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Experience: Freelance in: editing, writing, publication mgt & proof-reading for: authors, charities, corporations, small businesses, government, self-publishers & writers’ groups. Fifteen years in QA: hygiene course (design & facilitation), procedures’ writing, workplace change facilitation (ESL teams), laboratory mgt, sample analysis, process auditing & document control.

Qualifications: Dip Book Editing & Publishing (Distinction, Macleay College), Dip Professional Children’s Writing (Aust. College Journ.) & BSc (Microbiology & Zoology).

Computer capability: PC (MS Windows XP): Word (for soft-copy edits), Excel, Power Point, Publisher, Access & Outlook.

Services offered: Copyediting, publication mgt, plain English rewriting, proofreading, structural editing, subediting & writing.

Type of material: Multi-author anthologies, business reports, children’s books (fiction/non-fiction), conference presentations, confidential documents, course notes, novels (fiction), newsletters, procedures manuals & training manuals.

Subject specialities: Biological sciences, brewing, CHARGE syndrome, crime fiction, environment, freight, health, humour, medicine, natural fertility, organic practices, plain English, process auditing, process engineering, quality assurance, self-help, thrillers & workplace change.

Special skills/interests: Interests: aromatherapy, cats/dogs, cookery, gardening, environment, impact of emigration on family, property inv, lead lighting, knitting/sewing, noise pollution mgt, renovating, snow skiing, Scottish dance, South Africa, tennis & yoga. Skills: negotiate with multiple teams; pay attention to detail; provide sensitive, constructive critique; have sense of humour & focus on solutions.