Pat Criscito

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President, ProType, LTD.

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Pat Criscito is the president and founder of ProType, Ltd., an international writing, editing, and typesetting service established in 1980 and based in Colorado Springs. She is the author of Barron’s e-Résumés (selected as one of the ten best career books of 1997 by The Los Angeles Times), Designing the Perfect Résumé, Barron’s Guide to Distance Learning (all in their second or third editions), and How to Write Better Résumés and Cover Letters. Her most recent Barron’s book is Interview Answers in a Flash. Pat is also a guest journalist for magazines and newspapers nationwide and writes special career articles for The Wall Street Journal’s careerjournal.com and The Boston Globe.

Pat has written more than 15,000 resumes and speaks nationally on career and entrepreneurial subjects, making regular television, radio, bookstore, university, and speaking appearances across the United States (including Harvard, Yale, Tulane, SMU, Thunderbird, Columbia, Wharton, Colorado College, and others). Pat is a Certified Professional Résumé Writer (CPRW) with more than 25 years of experience. She is listed in the Who’s Who Registry of Global Business Leaders and was selected as the 1997 Pikes Peak Woman Business Owner of the Year.

Today, ProType has high-tech headquarters in Colorado Springs and more than 1,500 active clients in 42 countries. In addition to editing and typesetting books for authors around the world, ProType offers services that include writing website content, preparing letters and résumés for individuals, providing corporate overflow assistance, and complete business support for local small businesses. For two years, ProType managed the initial keying and SGML tagging of the law books (10,000 pages per month) for Shepard’s McGraw-Hill, transferring the work from Chicago to the local Colorado Springs market.

Besides a Ph.D. from the School of Hard Knocks (just kidding!), Pat holds a Bachelor of Business Management degree and completed part of her MBA. She continued her studies of the German language at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Pat is a member of the National Résumé Writers Association (NRWA) and served as an officer on their Board of Directors for five years. She served on the board of trustees of the Better Business Bureau Foundation for seven years and sat on the National Association of Women Business Owners board of directors for two years. Pat is currently the President of the Board of Directors of Desert Harvest. She is also the co-founder and a board member of the Young Entrepreneurs Association, a unique entrepreneurial training/mentoring program for at-risk youth, and is an EDGE University certified entrepreneurial trainer. Pat enjoys reading, gardening, gourmet cooking, music, singing, horses, and her Welsh Corgi dogs.