About Me

Think about a squirrel in a frenzy to gather his family's late Fall nuts. That's me trying to get enough information. Lucky for me, because I spend a good part of my day as a Technical Writer. We’ve been around for years and years, of course, spinning geek-y language into plain English. Prioritizing, organizing, interviewing, writing, testing, and training. Nowadays, it can get pretty complicated, though. There are so many technologies - those to write about and those to use for presentation.

My 20+ years experience with various industries provides me with a versatility that most other technical writers don't have. A lot of my career has been spent in small and large-scale systems development roles. This technical foundation gives me an advantage on documentation projects. I have the ability to quickly identify and understand usable information and communicate it clearly to any audience. And with technologies like Live Meeting, WebEx and Skype, I can do it from your office or mine or a combination of both.

I also work on non-technical projects like process improvement and strategic plan materials, newsletters for political and non-profit organizations, educational articles, web copy, and biographical pieces for publication. I am site owner for two blogs: The Office Chronicles and Post-Single Motherhood. For more details, read about my Writing Services or view my complete resume in PDF format.

On a more personal note, I live in Indianapolis, Indiana with a 15-year-old beagle mix, Sabrina. My son left me three years ago for a college education in Bloomington, and it still stings a little. He has since graduated, and we've worked things out, but life as I knew it? Pfffft. There's a bit of a divide between my personal and professional lives due to this shaky navigation in uncharted territories, but I'm finding my way and, of course, documenting it.

Should I try to define myself? I'm pretty sure I've got a handle on independent, loyal, honest, organized, dependable, helpful, accidentally funny, and relatively intelligent. And then there's legalistic, moody and, at times, downright immature. I constantly self-correct (probably the editor in me), which even I find annoying. I must be hard to love, but I think I'm pretty easy to like. I have huge issues with personal space in public places and am constantly tested about this. I think it's because I'm magnetic, too, but not in a particularly positive way.

Enough of that. Too much talk about me and I get sleepy. Thank you for stopping by!