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DENISE IONA
5801 Lumberdale Road Houston, Texas 77092
CONTINUING EDUCATION AUTHOR SUMMARY: Sixteen-year diversified writing career creating continuing education and prelicensing courses and trainers’ manuals, as well as editing and updating existing client texts, constructing exams, and adapting text based courseware for interactive online delivery
"I wholeheartedly recommend the fine services of the InkSlingers team to anyone who values quality and professionalism.” -President, Real Estate Licenses Services, Inc.
"She is a skilled writer, and in these past months, she has shown an exceptional level of professionalism in connection with her work for our company. She is clear thinking, and this shows in her ability to thoroughly research material and compose fresh, easy to follow text. Her work ethic is most commendable.” -CEO, Securities Education Institute, Inc.
“I believe Denise is particularly well suited for mission-critical tasks because of her ability to focus on what is important, her flexible nature, and her willingness to cooperate. She is articulate and observant.” -President, UNICORP Financial Group, Inc.
“Denise's performance has been nothing less than stellar. Her style of writing is fresh. She has a way of presenting technical, and sometimes complicated, material in a straightforward and easy-to-understand fashion. She can be counted on to provide thoroughly researched and accurate content. At PEC, we received many comments praising the courses Denise authored.” -President, Professional Education Corporation
“[Denise] is an excellent communicator and easy to work with as needs and projects change.” -Operations Manager, InsuranceStudy.com
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
August 2007 – March 2010 COURSEWARE DEVELOPER AND CONTENT WRITER Contracted by several CE providers during this time to author new courseware, to revise and update existing courses, to generate literally thousands of exam questions for clients' existing offerings, and to convert text based courses to classroom equivalent products for interactive delivery.
May 2004 – July 2007 Real Estate License Services, San Diego, CA COURSEWARE DEVELOPER AND CONTENT WRITER Performed extensive revision and update of eight real estate prelicensing courses and created thousands of associated quiz and exam questions. Revised and updated real estate continuing education courses. Authored new real estate and insurance CE courseware. Also wrote thousands of insurance questions for practice test banks with answers and rationales.
Was extensively involved in adapting and preparing text-based courseware for interactive, Web-based delivery, including conversion to HTML and PDF. Populated tens of thousands of fields in large, online test bank databases.
The increased workload necessitated the hiring of an additional InkSlingers author/editor.
November 2001 – May 2004 COURSEWARE DEVELOPER AND CONTENT WRITER Under contract wrote several courses including state-specific insurance ethics courses for Georgia, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, and Utah; Long-Term Care; The Personal Auto Policy (ISO 1998); and Homeowners 2000. Created test banks for Dearborn Publishing, Inc. and converted text courses to online delivery.
December 2000 - November 2001 Professional Education Corporation, Cincinnati, OH COURSE CONTENT WRITER
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Authored · Created an eight-module Personal Financial Management Workbook for use as a sales tool by investment advisers · Improved on the company’s course offerings by updating and supplementing its existing courses · Was solely responsible for course content · Served as researcher, writer, editor, and copy editor
August 1999 - June 2000 Securities Education Institute, Inc. (SEII), Durham, NC COURSE CONTENT WRITER
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Authored · Researched detailed material from many sources, including interviewing industry professionals and experts, in order to author texts · Worked in a team environment to review and edit existing materials in order to prepare them for publication · Devised test banks for all courses written
September 1997 - August 1999 ProEd Consultants, Inc., Dallas, TX COURSE CONTENT WRITER
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Authored · Researched material for new courses and edited and updated the company’s existing materials · Was solely responsible for course creation · Worked independently to author 17 courses consisting of product-specific titles and general texts · Worked on several projects simultaneously, working well under pressure and consistently meeting tight deadlines · Frequently worked with state agencies to facilitate course approval · Devised test banks for all courses written
June 1994 - August 1997 COURSE CONTENT WRITER · Wrote continuing education courses under contract for several CE providers during this time. Some representative clients included Affordable Insurance Educators, ClienTell, Life Instructors, The Center for Continuing Education, Noble, ProEd Consultants, and WebCE / UNICORP Financial Group, Inc. · Worked autonomously to execute projects with little or no supervision · Worked on several projects at one time consistently meeting established deadlines
1978 - 1994 Held positions in the corporate sector as purchasing manager, sales manager, and eventually business owner.
EDUCATION 1971 Business Administration, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
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