Graham Burgess

Copy Editor

A photograph of the applicant.
+1 (336) 407-3448
grkebu@gmail.com

Career Goals

My main objective is to become a copy editor, and my professional goal is to help authors and journalists perfect their writing by applying my linguistic and grammatical expertise to the review of their work in order to correct typos, fix narrative mistakes, and resolve stylistic problems.

Skills

Microsoft Office

  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Excel

Journal Styles

  • Associated Press
  • MLA
  • APA
  • Various house styles

Personal Skills

  • Fastidious attention to detail.
  • Effective interpersonal communication.
  • Extensive grammatical and linguistic knowledge.
  • Quick, coherent, and concise writing.

Work Experience

LOCATION COMPANY CONTACT INFORMATION
Winston-Salem, NC Ken-Lu Furniture Ken Burgess, owner & manager
+1 (336) 777-1765
kenburgess@aol.com

Relevant Positions

TIME POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
Summer 2017 Office Assistant
  • Worked with Microsoft Office programs, including Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, to create delivery schedules, provide routing instructions, and calculate payments.
  • Worked closely and proactively with delivery team to ensure that 3–5 sets of furniture arrived by their respective deadlines daily.
  • Troubleshot delivery times and arrival times with customers and furniture suppliers, involving management when necessary.
  • Answered customers’ questions about furniture products, delivery times, and arrival dates for new products, enhancing verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Collected and filed customers’ permission forms as well as wrote and assessed customer contracts.

Other Positions

TIME POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
Summer 2020 Website Designer
  • Worked independently on ensuring that website information was up to date and accurate.
  • Updated website information daily by deadlines set by management.
  • Completed checklists of web pages that needed to be updated.
Summer 2019 Furniture Deliveryman
  • Adapted flexibly to constantly shifting delivery schedules and routes due to unforeseen traffic, customers’ conveniences, and impromptu additional deliveries on a daily basis.
  • Enhanced attention to detail by retouching wooden furniture with touch-up markers on each delivery.
  • Improved verbal communication and interpersonal skills by coordinating deliveries and furniture arrangements with team of 2–3 deliverymen and ensuring customers’ satisfaction with furniture quality and layout.
  • Trained new employee on furniture delivery as well as customer service such that employee later worked as a secretary at Ken-Lu Furniture.

Education

Current

TIME SCHOOL LOCATION DEGREE MINORS
2019–2022 Raleigh, NC North Carolina State University B.A. in English w/ a concentration in linguistics
  • Rhetoric, writing, and professional communication
  • Psychology

Expected

TIME SCHOOL LOCATION DEGREE
2022–2027 Athens, GA University of Georgia Ph.D. in linguistics w/ a specialization syntax & semantics

Relevant Coursework

Achievements

Hobbies & Interests

References

Details available on request.