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FREELANCE TECHNICAL and BUSINESS WRITER/EDITOR Current, remote, self-employed, Tandem Technical Writing LLC

— Analyze customer needs and write targeted Requests for Proposal (RFPs), technical specifications, review white papers and other content. Most recent project met very short deadline with high level of customer satisfaction.

— Edit material from engineering, project management, marketing, and legal departments into a cohesive whole. Research content via interviews with subject matter experts and online searches. Incorporate win themes.

— Develop winning executive summaries and technical bid responses. Write and edit performance, customer service, and program management materials as needed. Write proposals for market research and program management.

—  Adapt and edit organization, style and tone for various audiences and individual clients, ensuring more effective and persuasive communication.

— Participate in regular online meetings with a variety of clients.

— Extensive use of MS Word and format templates, some MS Excel and SharePoint, working from at-home office.

ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR 2005-Current, part-time (suspended due to Covid-19)

— Instruction on language arts topics such as essay writing, poetry, public speaking, literary analysis, grammar, and SAT Test preparation.

— Develop personal class materials and use curriculum from many sources.

— Teach composition and self-editing skills at high school and college level.

— Use MS PowerPoint and Word for lectures and assignments.

PROPOSALS MANAGER, EDITOR, WRITER, COORDINATOR 1987-1997, Printrak International Inc. of Anaheim, CA (now part of Idemia)

—  Complete winning multi-million-dollar bids in response to million-dollar-plus RFPs for biometric technology, including analyzing and presenting RFPs for bid decision, scheduling writing, and compiling contributions from experts.

— Direct a staff of writers and work collaboratively with other departments and management to complete color team reviews. Ensure on-time production and shipment of compliant, compelling proposals.

— Write and edit responses to RFPs, building winning themes into persuasive executive summaries and presentations for Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS), mugshot, jail, and criminal records systems.

— Write sample RFPs for customer use. Edit white papers and corporate staff resumes as needed. Work with bid partners and sales personnel, accounting, and customers for bid conferences, benchmark tests, and in-house meetings.

— Complete one-week Shipley-style seminar on winning proposal development.

— Key customers included the FBI, Canadian RCMP, and major law enforcement departments in Florida and Texas. Partners in various bids included Oracle and Unisys.

—  Extensive use of Word and templates, familiarity with Excel and Project.

EDUCATION:

CERTIFICATE, TECHNICAL WRITING - CSU Fullerton (GPA 3.8)

B.A., ENGLISH - CSU Fullerton (magna cum laude), B.A., HISTORY - UC Riverside (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa)