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PPH Certified
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5 Years
About Me
I have 19 years' experience of technical multilingual DTP, 9 years' experience of business and technical authoring, 26 years' experience of Copy Editing and Proofreading, over 7 years' Technical Authoring experience, and 8 years Web Designing & Editing and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).
I am an associate of the Society of Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP) and a full member of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators. I am also security cleared to SC level.
I am proficient in the following software packages: Adobe InDesign, FrameMaker, Acrobat, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Freehand, Fireworks, Flash, PageMaker, Photoshop; MS Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Access, Excel, FrontPage, Outlook); QuarkXpress; Interleaf; CorelDraw; Ventura; Paint Shop Pro; Sage; ArcView; Oracle & Oracle Developer, FileMaker.
I am used to pressure & urgent deadlines and have an exceptional eye for detail.
Areas covered: Onsite: London & Home Counties; Offsite: Anywhere in the World
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Work Experience
I have 19 years' experience of technical multilingual DTP, 8 years' experience of business and technical authoring, 25 years' experience of Copy Editing and Proofreading and 8 years' Web Designing & Editing and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) experience.
Jun 2008 to Aug 2008
Freelance Copy Writer at 3 Counties Heating & Plumbing Services
Copy writing all copy for client's website for their heating and plumbing business. This included proofreading and search engine optimisation (SEO) to ensure high ranking on Google and other search engines. Copy was then supplied to the website designer.
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Barbara Dicker
Clare Annand recently copy wrote our entire website of which a large part of it covered solar energy. I found Clare to be easy to work with and her advice and ideas regarding our website resulted in a professional looking site that is well place SEO wise. Our site was finished on time and I am happy with the copy she produced. I would certainly recommend Clare and would use her again.
Education
I have a 1st Class BSc Honours Degree in Computing Interaction Design. The degree focused on Systems Analysis and Design with emphasis on Human Centred Computing (HCI, Usability). Also included: Database Design & Use (VB, SQL), Java, e-Commerce, Web Design/Programming (HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript), Networking.
