. I appreciate your comments and critiques. As I said, writing resumes does not rank highly on my life's list of pleasurable activities. Although, it does rank rather highly on my Pain in the Ass list. But onward!
Jake Thomson
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Objective:
Help progressive causes inform and educate the public, raise money, register voters, and get out the vote.
Summary of qualifications:
Volunteered with the Denver County Democrat Party's Block Captain Coordinating Committee, setting goals, monitoring progress, and developing materials to be used.
Volunteered with the Denver County Democrat Party during the 2004 election cycle as a House Sub-district Block Captain Coordinator.
Assisted Block Captains and Precinct Committee People register and educate voters in Colorado House District 8A by supplying voter registration forms and precinct walk lists.
As part of the general Denver County GOTV campaign, phone banked - calling people with mail in ballots to get the ballots to the early voting locations.
Along with the other groups registering voters and getting out the vote, an additional 66,794 voters were added to the rolls from the 2002 General Election, a 28% increase, and 84,192 additional voters went to the polls, a 53% increase county wide.
Assisted Denver County Democrats with fundraising. One event I worked on raised approximately $2,500.
Assisted the Mike Miles for Senate Campaign in getting out the vote by calling likely voters and urging them to vote in the Primary Election.
Raised approximately $1000 along with approximately $350 of in kind donations for the Mike Miles campaign.
Worked with COPirg as a canvasser for approximately 4 months and helped them phone bank on legislative issues.
I also have experience with HTML design, and data entry. I can type 45 wpm.
Education:
BS in Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 1977
10/88 - 4/89, Completed Certification Program as a Neuro-Linguistic Programmer, NLP Comprehensive
Professional Experience:
9/97 to 4/05
ADT Security Services Inc.
Dispatcher/Inbound Operator for National Monitoring Center. Monitor Burglar/Fire Alarm systems at commercial establishments such as KMART, Red Lobster, and Home Depot. Dispatch appropriate authorities when required, as well as take inbound calls from key holders and authorities that other dispatchers had contacted. Fielded 100-150 calls per day, updated customer accounts with dispatch information.
1/97 to 9/97
COREStaff Staffing Solutions.
Worked as a temp doing office work for several clients, The Rocky Mountain News, The Hibbert Group, and ADT Security Systems, Inc. I was assigned as a temp to do data entry on a special project for ADT in June 97 which led to my assignment as a dispatcher starting July 97. I left COREStaff because ADT hired me as a full time employee.
3/94 to 11/96
US West Communications
Sales Consultant for Western Region, Washington and Oregon. Assist US West customers establish, change, move, and disconnect residential telephone service.
Previous work history information available on request.
Community activities:
I'm a member of Colorado Friends of Old Time Music and Dance.
Alas, liz, I've only attended 1 Moon Festival. It was the year they held it at the Arvada Center, but that was many moons ago.
Anyway, Flame away. Constructive critique welcome and sought!