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Corporate Writing: marketing materials, web content, internal communications, work plans, health and safety plans, employee handbooks, milestone reporting for civil and environmental construction and homebuilding companies

Editing: reviews and criticism for online literary magazine, articles for legal and medical journals, engineering proposals, employee handbooks, health and safety plans and internal communications for several civil and environmental construction projects

Technical Writing: proposals, bid documents, government reporting for environmental remediation projects

Creative Writing: poems published in print and online journals

Management: Project Manager for large environmental construction projects, health and safety officer for civil and environmental construction projects

EXPERIENCE

Jan. 2005-Present: Contributing Writer, Dining Out Magazine, (Denver, CO)

Wrote and edited restaurant profiles and features for regional food and dining magazine

Aug. 2004-Present: Tutor, Community College of Denver Writing Center/Online Writing Lab, (Denver, CO)

Worked with students to improve writing skills in face-to-face and online environments

April. 2003-Present: Tutor, Red Rocks Community College Writing Center/Online Writing Center, (Lakewood, CO)

Worked with students to improve writing skills in face-to-face and online environments

June 2004-Present: Section Editor, Internet Review of Science Fiction, (online, www.irosf.com)

Solicited and edited reviews and literary criticism for online magazine

Nov. 2003-Present: Freelance writer, editor and tutor, The Write Stuff (Denver, CO)

Authored and edited annual report for distance-education organization

Co-authored Part Time Employee Handbook for Red Rocks Community College (available online here: http://www.rrcc.edu/english/pdfs/PThandbook.pdf)

Edited medical journal article on the separation of conjoined twins

Sept. 2003-Aug. 2005: Instructor, Red Rocks Community College (Lakewood, CO)

Instructed students in essay writing

Designed and executed lesson plans

Sept. 2000-May 2003: Project Foreman, Envirocon, Inc. (Denver, CO)

Made and executed life-and-limb field decisions for a crew of four on chemical weapons cleanup

May 1996-Sept. 2000: Project Manager, Hydrometrics, Inc. (Denver, CO)

Wrote annual, multi-volume Notice of Completion reports for 1999 and 2000 for two large environmental cleanup projects

Coordinated and produced technical writing and all project correspondence for two large environmental cleanup projects

1999-Present: Participant, Lighthouse Writers Poetry Workshops (Denver, CO)

1999-Present: Reader, Lighthouse Writers Reading Series (Denver, CO)

PUBLICATIONS

“Nixon Among the Flower Children” and “Alan Freed’s Moondog House, WJW Cleveland, 1955,” Copper Nickel no. 3 (University of Colorado, Denver, CO), 2005.

“The Wines of Summer,” Dining Out Magazine (Denver, CO), Summer/Fall 2004.

“In the Temple of My Seizure,” Wazee Journal Online (Denver, CO), Winter 2002.

“Eisenhower In Dreamland” and “Caye Caulker, Belize, January, 1997,” Talus Review (Denver, CO), Spring 2002.

“April,” “Ask,” “A Broom and a Cookpot,” “Circular Saw,” “Covered Bridges,” and “the engine is running,” Broadside: Artists and Writers (Bradley University, Peoria, IL), Spring 1991.

“Deep Into the Soft,” and “Fresh Cut Grass,” Not Even the Rain (Bradley University, Peoria, IL), Dec. 1990.

“Candle Lite Motel, Outside Danville, Late July, 1988; Drought,” Exquisite Corpse (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA), Spring 1989.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts, Bradley University, Peoria, IL, 1991

LANGUAGES

English, Spanish

ORGANIZATIONS

Society for Technical Communicators, Rocky Mountain Chapter

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft Office Suite
Adobe Photoshop
Internet Applications
OpenOffice.org suite

CONTACTS

Elizabeth Kleinfeld, Writing Center Coordinator, Red Rocks Community College, 303-14-6243

Tom Klempel, Vice President of Operations, ASARCO Consulting, 520-98-7796

York Morgan, Project Manager, HBC/Terracon – Dallas, 817-891-7362

Bret Hann: Writing Center Coordinator, Community College of Denver, 303-556-4709

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