Michael Riversong
P.O. Box 2775
Cheyenne, Wyoming 82003
(307)635-0900

OBJECTIVE

Full or part time technical writing position within an ethical and high-producing corporation

EMPLOYMENT

- Independent Business Owner & Operator 1981 to present, Rocky Mountain Region

Oversaw and personally worked in all fields of the business, including legal, human resources, promotion and marketing, production, customer service, networking, and research and development. Purpose of this business was to market products and skills by small, independent parties. Projects accomplished included successfully marketing an independent musician, solar panel installation, computer set-up, computer training & operations consulting, publications layout, extensive technical writing, and environmental consulting.

- Temporary Assignments March 1976 to Sept. 1980, Rocky Mountain region.

Did a series of small jobs with various organizations, mostly in construction, and radio & television broadcasting.

WRITING EXPERIENCE

• Extensive meteorology research & reporting for several Colorado newspapers; 1980-83.
• MultiMate & Knowledge Man (SQL) documentation for New Life Church in Denver; 1984-85.
• Writing and layout for numerous computer documentation projects, including a 75-page document for a Corporate air travel Department tracking database; 1987-88. - Editing and formatting reports on the Rocky Mountain Arsenal environment; 1988.
• "Exceptionally clear" instructional data sheets on basic DOS operations, WordPerfect, Lotus 123, Pagemaker, for a computer course I presented; 1989-90.
• First environmental consultant to emphasize readability and practicality in the creation of written assessment reports for clients.
• The International Tesla Society's Lightning Award for achievement. Provided contributions to the Society's Extraordinary Science magazine, including "Resonance: A Force of Nature"; 1993.
• Author of Design Ecology, the first book to integrate Chinese Feng Shui, German Building Biology, and other fields of study into a single coherent discipline; also the first book to take a scientific approach to Feng Shui and explain why it works; 1993 & 1996.
• Assisted in compilation and layout of an automotive directory; 1999.
• Development of website and promotional documents for placement on website, for tutoring center, Literacy for Life in Englewood, CO; 1999.
• Authored a number of published articles. The full list runs over 7 pages. These include music reviews, scientific reports and technical articles on the effects of drugs, chemicals, environmental problems, and a few poetry and fiction pieces. Published in Borderlands, Tesla, Eagle's Cry, and Cheyenne magazines, among many others.
• Did layout work, including graphics production, on the following: numerous flyers and publications for promotion, five editions of my book, a poetry journal published annually for the past four years, and many magazine articles in diverse publications.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts Degree, Chinese Language, University of Colorado at Boulder; 1974 - Staff writer for campus newspaper, freshman year

- Student government Housing Commission Member, freshman year

Graduate, Meritt Hutton High School, Thornton, CO; 1970

• layout & assistant editor for NOUS, Metro Denver Urban Coalition newspaper for all high school students in the Denver area - active in speech club
• National Merit Scholar

Environmental Building Inspector Certification; 1993

SKILLS

• Typing, tested recently at 90 wpm - Word Perfect, all versions
• SQL format databases
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Lotus 1-2-3
• AskSam textbase
• Pagemaker
• Familiar with DOS, Windows 95/98/NT, and Mac - Currently studying Linux
• Electronics and Computer Repair
• Additional skills, too extensive to list here

MRiversong@earthlink.net

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