WRITING: Columns, features, editorials, reviews, interviews & news. Technical, scientific, legal, medical, & general interest. S/W documentation, marketing collateral material… and songs (lyrics & music).
EDITING: Copy, headlines, photo, managerial, language-translation cleanup.
GHOSTWRITING: Book projects, press releases, query & marketing letters, etc.
WEB BUILDING & MAINTENANCE: HTML coding, page design, photo crop/thumbnail, basic layout, consulting.
PRODUCTION: Proofreading, paste-up, layout, mechanicals, typesetting, design.
COMPUTERS: LAN management, troubleshooting, word processing, desktop publishing, support, training, etc.

1995-99 Admin. Asst./AP/RMA Mgr., Concepts in Communications, Inc., Nashville, TN
1993-95 Word Processing Specialist (Various Temporary Services) – Nashville, TN
1991-93 Editor/Systems Administrator, Linguistic Systems, Inc. – Cambridge, MA
1989-91 Sole Writer/Editor, Customer Support - Wonder Corp – Newton, MA
1983-89 WP/Troubleshooter, trinWORDS (independent consultant), Boston, MA
1981-83 Word Processing Specialist (Various Temporary Services) – Boston, MA
1980 Exec. Director/Office Mgr., Mass. Committee to Elect Ed Clark, Boston, MA
1979-80 Reporter/Columnist/Prod. Asst., Citizen Group Publications, Brookline, MA
1976-79 Writer/Managing Editor, ESPLANADE magazine, Cambridge, MA

* Reported on local and regional news, community events, interest groups, crime, special features and local politics for three Boston, MA neighborhood weekly newspapers. Wrote a weekly general-interest column. Performed layout, design, copy-editing and paste-up functions.

* Edited "into-English" materials (legal, financial, medical, scientific, software documentation, etc.) for a Boston-area natural-language translation firm. Managed numerous projects from initial translation-assignment through delivery-to-client.

* Served as de facto Editor (writing, editing, type/printer liaison, photo-editing, layout, etc.) for a biweekly special-interest tabloid, with a circulation of over 6,000. Served as reporter / feature writer / ghostwriter, producing articles, interviews, features, news, editorials, columns, reviews, etc.

I have also published numerous freelance articles in local and national periodicals, including the Boston Phoenix, Illinois Trooper and New Age magazine.

* Wrote user manuals for a software-product family. (One year later, revised the entire set to fit a completely new user interface.)

* Co-designed and -conceptualized company-wide Marketing collateral materials. Coordinated layout and production. Scripted and/or collaborated on numerous marketing and training presentations.

* Coordinated menuing/maintenance/testing for a multi-function office automation package. Created filing, inventory and time-tracking systems. Developed menu structure for customizing LAN applications-access.

* Created Simplified User Guides and Cribsheets for use as supplemental training aids. Wrote mini-manuals geared to management-level personnel for simplified system access.

* Managed a $150,000, 7-language translation project, converting from and to a mainframe-based database. Supervised translators, editors and production staff. Coordinated schedules and deadlines. Brought project in under budget and on time, despite continual client-specification changes.

* Managed all statewide aspects of a national third-party Presidential campaign from ballot-status through Election Day, including press releases and conferences, media-liaison, candidate visits, publicity, volunteer coordination and logistics.

* Supervised a four-member volunteer team in weekly processing of receipts for an educational seminars organization, including workflow coordination, assignment of duties, project management and final responsibility for balancing accounts and computer database management.

* Provided elementary training for 100 users in WordPerfect and WP Office functions. Initiated user survey for training needs assessment.

* Served as in-house troubleshooter for a 10-person multimedia startup.

* Advised in-house users, freelancers and clients on software and Bulletin Board operation.

* Supervised user training in multiple PC-based software applications.

* Maintained a 30-node Novell Local Area Network, including PC and Mac terminals, modems, Bulletin Board, tape-drive backup system, and MAIL in a multiple-router configuration.

* Managed a 50-node LAN, including system upgrades and troubleshooting. Coordinated hardware/software LAN connection to Vanderbilt Medical Center WAN backbone.

* Assisted Director of Information Services in LAN management, system troubleshooting and user support, including hardware/software configuration and set-up of multiple workstations, PC and Mac, for a clinical research firm serving the pharmaceuticals-testing industry.

* Recommended/supervised a system-wide network upgrade to Novell Netware 3.11. Installed software packages in DOS, Windows and Mac environments.

* Oversaw Hardware/Software set-up and tear-down. Created installation routines; Maintained software library; Performed Q/A testing and programmer-liaison.

* Performed Word Processing/formatting of foreign-language documents, extrapolating from ambiguous/unclear handwritten copy-edits to produce quality in final product form.

* Functioned as PC software specialist at multiple sites, through various Nashville-area temporary-help agencies. Assignments included word processing, spreadsheets, graphics, databases, proofreading, fact-checking, data-entry, text-editing, updating of operations manuals, system troubleshooting/advising and transcription of physician's reports.

* Learned under fire how to use over 50 distinct software packages. Functioned as "lead troubleshooter" for several Greater Boston temporary-help, consulting and office support agencies.

ORGANIZATIONAL: Co-organizer/promoter, "Songs of, for and about Peace" Concert, 1998-1999. Organizer/promoter, "Season for Nonviolence Walk for Peace Concert", 1998. Board Member & Webmaster, Tennessee International Jazz Association, 1999-2001.

VOCATIONAL: Songwriter, 1981-present. Sole or co-writer of over 350 songs. Active supporter of Nashville's independent singer/songwriter community. Moderator/Organizer, Kathy's Night Off (monthly songwriter's night), 2000-present.

SPIRITUAL: Member, Religious Science of Nashville, 1994-present. Regular Volunteer, 19976-present. Sunday School teacher assistant, juniors class, 2002-2003.

POLITICAL: Member/Activist, Libertarian Party (1972- present). Party officer (various roles), LP of Massachusetts, 1973-1981. Member, LP of Tennessee, 1993-present. Delegate, Libertarian Party National Convention: 1975, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1996, 2000, 2002 (Delegation Chair for Libertarian Party of Tennessee, 2002). Elected Region Seven (Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Nevada, New Mexico & Oklahoma) Representative, Libertarian National Committee, 2002 (Member of LNC Program Committee). Member, Libertarian Party of Davidson County, 1994-present (former Vice Chair; currently Director of Education). Newsletter Editor & member, Ad Hoc Committee to Draft L. Neil Smith for President, 2000-present. Activist against state income tax, 1999-2002, successfully helping to block such imposition on Tennessee citizens. Currently spearheading ballot-access reform efforts through legislative and lobbying tracks.

FRATERNAL: Member, Iota Tetarton Chapter, Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity. Chapter President, 1970. Chapter Delegate to National Convention, 1970.

Other: (1) Circle of Friends / Intentional Community / Fishbowl, Nashville, TN, 1996-present. Member & regular participant in work designed to improve communication & community between men & women. (2) Insight Seminars, c/o Univ. of Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA (five-day personal-growth & self-actualization workshops). Completed levels I through III, as well as a two-month intensive on intensive series on Leadership Development, 1986-1989. (3) Human Awareness Institute, Harbin Hot Springs, CA (weekend personal-growth and sensitivity workshops), levels I & II, 1989-91.