Technical Writer Assistant Project

K. Sue Byrd

***.********@*****.*** 386-***-**** White Springs, Florida

Summary

Talented Editor with over 20 years of experience collaborating with others to produce environmental and engineering documents. Responsibilities included editing, formatting, compiling, and document control of major environmental, technical and administrative documents. Specializes in National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Federal Energy Regulatory Energy Commission (FERC) reports, operating manuals, project and program implementation reports, environmental impact statements, biological and environmental assessments, major proposals, document quality control and assurance. Initiative-taking with organized and motivational leadership style. Mentored new employees regarding editing and formatting.

Skills

• Editing major environmental and

engineering documents

• Document compilation

• Configuration management

• Maintaining consistent flow of

documents written by multiple authors

• Develop cover pages, outlines, acronym

lists, charts, and tables

• Edit and format Reports to Congress,

Congressional Fact Sheets, system-wide

operating manuals, project and program

implementation reports, environmental

impact statements, biological and

environmental assessments, and

guidance memorandums

• Document formatting

• Develop Style Guides for clients

• Track and coordinate changes from

authors and reviewers

• Develop and maintain

comment/response tables

• Edit major corporate proposals

• Attend and support agency and public

meetings, and site visits

• Attend meetings with clients

• Develop and maintain Administrative

Records

• Develop and maintain good working

relations with project managers and

authors

• Experienced in Microsoft Word,

PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint

• Familiar with Section 508 Section

Compliance and Excel

Experience

2014 – current Kleinschmidt Associates

Pittsfield, ME

2018-– current South Florida

Engineering and

Consulting, LLC

Lake Worth, FL

2003 − 2013 Atkins/PBSJ

Jacksonville, FL

Technical Writer/Editor responsible for

compiling, editing, formatting, configuration

management, reference verification, and quality

control and assurance of documents.

Education

Florida Community College of Jacksonville

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Documentum Database

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Key Document Examples – Edited, Compiled, Formatted

• Fairfax Falls Penstock Inspection Report 2023

• HEC-RAS Hydraulic Modeling Standard Operating Procedures 2022

• Sediment Transport Assessment Study Plan for Langdale and Riverview Project 2022

• Rock Island Hydroelectric Style Guide 2021

• Cutler Hydroelectric Shoreline Habitat Characterization Updated Study Report 2021

• R.L. Harris Hydroelectric Project Preliminary Licensing Proposal 2021

• Lower Klamath Definite Decommissioning Plan 2020

• Otter Tail River Hydroelectric Exhibit E Environmental Report and Comment/Response Table 2019

• Beaver Falls Hydroelectric Preliminary Information Document AK 2019

• Jefferson Mill Hydroelectric Exhibit E Environmental Document 2019

• Bishop Creek Hydroelectric Pre-Application Document 2018--2019

• East Lake Tohopekalia Drawdown and Habitat Enhancement Draft and Final Impact Statement and Biological Assessment 2018-2019

Served as Assistant Project Manager and Technical Writer/Editor

• Draft Harris Hydroelectric Project Preliminary Information Document 2016

• Draft/ Final Environmental Assessment, Lake Erie Connector Project 2016

• Draft/ Final Environmental Impact Statement, New England Clean Power Link Project 2015

• Draft/ Final Environmental Impact Statement, Sumter National Forest Stream Restoration 2014

• Draft/Final Report on Peer Review of Science Used in the National Park Service’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement Special Use Permit 2012

• Report on External Independent Peer Review of the Draft Biological Opinion for the Removal of Four Dams on the Klamath River 2011-2012

• Final Broward County Water Preserve Area Project Implementation Report and Environmental Impact Statement 2007, revised 2011

• Melaleuca Eradication and Other Exotic Plants Implement Biological Controls Final Integrated Project Implementation Report and Environmental Assessment 2009-2010

• Everglades Restoration Transition Plan Draft/Final Environmental Impact Statement 2010-2011 Approximately 2,000 pages

• C-111 Spreader Canal Western Project Draft/Final Integrated Project Implementation Report and Environmental Impact Statement 2009 and 2011

Approximately 2,000 pages

• Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands Phase 1 Draft Integrated Project Implementation Report and Environmental Impact Statement 2010

Approximately 2,000 pages

• Everglades Restoration Transition Plan Endangered Species Act Biological Assessment Phase 1 2010

• Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands Phase 1 Final Integrated Project Implementation Report and Environmental Impact Statement 2010

• Final Environmental Assessment Florida Keys Water Quality Improvements Program, Key Colony Beach Lift Station 2006

• Final Environmental Assessment Florida Keys Water Quality Improvements Program 2006

• Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement Florida Keys Water Quality Improvements Program 2004

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