Resume

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Qualifications
Skills
Computer skills
Subjects
Projects & Publications
Career History
Professional affiliations

Qualifications

Writing, editing, web and publication design

• Diploma in Professional Writing, Douglas College (2006)

Management and administration

• Business Management Training for Self-Employment, Douglas College/HRDC (1999)
• Business Administration Diploma, Red Deer College (1987)

Technical training
(Knowledge brings insight to writing and editing)

• Certificate in Drafting (manual)
• Journeyman Landscape Gardener
• Certificate in Woody Plant Management
• Qualified Plantsman
• Professional Picture Framer’s Certificate
  
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Editorial and design skills

• Writing & Research: Interviewing, feature articles, profiles, business plans, public relations, communications plans, proposals, research reports, technical communications
• Editing: copyediting, proofreading, substantive and stylistic editing
• Design: Document design, web site design, photography
  
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Computer skills

• Word processing: MS Word
• Document design: Quark XPress, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Fireworks
• Web design: Macromedia Dreamweaver
• Spreadsheets: MS Excel
• File conversion : Adobe Acrobat
• Financial: Quicken Home & Business
  
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Subjects

Horticulture, arboriculture, automotive history and news, urban planning issues, civic affairs, ethics, small business, entrepreneurship

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Projects and publications

• Research reports: Westminster Quay Public Market
• Communications plans: INSIDEOUT Publications; The Right to Quiet Society
• Publications: Tow Canada, Collision Quarterly, the Red Deer Advocate, the Other Press, Gardens West, and the e-zine, Looseleaf
  
• Website: Right to Quiet Society (www.quiet.org)
  
  
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Career History

Since 2005, I have been providing freelance writing and editing, services in the publishing and corporate communications fields, and maintain the Website for a non-profit organization.

From 2008 to 2010, I also worked as Technical Writer/Editor for BCIT, editing and rewriting the Institute policies for plain language, to improve clarity and encourage compliance.

Significant ongoing client work includes writing, copyediting, proofreading, and photography for Automotive Retailers Publishing, in Burnaby, BC.

My career began with retail work, where I learned to provide quality service to the public. Soon I was drafting for an engineering company, manually creating legal and technical drawings for housing developments.

Later, I turned to tree care and horticulture, and was employed in nurseries, city parks departments, and a university campus. Positions included Foreman of Tree Care for Red Deer, and Dutch Elm Disease Technician. (As DED Tech, I conducted a complete inventory of urban elms in an Alberta County, and all city-owned trees in the the City of Brooks, Alberta).

From 1999 until 2004, I was owner-operator of Garden Renaissance Horticulture Services, providing tree and garden care for clients in Vancouver's west side.

Professional Affiliations

Member of the Editors’ Association of Canada, BC Branch; formerly Co-chair of Programs.

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