My professional experience has given me the opportunity to excel at a broad range of written and oral communication responsibilities. For over a year with the HW Wilson Publishing Company, my assignments included proofreading electronic and hard copy business periodicals and abstracts. I was required to demonstrate accuracy and consistency in periodical reference style and specification of titles, authors, universal subject descriptors, corporate and personal names. Other tasks supporting the editorial process entailed rigorous record keeping, database verification of key indexing descriptors, and procedural quality checks. More recently, I have participated in the business development efforts of two engineering consulting firms. I wrote, proofread and corrected technical proposals to assure compliance with the project specifications requested by public and private sector clients. My work required preliminary research, fact checking and verification, of engineering services a