SUMMARY:

• Ability to lead projects, work independently until completion of project and to act as lead reporter of a beat as assigned - as a result of project management skills of APMP Shipley Proposal Project Management Certification.
• Ability to succeed in the news desk role honing in on the skill of making story assignments and generating story ideas as a result of sectional assignment responsibility as a proposal mgmt. leader.
• Resulting from roles in proposal coordination, the candidate have delegation abilities to assign tasks, data access and review capabilities to other responsible staff based on staff capabilities, privy assessment and writer abilities,.
• Due to formal training and experience, candidate is proficient at creating compliance matrices, and maintaining, monitoring and editing drafts, proposals, articles, whitepaper and etc towards compliance standards.
• Excellent skill at writing copy of an array of types including corporate business, journalistic copy, technical, web copy, and proposal copy.
• Competence at maintaining, running queries and keeping up to date social media, membership databases, monitoring beacons media and other resources.
• Excellent research skills and delegation of research to trainees.
• Capability of monitoring news sources including fax, online and other sources and to interact with master control, superiors and management - statusing.
• Formally trained in interviewing tactics and other newsgathering methods.
• Excellent organization and coordinating skills
• Tenure preparing schedules and program rundowns, outlines using staff and resources.
• Ability in making presentations via leading proposal strategy meetings, kickoff meetings and participating in daily standup meetings.
• Excellent skills as an editor, beat reporter, investigative reporter, and document control.
• Ability to shoot video using ENG, EFT, EFG and other professional broadcast technology.
• Experience archiving data, past performance and other information.
• Ability to lead document sharing information control, version control via SharePoint, Privia and other applications that ensures version control, appropriate permissions and proper document access and review.

EXPERIENCE:

• Publishing
• Editing
• Proofreading
• Publication scheduling
• Technical Writing
• Interviewing
• Content management
• Proposal Coordinator
• Compliance matrixes
• Style guide
• Data analysis
• Proposal Calendar of events
• Template Management
• Grant Writing
• Statement of Work
• Templates
• Document Control
• Typing abilities: 60 - 65 WPM

SKILLS:

• Delegation, Permissions and Access
• Document Control
• Production Scheduling and Deliverables
• Version Control and Production Compliance
• Subject Matter Interviews & Reporter Assignment
• Template Management, Styles
• SharePoint Administration/Privia
• Newsgathering, print, broadcast and radio
• CAR (Computer Assisted Reporting)
• Expert Interviewing, Film Reviewing, Book Reviews
• Community Involvement Event Calendaring
• Beat Reporting, General Assignment, Education Beat, Tennis-Sports Beat, Entertainment Beat, Opinions Section
• Proofreading
• Grammar, Spelling and Syntax
• Styles, AP, MLA, APA and client Specific
• Layout and Design, MS Word, Pagemaker, InDesign
• Compliance mapping
• Research Skills
• Storyboarding and Outlining
• Writing Copy
• Checking Sources
• Story Idea generation and breaking news
• Whitepapers
• Standard Operating Procedures
• User Guides
• Executive Summaries
• Business Letters
• Management Plans
• Organizational Conflict of Interest Plans
• Staffing Plans
• Compliance Matrices, Project Management Plans
• Sharepoint Administration/Privia Administration
• Photography
• Project Storyboarding
• Video Editing, Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, Final Cut, AB Roll Editing
• Soundbite and audio Editing
• Video, soundbite and photo file maintenance and conversion, i.e. jpeg, mp3, mp4, aud, wav Subject Matter Interviews & Reporter

EMPLOYMENT:

Confidential

Senior Technical Writer

Responsibilities:

• Edited management plans, corporate background, technical volume of business financial management proposal for the Confidential Administration Airspace Technology Organization.
• Wrote new content for a Federal Property Management solution as Technical Volume Lead to the Air Logistics Office of the Confidential Administration
• Interviewed SMEs, Project Managers that led Dept of State Project in Hagerstown updating past performance
• Mapped SOW Tasks to Program Results, Challenges, Metrics and Past Performance
• Maintained Version Control in SharePoint
• File Management and Document Control
• Wrote Past Performance summaries and interviewed subject matter experts about project performance and activities
• Review Debrief Presentation of IT Federal Solutions
• Analyzed SOW and S.I.R. as part of the FAA’s procurement acquisition process.
• Administration of Sharepoint site of Proposals document control that includes sharing of information to Privy Vetted

Confidential

Owner and CEO

Responsibilities:

• Coach and train selected members of community towards a better life.
• Discuss options available to the selected participant and use personal judgement to provide informal advice that would enable the participant to reach his/her ultimate life’s goals.
• Assist the participant with particular questions, challenges, past failures, redirecting their energies towards a more positive place to achieve a more positive result.
• Maintain compliance with rules and regulations of alliances, avoided conflict of interest issues, and attempted to foster a prospering community.

Confidential

Member of Board of Director

Responsibilities:

• Work with Executive Director strategizing business ventures that promote the sustainment of the non-profit 501-3c business.
• As a certified and renown proposal manager, advise the non-project agency about business development processes, options, grants and fund-raising options.
• Assist the agency with writing grants and advise on grant writing activities.
• Participate in Board of Director meetings.

