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EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts July 1997-January 2000

Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC 28815-9000

Program: Creative Writing Poetry

Thesis Manuscript: "Function of X" (formerly titled "X Y")

Degree Essay: "Yellow Sky, Yellow Gorse, Sky, Gorse: The Expedient New

Word in Jorie Graham and Paul Celan"

Graduate Seminar: "The Performative Mode of Poetry" (conducted in

January 2000)

Bachelor of Arts, cum laude September 1992-July 1996

Hope College, Holland, MI 49423

Majors: English and Music

Grade Point Average: 3.532

Supplementary courses May 1996-July 1996

1996 Hope College Summer School, Vienna, Austria

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Juneau Biosciences, LLC, Technical/Scientific Writer July 2007-July

2010

Salt Lake City, UT 84109

A company dedicated to genetic research of women's common diseases

Hans Albertsen, Chief Scientific Officer

SWCA Environmental Consultants, Technical Editor/Writer II August 2002-

June 2007

Salt Lake City, UT 84111

An environmental consulting firm

Sharliee Counce, Senior Project Manager

Salt Lake Community College, Adjunct Instructor of English August-

October 2002

Salt Lake City, UT 84130

Louise Bown, Department Chairperson

P-III Associates, Inc., Editor/Administrative Assistant September 2000-

July 2002

Salt Lake City, UT 84115-2955

A cultural resources consulting firm

Alan Schroedl, Senior Consultant

Davenport University, Adjunct Instructor of College Writing September

1998-August 2000

Holland, MI 49423

Ellen Taylor, General Education Chair

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Writing

Kristin has excellent organizational, written, and analytical skills and

superior command of grammar and composition. She is a logical writer and is

especially adept at utilizing form, structure, organization, and paragraph

development to make any complex document easier for the reader to

comprehend. She has the ability to construct a supported and compelling

argument in favor of a particular thesis. She is comfortable with

paraphrasing and summarizing outside sources in researched documents and is

meticulous in building bibliographies and references cited lists. She is

able to change tone and vocabulary according to intended audience.

Examples from "Major Written Contributions to Publications," below, are the

best demonstration of her writing style and abilities; samples are

available upon request.

Editing

Kristin is an excellent editor, from the organization/structure level of a

document down to details of punctuation. Typically, she edits documents for

organization, consistency, logic, data/content accuracy, clarity, grammar,

spelling, punctuation, and conformity with style and format. She is capable

of adapting her editing speed and thoroughness according to the writer's

wishes; for a thorough and detailed edit, including data accuracy, she

averages approximately 2-3 pages per hour, and for proofreading, she

averages 8 pages per hour.

Kristin seeks a relationship of trust with writers whose work she edits.

She ensures that her critiques are courteous; she does not scold. She

emphasizes to writers that when she gives specific advice, ultimately the

decision is up to the writer whether to take this advice. She is careful to

use Track Changes when necessary and does not engage in subversive editing.

She is consistent and clear about which global edits or changes are

necessary for grammar or style reasons, and not a matter of personal

preference, and is always happy to communicate this to the writer.

At Juneau Biosciences:

. She performed revisions on articles that came back from peer reviews

at journals. She was careful to document changes made in response to

reviewers' comments or to justify why changes were not made.

. When submitting articles to journals, she followed style requirements

to the letter whenever possible, rather than leaving that extra work

for production people at the journal.

At SWCA:

. She compiled a corporate style guide for the Natural Resources Group.

The Chicago Manual of Style (15th edition) and Scientific Style and

Format (the Council of Biology Editors manual; 6th edition) were the

primary sources used in compilation of this style guide. She received

input from scientists and other editors in the company, and made many

style decisions based on ease of use and simplicity.

. On the Functional Assessment of Wetlands and Wildlife in the Salt Lake

County Shorelands SAMP Area, she provided the report with extensive

content and technical edits, as well as necessary clarity, focus, and

organization. She also helped to make the appendixes legible to

readers by transforming raw data calculations into "worksheets" for

the formulas of the Great Salt Lake Model.

