- Technical writer with specialty in finessing complicated regulatory language into easy-to-read, bite-size tidbits, for use by front-line mortgage staff.- Personally developed, designed, reviewed, and/or sustained over 400 published documents.- Composed detailed credit-analysis summaries regarding commercial finance requests, including background synopses on each company and its officers.- Drafted business and personal correspondence for high-level bank officers.

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A DIY internship where I trained in and learned the in's and out's of the newspaper business, including:- Informational interviews with the newspaper's editor.- Sitting adjacent to the journalists' floor, soaking up their conversations on their stories and assignments.- Rotations in circulation, customer service, and classified ads and obituaries.- Editing commercial account advertising and observing and learning this "bread and butter" of the newspaper business.- Twice awarded the Customer Service Representative (CSR) of the Quarter award.- Staff management- Door-to-door and telephone sales cold-calling.

Founding member of the school newspaper, sports page editor, contributing journalist, and Journalism Secretary.- Chose layout for sports pages.- Selected and assigned out column inches for each journalist's submission.- Designated space for accompanying photographs, working with each school photographer as to photo subject and size.

Chief Editor of Marysville-Pilchuck High School's prized poetry anthology "Tapestry", celebrating its 101st year.Innovations introduced as Chief Editor:- Book typeset with word processing software rather than typewriters.- Poetry volume designed in five themed sections, including coordinating cover art on each segment's leading pages, based on the art contest winning submission.- Different font selected for each section, with the view to setting the mood for that grouping, with themes such as "Through the Looking Glass".- Choose a pastel parchment for the anthology's pages in rotating, easy-on-the-eye colors such as light tan, "parchment", and light blue.- Art contest held to choose cover art.- Art works of contest runners-up were featured throughout the publication.Also a contributing writer to "Tapestry", with three works included in the volume.

Award-winning author and poet published in several poetry anthologies.- Honorable Mention from 1989's World of Poetry contest for "A Soft Hand".- Hand-picked from over 1,500 submissions for publication in "A Time to Be Free", Vol. 5, by Quill Books of Minot, North Dakota in 1989, for "Skin Deep".- Selected three successive years for publication in "Tapestry", Marysville-Pilchuck's poetry anthology, 1987, 1988, and 1989.

- Voluntary correspondent to local, hometown newspaper.- Wrote weekly articles covering sports at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, including girls' tennis and boys' wrestling.- Assignments also included local interest stories, such as an interview and profile on a local student who was appearing in the Pacific Northwest Ballet's production of The Nutcracker.