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Education and work experience:

  Work experience:

2004 - present • Wire editor / Podcast producer at the Tahoe Daily Tribune:
Editing staff-written and wire stories; laying out news pages with stories, photos, and graphics; writing headlines and editing photo captions; producing weekly audio podcast: This Week at Tahoe.

2003 - 2004 • Editorial assistant at the Tahoe Daily Tribune:
Editing staff-written and wire stories; laying out news pages with stories, photos, and graphics; writing headlines and editing photo captions.

February 2000 - 2002 • Online content developer at sacbee.com:
Uploading all Sacramento Bee staff-written stories to the Web site five days a week; designing Web pages for sacbee.com's Events section.

June 1999 - February 2000 • Assistant online content developer at sacbee.com:
Uploading all Sacramento Bee staff-written stories to the Web site on weekends; designing Web pages for The Bee's home and garden stories; updating The Bee's sports Web pages; contributing weekly humor items to sacbee's "Smile!" section; updating the Events and Dining sections of Sacramento.com.

May 1999 - June 1999 • Page editor at The Press-Tribune, Roseville, California:
Editing news stories; laying out news pages, placing text and photos; writing headlines and captions; proofreading finished pages.

May 1998 - June 1999 • Weekend content assistant at sacbee.com:
Uploading all Sacramento Bee staff-written stories to the Web site on weekends; designing Web pages for The Bee's home and garden stories.

January 1998 - May 2000 • Web site editor at State Hornet newspaper:
Editing and designing Web site for California State University, Sacramento, student newspaper, uploading stories, photos, and graphics several times weekly.

September 1997 - May 1999 • Cartoonist at State Hornet newspaper:
Writing and illustrating a weekly comic strip for student newspaper.

January 1997 - May 1998 • Copy editor/head copy editor at State Hornet newspaper:
Editing and proofreading stories and finished page flats at student newspaper, checking for spelling, grammar, punctuation, and AP Style errors.

September 1995 - May 1996 • Features section editor at Impact newspaper, San Joaquin Delta College:
Assigning stories, copy editing, and laying out pages for student newspaper.

September 1994 - May 1995 • Features writer/editorial columnist at Impact newspaper:
Writing weekly opinion columns and features stories for student newspaper.

  Software and editing skills:

Over five years of HTML and professional Web site design experience, including the use of JavaScript and Java applets, tables, frames, graphics design, and photo editing. See above links and other Web sites created by Phillip L. Sublett.

Several years of experience with Macintosh and PC platforms, including frequent use of the following software:
• BBEdit -- HTML and text editing for Macintosh
• NoteTab -- HTML and text editing for PC
• Microsoft Word / Office 98 -- word processing
• QuarkXPress and Pagemaker -- paginated layout
• Photoshop -- photo editing/graphics creation
• Fetch -- Macintosh FTP program
• WS FTP Pro -- PC FTP program
• Netscape, Internet Explorer, and other Web browsers.

Over four years of paginated layout experience using Pagemaker and QuarkXPress on both Macintosh and PC platforms.

Several years of writing, editing, and proofreading experience, checking newspaper stories for Associated Press style.

Good knowledge of English grammar and punctuation usage, both in AP style and Chicago Manual of Style.

Knowledge of Classical languages (four years of Latin and some ancient Greek in high school).

Better-than-average drawing skills, and experience designing computer graphics with Photoshop.

   Education background:

California State University, Sacramento (B.A. journalism)

San Joaquin Delta College (A.A. communications)

Lincoln High School -- Stockton, California

Ballard High School -- Louisville, Kentucky

Lake Travis Middle School -- Austin, Texas

Lake Travis Elementary School -- Austin, Texas

Florence Pope Elementary School -- Puyallup, Washington

Fir Grove Elementary School -- Puyallup, Washington

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