Caitlyn Halliburton
Writer
EDUCATION
Texas State University San Marcos, TX
Bachelor of Arts in English w/ Creative and Professional Writing Emphases Aug 2009 – May 2013
· Dean’s List
WORK EXPERIENCE
South Dade Senior High School Miami, FL
Teacher/Teach for America August 2015 – Present
· Teaches English I to over 150 students
o Certification: Secondary English (6-12, Florida)
· Creates unit and daily lesson plans and weekly assessments for six to seven classes
· Manages over 150 students’ participation, behavior, and understanding of content through research-proven teaching strategies
· Tracks, analyzes, and responds to data to create and execute differentiated lessons for varying reading levels and learning styles with the goal of achieving 80%+ mastery of standards on final assessment
· Successfully improves student participation in the classroom through integration of culturally responsive practices
· Reduces behavioral problems and altercations through mediation and relationship building with students and families
· Attends professional development workshops, team-building sessions, and monthly one-on-one meetings with supervisors as well bi-weekly faculty and staff meetings
Beauty For Real—Beauty Simplified Miami, FL
Copywriter September 2016—Present
· Creates engaging and informative content for digital marketing campaigns and general communication
o Blog posts
o Social media posts
o Product sheets and brochures
o Business-to-business digital communication
o Business-to-consumer digital communication
· Collaborates closely with the graphic design team to produce brand-appropriate material
· Analyzes consumer reports to develop creative marketing strategies
· Assists in managing social media accounts
· Attends sales events and engages directly with customer to build customer relations
ArtCenter/South Florida Miami, FL
Creative Writing Instructor September 2016—January 2017
· Taught Creative Writing classes to a small group of teenage girls sheltered under Florida’s Department of Children and Families
· Created lesson plans that integrate creative freedom to students while establishing a general knowledge of poetry and prose
· Facilitated discussions meant to deepen the connection between student’s own writing and published pieces of literature and poetry
· Researched and prepared reading materials that highlights the lesson’s objectives
Naked Lime Marketing Houston, TX
Production Specialist June 2014 – May 2015
· Proofread marketing campaigns in both Spanish and English to ensure quality and legal compliance
· Copyedited and loaded more than forty campaigns daily through CMS application
· Launched campaigns through CMS application directly to clients’ customer database
· Singlehandedly established a quarterly, four-hour leadership workshop for new associates
Texas State University San Marcos, TX
Tutor/Workshop Coordinator Sept 2010 – May 2013
· Implemented more than ten academic and professional workshops
· Strengthened more than fifty students’ written and verbal communication skills
· Tutored more than fifty students one-on-one on concepts/elements of writing for various disciplines
· Assisted in producing/revising Writing Center policies and procedures
Additional Experience
· Academy of American Poets—Associate Member
· Slippery Elm Literary Journal—Featured Poet
· Bilingual—Fluent in Spanish and English, written and verbal
· Proficient in Mac and PC software; Adobe InDesign and Photoshop; Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
· Kappa Delta Chi Sorority, Inc—Vice President and New Member Educator, Omicron Chapter
o 2012-2013
o Managed eight committee chairs to ensure operations were running appropriately
o Taught, mentored, and monitored eighteen new members as they fulfilled community service, study hour, and fundraising requirements
o Prepared activities and assessments that reflected required new membership fulfillments
o Rewrote all outdated policies in the chapter’s by-laws and constitution