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CV/RESUME

Skills

Professional
information

 

My most recent achievements include a BA in English Literature with Creative Writing from UEA and the Snoo Wilson Prize for Scriptwriting, for my historical fiction Scriptwriting Dissertation, a 'rollicking romp' about the first paid woman playwright in England, Aphra Behn.

 

I began my career proofreading Ofsted reports in 2001, with Cambridge Education Associates (CEA). I enjoyed it so much I went on to qualify as a proofreader in March 2008, and as a copy-editor in October 2013. I took both courses with The Publishing Training Centre, London. This is my profile page.

As a refresher, I completed the SfEP course Introduction to proofreading at the University of London, 2013.

I was an Intermediate Member (IM) of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP). I set up and ran the SfEP Cambridge local group as a volunteer local group coordinator. The group is still running seven years on, but the institution has undergone a name change to the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP).

 

Working with people with disabilities, such as visual or aural impairments, or learning difficulties, such as dyslexia.

Working with people whose first language is not English.

Languages

British English (BrE)

American English (AmE)

     Work​

     history
 

  • Flag, London – proofreading websites and web pages, marketing, corporate responsibility and business reports, presentations, advertising materials, on-screen in PDF, Word, iPad apps, Dec 2013–present

  • Private client – fiction MS critique, May–June 2020

  • Mott MacDonald – Shule Bora Proposal proofread via Cambridge Education, Nov 2020 

  • Hindawi – interviewed Academic editors and created copy for their profiles for Editor Spotlight series, Jan 2019–Dec 2019

  • Talkin'BoutMyGeneration – proofreading and press release, June 2018

  • Private client – proofreading, Assyriology manuscript, Sept 2017–Jan 2018, and July 2018–present

  • Hindawi – creation of style guide, May–Aug 2017

  • Cambridge University Press – development editing, Whittome Cambridge International AS and A-Level in English Literature Teacher's Resource CD-Rom, Jul 2016–Feb 2017

  • Private clients – CV assistance

  • Private client – development of financial blog, May 2016

  • Hart McLeod Limited – copy-editing student guides for various clients, AS & A-Level History, GCSE Religious Studies, GCSE and AS & A-Level Drama and Theatre Mar–Aug 2016

  • Hodder Education – proofreading Edexcel GCSE PE, Third Edition, Jan–Feb 2016

  • Cambridge University Press – copy-editing and developmental editing of English Literature GCSE Teacher's Resources for AQA, May–Oct 2015

  • Edmodo – AmE to BrE translation of their virtual learning environment (VLE), May–Oct 2015

  • Global Science and Technology Forum, proofreading, Mar–May 2015

  • Michael Poulin – business client, Mar 2015

  • Andrew Freeman/The Finance Foundation – Heroes or Zeros? June–Sept 2014

  • Private client – MA Sociology student, Apr–May 2014

  • Paulina Holistic – website, Mar 2014

  • Dipa Yadav – Inspirations Hair & Beauty website and promotional materials, Jan 2014–May 2018

  • Private client – advice and proofreading for personal statement and UCAS application, Jan 2014

  • Private client – application and advice for personal statement for counselling course, July 2013

  • Alexei Poulin – business plans, June–July 2013

  • Practical Action Publishing – Enterprise Development & Microfinance (EDM) journal, May–June 2013

  • Phil Griffin – novel Ursula's Maiden Army, Apr–May 2013

  • Pearson Education – Longman Advanced American Dictionary (LAAD), Nov 2012–Feb 2013

  • Jane Hellings – Retro Junky website, Sept 2012

  • Anglia Ruskin University – Part-time coordinator and administrator for the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education. Main duties; creating a newsletter and updating/adapting the old website for the Service User/Carer Involvement (SUCI) programme, organising meetings, networking with staff, service users and carers, and helping with the disability/health and safety issues of our clients within the university, Jan 2011–Aug 2012

  • Michael Poulin – business process management book, Sept–Dec 2012

  • Phil Griffin – novel The Fictionary Part 1 and Part 2, Jan 2011 –Dec 2011

  • Tanvi Bush – novel Witch Girl for Masters Degree Oct – Nov 2010 (achieving status in the semi-finals in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest, Mar 2012 and long listed for the Mslexia new novel competition 2011)

  • Mostyn Maltpress – business plans, Nov 2010

  • Fiona Bennett – English and Film Studies MA, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, Aug 2010

  • Phil Griffin – Short stories for personal project, June 2009–July 2010

  • Private client, History student at St John's, Cambridge – PhD 'The History of Yoga and Ayurvedic Medicine circa 1950–1995', 2008

  • Neal Robbins, Local Secrets Ltd – Dining Out and Eating In, Cambridge 2007/8

  • Private client – proofreading and advice for personal statement and application for nursing position, 2004

  • Cambridge Education Associates – Ofsted reports, 2001–2003

2010 - present

2010 - present

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