Dominic Brown

Profile

An accomplished writer and editor, adept at clarifying and streamlining complex technical material. An experienced, foresighted project manager, rarely caught unprepared by anything. A good listener, approachable colleague, generous contributor of original ideas. A detail-oriented document specialist with outstanding software skills. Writing Editing

Wrote advertising, advertorial and op-ed copy for

the Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology.

Copy-edited 26 complex corporate practice

documents for BC Hydro (35–130 pages each)

Led a team to create the City of Vancouver’s

Green City DVD for the 2010 Winter Games—

wrote 34 fact sheets, media centre displays, etc

Edited APEGBC’s Organizational Quality

Management guidelines and handbook, distributed

to 25,000 BC engineers and geoscientists

Wrote outdoor display copy and print ad copy for

City of Vancouver environmental initiatives

Edited an expert consortium’s draft CSA standard

on hearing protection programs.

Wrote a white paper on organizational culture

and language for Sierra Systems

Copy-edited proposals etc for consulting firms in

IT and environmental engineering

Wrote restaurant reviews, company profiles, and

news articles for periodicals including Outdoor

Lifestyle, The Westender, and The Source.

Substantively edited the Regional Aquatics

Monitoring Program site describing the Athabasca

oil-sands area—the river, people, environmental

and water quality issues—and the Orange-Senqu

River Awareness Kit, describing a vast watershed

in southern Africa, with competing political,

economic, social, and environmental interests.

Wrote and edited successful newsletters for

Mensa (a national award-winner), and an insurance

broker (distributed throughout Western Canada)

Document Design Software Skills

Created a new design language for BC Hydro

(internal planning documents, work aids, & forms)

to modernize and improve 150 existing templates

Word—outstanding, with experience in

structured documents using styles, tables of

contents, indexing, mail merges, conditional text

Designed new standard templates for reports &

proposals, used by 2,000+ employees of Sierra

Systems at 15 offices across North America

Excel—expert, especially in chart design, including interactive charts and Tufte-inspired design for

better comprehension and interpretation

Designed newsletters, brochures, catalogues,

business cards and flyers for varied clients

SharePoint—skilled user, basic administrator;

experienced with other CMSs & version control.

Developed complex WordPerfect macros to

automate the production of heavily-illustrated

research reports

PowerPoint, Visio—very good

Adobe Creative Suite—fair

Dominic Brown adabgm@r.postjobfree.com

Relevant Experience

Education

1981–85 University of Manitoba—physics, English.

2002–present Contract work in environmental science, education, utilities, securities, publicity Writing and editing for print and digital distribution—mainly promotional, informational, technical, instructional, and regulatory. Desktop publishing and document processing including document conversion, single-source publication, compilation of long, complex, structured technical documents. Recent employers and freelance clients include MITT, APEG-BC, Halifax Regional Municipality, BC Hydro, ESSA Technologies, and the City of Vancouver. 2000–2002 Sierra Systems Group Inc (enterprise software) Supervising three co-workers in the Document Management Group, creating proposals & reports using MS Word, PowerPoint and Visio, and advertisements, brochures etc. using Illustrator & Photoshop. Scheduling and distributing work, negotiating deadlines, setting priorities. Serving as a design and word-processing lead hand. Editing, proofreading, and formatting complex documents. Technical writing and editing exclusively from late 2001.

1998–2000 Macdonald, Shymko, & Company Ltd (financial advisors) Newsletter writing and production, advanced word processing, (including complex mail-merges), proof-reading and copy-editing, maintenance and systematic improvement of the client database, tape transcription. 1995–1998 Seabury & Smith Ltd (insurance brokers)

Extensive copy editing and writing on proposals and documentation, newsletter production, presentations, and brochure layout.

1993–1995 Contract work in manufacturing, utilities, mining, energy Advanced word processing; help-desk user support; teaching Word, WordPerfect; copy writing and editing including promotional material, minutes, and contracts. 1992–1993 Campbell Goodell Consultants (market and public-opinion researchers) Coding complex WordPerfect macros to automate work flow, minor report writing

& copy editing, with some elementary statistical analysis of research results. Dominic Brown adabgm@r.postjobfree.com

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