· Freelance/contract writing, editing and design.
· Interview
corporate clients, ghostwrite monthly column that runs in regional business
magazine.
· Edited a new college curriculum proposal.
· Design
small web sites, and write text.
· Wrote
award entries for Microsoft partner.
· Write
cover letters and resumes.
· Design
corporate logos and marketing products.
· Pulitzer-nominated
newspaper writer, researcher and investigator/researcher.
· Wrote
about and investigated everything, researched everything, and worked with every
kind of person, from government officials, to nonprofit directors, to crime
victims. Drop me into just about anything. Learn what needs to be
learned - instantly - and turn it into something readable, interesting and
informative. That includes technical information that must be turned into
something any non-technical person can read and understand and even enjoy.
· Persuaded
and interviewed subjects to obtain information for articles.
· Conducted
online and face-to-face research, for both myself and the entire newsroom.
Editors once waited for my return from a leave to assign me – rather than anyone
else in the newsroom – to investigate the president of the local United Way. My
work forced police to open an investigation, and resulted in felony convictions
for the president.
· Spoke at
engagements and schools about The News and journalism.
· Created
The News' first investigative research database, and used it to craft a series
of stories that resulted in a Pulitzer nomination.
· Created
The News' first tracking database when it founded the nonprofit Warm the
Children program, and came up with the ideas for and strategized and wrote most
of the stories that generated donations to fund the program that raised more
than $1.5 million over 12 years.
· Designed
and published my own website, and sites for a Boy Scout
troop, the nonprofit Michigan Prisoner Re-entry Initiative and a solar
energy start-up.
· Superb
editing, research, writing, deadline, multi-tasking, networking, and media
skills.