. Her editing was instrumental in the success and readability of the

Kern River 2003 Expansion Project. This multi-year, cultural resources

data recovery project was reported in seven volumes of several

thousand pages, written by more than thirty authors. She developed and

maintained a project-specific style guide, edited all documents, and

communicated with all authors and project managers regarding document

process and progress.

Ability to Read and Operate in Unfamiliar and Diverse Fields, Projects, and

Genres

As evidenced from her past work history, Kristin has the ability to work

with diverse and unfamiliar fields of knowledge. This ability can be

attributed to her love of learning and her reading comprehension skill. She

has successfully written for applied sciences and research sciences;

environmental science, land management, archaeology, genomics, and

medicine; academia and government; lay audiences and experts. Written

genres include National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documents,

vegetation and wildlife surveys, wetlands delineations, biological

assessments, other planning documents, class III and class I cultural

resource inventory reports, archaeological site forms, white papers,

technical reports, academic review articles, heritability studies, genome-

wide association studies, U.S. patents, bibliographies, posters, figures,

tables, maps, and illustrations.

At Juneau Biosciences:

. One of her primary tasks was to keep abreast of published literature

in OB-GYN and genetics research fields and maintain a company library

of sources, ensuring that the scientists and researchers at Juneau

could be provided with the most up-to-date research on pertinent

subjects. This required a great deal of reading and continual

learning.

At SWCA:

. Her work on the Moab/Monticello Resource Management Plan and

Environmental Impact Statement best demonstrates her ability to

assemble information into a final written product. She culled

documents for data and condensed and reorganized the data to reflect

the baseline scenario and impact indicator in a format suitable for

impacts analysis. During analysis she utilized GIS data, the

Alternatives Matrixes, appendixes, and other documents to determine

which resources would have an impact, quantitative or qualitative, on

mineral resource development in the Moab and Monticello Planning

Areas. This analysis was illustrated by clear and useful tables as

needed.

Research

Related to Kristin's ability to quickly learn new fields of knowledge is

her research ability. She is adept at reading a piece of source material

and quickly assessing its value and utility for a particular purpose. She

has primarily used ResearchSoft Endnote (research and reference software),

university libraries, and internet search engines (including Boolean search

parameters) and online databases for her research purposes. If there is

information to find, she will find it.

At Juneau Biosciences, research was one of her major occupations.

. She kept abreast of published literature in OB-GYN and genetics

research fields.

. She maintained a company library of sources.

. She assembled summaries and literature reviews of specific topics

requested by doctors and scientists.

. She conducted literature searches for patent applications.

At SWCA:

. The Biodiversity in the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area

project demonstrates her research ability. She completed the design of

and maintained a literature database that ultimately produced six-page

reports on any given plant or animal species in the NRA for which

literature was collected. She edited and contributed content

suggestions to reports on biodiversity testing and monitoring, on the

physical characteristics of the NRA, and on vegetation, wildlife, and

wetlands surveys.

Data

The data behind a scientific project or report is usually the purview of

the scientists; however, Kristin has proven herself adept at checking data

and facts for consistency and integrity and at laying data out in tabular

format so that all information is easy to understand. In this regard, her

dedication to scientific accuracy and precision is as high as any

scientist's. She has designed data and document management procedures and

protocols for large projects that maximize preservation of correct data and

increase chances for catching incorrect data.

At Juneau Biosciences:

. She developed an Access database that would prepare several hundred LD

block tables for patent applications, thereby slashing time for table

preparation from 30+ hours to only a few hours.

At SWCA:

. The Kern River 2003 Expansion Project is the best example of her data

protection abilities. To meet the QA/QC challenge of working on such a

complex report, she developed and maintained a style guide, a

formatting guide, templates, processes, and other consistency and

tracking measures in consultation with other document managers. She

communicated with all authors and project managers regarding document

process and progress, developed a system for tracking tables and

figures with maximum ease and minimum error, and designed the final

technical report's layout using FrameMaker.

