Dan Draheim is a versatile, organized, meticulous, and reliable technical editor and writer with a background in environmental engineering, law, and journalism and a talent for proactively responding to shifting demands in fast-paced, deadline-oriented environments. Dan has extensive experience succinctly conveying complex concepts to diverse audiences. Dan joined HDR in January 2019 as senior editor/project coordinator for its Water Business Group in Washington, comprising more than 120 staff across eight offices, where he reviews documents for clarity, accuracy, conciseness, consistency, structure, grammar, punctuation, and spelling. He applies writing and editing best practices and company branding standards to a wide variety of content, serving as an in-house advocate for clients and looking at material from the audience’s perspective. He also manages the group's workload planning tool, regularly meeting with project managers, technical discipline leads, and other key stakeholders to stay on top of critical scheduling and workload conflicts to ensure that all deliverables adhere to company quality control standards, processes, and procedures.In his previous role as principal technical editor at Brown and Caldwell, Dan built a team of writers and editors from the ground up. Many of the firm’s 50-plus offices in six time zones regularly called on him to perform readability reviews of many of its highest-profile client deliverables and proposals. He often served as the last line of defense against potentially embarrassing or legally problematic errors that might have otherwise undermined the credibility of this complex technical content.