Development Officers
- Association of Independent Information Professionals
Volunteer work:
- Development assistant, Creative Music Guild, Portland, Ore.
- Question developer, WorldQuest 2005, World Affairs Council of Oregon
- Newsletter editor, Oregon Chapter, Special Libraries Association
SERVICES
- Grant writing and research
- Development support
- Reference service and information legwork
- Editing, writing, fact checking and proofreading (reports, marketing materials, brochures, informational material, newsletters, donor profiles)
- Current awareness (tracking, organizing and summarizing what's happening in your industry or other area of interest on an ongoing basis)
© Copyright 2007 Anna
Skinner. All rights reserved.
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