AMY LOGAN
15710 Woodcroft Dr., Houston, Texas 77095
Home/cell: 281-546-1108
amyclogan@gmail.com
Professional editor and writer with expertise crafting concise and accurate content on deadline. Work well with
employees, sources and vendors at all levels – including top executives. Possess effective negotiation, leadership and
communication skills that promote a team environment and assure the achievement of established goals.
— PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE —
Hart Energy, Houston, Texas
2013-2014
Senior Editor, Production Technology, E&P magazine
 Wrote monthly production technology columns
 Edited monthly contributed production features and wrote them as necessary
 Attended industry conferences for news gathering, event coverage and source recruitment
 Wrote for other sections of magazine (e.g., Digital Oil Field, Operator Solutions) and special sections as assigned
 As member of senior editorial staff, edited articles and proofed final layouts of magazine through to publication
Halliburton, Houston, Texas
2010-2013
Manager of Writing Services
Managed the internal corporate communications for Halliburton's more than 75,000 employees worldwide
 Edited all content disseminated by the Employee Communications group within Halliburton Corporate Affairs
 Planned and developed HalNews – a weekly employee e-newsletter, also posted on the intranet home page
 Wrote company news articles for internal newsletter
 Wrote and sent targeted employee emails
 Handled crisis communications for internal audience
 Helped edit and revise the written portions of internal marketing campaigns and corporate reports
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Austin, Texas
2008-2010
Assistant Editor of Fraud Magazine
 Led the effort to create a new, user-friendly version of the Fraud Magazine website (www.fraud-magazine.com) from
conception to final product
 Managed and routinely updated the Fraud Magazine website in the Ektron content management system
 Produced the Fraud Info e-newsletter and Fraud Magazine e-newsletter for national and global audiences
 Editor and liaison for contributing association members and staff that submitted articles to Fraud Magazine, the
association’s bimonthly membership magazine, which covers topics relating to the fraud-fighting industry for global
distribution to the association's more than 55,000 members
 Proofed each book of magazine page layouts throughout process to publication
 Wrote and edited columns, feature articles, and member and staff profiles for Fraud Magazine
 Edited and wrote content for promotional resource guides, marketing collateral and the ACFE websites
 Contributed marketing content with search engine optimization in mind
 Provided daily onsite news coverage of the ACFE’s largest annual event for the conference website
American Payroll Association, San Antonio, Texas
2005-2008
Editor of Membership Publications
 Editor and liaison for contributing association members and staff that submitted articles to Paytech magazine, the
association’s monthly membership magazine that covers topics relating to payroll and accounts payable, and which
disseminates association marketing messages
 Proofed each book of magazine page layouts throughout process to final color positive from printer
 Wrote and edited payroll, accounting and business features, association membership marketing copy, vendor technical
advertorials, and member profiles for Paytech magazine
 Wrote and edited columns and feature articles for Paytech Online, APA’s monthly online newsletter
 Wrote bimonthly PayMatters column, providing general finance advice as quoted from relevant, credible sources
 Created and edited content for promotional brochures, event guides, marketing collateral and a media kit
 Provided onsite news coverage of APA’s largest annual event in APA Today, the daily event newspaper
 Unofficial staff photographer, providing professional headshots of staff and photos of merchandise for sale online
 Negotiated rates for Paytech cover photography with professional photographers
Amy Logan
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The Villager, The Woodlands, Texas
Editor-in-Chief
 Managed staff of five writers for large weekly community newspaper
 Provided weekly editorial calendar and assigned stories to writers
 Edited all sections of newspaper
 Wrote community feature stories
 Wrote weekly editorial and opinion columns
2004-2005
San Antonio Express-News, San Antonio, Texas
2003-2004
Advertisement Builder
Used Apple Mac platform to design and build advertisements in Quark XPress and Adobe Photoshop design software
San Antonio Express-News, San Antonio, Texas
Editorial Assistant
Performed administrative tasks as assigned for SAEN’s Metro desk
2002-2003
Seguin Gazette-Enterprise, Seguin, Texas
May to September 2002
Assistant Managing Editor
 Edited entire newspaper and proofed final layouts daily
 Helped manage staff of four and assigned stories to writers
 Covered breaking news and community events daily as writer and photographer
 Laid out daily newspaper
 Laid out weekend features section and wrote the section’s cover story each week
 Contributed movie and book reviews as well as local entertainment features to weekly entertainment tabloid
The Courier, Conroe, Texas
2000-2002
Features/Entertainment and Special Sections Editor
 Editor of The Courier’s weekly features and food sections, the weekly entertainment tabloid, the monthly Lake
Conroe tabloid, and all special sections that ran seasonally
 Maintained editorial calendar and assigned stories to freelance and staff writers
 Designed all features, entertainment and special sections of daily newspaper, changing the cover designs each issue
 Responsible for launching weekly entertainment tabloid and Lake Conroe tabloid from concept to finished product
 Managed a large stable of freelance writers that contributed regularly to all sections and tabloids
 Wrote weekly feature stories for weekend features section of daily newspaper and occasionally provided photos
 Occasionally stood in for a news editor and laid out the daily newspaper
 Proofed final pages of daily newspaper before publication
The Courier, Conroe, Texas
General Assignments Reporter
Covered local breaking news and events
1999-2000
— EDUCATION —
Bachelor of Arts, journalism; Minor in photography
1996-2000 – Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas
— TECHNICAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE —
Quick study with most software applications; Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Office
Communicator, etc.), Ektron and Interwoven CMS, Contribute and CoffeeCup e-newsletter tools, SharePoint 2010, Adobe
Photoshop and Quark Xpress; Working knowledge of Adobe InDesign, PowerPoint, and basic HTML (typically used for
cleaning up code and troubleshooting in CMS)