About me

I am a professional desktop publisher with 17 years design, layout and formatting experience, specialising in localisation of technical documentation, and a professional copy editor and proof reader with 24 years experience. I am used to pressure and urgent deadlines, and have an exceptional eye for detail.

I am highly experienced in all MS Office programs, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and all Adobe DTP and graphics programs, including InDesign, DreamWeaver, PhotoShop, Acrobat and Illustrator.

I am security cleared to SC level and I always exercise complete discretion with a client's work.

On a personal level, I am very loyal, disciplined & trustworthy, as well as kind, confident & outgoing with an excellent sense of humour. A very positive & easy-going person.

Skills

PUBLISHING SKILLS: layout, formatting, redrafting, editing & proofing of technical manuals to templates, editing & insertion of text & graphics, writing usable guides, localisation, web design & editing. Used to urgent deadlines and have an exceptional eye for detail., SOFTWARE SKILLS: Adobe InDesign, FrameMaker, Acrobat, Illustrator, PageMaker, Flash, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Freehand, Fireworks; MS Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Access, Excel, FrontPage, Outlook); QuarkXpress; Interleaf; CorelDraw; Ventura; Paint Shop Pro; Sage; ArcView; Oracle & Oracle Developer, FileMaker., IT SKILLS: Systems Analysis and Design with emphasis on Human Centred Computing (HCI, Usability), Database Design & Use (VB, SQL), Java, e-Commerce, Web Design/Programming (HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript), Networking., OTHER SKILLS: Sales & marketing, website design with Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) skills, copywriting.

Sector Experience

DTP: 17 years, Proof reading: 24 years, Copy editing: 24 years, Web design: 8 years

Awards

'O' levels:, Mathematics grade B , Chemistry grade C, English language grade B , Physics grade C, English literature grade C , Food & Nutrition grade A, French grade B , Geography grade B, Biology grade B , Computer studies grade C, 'A' levels , Geography grade B , Mathematics grade C, Home Economics grade B, Degree:, 1st Class BSc Honours Degree in Computing Interaction Design

Clients

Alcatel, Blaw Knox Engineering, Canon, Clawson, Dennis Trucks, Eurotherm, Gillette, Home Office, Johnson Engineering, Mirada Travel, Monis, Parallel Project Training, Scala, Tetra Laval Foods, Vauxhall, Xerox