Experienced and Professional Writer and Editor. Skilled in all methods of composition, including copy writing, journalism, script writing, manuscripts, and web content development. Editor of articles (print and web), manuscripts, educational materials, and promotional items across multiple industries. Accomplished researcher. Comfortable with AMA, CBE and APA guidelines, and Chicago, Associated Press and New York Times styles. Excellent at matching art and photographs to words. Highly efficient multi-tasker, quick and eager learner, and consummate communicator. Creative and original thinker.
Freelance Experience:
Freelance Writer
1995-Present
Skilled copywriter with excellent print, web content, script writing, headline, catalog, and print ad experience. Extensive lifestyles journalism experience including health/fitness, cultural arts, food writing, travel/tourism. Talented PR professional with skills including company profiles, personal and professional bios, internet/intranet sites, press kits and press releases. Industries include pharma/biomed (DTP/DTC), financial, and advertising. Corp comm and B2B writing skills.
Freelance Editor
1994-Present
Multidisciplinary editor. Pharmaceutical/biomedical, financial, marketing/PR, cultural arts, and travel/tourism industries. Excellent with highly technical documents including medical/pharmaceutical, education/test materials, scientific monographs, legal materials, and sales/financial documents. Media includes web content (xml/html), CD-ROMs, advertising copy, newsletters, internet/intranet sites, proposals, brochures, and manuscripts.
Clients Contracted For Include:
• ETS
• Draft FCB
• Euro RSCG
• Harte Hanks
• Commonhealth
• DWTickets.com
• The Princeton Packet
• CitySmart Magazine
• Physician’s Weekly
• Patient Education Center
• ZipTrips.com
• Waverly, Inc.
• Toys ‘R Us
• Liberty Travel
• Merrill Lynch
Past Employment:
Copywriter
Harrison and Star, New York, NY
2006-2007
Copywriter for Humira account team. Responsible for print and spoken copy for projects ranging from magazine advertisements to booth design and implementation for medical conventions. Experienced in all project stages, from conception to completion. Assisted with art and design.
• Conceptualized copy for Humira booths at domestic and international conferences
• Assisted project managers with creation of timelines and timely completion of all projects
• Met with key personnel of Abbot Laboratories to ensure key messages were communicated through all advertising copy
Editor
M2 Communications, Jersey City, NJ
2002-2003
Managing editor for tactical communications company serving the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries. Responsible for all written communications including but not limited to sales and marketing materials, web content, monographs, CME, and packaging. Prioritized project timelines and set deadlines. Excelled at substantive edits of complex biomedical and pharmaceutical information, DTC and DTP. Ensured strict compliance with regulatory, legal and compliance guidelines by authors, editors and project managers.
• Wrote and edited daily newsletter for the San Antonio Breast Conference, 2002
• Hired and managed all freelancers through all aspects of projects
• Created in-house style guide and editorial services manual
• Established database of freelance medical writers and contracting agencies
Editorial Coordinator
Excerpta Medica, Hillsborough, NJ
2001-2002
Responsible for editing of abstracts and posters for domestic and international pharmaceutical and medical meetings for the medical communications division of Reed Elsevier. Ensured strict compliance with regulatory, legal and compliance guidelines by authors, editors and project managers.
• Sole point-of-contact for graphic artists and printers
• Ensured editorial timelines were accurate and met in a timely manner
• Daily contact with doctors and key pharmaceutical personnel to ensure project accuracy
Education:
B.A. English Literature and Honors Humanities, 2000
William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
3.9 GPA
