Research Assistant Resume
Chicago Research Assistant, ChicagO
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
- Multilingual Multidisciplinary Communication Specialist with over 9 years of experience in video production, multimedia, graphic design, data analysis, multinational advertising agency, and localization service in medical, financial and legal fields.
- Creative, analytical, organized, independent, excellent execution, team player, sensible
- Marketing research & data analysis
- Media planning and buying
- Marketing campaign management and designers supervision
- Creative writing, editing, translation and interpretation
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Multimedia: graphic design, web design, animations and video production
Computer software experience: Adobe Premier, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, and CorelDraw; 3D SolidWorks, Houdini; MS Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Media Nielsen; Accounting Peachtree
Programming: Java, C++, MatLab
Language: Fluent in English, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Teochew (certified Cantonese and Mandarin interpreter)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Research Assistant
Confidential, Chicago
Responsibilities:
- Survey quantitative analysis
- Leading Interpreter service providing international service over 200 languages
- Provided Cantonese and Mandarin face - to-face and telephone interpretation service for all industries: mainly hospitals, police station, 911 call center, district court, insurance company, banks, social service
- Evaluated the quality of Google Advertisements in English and in Chinese to improve search engine user experience
- Determined the quality of over 400 advertisement leads and websites every week
- Discussed and resolved rating differences with other evaluators to effectively generate useful rating data to help search engine advertisement quality
- Investigated controversial websites and determined whether they were fraud or scams
- Received bonus as a highly productive and accurate evaluator
Editor, Copywriter and Designer
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Planned, wrote, designed, and edited 200+ pages of multimedia magazines promoting the media group resources to advertising clients through emails and the company s website
- Organized and managed 2 - 5 designers, photographers, cameramen and other talents for multimedia magazines and commercials and advertisements promoting media resources
- Wrote and developed TV commercial screenplays, promotional articles, and advertisements promoting the media group
- Coordinated marketing and advertising campaigns to boost TV and radio program ratings
- Received outstanding young employee
Data Analyst
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Researched marketing and rating data to generate weekly and monthly reports to international clients and colleagues
- Trained 20 - 50 colleagues to use rating and consumer data software, such as Confidential s
- Checked and approved media plans for media planners to make sure media resources properly used
Writer
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Wrote over 50 career articles to publish on the website
- Edited career features
- Initiated, planned, interviewed, reported, wrote, dubbed and cut TV news
- Worked as Reporter specializing in life news, such as health, entertainment, and fun things to do
- Produced 4 - 6 pieces of 1-2 minutes life news per week to citizens
- Averagely 10-12% TV rating, equivalent to over 1.5 million audience
Webpage Editor
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Developed, gathered and edited romance features and stories
- Designed webpages, created photos and illustrations
Translator
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Translated advertising industry news articles from Advertising Age (leading global source of news for marketing and media)
- Interviewed and wrote a column featuring media industry leaders and respectful researchers