• Introductions, User's Guide, summaries to the Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands Land Management Plan
• Successful private, federal, & state grant proposals (content, design, graphics)

• Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands Land Management Plan, evaluation reports, assessments
• Analysis Services portions of Microsoft SQL Server Books Online
• Microsoft SQL Server Resource Kit and Tools CD
• Federally-mandated research report, Juvenile Justice Processing in Texas

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

Land Management Plan development and revision team

• Ascertain what deliverables will meet the 2005 Planning Rule
• Design documents to meet those requirements
• Work with resource specialists on content of plan revision, evaluations, asssessments, evaluation reports
• Edit, copyedit, contribute content to and prepare documents for publication
• Developed processes, templates, instructions for documents
• Write FAQs, reports, Web content

• Member of Rocky Mountain Region EMS Communications Team
• Team Leader, Special Emphasis Program

USDA Forest Service: Colville, Okanogan, Wenatchee National Forests. Okanogan Valley Office, Okanogan, WA (December 2002-2005)

• Worked with specialists on content and organization of documents
• Evaluated and edited EISs, EAs, reports
• Wrote FAQs, reports, Web content

Forest Land Management Plan revision team

• Plan: Worked with resource specialists on content, organization, design
• Forest Health Assessment: Collaborated with resource specialists on and edited, prepared for publication
• Six road analyses: collaborated with resource specialists on and edited content
• Compiled and verified bibliographic information for reports and projects, ensured correct style was used

For details, see OkaWenCol details.

• Designed and taught classes, assignments, assessed students' progress, and assigned grades for developmental writing, technical writing, and college writing courses

• Edited Analysis Services sections of SQL Server Books Online, as one of two-editor team
• Lead editor on several major projects
• Edited software documentation, help topics, white and marketing papers, technical articles
• Collaborated with programmer writers, developers, program managers, usability engineers, copy editors to plan, create, edit content to ensure high-quality documentation (content, format, usability, consistency). Reorganized, wrote, revised topics
• Worked with usability engineers on document design, user interface text and design

• Sole editor for Meta Data Services and Meta Data Services SDK sections of SQL Server Books Online

For details, see Microsoft details.

• Managed two quarterly consortia of members (government, private companies, university faculty and students)
• Coordinated daily activities of research center and its members
• Wrote program coordinator's policy and procedures handbook
• Designed, wrote, did all photographs and layout, distributed quarterly newsletters
• Designed, hand coded, maintained new Web site
• Created & maintained databases (Access)
• Supervised three employees

• Edited, revised, prepared state and federal grant proposals & final reports with research teams; ensured hard deadlines were met
• Wrote winning grant proposals for the Community Grant Support Initiative (now the Center for Community Support); located funding sources for community-based organizations
• Ensured consistency of style, formatting, and content in documents authored by different researchers

• Revised technical reports & documents in consultation with authors to meet Texas Dept. of Transportation publishing guidelines

• Full responsibility for designing, teaching, evaluating and grading courses in technical writing, composition, introduction to literature, and research writing for freshman through senior classes

• Conceived, designed, and conducted effective communications seminars; clients included Whitney Bank, Touro Hospital, Boeing Petroleum

• Wrote book reviews and articles
• Wrote "Coping" chapter
• Edited entire manuscript
• Proofed galleys
• Ensured deadlines were met

• Two merit-cash award for work on Grasslands Draft Plan (PSICC, 2005, 2007)
• Five merit-cash awards for work on Forest Service projects (Oka, Wen, Col, 2003-2004)
• Honors on Master's comprehensive exams and thesis defense
• Voorhies Writing Scholarship (1985)
• Levy Foundation Writing Scholarship (1982)
• Louisiana College Writers Award (1981, 1982)

• Society for Technical Communications, senior member (1989-current)
• American Association of University Women
• Master Gardeners, Washington State University Extension
  
• Seattle Writergrrls (1999-2003)
  
• St. Joseph's Housing Group (2002-2003)
• International Student Assoc., Texas A&M University (1995-99)
  
• Indian Student Assoc., Texas A&M University (1995-99)
  
• SPICMACAY, Texas A&M Chapter (1995-99)
  
• Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society, University of Southwestern Louisiana (1980-84)

• Being a Leader in the Forest Service (April, May 2007)
• NEPA Project Management (Shipley, 3-day workshop, 2005)
• EMS Development Workshop (WO/RO, Lakewood, 2005)
• NEPA course 1900-01 (Forest Service, 2003)
• Reviewing EISs (Shipley 3-day workshop, 2004)
• Resource Advisor workshop (Forest Service, 2004)
• Dispatch Recorder (Forest Service and BLM, 2004)
• CWICC initial attack dispatcher (week of on-the-job-training, August 2004)
• Planning-Appeals-Litigation Record database training (Forest Service, Region 4, 2003)

• Database design and programming (2004)
• Master Gardener certification (2003)
• Problem analysis, identification, solving (Microsoft 4-day course, 2001)
• Negotiation and facilitation (Microsoft 3-day course, 2001)
• Manager & Supervisor Training I and II (Microsoft 2-week courses, 2001-2002)
• Advanced conflict resolution (Microsoft, 2001)
• Usability testing and evaluation (Microsoft, 2001)
• Performance review training (Microsoft, 2000)
• Project management and project planning (Microsoft, 2000)
• Software development cycle (Microsoft, 2000)
• Red Cross HIV-AIDS counseling training (1996)
• Various coding & software classes (solo, Microsoft, Texas A&M, U.S.L.)
• Facilitator training (1989)