Style, Design, Layout, Formatting, Production, and Publication

Kristin believes that document design and layout are an integral part of

document comprehension. When she is given free rein in the design of a

document, she is generally conservative. In visual representation of

information, such as tables and figures, she likes to utilize white space.

However, when she is adhering to other specifications of style and format,

such as those of academic journals or government entities, she is

meticulous in conformity. She is adept at using Microsoft Word, Adobe

Acrobat and FrameMaker, and various proprietary and open-source imaging

programs to ensure consistent style and format, pleasing design, and

publication preparedness.

Good examples from her time at Juneau Biosciences are:

. The three posters presented at the 2009 American Society of Human

Genetics annual meeting.

The best examples of her abilities from her time at SWCA are:

. The Corporate Style Guide for the Natural Resources Group,

. Her design of the SWCA Training Series manuals,

. The appendixes of the Functional Assessment of Wetlands and Wildlife

in the Salt Lake County Shorelands SAMP Area, and

. The Kern River 2003 Expansion Project.

Computer and Internet Savvy

Kristin uses the internet for research and to keep up-to-date on topics of

specific interest to her employer and for maximizing efficiency and ease of

working. She is comfortable using Boolean search parameters and accessing

online databases and repositories-everything from PubMed, to international

patents, to grants awarded during the last decade by the New Zealand

Queensland Institute of Medical Research. She is particularly interested in

creative uses of computer applications, tweaks, procedures, and scripts to

solve problems or improve productivity.

She is comfortable with both Microsoft and Macintosh operating systems. She

is extremely proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and

Publisher; the OpenOffice equivalents of Microsoft Office; Adobe FrameMaker

and Acrobat; ISI ResearchSoft Endnote; and Corel WordPerfect and Ventura.

She has some experience with MS Visio, Adobe InDesign and Photoshop, open-

source GIMP and Scribus, and other open-source applications.

Document Management

Document management and flow for large publications with multiple authors

is always challenging, at best, and has the potential for disastrous losses

of data or drafts, at worst. Kristin is adept at perceiving the

requirements of accountability and work flow on a case-by-case basis and

designing a system of document management that is easy for authors to

remember and implement.

Most of Kristin's experience with document management occurred at SWCA,

where multiple authors would produce large documents over the course of

months or years. She has a proven ability to take initiative, resolve

problems, and create improved procedures to ensure tasks are completed in

the most effective manner. The best examples of her document management

abilities include the SWCA Corporate Style Guide for the Natural Resources

Group, the Kern River 2003 Expansion Project, and any of the environmental

impact statement projects (see "Major Written Contributions to

Publications").

Collaboration and Support

Kristin is confident and clear about what she does and does not contribute

to writing projects. Most of her career has been spent as a non-specialist

among specialists; she never forgets that she is in the service of those

with the expertise. She keeps her ego in check regarding her own writing

and editing and is comfortable with giving and receiving constructive

criticism. She is an excellent listener and a courteous communicator. She

is an effective collaborator and excels in supportive roles. She has a

proven ability to take initiative, resolve problems, work on numerous tasks

simultaneously, and remain flexible.

Training/Teaching

Kristin has college teaching and adult training experience and is always

interested in opportunities to learn new topics herself. She taught

Freshman English composition courses, specifically English 1010, College

Writing I and College Writing II, and Interpersonal Communications. She has

hosted office seminars on a variety of writing and document management

topics, and counseled and trained additional part-time or temporary

technical editors on style and document types. She has always been willing

to sit down one-on-one with an author to work on specific problems of his

or her writing. She makes it a point to know (or find out) the answers to

questions of language and style, as well as tricks and best practices of

computer writing. She also operates as a clearinghouse of up-to-date style

and reference material and writing aids for her writing colleagues.

At SWCA:

. She was instrumental in helping to develop the SWCA Training Series of

courses regarding environmental compliance and management, to be

taught by senior scientists and project managers. She participated

heavily in the development of the Environmental Collaboration and

Conflict Management course, the Comprehensive NEPA course, and the

Section 106 series of courses. As a former college instructor, she a

great deal of input regarding teaching strategies, and as an editor

she provided comments with the goal of clarifying the instructional

materials. She also had the primary responsibility for designing the

instructional binders so that they were conducive to learning and for

developing helpful, insightful graphics and figures.

