Quality Assurance Medical

Stephanie Chambers

*** * ********* ***, ********* IA 52556, cell: 641-***-****, email: ****@********.***

www.steffaux.com

Unmarried Name: Secomb

CAPABILITIES

• Providing a diverse range of talents given my background as a

medical writer, business analyst, quality assurance specialist,

technical writer, freelance journalist, published non-fiction author

and creative writer.

MEDICAL WRITING

• Oxford Clinical Communications - Medical writer - Q&A booklets,

guides & research reviews, edited technical newsletters.

• Australian Doctor Magazine - Freelance Medical Writer

• Australian Acreage Review - Freelance Journalist (Pets ‘n Vets

column).

MY OWN BUSINESSES

• www.merrimysteries.com – wrote over 30 mystery party games

and sold over 30,000 of them worldwide (generating a profit of

over a million dollars). The words in the kits have been spoken in

front of roughly 300,000 + people. Coordinated the efforts of

programmers, writers and editors to make the kits entertaining

and fun and to market them successfully online.

• Wrote two non-fiction books: Earth Garden Books – “Getting Started

In The Country” (over 4000 copies sold) and an e-book called

"House plans, home builders and dreams"

www.newhousebuilding.com.

WEBSITES

Web editing experience:

• wrote content

• edited content

• liaisoned with subject matter experts

• search engine optimized text

• created videos for webpages and added close caption text to

increase website Google ranking

• liaised with programmers.

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Web coding and design experience:

• designed website layouts

• coded in HTML and CSS using Dreamweaver and other website

programs

• created graphics for websites using Adobe Illustrator and

Photoshop

• created and edited meta tags

• created landing pages for Google Adwords ads

• filmed and edited video using Final Cut and added it to websites

• created items using Adobe Affect Affects and Adobe Flash and

added it to websites

• used javascript and HTML5 to create features for websites

• created XML site maps

• created Favicons for websites

• improved the Woorank and Alexa rank of websites

• added social media icons and links to websites.

Web advertising experience:

• created and edited meta tags

• created landing pages for Google Adwords ads

• wrote Google Adword and Microsoft Advertising ads

• monitored and tested online advertising campaigns

• improved the quality score of keywords

• improved the effectiveness of online advertising campaigns

• advertised via social media (Facebook and Twitter).

BUSINESS ANALYSIS AND QUALITY ASSURANCE

• Cambridge Investment Research (USA) - worked on a large

number of projects over a ten-month period.

TECHNICAL WRITING

• IAG Insurance (NRMA) - worked on a large project over a

number of years.

• Roads & Traffic Authority - IT - over a number of years produced

a user guide for an ORACLE bridge application, & trained over 50

users in its use.

• State Railways - web pages & flowcharts which showed the

procedures for various departments including health & safety

guidelines.

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• Systemik Solutions - manufacturing procedure documentation &

on-line help for some of their in-house applications.

• State Transit Authority – wrote various user guides.

• Philips Multimedia Center - a technical newsletter for its CD-i

clients (layout, design and editing).

• C3 Computer Consultants - Ventura documentation for a

pharmaceutical client & an on-line help system for a government

client.

• Sensible Business Solutions - user guides & on-line help for a

business management system & two identification card systems.

• Applied Learning - a user guide for a time management system.

• RR Donnelley - quality assurance flowcharts for their purchasing

department & digital print centre.

• AMP Insurance Society - a user guide, on-line help & training

material.

• Standards Australia - Committee Executive Officer - managed 11

textile technical committees & over 30 projects & presented at

national seminars, drafted technical standards & guides on

materials & testing.

EDUCATION

• Chicago Portfolio School – one year full-time copywriting and art

direction course

• Digital Bootcamp - Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Flash, After

Effects, HTML, CSS

• MUM - 2 months of training in video editing

• Australian Institute of Management - Train the Trainer (5 day

course)

• MUM - MA in Professional Writing (partly completed)

• MUM – Biology (Physiology major) B.Sc.

• Macquarie University - Biology/Psychology

(1 year)

INTERESTS

• Toastmasters

• Transcendental Meditation

• Jogging, Yoga, Kayaking, Photography.

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