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SUMMARY

I love to engage the interplay between structure and flow—when designing not only physical objects, but sentences as well. My writing career began with my furniture design education; my editing career, in high tech. Subsequent experience supporting and building editorial practices in the highly regulated industries of medical communications and advertising has taught me to both embrace rigid frameworks and, when appropriate, use them as creative launchpads. And I am always, always happiest when collaborating.

CONTENT DEVELOPMENT

Produce clear, elegant copy—and coax the same from others

• Work comfortably across platforms, including web and email, video, apps, and print
• Write and edit content for a variety of uses and formats, including instructional materials, such as FAQs, user manuals, quick-start guides, and specialty magazine articles; video scripts; event materials, brochures, and newsletters; scientific conference materials; and sales training tools and backgrounders
• Cover topics ranging from science, medicine, and tech to furniture design, writing skills, and travel
• Address both general and specialty audiences, which have included software engineers and purchasing agents, patients and healthcare providers, and readers of a variety of magazines and scientific journals

MANAGEMENT AND COLLABORATION

Encourage and maintain open communication with colleagues and clients to enhance collaboration

• Help develop accurate, compelling communication and marketing materials by working with faculty and other subject-matter experts, collaborating closely with writers and editors, designers, and creative directors, and negotiating with program and account managers
• Manage full-time and freelance editors in fast-paced environments, screen and hire new staff, and mentor employees—including administering an employee's performance improvement plan
• Managed staff writers for production and continued improvement of weekly email tech newsletter (circulation 75,000); devised new features that retained and consistently increased readership
• Led weekly meetings with project managers to manage the editorial resources for their projects

QUALITY CONTROL AND PROCESS IMPROVEMENT

Tackle procedural obstacles and streamline processes to deliver high-quality results in less time

• Ensure accuracy prior to legal, regulatory, and other review with research and fact checking
• Research industry language trends to help arbitrate corporate style issues and determine site nomenclature, and created client-specific style guides that enhance clarity and consistency
• Worked with others to build internal-facing project tracking and management systems using web-based collaboration software, including Asana, AirTable, and Hive
• Developed and implemented procedures that improved quality, consistency, and speed of editorial reviews and that improved manuscript version control and reference retrieval

OTHER SKILLS

Keep a cool head while solving problems and help create enjoyable experiences

• Produced videos for in-house meetings—contributing to script-writing and handling all sound mixing, visuals editing, and animations
• Host knitting classes and organize annual knitting retreats; develop all classroom and promotional content (eg, brochures, websites, and social media), handle contracts for facilities and finances, manage registration, and coordinate staff
• Managed scheduling, accounting, and basic daily upkeep of former Governor Jerry Brown's nonprofit

EMPLOYERS

• Nucleus Global, SF, CA ; 2020-present
• Olivia Travel, SF, CA; 2019-2020
• Nucleus Global, SF, CA; 2013-2019
• Giant Creative Strategy, SF, CA; 2010-2013
• Knitting on the Coast (own company); 2008-present
• Freelance writer and editor; 2006-2010
• IntraMed West, SF, CA; 2004-2006
• ApotheCom, Oakland, CA; 2001-2004
• Intraware, Inc, Emeryville, CA; 1998-2000

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION

• Certified by the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences
• Bryn Mawr College, BA, English, concentration in Feminism and Gender Studies, minor in Fine Art
• Editcetera class, "Pesky Critters and Bugaboos of English Grammar," taught by Amy Einsohn
• College of the Redwoods, Fine Woodworking Program under the direction of James Krenov
• Harvard Graduate School of Design, summer Career Discovery Program in architecture

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

Author:

• A shop-made scroll saw: an inexpensive solution for handling large work. Woodwork, August 2006: 64-69.
• The Furniture Society Conference. Woodwork, December 1998: 55-62.
• Classical chinese furniture. Woodwork, October 1998: 43-47.
• Fabricating metal hardware for a Chinese-inspired cabinet. Woodwork, October 1998: 62-65.
• Book review: Bungalow Kitchens. SeniorWomenWeb.com

Editor: Editor for countless articles published in peer-reviewed journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and The Lancet

REFERENCES AND ADDITIONAL SAMPLES

Available upon request