Mike Marcoe

Experience

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  The Badger Herald, Inc

  Jan 1992 - Jan 1999

  Writer, copy editor, distribution manager

  • Penned critical entertainment reviews.• Edited news and editorial copy for daily newspaper, using Associated Press guidelines.• Managed distribution of 17,000 daily copies of newspaper.

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  Financial Fitness Group

  Dec 1996 - Aug 2024

  Director of content, writer, editor

  • Design financial education courses for banks, credit unions, and other large, institutional clients.• Manage database of 10,000+ learning objects, using a custom-built system.• Have written over 260 courses for the Encyclopedia of Personal Finance and the Educated Investor University. • Have written over 2,500 quiz questions to accompany them.• Work with clients to select and maintain content.• Update content every year.• Designed guides and online learning modules with company's custom-publishing program.• Design learning plans for educational campaigns used by both large and small organizations.• Write user manuals for administrators and participants. • Wrote 2,000+ terms for the Encyclopedia's glossary of investment terminology.• Wrote quiz questions for the [Wis.] Governor's Task Force on Financial Education.• Edited thousands of pages of material for content and grammar, in text, HTML, and XML.• Clients have included New York Life, Morningstar, the Ho-Chunk Nation, Cornell University, and dozens more.• Co-write white papers on timely topics.• Create client-specific content and customized content.• Ghost-wrote articles for Forbes magazine. Show less

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  Facts That Matter, Inc

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2001

  Writer, proofreader

  • Wrote 13 articles on American life for The Rating Game.• Edited proofs for Their First Time in the Movies, a book on film stars.

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  University of Wisconsin Learning Innovations (UW-Extension)

  May 2001 - Sept 2002

  Manuscript editor

  • Edited 18 course books for University of Wisconsin-Extension, using the Chicago Manual of Style.• Worked with professors to produce course books.

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  Asset Builders

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2007

  Writer, Editor

  Special writing, editing, and word processing tasks.

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  The French Confection, LLC

  Jul 2003 - Apr 2005

  Manager, bookkeeper, soup chef

  • Business manager• Financial manager• Bookkeeper• Soup chef• Barista• Dishwasher• Counter person

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  Capital City Press

  Apr 2004 - Jan 2006

  Manuscript editor

  • Edited multi-volume sets of social science textbooks, using APA, Chicago, and Vancouver styles.• Worked with authors to improve text.

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  Planet Newsletter

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2007

  Article writer, outline creator

  • Wrote articles on personal finance and retirement planning for Sentry Insurance.• Wrote outlines for other writers to use.

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  Investor Glossary

  May 2005 - Dec 2005

  SEO glossary writer

  • Wrote glossary definitions with predetermined keyword densities.

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  Peter Lang Publishers

  Dec 2005 - May 2009

  Manuscript editor

  • Edited scholarly manuscripts.

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  IGrad

  Mar 2024 - now

  Content Manager

  I am the content manager at iGrad LLC, a leading provider of financial wellness solutions for universities, employers, financial institutions, and organizations in the U.S. and abroad.