USDA Forest Service: Pike and San Isabel National Forests and Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands, Pueblo, CO (March 2005-present)

• Interpret 2005 Planning Rule and 2006 planning directives to determine project deliverabls and strategy
• Work with resource specialists on content, design, edit, copyedit: planning documents, evaluations, assessments, and evaluation reports
• Developed templates for deliverables
• Develop, implement processes for documentation production, review, editing, revision
• Compile and maintain glossary, terminology and usage guide, bibliography, acronym list
• Contributed to and edited communication plan, collaboration strategy, and related materials
• Revised my writing-editing guidebook for this project
• Write FAQs, Web content, public meeting materials
• Write process papers, Federal Register notices, etc.
• Designed, wrote User’s Guide for Grasslands Plan
• Design Web page layout and navigation
• Did presentation at Forests’ Revision Kickoff Meeting: “What to expect when working with a writer-editor”

SOPA, NEPA, and related

• Writer-editor for District NEPA projects, as needed
• Introduced Access database for planning record index, trained admin. asst. in its use
• Participate in R2 Planning Meetings
• Responsible for PSICC schedule of proposed actions (SOPA)
• Answer and troubleshoot questions from PSICC PALS database users, compile Q&As
• Compile and edit annual monitoring report (2004-2005)
• Initiated new process for completing annual monitoring report
• Provide help with MS Office (on request and via How To files)
• Edited Records of Decision, supplemental information report, etc.

Communications Competitive Sourcing Study MEO team subject-matter expert

• Participate in discussions, conference calls, review draft data calls, etc.
• Edit documents for most efficient organization (MEO) proposal

Team leader, Special Emphasis Program

• Attend USDA Graduate School training
• Coordinate with Regional EO and Civil Rights office
• Begin regular conference calls with program managers to assess current and develop new initiatives, activities for recruitment
• Provide leadership team with regular reports and updates
• Responsible for budget
• Prepare reports, summaries of progress

• Researched and recommended training materials
• Collaborated on, drafted, edited Team Charter and R2 EMS Communication Plan
• Developed templates and instructions for Forests’ EMS teams ISO communication requirements
• Researched and compiled information about EMS and ISO 14001, shared with teams
• Participated in R2-WO EMS training (3-day workshop, 2005)
• Participated in EMS stakeholders meeting (2005)
• Designed R2 internal EMS Web site