Medical Sales

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CINDY BARRYMORE

Overview Award-winning writer praised for work in several facets of

technical, medical, journalistic, proposal and creative

nonfiction prose

20-plus years' experience as a communications consultant for

governmental, medical, pharmaceutical, trade organization and

Fortune 500 entities

Contributions to more than three dozen notable publications,

in addition to corporate newsletters, brochures, manuals,

books and magazines

Awards/ SPOT Award for excellence and strong work ethic by management

Recognition at Abbott Laboratories

Manpower's Circle of Excellence award for superior work

quality and dedication

First-place Illinois Press Association award for personality

profile

Awarded a $2,500 grant from the Chicago Reader to attend the

Academy for Alternative Journalism at Northwestern

University's Medill School of Journalism

1987 Manufacturer's Hanover ("Manny Hanny") Race "most

creative T-shirt" honors as the copywriter and designer of

hand-painted T-shirts for Leo Burnett Company Inc.'s running

team

Activities President/CEO since 1991 of a company that provides

consultation services in editorial, public relations,

advertising, promotion, transcription and photography

Featured technical writer on the Discovery Education 11/09

DVD and video-streaming series on math, science,

technology and engineering that is available to over

30 million students nationwide

Attended Jump Start Your Skills in Writing for the 11/09

Web seminar

Studied master's-level creative nonfiction writing 1/07

under the tutelage of Irene Prokop, a nationally

known freelance writer, publishing consultant and

senior editor at Crown Books

Judging the annual Illinois High School Association Journalism

Competition in Rolling Meadows, one of six participating sites

for the statewide event

Volunteering public relations and communications consultation

to The International HUG Foundation (i.HUG), a 501(c)3

non-profit organization whose mission is to reach out to

disadvantaged and orphaned children in Uganda, providing them

with an education, access to healthcare, and an environment

that fosters their physical, social and emotional development

Association Association for Women in Journalism member

s National Press Photographers Association member

Member of the National Association of Black Journalists

Member of the Organization of Black Designers

Ongoing association with Chicago Women In Publishing

Education Ph.D., Rhetoric and Technical Communication Arts: Present

Michigan Technological University; Houghton, Mich.

M.F.A. in Photography: Academy of Art University; Present

San Francisco, Calif.

M.A. in Communication Arts: New York Institute of Graduated

Technology; Chicago, Ill.

M.S. in Journalism: Roosevelt University; Chicago, Graduated

Ill.

The Chicago Reporter; Chicago, Ill.

Worked as an intern and research assistant, fact checking

articles on deadline

Gathered, input and analyzed data (i.e., census, poll,

demographic, etc.) in Excel spreadsheets

Also worked as a research assistant on its sister publication

Catalyst on an article about former Chicago Housing Authority

children who continue to commute to the schools in the CHA

district

Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism; Evanston, Ill.

Academy for Alternative Journalism, an writing-intensive

program sponsored by the Chicago Reader to encourage ethnic

diversity in journalism

AdEd, Chicago, Ill.

Workshop conducted within Leo Burnett Co., Inc. that helps

writers create more effective advertisement copy

B.S. Marketing: DePaul University; Chicago, Ill. Graduated

Computer Macintosh and PC literate, as well as fluency in the following

Skills software: Access, Document Management Systems, Dreamweaver,

Excel, ePas, Flash, FrameMaker, FrontPage, Kintana, Lotus

Notes, PowerPoint, Quark, Mercury Systems, Microsoft Outlook,

Microsoft Word, Oracle, PageMaker, Photoshop, Vignette, Visio,

Windows and WordPerfect

Additional Meticulous editing and proofreading skills

Proficienci Working knowledge of the Associated Press Style Book, MLA

es Handbook, FDA Advertising and Promotional Guidelines, ICH

Guidelines, FDA Regulatory Submission Guidelines, Chicago

Manual of Style, American Psychological Association Style and

American Medical Association Manual of Style

Freelance Technical and Medical Writing Experience 10/87-Present

Global Web Site Editor

Motorola; Schaumburg, Ill. 11/09-Prese

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Overseeing and maintaining the "Home and Networks" section of

Motorola's North American business-to-business (B2B) Web site

Writing and editing internal stakeholder communications as

part of the Global Editorial Team. Content includes writing

headlines, taglines, summaries and product description, in

addition to building pages using search-engine optimization

(SEO) and meta keywords

Technical Writer 3/09-5/09

Abbott Laboratories; Abbott Park, Ill.

Incorporated Abbott branding guidelines to design and write

training materials (i.e., quick-reference guide, software

simulation and frequently asked questions), as well as created

announcement communications to shepherd employees through the

upgrade from Lotus Notes 6.5 to a customized version of Lotus

Notes 8

Technical Writer and Editorial Consultant 3/08-6/08

Department of Homeland Security; Darien, Ill.

Wrote requests for proposals (RFPs) and worked with

intelligence law-enforcement and regulatory agencies to

prepare background packages. Accompanied by photographs,

geospatial information, detailed schematic drawings and other

pictorial representations, these detailed reports profiled an

infrastructure site's characteristics, including but not

limited to:

A site's strategic importance

Number of employees

Onsite security

Operating procedures

Proximity to thoroughfares

Public accessibility

Potential security vulnerabilities

From this information, field inspectors recommended site

enhancements and protective measures; yet they never

superseded any existing site-response plans developed in

response to terrorist threats or attacks

Communications Specialist and Consultant 2/08-6/08

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons; Rosemont,

Ill.

