Anca Toma

My jobs and projects:

• Après Furniture, London - apresfurniture.co.uk (Office furniture B2B retailer)

Blogger, Social media and Website Executive - part-time - Jan 2012 to present

- Writing articles for the company blog apresfurniture.co.uk/Blog

- Writing, coding and analysing e-marketing campaigns - example

- Maintaining social media accounts - Twitter, LinkedIN, Facebook, Pinterest

- Optimising website content and SEO

Achievements:

- Convinced my team of the social media and blogging advantages for the business

- Created and developed the Wordpress blog and social media accounts. They are

now on a steady growing path and have attracted new business opportunities

• Centre for Investigative Journalism, London - tcij.org

Researcher, Journalist - part-time volunteer - Aug 2012 to present

- Gathering information from different sources (online databases, institutions,

statistics) to create a new research tool for investigative journalists

• Crown Media, UK - crown-media.co.uk (Media simulation and training)

Journalist Trainee - Apr 2012

- Participated in a 10 days media simulation exercise part of NATO’s Joint Warrior

training

• Oracle, Romania – education.oracle.com (Software and hardware)

Junior Marketing Specialist for Oracle University - full-time - Sep 2010 to Jun 2011

- Coordinated HTML/e-Marketing campaigns for Oracle University EMEA “Celebrity

Seminars” (including scheduling, analysing target audience, design and content)

- Assisted the social media presence

- Created, supported and maintained internal sites – blogs, intranet, wikis

• F5 Webcorp, Realitatea-Media – money.ro (Business news website)

Online News Editor - full-time - May 2009 to Sep 2010

Sample work: money.ro/anca-toma

- Wrote news, features, interviews, analyses for the Jobs, IT, Education sections

- Wrote national and international news, monitoring live broadcast and press

agencies

- Optimised articles for Google indexing (SEO)

- Ensured website content flow through their private CMS

Anca TOMA +44(0) 788 073 8488 mail@ancatoma.com www.ancatoma.com

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• Catalyst Solutions – catalyst.ro (Recruitment agency)

Recruitment Consultant - full-time - Jun 2007 to May 2009

- Sourced, interviewed and wrote candidate reports

- Offered recruitment training

- Organised company events and Assessment Centres

My computer skills and tools used:

• InDesign - newspaper&magazine design, newsletters, brochures, posters, infographics

• Dreamweaver, Wordpress - HTML, CSS, Javascript - Websites, Blogs and e-newsletters

• Photoshop - photo editing

• Content management systems (CMS) - Magento, Wordpress

• e-newsletters: Pure360, Oracle internal newsletter systems

• Microsoft and Mac OS tools

My education:

• MA, Journalism (International) Print with Merit

University of Westminster, School of Media, Arts and Design, London, Sep 2011-Oct 2012

• BA, Communication and Public Relations

National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, 2008-2011

Some trainings/conferences I attended:

• Data journalism, City University London, Mar 2012

• Facebook Developer Garage, London, Feb 2012

• Advanced Sales techniques for job events and recruitment, Edurom, Bucharest, Jan 2008

* See some recommendations on my LinkedIN profile. Other contacts will be provided on request

* I have the full right to work and live in the UK without sponsorship

Anca TOMA +44(0) 788 073 8488 mail@ancatoma.com www.ancatoma.com

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