Teresa Boze

Current

Author Coach at New Author Development
Principle at Concept Connections

Past

Creative Consultant at Barry Cadish, Copywriter
PR Journalist at AboutUs.org
Instructional Author at Publication Services

Technical Writer - Contract at Qualis Healthcare (www.qualishealth.org)
Technical Writer - Contract at Regence Bluecross Blueshield of Oregon (http://www.or.regence.com/)
Technical Writer - Contract at Chestnut Health Systems (http://www.chestnut.org/)
Biographical Writer - Contract at Publication Services (http://www.pubserv.com/)
Technical Journalist - Staff at University of Illinois, Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering - http://www.ne.uiuc.edu/
Technical Editor -Contract at State Farm Insurance Corporation (http://www.statefarm.com/)
Copyeditor - Contract at International Society of Arboriculture (http://www.isa-arbor.com/)
Technical Writer - Intern at Credence Systems Corporation (http://www.credence.com/)
Public Relations Journalist - Intern at PacifiCorp (http://www.pacificorp.com/)
Technical Writer - Intern at Intellectual Illuminations
Reporter - Intern at Dog Nose News, now Spot Magazine (http://www.spotmagazine.net/)
Marketing Support - Contract at Hewlett-Packard (www.hp.com)
Departmental Support - Contract at WebMD (http://www.webmd.com)
Y2K Management Reporting Specialist - Contract at PG&E Gas Transmission, Northwest, now TransCanada GTN System (http://www.gastransmissionnw.com/)
Technical Coordinator (Intern) at All Sports, LLC (http://www.macraesbluebook.com/search/company.cfm?company=636464)
Project Coordinator - Contract at Zurich North America Financial Services(http://www.zurich.com/main/home/welcome.htm)

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Education

Portland State University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

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Teresa Boze’s Summary

Diverse-range writer and editor, with a foot in the technical and creative worlds.

Teresa Boze’s Specialties:

Web content, public relations, marketing, advertising, publishing, and journalism.Creating information, messages, and stories that people want to read. Eliminating the gobbledygook.

Teresa Boze’s Experience

Author Coach

New Author Development

(Writing and Editing industry)

February 2009 — Present (10 months)

Supporting new authors on books with traditional and new media marketing information, manuscript consulting, networking in the publishing industry, and basic ground-work editing.
Principle

Concept Connections

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

Identifying deep-thought leaders and their human-landscaping needs. Create small events as firestarter and facilitator for knowledge business, securing mutually beneficial communications, and establishing on-going relationships. .
Creative Consultant

Barry Cadish, Copywriter

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

July 2008 — January 2009 (7 months)

Brand, identity, and architecture for http://barrycadish.com. Contributed and advised on content and style for local retail television spot. Developed concepts for two separate print/radio campaigns, and concepts for two separate branding campaigns. Provided research on branding, community building, blogging, Search Engine Optimization/Marketing, social media strategy, networking, and communications.
PR Journalist

AboutUs.org

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

October 2008 — December 2008 (3 months)

Write website summaries for wiki of existing websites being developed by AboutUs.org. Wiki code applied. Network weaver, bringing others into Aboutus.org fold who are ready to contribute where they stand and grow from there, and building on structure and concepts according to the Wiki Way.
Instructional Author

Publication Services

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

August 2008 — September 2008 (2 months)

Writing chapters on international trade for courseware textbook. Did research based on subject matter expert outline to develop 20 page chapters. Submission accepted without need for revision or edit. Deadline-driven publishing environment.
Technical Writer - Contract

Qualis Healthcare (www.qualishealth.org)

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Medical Practice industry)

September 2007 — October 2007 (2 months)

Converted project summaries, status reports, and subject matter expert interviews on hospital case management into a manuscript draft for submission to a medical journal. Publicist duties included researching and targeting appropriate periodical, and writing an announcement letter to hospitals’ staff participating in the study and a proposal letter for the targeted journal.
Technical Writer - Contract

Regence Bluecross Blueshield of Oregon (http://www.or.regence.com/)

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2007 — July 2007 (4 months)

Created applications documentation of catastrophic systems loss recovery for IT Backup and Recovery Department. Developed resources, tools, and orientation and instructional materials for application developers and managers.
Technical Writer - Contract

Chestnut Health Systems (http://www.chestnut.org/)

(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Mental Health Care industry)

December 2005 — April 2006 (5 months)

Converted advanced medical and therapeutic academic and clinical documentation into easily-understood training material for a behavioral assessment tool. Developed structure, graphics, and layout. Deliverable tied directly to marketing of tool.
Biographical Writer - Contract

Publication Services (http://www.pubserv.com/)

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

April 2005 — February 2006 (11 months)

Researched obscure and foreign literary figures’ biographical information online, adhering to strict resource criteria. Developed short, biographical profiles for online instructional articles. Deliverables created in publishing environment.
Technical Journalist - Staff

University of Illinois, Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering - http://www.ne.uiuc.edu/

(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

August 2005 — December 2005 (5 months)

Wrote features on business, education, and research departmental news for alumni, academics, students, and industry audiences. Converted advanced physics engineering concepts into engaging content, supporting recruitment and funding.
Technical Editor -Contract

State Farm Insurance Corporation (http://www.statefarm.com/)

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Insurance industry)

October 2004 — September 2005 (1 year )

Developed, wrote, and edited technical materials for internal web publications and email with the corporate IT division’s communications group. Provided communications design and development services to system and database subject matter experts to reach an audience of managers, users, and stakeholders. Consultant to division's technical, training, business, and creative organizational areas on corporate communications objectives and goals, branding, communication content, and website design and development. Special assignment to database architecture cross-organizational communications development effort.
Copyeditor - Contract

