R É S U M É
Education
Stevens Institute of Technology: B.S. in Quantitative Finance, Minor in Philosophy
Cumulative GPA: 3.71 Honors: 2021 Tragos Quest to Greece Scholar; 2021 Stevens Creative Writing Contest, 1st Place; 2022 Zollinger Outstanding Senior Award–winner
Experience
Writer, Editor, Writing Coach | Self-Employed Aug 2019 – Present
- Coaching writers on their most ambitious projects, to help them publish faster and take their writing further than they could on their own
- Self-publishing writing on my personal site and on my Substack publication, The Intronaut, to hundreds of subscribers
- Writing essays, short stories, and books — both to self-publish and to submit for publication
- Editing essay drafts and book manuscripts for writers and authors who seek to master the craft of writing
Editor in Chief & Curriculum Director | Write of Passage Jan 2023 – Dec 2024
Write of Passage, a premier online writing school, ran a cohort-based course to teach people to how become better essay-writers and capitalize on the opportunity of publishing high-quality writing online.
- Edited our CEO's personal essays and newsletters and helped him grow his audience (450,000+ followers on X) and drive traffic to our Bootcamp product
- Restructured the entire Write of Passage curriculum, compressing the primary lecture content of our Bootcamp from twelve 90-minute sessions to seven such sessions, making the curriculum simpler, more valuable, and more engaging for our students
- Ghostwrote the scripts for each of the seven Live Sessions for both Cohort 12 and Cohort 13, which our CEO presented to our students using slides, via Zoom
- Managed and edited many sales email sequences for our various products, one of which contributed to our $1.1 MM in revenue for the final cohort of the Write of Passage Bootcamp, in the fall of 2024
- Researched, designed, and wrote an entirely new 90-minute Live Session for Cohort 13, on essay structure: "Make It Flow"
- Managed and edited 75+ issues of the Write of Passage weekly newsletter, delivered on time each Wednesday to a list of 35k active readers with a 43% open rate on average
- Led a collaboration between the Product and Production teams to create five pre-recorded videos for our most mature segments of the Live Session curriculum, reducing our team's workload during the cohort, and creating timeless, high-production assets
- Wrote internal memos to guide editorial style, pedagogy, product pricing and packaging, and marketing strategy to inform leadership's decisions
- Designed a new educational product (a paid email course) by building the curriculum, compiling material, managing our lead writer, and editing all of the content to deliver a valuable experience for beginner writers, which included lessons and writing prompts
- Designed landing pages and edited marketing copy to drive over $2.5 MM in sales across four cohorts of the Bootcamp
- Managed staff writers and contracted writers to produce content for the Write of Passage blog
Web Content Writer | School of Business at Stevens Institute of Technology Aug 2022 – Jan 2023
- Created long-form news articles published on the university’s website, featuring students’ achievements, faculty research, and campus events
- Translated complex faculty research into digestible video scripts for an ongoing lecture series
- Ghostwrote messages on behalf of the Dean for a monthly newsletter, with an audience of 30k
Leadership
SigEp’s National Mental Health Committee | Founding Member Sep 2021 – Sep 2022
- Directed a subcommittee tasked with creating a mental health toolkit for 260 SigEp chapters around the country, detailing options for student-led programming to support mental health and connection
Palaver: A Journal of Ideas | Editorial Board, Founding Member, Co-Author Nov 2019 – May 2022
- Created prompts fit for a dialogue between students and professors, coordinated their writing, and edited their submissions
- Formatted manuscripts of each issue to self-publish as paperback books via Amazon KDP
- Contributed as a co-author and facilitated panel discussions for the launch events of the first two issues of the journal
Stevens Philosophy Salon | Founding Member, Executive Board Aug 2020 – May 2022
- Facilitated bi-weekly discussions among students and faculty, each with 10 or more participants, to cover philosophical topics, like mortality, and explore challenging questions
Stevens Men’s Tennis (NCAA DIII) | Team Member Aug 2018 – May 2021
- Selected by coaches to represent our team as a member of Stevens’s Athletic Leadership Program
Skills
Developmental Editing, Line-Editing, Proofreading, Writing Coaching, Essay-Writing, Creative Writing, Content Marketing, Argumentation, Strategic Communication, Group Facilitation
Interests
Snow Skiing, Hiking & Backpacking, Calisthenics, Scuba Diving, Rock-Balancing, Iceland, Allegory, Absurdism, American Transcendentalism, Ethics, Tibetan Dream Yoga
Resume (Jan 2022)