Confidential

Technical Writer

Responsibilities:

• Edited Standard Operating Procedure and the how to content of the software and development of applications that was rendered to the Centers of Medicaid Services.
• As proposal manager, converted that content into marketing content of the technical operations of SCI Computing Services. SCI was a ISO-9000 company therefore all content was written in accordance to ISO-9000 or 9001 standards. SCI is also CMMI-Level 3 certified.
• Editing, writing copy and interviewing SMEs
• Version Control
• File Management and Document Control
• Reviewer Comment
• Review Debrief Presentation Slides
• Review Processes, pink, red and gold

Confidential

Technical Proposal Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Privia Access POC
• Version Control
• File Management and Document Control
• Reviewer Comment Depository
• Review Debrief Presentation Slides within minutes at close of pink team review
• Interface between writing staff, authors, volume leads and privia system administration that were located in separate buildings
• Created spreadsheets that tracked line by line comments of reviews
• Version control of documents through Privia access delegation
• Assisted with author privileges, rights review comments
• Review recovery included scanned reviewer comments of hardcopy, and made them accessible to section chiefs, lead writers, volume leads.
• Coordinated graphics that included scheduling artist meetings with authors sections and teams and logging graphics

Confidential

Proposal Manager/Technical Proposal Writer

Responsibilities:

• Used Sharepoint to access documents, engage others in review process, maintain version control of multimillion dollar proposals
• Evaluated proposal opportunities; managed all aspects of proposal preparation,
• Managed, coordinated and schedule revision and submission, Interviewed SMEs
• Wrote Technical processes and procedures and methodologies of I.T. related services to the federal department of Defense and other federal agencies.
• TSCTI was a ISO-9000 company therefore all content was written in accordance to ISO-9000 or 9001 standards. TSCTI is also CMMI-Level 3 certified.
• Generated copy as a technical writer on subject matters in support of the RFP specifications in L, C, M requirements.
• Wrote specific section plans for program management, staffing, key personnel, conflict of interest, resumes, and quality plans along with executive summaries.
• As proposal manager, I created and oversaw proposal schedule and deadlines of writers, subject matter experts, and other contributors and edited their content according to specs and deadlines to meet review deadline requirements.
• Managed all volumes, including technical volume, cost volume, management volumes, while coordinating the layout, production.
• Edited final content, mapped RFP requirements to Sections L, C and M to deliver compliant winnable RFP responses.

Confidential

Technical Proposal Writer/Proposal Manager

Responsibilities:

• In charge of the business proposal process, strategize, write and coordinate business proposals pertaining to facility management, property investments and property management.
• Assist the head of the company develop content and manage boilerplate information for reusability.
• Act as the content manager, coordinated production of content with executive officer, to include reusable content for than proposal sections including risks, staffing, key personnel, communication plans, management plans, quality and monitoring plan.
• Researched and gathered content for sections to include the project and past performance, corporate background, management, staffing and technical processes; Played an essential role in streamlining the processes and determined holes in content. Recommended solutions to gapping holes in content and provided researched solutions.
• Manage content for two proposals on contract basis with opportunity to extend opportunities,
• Created and maintained a database of content, wrote and updated content to meet niche and specs of each RFP opportunity.
• Evaluated proposal opportunities; managed all aspects of proposal preparation,
• Managed, coordinated and schedule revision and submission, Interviewed SMEs
• Developed final deliverable timeline for two-three proposal pro-bono project.

Confidential

Technical Writer, New Carrolton, MD

Responsibilities:

• Managed the sharing of documents through an internal sharing site similar to Sharepoint.
• Managed version control and document review process via share site system.
• Participated in pipeline meetings for opportunities within rfp/rfi/rfq stage, Managed, coordinated and schedule revision and submission
• Wrote Technical processes and procedures and methodologies of I.T. related services to the federal Department of the Army, Navy and other federal agencies
• Generated new content and edited content, maintained and updated content library
• Evaluated proposal opportunities; managed all aspects of proposal preparation
• Responsible for desktop publishing of proposals, business plans, technical, management and staffing volumes of the proposal.

Confidential

Technical Writer | Proposal Director, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Identifies relevant boilerplate material to populate RFP/TO response template in accordance with RFP/TO compliance matrix sections and page counts
• Wrote processes and procedures and methodologies of facility related services to the federal Department then marketed those services through proposals and marketing materials according the federal FAR Procurement process.
• Develops and communicates version control throughout RFP/TO response lifecycle; ensures proposal artifacts are secured at all times
• Responsible for desktop publishing of proposals, business plans, technical, management and staffing volumes of the proposal.

Confidential

Senior Technical Writer, Fairfax, VA

Responsibilities:

• Assigned user access, managed access to folder systems, and systematically linked the sharepoint document system to outlook email system that afford efficient project management of the proposal process.
• Delegated assignments through the sharepoint system
• Managed task order through the sharepoint site that linked access to privy access to project information
• Assigned Userids that proviess access to linked to project participation and gave access to particular file systems that maintain corporate proprietorship of information.
• Populate RFP/TO response template in accordance with RFP/TO compliance matrix sections and page counts
• DELL was a ISO-9000 company therefore all content was written in accordance to ISO-9000 or 9001 standards. DELL is also CMMI-Level 3 certified.
• Develops and communicates version control throughout RFP/TO response lifecycle; ensures proposal artifacts are secured at all times
• Wrote Standard Operating Procedures and Technical processes and procedures and methodologies of I.T. related services to the federal department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies
• Duties included understanding processes and converting that understanding into technical documentation that was used in promoting the services of Dell Computers.
• Managed sectional aspects of proposal preparation, i.e. key personnel, staffing, technical, quality plans; Maintained and updated content library
• Responsible for desktop publishing of proposal sections, past performances, key personnel sections and resumes.
• Responsible for layout, template management, and desktop publishing of 1st drafts of business plans, technical, management and staffing volumes of the proposal.