Collaborating with rural communities in North Carolina through the Hometown Strong Rural Grants Program, offering expertise in grant writing and project development. Dedicated to securing federal funding for the enhancement and development of North Carolina's rural areas.

Mouse & Chisel helps small businesses with their websites! We help new companies get their website or mobile app to the market. We can build for Shopify and Wordpress. We use NodeJS, NextJS, React, Preact, Redux, Recoil (for Web development); React Native, Flutter (for Mobile Development); Typescript, Java, C# (for Languages); Sass | SCSS, TailwindCSS, Material UI, Storybook (for CSS & Design); Prisma, CockroachDB, MongoDB (for OCM Databases); AWS, Azure, Firebase, Vercel (for Cloud); and Contentful and Strapi (for CMS).

>Legal research and policy analysis, which requires a working knowledge of the North Carolina General Statutes, the Administrative Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, local ordinances, the State Budget Act, and the biennial legislative process.>Staff standing committees, permanent study and oversight commissions, and Legislative Research Commission studies.>Assist in compiling data for legislative staff, committees, and legislators.>Respond to requests for information from legislators and constituents.>Analyze and summarize legislation.>Good evaluation, file management, and documentation skills.>Review, proofread, and edit legislative documents, including the annual Summaries of Substantive Legislation publication and committee reports.>Assist in the planning and facilitation of stakeholder working groups.>Travel with legislative committees.>Work with state agencies and local governments on legislative requests and monitor their reporting requirements.>Function with a high degree of independence.>Ability to present information clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.>Demonstrated ability to maintain composure and work cooperatively under pressure.>Ability to maintain confidentiality, problem-solve, and work with a diverse community. >Demonstrated ability to work objectively and impartially, both with respect to political parties and with respect to issues of state.>Considerable knowledge of the legislative process and state government.>Committee website management>PowerPoint presentations>File transfer protocols

Wrote content for online magazine Examiner.com.

Wrote content for the Link Magazine.

Wrote content for online magazine Suvudu Universe.

Wrote content for online magazine Suite101.

Wrote content for The Link magazine.

>Coordinated with minority and women-owned business enterprises to bid on construction contracts.>Actively and affirmatively solicit bids for contracts from qualified State certified MBEs or WBEs. >Document and maintain records of bid solicitation, including those to M/WBEs and the results thereof. >Ensure that plans, specifications, request for proposals and other documents used to secure bids were made available in sufficient time for review by prospective M/WBEs.>Prepared, proofread, edited, and produced large technical documents, including engineering specifications, contracts, requests for proposals and reports for the engineering design-build process.>Coordinated with state and local agencies, consultants, vendors and clients on construction bid procedures.>Placed newspaper ads for requests for proposals for construction contracts.>Logged, distributed, and stored various construction documents.>Transcription.

I co-owned and operated a graphic and web development proprietorship with my husband Jim Matheson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimbmatheson/). We developed print media marketing materials, copywriting, web graphics, and Adobe Flash animations.