EDUCATION:
8/96 - present University of California at Berkeley — senior, majoring in History

SUMMARY:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Extensive experience with computers, including HTML coding
• Typing 70 words/min.
• Business management skills
• Detail-oriented, career-minded
• Bilingual: English, Russian
• Member of the Berkeley Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and Golden Key National Honor Society
• Publications in San Jose Mercury News, After the Storm, and The Talon

APPLICATION EXPERIENCE:
MS Office 97, Claris Works for Macintosh, Word Perfect 6.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer, NetScape Communicator, Paint Shop Pro 5, Print Shop Deluxe

INTERNSHIPS:
7/99 - 8/99 Voice of America, Washington, D.C.

• Wrote and recorded articles to be broadcast to Russian, as well as translated articles by VOA correspondents into Russian for the Russian Service
• Researched and wrote editorials expressing the views of the U.S. government on international politics for the Policy Department
• Composed International Crime Alerts for the Policy Department

• Conducted extensive research at the Library of Congress and over the Internet
• Wrote a research article of the economic impact of legal immigration on the United States economy

• Discuss Barbara Boxer's platform and her position on current issues with constituents
• Write regret messages and make regret phone calls to organizations around California that have requested the Senator's presence at an event
• Respond to constituent mail, using the Quorum database

WORK EXPERIENCE:
10/97 - 7/98 Secretary for The Law Offices of De Goff and Sherman, Berkeley, CA

• Transcribed tapes into a WordPerfect document format, subsequently printing them out for revision by the employer
• Did citation proofs on briefs, which involved checking to make sure the citation appeared in the legal brief exactly as it did in original case and inputted the changes, when necessary
• Composed letters accompanying materials to be sent out or in answer to letters received by the office not pertaining to legal briefs

• Entered the course/reader information and the Table of Contents into a database
• Searched for publisher information using NetScape and Melvil
• Scanned the reader in on a DocuTech and edited it, calculated royalty costs, proof read formatted readers.

9/96 - 5/97 Business Manager for the Heuristic Squelch (a UC Berkeley student publication)

• Was responsible for collecting through advertisers the minimum funds to print the next issue
• Made and kept business relationships with marketing representatives from our client companies, kept a database of the advertisers
• Designed advertisements when necessary; put together various handouts and information sheets for the advertisers

• Searched web sites for companies interested in taking on interns from a requalification school
• Contacted the personnel departments and established professional relationships to set up the internships
• Kept record of the responses to the offer and maintained a database with the contacted companies names, addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and personal names of the people contacted
• Referred the contacts to the President of the Los Altos Software Testing House

• Answered the phones and talked with clientele in the absence of agents
• Took messages and transferred calls to agents in other offices
• Filed, sorted out, and stacked papers into folders, etc.
• Looked up properties on the multiple listing services: MetroScan and INFOLINK
• Did property search for certain characteristics

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