PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

	World Bank: External Corporate Communications March 2006 - Present 1818 H St, NW, Washington, DC 20433
	u Consultant Primary duty is to write stories on corporate topics for the World Bank website's home page; that task involves collaboration with communications professionals, economists and development experts to communicate the World Bank's messages and activities through stories, blog posts, multimedia and other elements. I also perform web editor functions as needed and contribute to Web Team and corporate initiatives, such as the Open Forum, campaigns to increase resources for IBRD and IDA, the Bank-wide Editorial Toolkit (2009), scoring tests of online communications officer job applicants, and training (2007). Highlights for FY 2011 include: Open Forum on Jobs, Annual Meetings: Prepared script and other materials for segment, briefed talent and host, monitored online chat during live webcast for social-media check-in. Open Forum on Food, Spring Meetings: soft-positioning stories (Food Security in a Changing Climate and Fears Rise along with Prices); monitored online chat during live webcast for social media check-in. Eco-accounting feature story helped launch new green accounting initiative at UN biodiversity meeting in Japan. Open Data, Opens Bank feature celebrated first anniversary of Open Data initiative. Travel to Kenya in mid-June to produce stories on accountability in the water sector and gender-disaggregated data (feature stories and multimedia to come)
	DC Government: Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) July 2001 - February 2006 441 4th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001
	u Senior Editor Member of award-winning team that develops and maintains the DC government portal DC.Gov, named Best of the Web in 2003. Seen as talented, responsible, trustworthy, and dedicated employee. Duties and accomplishments include: Editing, writing, rewriting, organizing, and developing information for the web; ensuring DC portal pages and applications comply with grammar, style and technical standards Creating content for and maintaining the DC Emergency Information Center website—the official source of DC government information in an emergency. Worked with EIC development team to prepare site for launch in September 2003 as Hurricane Isabel approached the District of Columbia; updated the site round the clock during emergency. Created web page on lead in DC drinking water and worked with Department of Health and Mayor's office to publish up-to-date information on issue. Editing and writing OCTO publications including web and technical standards documents and the agency emergency response plan Working with Mayor's office to publish State of the District and budget information, press releases, schedules, and newsletters Playing key customer service role as web maintenance editor communicating with multiple DC agency webmasters; recognized by colleagues for diplomacy and tact. Also answer feedback mail from the public on behalf of OCTO, including researching and tracking down solutions to problems Preparing presentations for visitors (US and foreign) seeking information on the DC government's website Knowledge of HTML, Microsoft Office Suite software, and various content management systems used to publish web pages
	America Online June 1998 - January 2001 22000 AOL Way, Dulles VA 20166-9323
	u News Editor, Digital City Member of three-person news team for AOL's Digital City (now AOL Local) in charge of building traffic to 50 city websites in the Digital City network through promotion of local and national news issues. Duties and accomplishments included: Training, coaching, and scheduling a team of nine contract editors to update news screens and write web pages on news issues Working with developers and programming team to redesign website; my design for news and sports pages adopted Creating news issue pages with online polls and message boards daily; brainstorming topics for issue pages published in all 50 cities Working with developers and large media companies (Knight Ridder and Tribune Co.) to set up and maintain news feeds to Digital City Working with AOL News to cover the Columbine school shooting, including issue page on National Rifle Association meeting shortly after tragedy
	Chemonics International November 1997 to June 1998 1133 20th Street NW, Washington, DC
	u Editor (contractor) Worked for international development company with projects in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Basic duties included: Consulting with international development specialists on project proposals Writing news releases and promotional materials Editing development proposals
	Bureau of National Affairs February 1995 to March 1997 1231 25th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037
	u Copy Editor, Daily Labor Report Edited stories for five-day-a-week newsletter covering Congress, Supreme Court, National Labor Relations Board, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Labor Department, as well labor unions, collective bargaining agreements, law suits, economic trends and statistics. Assigned stories to foreign correspondents.
	American Banker January 1991 to February 1995 One State Street Plaza, New York, NY.
	u Reporter (freelance) Contributed articles to LDC Debt Report, later Emerging Markets Debt Report, Report on Free Trade, Regulatory Compliance Watch and Banking Attorney. Extensively covered congressional hearings on the North American Free Trade Agreement.
	Toronto Star September 1991 to February 1995 982 National Press Building, Washington, DC
	u Washington News Aide Conducted research for Washington bureau chief. Contributed articles to the Star's foreign section.
	DCI Publishing, Inc. October 1987 to February 1991 717 N. St. Asaph St., Alexandria, VA
	u Editor, Centre View Edited and wrote news stories and editorials while managing a staff of seven at weekly newspaper in Washington, DC suburb. u Senior Reporter, Vienna/McLean/Tysons Connection. Covered business and wrote general interest features. Won Washington Dateline awards for feature writing and business reporting. u Reporter, Centre View Primary beat was land use, but also reported on schools, business, local people, fires, accidents and other local events.

EDUCATION

u M.A., English (1986), Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
u B.A., English and creative writing (1984), University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada

CONSULTING

u World Bank Institute, 1818 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20433.
Wrote, edited, and helped organize content for new WBI Web site. (2001)
u Ninth Insight, 1500 King Street, Suite 303, Alexandria, VA.
Edited and helped organize content for Web site for the Kerry Company. (1998)
u Consultant to International Finance Corp., 1818 H St. N.W., Washington, D.C.
Edited content for IFC's 1999 annual report, edited a report on IFC investment in small and medium enterprises. (1998)

INTERESTS

Skiing, skating, hiking, reading, gourmet cooking and spending time with my family.