Experience

(See Academia.edu for my latest work.)

Editor, Writer
PTSD Combat: Winning the War Within
Online Media industry
September 2005 – Present (5 years)

Maintain one of the top online journals covering topics of interest to veterans coping with post-combat reintegration issues and/or post-traumatic stress disorder. Features research, news, resources, and events postings.

Ilona has 1 recommendation (1 co-worker) including:
Gordon Graham, Proect Manager, Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Conservation Corps

Researcher, Writer
ePluribus Media Journal
Online Media industry
November 2005 – July 2008 (2 years 9 months)

Collaboration with this citizen journalism initiative as author and lead researcher of the PTSD Timeline -- a first-of-its-kind database of reported OEF/OIF PTSD incidents -- as well as co-authoring the 3-part series Blaming the Veteran: The Politics of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and book reviews The Corroding Effect and The Stories They Tell.

Ilona has 2 recommendations (2 co-workers) including:
Aaron Barlow, Board of Directors, ePluribus Media
Roxy Caraway, Webmaster, ePluribus Media

Columnist
Northern Star
Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Newspapers industry
September 2007 – May 2008 (9 months)

Pieces written on a variety of subjects including the downtown DeKalb, Ill., revitalization project; the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and their effect on returning troops and military families; fear in the post-9/11 era; and coping with the fall-out and fate of Cole Hall in the midst of the February 2008 NIU school shooting.

Author
Ig Publishing
Publishing industry
2006 – 2007 (1 year)

Wrote Moving a Nation to Care: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and America's Returning Troops, which sold out all first-run copies. Post-publication activities included: planning and executing the product's publicity push (including managing all facets of a 15-city national book tour, and initiating a public outreach campaign through social marketing and social networking activities); interviewing with national and local press in all media formats (print, radio, television and web); and public speaking and teaching at various conferences.

Content and New Media Developer
imprintink.com
Internet industry
December 2002 – December 2005 (3 years 1 month)

Operated a freelance business that developed custom content, graphic new media, and marketing products for clients including but not limited to multimedia websites, flash invitations, print business card and letterhead pieces, press releases, and print advertisements.

Flight Attendant
American Airlines
Public Company; AMR; Airlines/Aviation industry
May 1987 – October 2001 (14 years 6 months)

After graduating from the American Airlines Flight Attendant Training Academy, employed in both the domestic (ORD) and international (IMA, JFK) flight service divisions. Service awards: Professional Flight Attendant Award nominee (1997); Someone Special in Chicago (1992); and Professional Flight Attendant Award recipient (1989). In 2000, traveled to Washington, D.C., to lobby the U.S. Congress on the company's behalf re: the awarding of China route authority.

Supervisor, Trust Department Word Processing Unit
UnibancTrust Company
Banking industry
June 1985 – March 1987 (1 year 10 months)

Supervised four employees (interviewing, selecting, hiring and training two of them personally) and maintained proper output level with one fewer operator. Additional duties included recording department meeting minutes and posting fees to be collected from client accounts.

Secretary, Word Processor Operator
The Jacobson Group
Privately Held; Staffing and Recruiting industry
June 1984 – June 1985 (1 year 1 month)

Data programming, executive search client resume preparation, secretarial duties (answering phones, greeting clients, etc.), and proofing of ads for the National Underwriter. Given sole responsibility for the operation and maintenance of firm's main computer six months after hiring.