Résumé

David W. Harrington, Harrington Writing Professionals

Teaching Experience

Instructor, Undergraduate Writing Program, Columbia University (New York, NY) 2006-2008

  • Taught four semesters of a required freshman writing course using seminar and workshop models.
  • Planned syllabus and advised students according to program guidelines.
  • Collaborated with colleagues and participated in regular advisory meetings and pedagogical workshops.
  • Frequently met with and advised students.

Tutor,Columbia University Tutoring and Translating Agency (New York, NY) 2005-2007

Writer in Residence, PS 132 Escuela de Juan Duarte (New York, NY) 2005-2006

SAT Instructor, The ProTesters Test Preparation (New York, NY) 2005-2006

Work Experience

Writer and Editor, Harrington Writing Professionals (New York, NY) 2006 – present

  • Copywriting, copyediting, writing, editing, tutoring and web design for various clients, including CUArts.com, Sitter City, Revival Home Health Care, Progressive Technology Partners, the Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music, and Watering Can Press.

Alumni Relations and Devleopment Researcher, The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, (New York, NY) July 2007- July 2009

  • Provided research and information about alumni in the arts, Columbia Alumni Arts League (CAAL) members, development prospects, and individuals and institutions of interest. Created, installed, maintained, and customized Arts Initiative Wiki to collaborate and centralize information on donors, prospects, alumni, students, and special projects, with an emphasis on linking social networks. Wiki links over 1200 individual biographies and hundreds of organizations, companies, places, and events. (Samples upon request.)
  • Created Oliver Sacks @ Columbia University website, a hyperlinked resource for the Columbia University community regarding Dr. Sacks’s positions as Professor of Neurology and Psychology and Columbia University Artist. Site contains a biography of Oliver Sacks, an essay about Dr. Sacks and the Core, and web and CU libraries links to Dr. Sacks’s essays, books, multimedia, and criticism about Dr. Sacks. www.cuarts.com/sacks.
  • Participated in alumni relations and development activities, such as contacting alumni artists, participating in CAAL Nights, soliciting memberships, and assisting with special event planning.
  • Collaborated on maintaining calendars at www.cuarts.columbia.edu.
  • Writing projects such as press releases, marketing letters, and correspondence with CAAL members.
  • Ghost-wrote introduction paragraphs to two weekly newsletters.
  • Hired and managed interns.

Programme Intern, Economist Conferences, The Economist Group (New York, NY) 2006

  • Helped research, plan, promote, coordinate, and host conferences for Economist Conferences, a division of The Economist Newspaper Group which provides sponsored business conferences
  • Liaison for conference participants, guests, and sponsors.

Research Assistant and Project Manager, American Bar Foundation (Chicago, IL) 2003-2005

  • Project Manager for New York City phase of employment discrimination research.
  • Oversaw training, coordination, and research of a team examining 300 employment discrimination cases.
  • Legal and historical research; reading, summarizing and evaluation articles and books.
  • Web design, including submission review system for American Society of Legal Historians conference.
  • Research for two research fellows on employment discrimination lawsuits for forthcoming books.

Education

MFA in Writing – Fiction, Columbia University, School of the Arts (New York, NY) Exp. May 2009

  • Grants Manager, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art.
  • Awarded University Writing Program Teaching Fellowship, 2006-2008.
  • Awarded Departmental Research Assistantship, 2005-2006.

BA in English, Grinnell College (Grinnell, Iowa) 2002
• Graduated with Honors in English and 3.58 cumulative GPA.

Skills and Other Experiences

Computer: Mac and PC

Office programs: MS Office Suite, Open Office, Acrobat Pro

Web: HTML, CSS, PHP (limited), Dreamweaver, FTP, Mediawiki, blogging and CMS platforms, webhosting and webmaster experience.

Graphics and image editing: Photoshop, Gimp, Illustrator, Flash, and others

Blogging/CMS: Moveable Type, Blogger, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla

Research: Lexis-Nexis (Law, Development, or Academic Universe), Google and other search engines, Advance, ProQuest, JStor, WorldCat, and other library, online, and archival resources.

Languages: Spanish: conversant (intermediate college level).

Travel: England, Scotland, France, Holland, Spain, Italy, India, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, North America.

Partial List of Clients