International Society of Arboriculture (http://www.isa-arbor.com/)

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

March 2005 — April 2005 (2 months)

Book copyeditor for the first-ever comprehensive glossary on arboricultural terms for professional, academic, and enthusiast use. Assured content and style. Comprehended advanced chemistry, biology, and environmental concepts, and utility, arboricultural, industry specifications and regulations to assure substantive content unaffected by edits.
Technical Writer - Intern

Credence Systems Corporation (http://www.credence.com/)

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CMOS; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

September 2003 — April 2004 (8 months)

Wrote and edited documentation for automated test equipment with the technical publishing group. Observed and interviewed engineers at various stages of development. Followed review processes, developing deliverables according to project specifications. Assessed and updated formats for compatibility with online publishing.
Public Relations Journalist - Intern

PacifiCorp (http://www.pacificorp.com/)

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; PCPWP; Utilities industry)

January 2004 — February 2004 (2 months)

Wrote departmental and corporate internal news supporting collateral efforts in training and safety. Researched stories, and interviewed principles and subject matter experts. Created layout for print and web.
Technical Writer - Intern

Intellectual Illuminations

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Law Practice industry)

September 2003 — January 2004 (5 months)

Wrote patent applications for a patent attorney. Interpreted inventors’, patent researchers’ and draftsmen’s documentation. Applied patent application conventions to support inventors’ claims for patents.
Reporter - Intern

Dog Nose News, now Spot Magazine (http://www.spotmagazine.net/)

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)

September 2003 — December 2003 (4 months)

Developed, researched, and wrote features and reviews for a niche newspaper with a distribution of 300,000 per month. Conducted interviews and selected story context and content. Wrote under deadline in collaboration with editors and designers.
Marketing Support - Contract

Hewlett-Packard (www.hp.com)

(Public Company; HPQ; Computer Hardware industry)

October 2000 — September 2001 (1 year )

Organized support for marketing projects, assisting national retail account managers, display designer, and business-to-business communications with marketing and advertising agency processes and procedures, event materials logistics, packaging evolution, and in-box training materials launch.
Departmental Support - Contract

WebMD (http://www.webmd.com)

(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

July 2000 — October 2000 (4 months)

WebMD, Portland, OR (http://www.webmd.com)
Identified and devised organizational and project support for the online Live Events, which produced chats and webcasts. Coordinated production activities, public relations for national talent. Copywriting for advertising and PR as part of media relations team for co-branded web portals such as Lycos and Yahoo. Created administrative and budget tracking processes and procedures, and re-negotiated vendors contracts for significant budget savings. Maintained business intelligence spreadsheets and website.
Y2K Management Reporting Specialist - Contract

PG&E Gas Transmission, Northwest, now TransCanada GTN System (http://www.gastransmissionnw.com/)

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TRP; Utilities industry)

December 1998 — July 1999 (8 months)

Developed executive-level reports for the Y2K Program Office, assuring quality of data input, accuracy of output and reporting in compliance with government regulations and industry standards. Documented processes, procedures, and reporting cycle management.
Technical Coordinator (Intern)

All Sports, LLC (http://www.macraesbluebook.com/search/company.cfm?company=636464)

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

August 1998 — January 1999 (6 months)

Assessed, documented and resolved issues for a server platform migration from UNIX to Windows as technical support in a logistics environment. Ordered, built, configured, installed, and maintained hardware and software. Provided desktop and telephony on-site and call-in support for 100-plus users.
Project Coordinator - Contract

Zurich North America Financial Services(http://www.zurich.com/main/home/welcome.htm)

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ZFS; Financial Services industry)

December 1997 — July 1998 (8 months)

Analyzed commercial insurance policy forms to replicate original content and design in compliance with government regulations and industry standards for the Diversified Products division’s corporate-wide policy migration project. Coordinated cross-organizational involvement with processes for legal, insurance product, and IT departments.

Teresa Boze’s Education

Portland State University

Post-bac technical writing |editing | publishing 2002 — 2004

Graduate-level studies in technical writing and editing; creative nonfiction; journalism and newswriting; book publishing. Published as journalism and corporate internships.
Contributed as a student development editor to books now in full publication .
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

BS/LAS , Psychology & English , 1980 — 1983

Science and research wonk - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ready to be blinded by science? - Undergraduate independent research contributions for a Guggenheim Award-winning project on Alzheimer's brain pathology.
Advised developer of the original GUI for MRI (Andrew Moore, UI/NYU) on electrical potentials for voluntary muscles.

Worked as a librarian assistant at the University of Illinois Library, third largest in US.

Activities and Societies:

Student Government Representative - Appointed, Community Zoning Committee
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

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Teresa Boze’s Interests:

Attending Hideshi Hamaguchi's workshops on innovative issue identification and solution modeling. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideshi_Hamaguchi) Volunteering for projects and programs that bring together the technical, the creative, and people.

Teresa Boze’s Groups:

Started two groups as new media and think tank communications networks: The Ladies of Social Capital and Academy of NEXT!

Women in Portland Publishing (WiPP) www.womeninpublishing.com

Society for Technical Communications - Willamette Valley (www.stcwvc.org) Contributed to The Galley newsletter with articles, including transitioning from technical writing to grant writing, 2003. Awards judge for technical communications competition for online training and user guides, 2007 & 2009, and public relations survey management and design, 2008.

Rose City Astromoners (http://www.rca-omsi.org/)

Social Media Club PDX #smpdx - contributed events organiationa nd planning, as well as copy for naming awards and for web announcements and tweets

See the group memberships listed on my LinkedIn site