Résumé/Curriculum Vitae

Skills:

Americanizing/anglicizing; editing at all levels – development, copy-editing (both on-screen and on hard-copy); proofreading

Specialist subject areas:

science (general, physics, geophysics, earth sciences), computing (general, Visual Basic, SQL Server, Access), Christianity (general, theology), health and beauty, craft (embroidery, dressmaking, knitting, patchwork, quilting)

Media:

books – fiction and non-fiction; e-learning materials; technical manuals; multi-author books; academic books; newsletters; online marketing copy

Software:

Word 2007; Open Office 3; Scribus; GIMP; in-house bespoke XML/Word content authoring software; MiKT_EX

Recent clients:

• Apress
• The Open University
• CABI
• Lighthouse Trails Publishing, LLC
• Blue Leaf Publications

Employment:

Technical Architect/Editor, Wrox Press, 1997-2001

Membership of professional organizations:

SfEP Associate

Recent training:

• Basic Proofreading by Distance Learning (Publishing Training Centre) – 2011
• Grammar at Work (PTC/Oxford University Press) – 2011

Written work:

• Authored an Open University internal e-learning course on Writing for the Web aimed primarily at helping academics consider how they go about presenting material in Open University courses.
• Inspired by a childhood spent watching the work of Jim Henson and Frank Oz, I write puppet scripts in my spare time and have had them published by several major suppliers of puppetry products.
• My book reviews have been published online and in The Banner of Truth magazine.

Qualifications:

BSc Physics, Imperial College London