Background
SUMMARY
Editor and writer with proven expertise in business, government, and marketing content. Effective at developing reports, collateral
datasheets, packaging, multimedia presentations, and corporate communications. Strengths include copy organization, efficiency, and clarity.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Independent Contractor
2003–2010
Copy edit and write reports, collateral, business content, Web content,
and marketing materials.
BUSINESS
- Microsoft Business Solutions WW Sales & Operations: Edited daily
RSS feeds, monthly newsletters, essay deliverables, and executive communications. - Puget Sound Collections: Reorganized and polished business proposal.
- Microsoft Services: Wrote two-page marketing datasheets for salesperson leave-behinds.
- NBBJ: Polished case studies, employee bios, business proposals; proofread engineering specs.
- Tully Associates: Rewrote existing, long-form case studies into concise, Web-friendly project summaries.
- Microsoft Real Estate and Facilities: Wrote user guide for advanced conference room technology.
- International Engineering Consortium: Transformed presentation transcripts into written essays.
- Seattle's Convention and Visitors Bureau: Proofread annual marketing plans from 2005 to the present.
- WA state Dept. of Community, Trade, and Economic Development: Consolidated documents by multiple writers into a single report with consistent voice, stye, and tone.
- University of Washington Business School: Researched information packets from competitive programs and produced detailed report outlining how UW compares.
- Harvard-Westlake: Edited and proofread manual for students and parents.
- CCS Printing: Proofread product-specific marketing descriptions
for quarterly sales kits. - Lionfish Creative: Enforce corporate brand standards on collateral
for multiple clients; edit outgoing content. - Garrigan Lyman: Proofread proposals, business presentations,
and brand guidelines. - SS+K: Edited white papers for grammar, flow, and corporate style.
- Worktank: Proofread client packaging and Web site content for consistency and corporate styles.
- Rainier Color: Proofread major packaging launch for corporate style.
Senior Editor (freelance)
Edit, write, and ensure accuracy and consistency of all outgoing material.
- Direct editing services in a deadline-driven setting in coordination
with staff and freelance writers, production teams, graphic designers, and project managers. - Increase accuracy, readability, and quality of all printed and online material while enforcing corporate branding and legal guidelines.
- Work tactfully with clients, freelance writers, and internal resources
to maintain product integrity. - Create compelling written content for marketing collateral, ad campaigns, and naming projects.
- Provide detailed user testing for informational and marketing Web sites, DVDs, and CDs.
Copy Editor
Copy edited Microsoft packaging, collateral material, Web sites, graphics, and corporate and end-user manuals.
- Consistently increased accuracy, readability, and quality of all printed material while enforcing corporate branding and legal guidelines.
- Ensured quality and consistency in a deadline-driven setting in coordination with staff and freelance writers, editors, EPro designers, graphic designers, and project managers.
- Clearly conveyed information and meaning by writing marketing, creative, and technical content for client and internal communications, including case studies, press releases, and business proposals.
- Developed a division-specific template for Microsoft system requirements.
- Led development of an easy-to-use, in-house style and usage guide for business writers.
Bellevue Community College, Bellevue, WA
Credits earned, Digital Video Production
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Bachelor of Arts, English
Northwest Independent Editors Guild
Eagle Scout
SKILLS
Chicago, AP, Microsoft styles; corporate brand and style guides;
Windows and Mac platforms, Office 2000 and later, Acrobat