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Travel and Tourism, Art, Internet, Architecture, Science and Technology, History and Heritage, Computers, Social Trends

Technical Writing/Editing, Travel Writing, Corporate Communications, Photography/Photojournalism, Feature Writing, Lecturing/Public Speaking, Training Materials, Web Sites

Victoria Times-Colonist, Publish Magazine, Monday Magazine, Focus, Canadian Women's Studies Journal

Professional writer, photographer, speaker, and educator, I am published in a variety of print and electronic media. An Internet "early adopter," I have lived and breathed Internet since the Web's emergence in 1993. I wrote a weekly newspaper column on this topic for over seven years and have presented at numerous conferences, seminars, and expositions. Please see www.BrainwaveSolutions.com/pam.html for more detailed background information. Web content strategy a specialty.

2009 PWAC Regional Volunteer Award - British Columbia

Wrote Engines of local Economic Growth, a statistical snapshot of the Greater Victoria economy, for the Vancouver Island Advanced Technology Centre and was chosen as team writer for the DREP Review Team (a group appointed to investigate alternative uses of the resources displaced by the Federal Government's closure of the Defense Research Establishment Pacific). Helped research and write a series of fun science activity sheets for girls for the Society for Canadian Women in Science & Technology. Researched and developed Breaking the Barriers, an information kit designed to help elementary teachers encourage girls in math, science and technology. Researched and wrote "Gender Equity in Mathematics, Science and Technology", one of the components of the kit. Researched and wrote "Changing Times: Women and Employment in B.C." on behalf of Victoria Status of Women Action Group. Produced information kits to help community groups fight tobacco and plan effective conferences. Researched and compileda directory of museums and art galleries in B.C. for the British Columbia Provincial Museum.

"My Background is a fusion of technology, training and marketing, throughout which writing has always been a constant. Key strengths include a tight, focused writing style, the ability to express ideas with clarity, and a knack for tailoring presentation to the reader's comprehension level, particularily with technical or training materials."