I was recently laid off from Organic Inc., a web/interactive development company in San Francisco, where I worked for almost 2 and a half years (from 4/99 to 9/01). I started as a Sr. Writer and a year later became the manager of the Editorial Department. My project work included setting editorial standards for client web sites in the form of style guides, editorial platforms, and nomenclature. I produced all types of web copy including marketing copy, ad banners, help copy, navigational copy, and copy for motion graphics. In addition to project work, I managed a team of writers, I contributed to the setting of web writing standards and documentation, contributed to the development of a Writing for the Web workshop/presentation, and researched and presented web accessibility standards for the visually impaired.
Examples of My Work >>

Before joining Organic, I worked at Ikonic, Inc., a San Francisco web development agency, for two years (from 3/97 to 4/99). As a multimedia/web writer for client work at Ikonic I:

• Strategized and redesigned existing web site and multimedia content
• Conceptualized, developed, and produced original editorial content
• Developed documentation and style guides internally
• Contributed to web site branding and nomenclature
• Contributed to internal web editorial methodology development

Prior to Ikonic, I was a writer at a small software company called David Corporation (from 3/96 to 2/97) - which has since been folded into a larger company. This was my first tech industry writing job where I started as an intern after a completing Technical and Professsional Wrting degree. I was then hired to contribute to their software manuals, as well as to edit, write, and design their newsletter and marketing materials.

I haven't always written for a living. Much of my former work life has been spent teaching on some level, the most recent being Geneva Center (from 6/91 to 2/96). I was the Sr. Instructor at Geneva Center, a day skills program for developmentally disabled adults, where my responsibilities included:

• Managing the schedules of 4 other teachers
• Leading the development of the curriculum for the center (about 40 clients)
• Teaching independent living skills classes (cooking, gardening, travelling on BART, etc.)
• Managed the cases of 10 - 12 clients
• Trained new staff
• Developed proceedures and methodologies for running the center

• M.A. Instructional Technology from San Francisco State University. 2000
• Certificate, Technical and Professional Writing, San Francisco State University, 1996
• B.A., Comparative Literature/Creative Writing, California State University Long Beach, 1989