Dawn Wallhausen

Experience
March 2003 - Present Just Harvest Administrative Assistant / Webmaster
  • Write and edit letters, publicity materials, articles for the newsletter and other official documents.
  • Manage day-to-day finances, order office supplies, and maintain internal databases.
  • Maintain Just Harvest's website and am working on updating the functionality and look.
January 2002 - November 2002 Caldwell Consulting, Inc. Project Specialist
  • Wrote and edited letters, proposals, publicity materials, press releases, clients' grant requests, and other official documents.
  • Performed research, organized data, coordinated special events, met with prospective clients, and developed contracts.
  • Managed day-to-day finances, billed clients, ordered office supplies, and maintained internal computer systems and databases.
  • Developed content for and maintained the company's website.
February 1998 - December 2001 Telerama Internet Technical Writer / Content Developer / Webmaster
  • Wrote, proofread, and edited content for the company's official website.
  • Created new web pages and maintained the existing ones as needed.
  • Developed internal documentation and text for publicity materials.
April 1998 - March 2000 Carnegie Mellon University Researcher in Computer Science
  • Researched human-computer interactions (HCI), Web usability, and computer systems usability and wrote reports on my findings.
  • Developed Web usability testing methods, performed the tests I designed, and wrote reports on the results.
  • Created a website for the research laboratory.
  • Designed graphics and functional specifications for a user interface on a hand-held computer intended alert nurses' aides when nonambulatory patients must be repositioned.
January 1995 - April 1995 Cleis Press Intern, Publicity Writing
  • Wrote copy for use on book jackets and in promotional materials.
  • Proofread books in galley.
  • Arranged travel and accomodations for authors on book tours.
Freelance Work
  • Wrote copy for and designed print ads for JBM Immigration Group, LLC.
  • Designed and edited a newsletter for JBM Immigration Group, LLC.
  • Designed and wrote content for JBM Immigration Group's website.
  • Maintain Airheads Balloon Art's website.
Education
1992 - 1998 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
  • B.A., Literary and Cultural Theory.
  • Graduated with a 3.3 GPA in my major, 3.0 overall.
  • Activities: Student Government - Chair of Student Affairs; The Tartan - Staffwriter for Carnegie Mellon University's student newspaper; intramural fencing.
Skills

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows 95-XP, MacOS.
Applications, et cetera: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PageMaker, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, Composer, DreamWeaver, HTML, CGI, some JavaScript, and more.