TARA S. KILLEBREW
tarak@stanfordalumni.org
20 Hidalgo Terrace
San Francisco CA 94103-2213
415.487.9780 (home/work)

SKILLS

- Some experience with SEC filing interpretation, particularly financial statements

- Excel: Macroeconomic dynamic modelling; financial model generation with SEC filings; pivot tables; regression analysis; other statistical testing; graph creation and linking to PowerPoint

- Econometric modelling and analysis using SAS

- Familiarity with HTML and LISP (with emacs editor)

- Some experience with UNIX and SQL

- Web-site design with GoLive/Dreamweaver and some familiarity with Photoshop and Illustrator

- Thorough familiarity with major style guides for proofreaders

EDUCATION

University of California at Berkeley: 2002

Completed undergraduate coursework in mathematics (vector calculus, differential equations, matrix algebra, probability theory), statistics/econometrics, and economics

Stanford University: B.S. Biological Sciences; completed June 1997

Attended three off-campus programs:

- The Bass Center, Washington D.C., Spring 1997: Congressional internship and economic law/health-science policy studies

- Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA, Winter 1997: Marine and evolutionary biology

- University of Oxford, U.K., Fall 1995 to Spring 1996: Tutorials on African history, art history, British health care, British literature, drama, ecology, epidemiology, genetics, and Russian composers

WORK EXPERIENCE

Manager of Operations, Zenmaycompute LLC, San Francisco, CA. Spring 2003 to present.
Tasks included negotiation of needs of clients with subcontractors, contract creation and execution, management of team and project progress, and quality assurance. Technical writing and editing and web-site services provided to a range of clients, including an IT-solutions ASP, an events-planning business, and a local beauty spa. Performed a company-wide contracts audit.

Copy editor, freelance. Fall 1999 to present.
Currently copy editor of Ambidextrous Magazine, a contributor-driven publication run by students in Stanford's school of design. Other projects include a computer-science dissertation on distributed file systems.

Senior copy editor, The Verecom Group, Inc. Mountain View/San Mateo, CA. Spring 1998 to Fall 1999.
Edited two monthly trade publications (Integrated System Design and Silicon Strategies), with a readership of 30,000+, covering systems-on-silicon technology and electronic design automation of programmable logic. Also produced end-of-year vendor guides.

Proofreader, Eloquent, Inc. San Mateo, CA. Fall 1997 to Spring 1998.

- Produced text components of multimedia presentations

- Helped create and maintain an extensive style guide for tech proofreaders

Intern, Office of Rep. Xavier Becerra (30th District-CA), Washington D.C. Spring 1997.

- Designed and launched a factual database accessed by district and Washington staff

- Researched issues and wrote memos for the legislative aide

- Co-organized a grant-writing seminar for Los Angeles non-profit workers

SAT test-prep teacher, The Princeton Review, Inc., St. Louis, MO/Palo Alto, CA. Summers 1994 to 1996.

Lab researcher, Washington University Dept. of Biological Sciences, St. Louis, MO. Summers 1992 to 1995.

VOLUNTEER WORK

Grupo de la Comida, San Francisco. Made grocery deliveries to a shelter for the homeless and to a center for families dependent on food assistance.

San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners (Fall 2003). Systems administration, help with grant proposal, materials gathering for educational seminar, filing and organizing, merchandise selling at non-profit bazaar, consultation on Web site.