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Career
Synopsis |
30 years
experience in written and visual communication including promotional writing,
video scripts, original research
and technical papers, software documentation, proposals, ad copy, media relations, web
site content development, medical writing, with award-winning expertise in
communicating highly scientific subject matter to a lay audience. |
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Strengths |
A creative, low-maintenance, resourceful, consultant with a sense of humor who is enthusiastic, and knowledgeable in a wide range of scientific, medical and business topics • ability to grasp complex ideas quickly and differentiate critical and trivial aspects of a problem • multimedia savvy, identifying the most effective methods for communicating a topic • coordinates visual and written project elements • persuasive and tenacious interview skills • dig deep, search in unlikely places, research skills • takes impossible deadlines in stride • geek-to-English translation specialist |
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Achievements |
Projects
that produced significant client benefits include a business plan describing how the annular core research
reactor at Sandia National Laboratories could be used for both weapons
research and the manufacture of medical isotopes, and a companion white paper
on the use of monoclonal antibodies in nuclear medicine. These projects
influenced the Department of Energy to fund the Moly-99 project at Sandia
National Laboratories. A bold
and innovative business plan describing how microfuel cells could
revolutionize the portable electronics industry brought $1 million in capital to Energy
Related Devices. |
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Awards Advertising
and Promotional Writing |
26 New
Mexico Advertising Federation awards, including 10 First Place awards. Two
projects that won local awards also went on to win national recognition; one
appearing in the Print Design Annual, another receiving a Potlach Paper Award
for Best Corporate Brochure. Two
awards of merit from the Society for Technical Communication. |
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Video
Scripts |
30 National and International Awards for video scripts written for Sandia
National Laboratories including two Gold World Awards from New York Festivals, 1st Place Gold International
Cinema in Industry (CINDY) and four 2nd Place Silver Awards from
the New York Festivals International Film and Video Competition. |
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Publication
Portfolio |
Books: Santa Fe Ghosts, 2009, Schiffer Publishing, Understanding and Buying a Small Business Computer, 1982, Howard W.
Sams, (one of the first computer books written for a lay/consumer audience)
• A Visitor’s Guide to the
Sandia Mountains, 1993, Southwest Natural and Cultural History
Association • magazines, trade
publications ranging from New Mexico Magazine to Computer Design, and the scholarly
journal American Indian Quarterly, |
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Expertise Video Scripts |
Scriptwriting
experience includes radio and TV commercials; and corporate videos for high
tech companies; award-winning video scripts for Sandia National Laboratories
on Pulsed Power, High-Consequences Engineering, High-Performance Computing, Yucca Mountain and a general tour of Sandia National Laboratories. A rap music video (with original lyrics) for high school
students promoting science careers that won numerous awards, was shown to the
U.S. Congress and aired extensively on Channel One, the education channel and
won first place at the New York Film Festival in the educational category. |
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Promotional
Writing |
ad
copy • brochures • press
releases • informational
material corporate identity
campaigns• newsletters Specific
project experience: construction companies, law firms, service organizations,
consumer products, engineering firms, health care organizations, an electric
utility, software development firms, high-tech firms, trade unions and
restaurants. Clients:
Vaughn-Wedeen Creative, Kilmer & Kilmer Design, Lovelace Medical Center,
Sandia National Laboratories, Lockheed-Martin, Subia Corp, Shiner Creative,
MacNab Design, Nolan-Maddox Marketing, Sherwood Design. |
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Technical, Medical and Business Writing Specific
Technical Experience |
Directed reading articles for radiology technicians • business plans • user’s
manuals • software documentation • technical reports • medical journal writing • investor
information • on-line help systems • marketing plans • annual reports • SBIR proposals • general proposal writing • white papers •
websites Super computers, nuclear
engineering, molecular biology, computer engineering, robotics, electrical
engineering, natural history, cardiology, nuclear medicine, geographic
information mapping systems, finite element mesh modeling for computer
simulation, laser physics, archeology, and anthropology. Clients: Sandia National Laboratories, Cray Inc, Lockheed-Martin, American Society of Radiologic Technicians, Energy Related Devices, Manhattan Scientifics Inc., New Mexico Software Inc. Lovelace Medical Center, Envision Utility Software, U.S. Forest Service, RhoMed Inc., Technically Write, Abacus Research and Development, Excalibur Technologies, Biomoda |
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Software
skills |
Microsoft
Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Framemaker, Adobe Photoshop |
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Education |
University of New Mexico: 1968-73
Art/Anthropology —1990 BUS Professional Writing emphasis |