Contact
Leigh MacKay
New Westminster, BC, Canada
leighmackay@shaw.ca
- Review, edit, revise, organize, establish management processes for corporate documentation
- Developed corporate policy manuals for employees and for training
- Published three submissions in the Vancouver Sun
- Designed brochures for a travel group
- Wrote and published 72 Review—a strata newsletter (41 issues in total)
- Created document templates for an architectural design firm
- Trained corporation employees how to get more from MS Word
- Co-hosted an MS Word Workshop at Simon Fraser University
- Wrote curriculum-development materials for use in a North American private-school system
- Edited numerous documents for students and faculty at SFU and UBC
Project
Listing
Employment
- November 29, 2010 - current - Documentation Specialist - Technical Editor in Procurements. Six-month contract extension; one-year extension to May 28, 2012; one-year extension to July, 2013.
- June 2010 - Performed a substantive and structural edit of the installation manual for Vohcom Page accounting software using strict technical procedure constraints
- Created a company style guide
- Consulted with the company owner on the direction of the product’s user manual
VANOC - Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
- June 25, 2009 to February 2010 – Contract editor to the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
IMC Information Solutions
- January 3, 2007 to June 25, 2009 – Technical editor for IMC Information Services under contract with VANOC
- April 4, 2005 to January 3, 2007 – Contracted as a writer of teacher manuals for the North American Montessori Center
- December 1, 2003 to January 31, 2004 – Contracted as a corporate writer. I performed a major revision to the company's Human Resources Manual
- May 2003 to March 31, 2005 – Technical Manuals Processing Clerk/Technical Writer
- Wrote/edited hundreds of technical laboratory procedures
- Trained staff members in documentation procedures and how to get more out of MS Word
- Created MS Word templates for policy and training manuals
- September 1976 to November 2001 – Staff announcer
- Created and wrote Master Control Room technical manuals
- Managed the staff of technical operators at CKNW
- Trained new operators at CKNW
MS
Windows and Apple Macintosh Computer Skills
- QuarkXPress
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe FrameMaker
- Macromedia FreeHand
- Adobe Dreamweaver
- Graduate of Douglas College’s Print Futures: Professional Writing Program 2004
- Member of the Editors'
Association of Canada
attending meetings of the BC Office
Professional
Development
