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Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, United States

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Writer, editor, and content strategist with significant experience in corporate marketing & communications and business news and information. Services include developing articles, communications materials, case studies, and white papers; creating strategies and copy for websites and presentations; and copy editing and proofreading. Selected clients include IBM, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Mercer, Guy Carpenter, AXA XL, Pfizer, Standard & Poor's, Racksquared, and Dun & Bradstreet.

I learned a lot by listening to thousands of hours of earnings calls from the world's largest public companies in this editorial position. I had a front row seat every quarter to hear how C-suite executives make sense of the current market and cultural climate, present their results, discuss evolving strategies, and respond to probing questions.

Eugene, Oregon Area

• Taught writing courses to 75 undergraduates, focusing on research skills, developing outlines, and revising. Contributed to students’ success by providing in-depth, one-on-one writing/editing sessions.• Completed graduate coursework in anthropology, journalism, interviewing, writing, and folklore. Master’s degree thesis focused on how people tell their personal stories to shape and transform their lives.

Part of the Marsh & McLennan Companies, Guy Carpenter is a global risk management advisor and reinsurance specialist.I worked on staff as a writer and assistant vice president of corporate communications. I have continued to work for the company on a contract basis, providing writing, editing, and project management services. The constant in my work with GC has been interviewing subject matter experts and writing case studies about the firm's successes around the world.

The Foundation Center provides information on philanthropy worldwide, including a comprehensive database of awarded grants.I was a writer for the Center’s news website, Philanthropy News Digest. I covered major foundation initiatives and funding, as well as launched a weekly newsletter that captured 10,000 subscribers in its first year.

BridgeNews was a financial newswire that was purchased and divided by Dow Jones and Reuters in 2001. Working in the newsroom, I researched and wrote articles about business events that were distributed to newspapers nationally through the New York Times syndication service.

Hoover’s is a business information website, now owned by Dun & Bradstreet. For Hoover’s, I wrote and edited profiles of global corporations, small private companies, and IPOs.

Bba, Marketing; Ba, English, Marketing

Master Of Arts, Folklore

Activities and Societies: I taught three terms of freshman-level Writing at UO. One of my favorite references was from a student.