Employment
- Independent Contractor/Consultant
- Instructional Designer, Technical Writer and Editor
- Design, write, edit, and develop elearning and print educational materials, reports, newsletters, brochures, and other projects for companies and non-profit organizations
- Private university
- Writing Tutor
- Taught students to identify and correct problems in areas such as organization, clarity, and grammar
- Created and delivered presentations and workshops on writing in disciplines such as business and engineering
- Medical education publisher
- Technical Writer and Editor, Project Manager
- Edited subject matter experts' presentations and researched literature to create content for a medical journal's continuing education activities, in print and online formats
- Edited and proofread activities created by other writers
- Selected illustrations and worked with the Media Department on the layout of print and online projects
- Developed procedures, checklists, storyboard templates, and schedules for creating new types of online activities
- Tracked and managed the production of projects by working with subject matter experts, peer reviewers, other writers, other editors, graphic designers, circulation staff, sales staff, and printers
- Trained other writers on Microsoft Word and the reference manager software ProCite
- Public university
- Technical Editor
- Reviewed theses and dissertations for adherence to university format guidelines
Education
- M.S. in Technical Communication and Information Design
- Project: Developed a full-day workshop that teaches faculty methods for helping students improve their writing
- Sample courses: Instructional Design, Document Design, Usability Testing and Research
- B.A. in English, concentrations in Professional Writing and Literature; Minor in Accounting
Computer Experience
- Operating Systems
- Macintosh 9, X
- Windows XP, Vista, 7
- Software
- Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe PageMaker
- Adobe Photoshop
- FileMaker Pro
- Mediawiki
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Publisher
- Microsoft Word
- Moodle
- ProCite
- Udutu
- Programming
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML)
Professional and Honor Societies
- Society for Technical Communication
- Golden Key International Honor Society