Wrote press releases and media kits that chronicled medicinal

and safety trends in the orthopedic field, as well as

executive and associate biographical materials

SSA Magazine, University of Chicago magazine; Fall 2007

Chicago, Ill.

Wrote "The Power of Stigma," an article on how discrimination

affects people with mental illness

Medical Writer 7/07-12/07

Abbott Laboratories; Abbott Park, Ill.

Wrote content for the International Product Master Files

(IPMFs) housed in the International Regulatory Information

System (IRIS), also known as Abbott's IPMF repository used for

registering product submissions in the global market

Technical Writer/Business Analyst 5/07-6/07

GE Healthcare; Waukesha, Wis.

Wrote and authored changes to controlled documents (i.e.,

standard operating procedures and protocols) using internal,

external and international regulatory guidelines, including

FDA, SFDA and ISO

Wrote test scripts and employee training documents for Oracle

in PowerPoint

Copywriter February

2007

Pelton & Crane; Charlotte, N.C.

Rewrote the sales brochure for the company's 3000 Series

Package explaining features to a dental-industry audience for

the following products: 3000 Series Chair, 3000 Series Unit

and Light Fantastic III

Writer/Copywriter/PR Strategist 3/06-1/07

HealthInfo Direct, LLC; Schaumburg, Ill.

Wrote, proofread and edited ads, press releases, feature

stories, sell sheets, sales materials, training guides, etc.,

for clients in the pharmaceutical industry and ensured such

materials complied with FDA regulations

Tracked blog sites, listservs and other online publications

that profiled client products

Ghostwrote feature stories for pharmaceutical and healthcare

industry, including Baxter Pharmaceutical's newsletter

Advances. Article and press release topics include:

Infantile spasms

Patent ductus arteriosus

Lead poisoning

Hemophilia

Negative publicity surrounding clinical trials

Efficacy of client pharmaceutical products

Client accounts include GlaxoSmithKline, Ovation

Pharmaceuticals, Corbett Accel Healthcare Group, i.HUG and

Abbott Animal Health

Writer/Copywriter 3/06-05/06

IMI Cornelius; Glendale Heights, Ill.

Wrote, proofread and edited technical manuals and

training-video scripts

Technical Writer/Medical Writer 8/03-12/05

Abbott Laboratories; Abbott Park, Ill.

Wrote the most documents of any employee or contractor within

our 12-person group

Authored changes to controlled company documents (i.e.,

operating procedures, quality-test records, manufacturing

formulas, package bill of materials and forms, etc.) using

internal and external regulatory guidelines (including FDA

criteria to facilitate compliance)

Acted as team proofreader and document reviewer

Produced approval-waiver memos as supporting documentation for

change requests

Working knowledge and implementation of:

Information Mapping, a method of analyzing, organizing and

presenting information;

AMM/CASDOC, the company's software for tracking part and part

numbers; and

ePAS, Abbott's electronic system for writing and storing

change requests

Categorized and organized in Excel spreadsheets the document

types and helped establish a timeline for completing each

phase of documents

Communications Specialist 3/02-4/02

Abbott Laboratories; Abbott Park, Ill.

Wrote for Abbott's biweekly newsletter Update

Devised a marketing plan and customized mass e-mailing and

PowerPoint presentation to sell upcoming curriculum on

improving middle management's leadership competencies (as part

of a continuing education program called Performance

Excellence)

Researched and wrote descriptions of community outreach

programs for future bibliographical use in a database or the

Web site

Freelance Editing/Proofreading Experience 10/87-Prese

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VSA Partners; Chicago, Ill. March 2007

Proofread annual reports and other financial materials

Stanaszek Goodwin Design Partnerships; Evanston, 8/05-09/05

Ill.

Proofread and edited copy for travel-related products

Bowne; Chicago, Ill. 6/03-8/03

Proofread legal documents for layout, style, spelling and

consistency

Associates Design; Northbrook, Ill. March 2003

Proofread/edited restaurant menus and wrote ad, menu and

banner copy for Hyatt Hotels and other clients in the

hospitality industry

Tamarack Software, Inc.; Mt. Prospect, Ill. 1/03-1/08

Edited for layout, style, order, consistency and grammar

non-algorithmic test banks for Pearson Education and coded

text for insertion into a test-bank format

RR Donnelley and Sons; Bedford Park, Ill. 3/02-6/03

Proofread for layout, style, consistency, and grammar

prospectuses and other financial materials using clients'

specifications

Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America; Deerfield, 7/01-Presen

Ill. t

Established for Takeda initial proofreader requirement to use

American Medical Association (AMA) style when proofing copy

Proofreading, editing and managing in TrackWise FDA-approved

package inserts, press releases, manuals, catalogues,

presentations, guides, advertisements (i.e., direct-mail,

slim-jims and leave behinds) and other promotional

pharmaceutical literature (including copy for radio,

television and Internet)

Product lines worked on include the diabetes drug ACTOS and

prescription sleep medicine Rozerem, whose copy must conform

with FDA regulations, as well as Takeda and AMA style

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