Background/Credentials
- B.S. degree in business administration/marketing with a well-rounded “real-world” hands-on business/marketing background
- Over 16 years’ experience proofreading legal transcripts for court reporters
- Former certified professional résumé writer/career coach and published writer; extensive knowledge of various industries and their related terminology
- Former owner/operator of a secretarial service for 12 years, providing word processing and transcription services to attorneys, physicians, private investigators, psychologists, small businesses, students and so forth
- Entrusted with highly sensitive and confidential information
- Excellent command of the English language, grammar and spelling
- Extremely detail-oriented and thorough; have a sharp eye for identifying errors and inconsistencies
- Utilize common sense and thinking/reasoning skills to find discrepancies
Publications
- Current project: author a follow-up publication to the One Word, Two Words, Hyphenated? book, containing over 500 new words (originally published in 1998 by NCRA) and other pertinent and helpful information.
- Contributor to Professional Résumés for Executives, Managers, and Other Administrators: A Gallery of the Best Résumés by Professional Résumé Writers; Professional Résumés for Tax and Accounting Occupations; Professional Résumés for Accounting, Tax, Finance, and Law; and Gallery of Best Cover Letters by JIST, Inc.
- Published article, PARW/CC monthly newsletter 3/04, “The Importance of Documentation”
- Published article, PARW/CC monthly newsletter 2/03, “I’ve Got a Great Résumé...So Why Aren’t They Calling Me?”
- Published 3 articles in CrossWinds Weekly, “The Employment Issue” 5/22-29, 2003.
- Guest Columnist, Waz Up Florida, an on-line community magazine serving west Broward County, Florida.
- Guest Columnist, New Mexico Business Weekly.
- Guest columnist, Vital Signs magazine, a publication for healthcare professionals with distribution of 75,000.
Press Coverage
- Featured in Sun Sentinel Your Business, “The Itch to Niche” 6/04.
- Profiled in New Mexico Business Weekly 5/21-5/27/01 edition.
- Quoted in special “Job Outlook” tabloid of the Sun Sentinel 12/00.
- Quoted in Business section of the Sun Sentinel in "Job Connection" 4/99.
- Featured in Business section of The Herald 1/98, 7/94.
- Featured in Daily Business Review 9/97.
- Featured on front page and inside story in Sun Sentinel Business Monday 1/94.