Resume

Debra Combs

5122 Nottingham Place Lane
Apt 102
Winston-Salem, NC 27106
1 (616) 920-2581
dr.debra.combs@gmail.com


Primary Skills

• Extensive experience managing Enterprise-wide communications
• Experienced Risk Manager, IT division in Fortune 100 Insurance Industry Corporation
• Managed team of 30+ 
• Multitasked Enterprise-wide Program deliverables while also producing Domain wide deliverables
• Published multi-department newsletter for Enterprise wide IT Program
• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, Access, Visio)
• OpenOffice Suite (Text, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Database)
• Adobe Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, GoogleDocs, LotusNotes
• BlackBoard, TurnItIn

Current (Part time due to family obligations that are now complete)

• Technical / Professional Freelance Writer / Editor       
• Resume writing and review
• Interview preparation / coaching
• Sporadic short pieces (predominantly help guides and documentation)

• Fiction Writer (Unpublished)   
• Wrote two SF/F novels, currently being edited
• Wrote several short stories, revision stage   

   
Past    

• Project Coordinator / Organizational Development Analyst at State Farm Insurance Systems (IT) Department (contracted through TEKsystems)        
• Project Coordination: risk management, time management, communications management.        
• Technical Writing (ODA): white papers, help documentation, API documentation, project documentation, training manuals, program newsletter.        
• Internal Corporate Communications (ODA): stakeholder management, reports, corporation-wide communications.

   

• Assistant Professor of English at Saginaw Valley State University    
• Managed Adjunct Professors (30+ reports per term)
• Instructional design
• Program design and development
• Community liaison for Internship program
• Standard teaching load (including tech writing & professional communications)
• Extensive research, including scholarship on eLearning

   

• Instructor at Southern Methodist University    
• Standard teaching load (predominantly lower division, including technical writing)

   

Education   

• University of North Carolina at Greensboro PhD Rhetoric 
• Binghamton University (SUNY) MA English 
• Wells College BA English

   
Websites    
        Freelance Rhetoric  
        Dr Debra Combs
        Passing Hope  

Willing to travel, would consider relocation.
Delighted by telecommuting.

Greatest Strength: Can organize just about anything :-)

Greatest Weakness: No patience with irrelevant office politics.