As an employee, a small business owner, a consultant, and serving on several boards, I have been running an office and monitoring financials, creating proposals, letters, presentations and brochures, and proofreading documents for thirty years. As a project manager, I have developed specifications and coordinated a team to provide custom software products. As a technical writer, I have created user guides, 'quick start' guides and Help files for most of the software applications I have managed and for other custom software. I have developed and implemented training programs for software applications and developed several web sites.

I also work with several other experienced professionals. We assemble teams as necessary or work is provided to others based upon their specialty. I provide referrals only when confident that the person or company can meet or exceed your expectations.

Sample Project List

Bookkeeping

I currently have several bookkeeping clients. These clients include a landlord with over 60 rental units, two building contractors, an interior decorator, a consultant and a news magazine publisher.

Proofreading

I have been involved with proofreading many textbooks that have been converted to online courses, a 100-page memoir, an eBook, web sites, brochures, etc.

System Sourcing/Consulting

Acting as the technical consultant for a retail and liquor distribution business, I helped locate and evaluate a point-of-sale package. I managed the implementation, and am still assisting the company with its software/hardware issues.

Web Sites

Since 2000, I have worked with nSight in Burlington, Mass., automating college courses. I also helped them create web sites for Harvard Business School newsletters.

I have created or revised several web sites including a virtual trade show system, a youth sports web site, a consultant, and a merchant account/credit card equipment site.

Desktop Publishing

I am the editor of the monthly newsletter for the Maine Association of Professional Consultants. To see some of the issues, please click here.

I have designed several brochures, business cards and postcards for mailings.

Documentation

I documented and tested custom systems that support drug study tracking for Alkermes, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts. These systems support the scanning, indexing and retrieval of all documents that support drug studies.

Training

As Customer Support Manager of one company and partner in a later business, I was responsible for training all customers in the use of our data collection/time and attendance systems.

I created a training program and trained all employees (140) of Southworth International Group, Inc., of Falmouth, Maine in the basics of using Microsoft Outlook.

Business Process

I helped to select and then managed the implementation and all of the training for L. L. Bean's first Manufacturing Resource Planning package (early 1980's). I prepared procedures to support data accuracy. I collected, created and audited data for the system. I created the training program and user guides and performed all of the training. Most of the users had never seen or touched a computer before. The implementation was successful. Among other items: inventory accuracy improved by over 20%.