Technical Writers Resume Profile

Professional Qualifications

More than 20 years experience as a professional editor, specializing in:
Emerging consumer technologies
Writing and editing for highly specific audience demographics
Managing multiple authors across large projects
Sophisticated user of Web technologies and social media
Expertise in privacy policy, cybersecurity, and cyberlaw

Professional Experience

Confidential

Manage all aspects of bi - weekly electronic newsletter, including assigning stories, writing stories as necessary, editing, fact-checking, formatting, and publishing online and by email.
Manage social media accounts increased Twitter followers from 6K t 10K in three months.
Monitor logs for web site, improved search ranks, and performed analysis of user demographics, resulting in significantly higher placement in Google search results.
Co-authored paper with EPIC associate director on fraud in mobile voting apps iPhone and Android . Wrote press release, managed, publicized, and was interviewed by national media in conjunction with paper's release.
Co-wrote and edited grant proposals for US government officials, Non-Governmental Organization heads, and private foundations.
Created specifications for website redesign and technical overhaul solicited proposals from web designers and interviewed finalists
Live-blogged from national and international privacy conferences.

Confidential

Federal contractor for Naval Postgraduate School's Research Office, which was planning t launch a new NPS Graduate Writing Center.
Researched and wrote all requirements documents for Center by examining similar centers at other universities, and by developing and conducting surveys of NPS faculty and students.
Created timelines and budget for Center deployment.

Confidential

Revived company's marketing campaign and pitched articles t journalists, resulting in 4 major articles written about the company's products.
Authored 2 articles appearing under the president's name describing company's products.
Wrote press releases and white papers resulting in product mentions in trade books.
Created and maintained multiple market research databases.

Confidential

Co-Edited RFID: Applications, Security, Privacy Addison-Wesley, 2005, 608 pages.
Provided production and copy-editing for tw books on technology policy for Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
Wrote original articles appearing in The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Boston Magazine, Technology Review Magazine, and other publications.
Edited hundreds of magazine, newspaper, and academic journal articles.

Technical Skills/Languages

Web optimization and analytics HTML/CSS WordPress, MoveableType MS Office e-book publishing Kindle and ePub Facebook publishing Twitter marketing Google Analytics. Fluent in French.

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