MAJOR WRITTEN CONTRIBUTIONS TO PUBLICATIONS

2010 Ward K, Ogilvie J, Singleton M, Chettier R, Engler G, Nelson L.

Validation of DNA-Based Prognostic Testing to Predict Spinal Curve

Progression in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis. (in press, Spine,

2010)

2010 Ogilvie J, Chettier R, Nelson L, Macina R, Ward K. Genome-wide Study

Identifies Copy Number Variant Locations Associated with Adolescent

Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS). To be presented at the Scoliosis Research

Society's 45th Annual Meeting & Combined Course, September 21-24,

2010, Kyoto, Japan. Nominated for the Russell A. Hibbs Award in the

Basic Science category.

2010 Ward K, Ogilvie J, Argyle V, Nelson L, Meade M, Braun J, Chettier R.

Polygenic inheritance of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a study of

extended families in Utah. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A

152A(5): 1178-1188.

2009 Ward K, Frech G, Dintelman S, Maness T, Albertsen H, Farrington P.

The Heritability of Neonatal Death in a Utah Population. Abstract

1627. Poster presented at the American Society of Human Genetics 59th

Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 20-24.

2009 Farrington P, Frech G, Wong L, Maness T, Dintelman S, Albertsen H,

Ward K. The Heritability of Endometriosis in a Utah Population.

Abstract 585. Poster presented at the American Society of Human

Genetics 59th Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 20-24.

2009 Albertsen H, Frech G, Dintelman S, Farrington P, Ward K. Genome-wide

Association Study Identifies Novel Loci Associated with Endometriosis

in a Caucasian Population. Abstract 1024. Poster presented at the

American Society of Human Genetics 59th Annual Meeting, Honolulu,

Hawaii, October 20-24.

2009 Ward K, Lindheimer MD. Genetic Factors in the Etiology of

Preeclampsia/Eclampsia. Chapter 4 in Chesley's Hypertensive Disorders

in Pregnancy, Third Edition, M Lindheimer, J Roberts, and F

Cunningham, editors. London: Academic Press. pp. 51-72.

2008 Ward K. Searching for genetic factors underlying pre-eclampsia:

recent progress and persistent challenges. Minerva Ginecologica,

October;60(5):399-419.

2008 Knippenberg K. Minerals and Energy. Chapters 3 and 4 of the Bureau of

Land Management, Moab Planning Area Resource Management Plan and

Environmental Impact Statement. Prepared for Bureau of Land

Management, Moab Field Office, Moab, Utah.

2008 Knippenberg K. Minerals and Energy. Chapters 3 and 4 of the Bureau of

Land Management, Monticello Planning Area Resource Management Plan and

Environmental Impact Statement. Prepared for Bureau of Land

Management, Monticello Field Office, Monticello, Utah.

2007 Sharp T. Fish and Wildlife Adaptive Management Plan for the Las Vegas

Wash, Nevada. Prepared for Southern Nevada Water Authority and the Las

Vegas Wash Coordinating Committee, Las Vegas.

2006 Burch L and Gaddis B. Protecting the Salt Lake City Watershed with

Conservation Easements. Prepared for Salt Lake City Department of

Public Utilities, Salt Lake City, Utah.

2001 Tipps BL, Birnie RI, Miller GH, and Knippenberg K. The Aragonite

North Emergency Fire Rehabilitation Project: A Class III Cultural

Resources Inventory in Tooele County, Utah. State Antiquities Project

No. U-01-PD-0037p. Prepared by P-III Associates, Inc., Salt Lake City.

Submitted to Utah State Historic Preservation Office, Salt Lake City.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Editor in the Life Sciences (ELS; since 2006), as certified by the Board of

Editors in the Life Sciences (BELS)

Council of Science Editors (CSE)

American Medical Writers Association (AMWA)

Women Tech Council

KRISTIN ANN KNIPPENBERG

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