2008
Sarah Maclean Business Writing
- Formatting in Microsoft Word
- Project management and graphic design of publicity materials
2007
Sarah Maclean Business Writing
- Delivering training sessions: Advanced Formatting in Microsoft Word
- Copy editing and formatting in Microsoft Word
New Zealand Council for Educational Research
- Testing Spell Right educational CD-ROM
2006
Private clients
- Delivering training sessions: Advanced Formatting in Microsoft Word
- Volunteer career mentoring
2005
New Zealand Council for Educational Research
- Editing issues 1–2 of set: Research Information for Teachers and Early Childhood Folio 9
- Proofreading Catching the Knowledge Wave? by Jane Gilbert
- Proofreading Catching the Waves, edited by Anne Meade
- Testing Spell Right educational CD-ROM
- Managing permissions for School Beginnings by Helen May
Tara Publishing
- Proofreading The Café Wars by Barbara Strathdee
Write Group
- Freelance editing and writing on various projects (including materials for the SWIS database)
2004j
Building Research Association of New Zealand
- Editing, project management, and assessing currricula vitae of potential editors
Ideal Publishing
- Project management, costings, and editing for the book The Trekka Dynasty, by Todd Niall
New Zealand Council for Educational Research
- Editing set: Research Information for Teachers and Early Childhood Folio 8
- Testing children's maths CD-ROMs
Write Group
- Freelance editing on various projects
CWA New Media
- Proposal writing and formatting
Private clients
- Delivering training sessions: Advanced Formatting in Microsoft Word
- Copy editing and formatting in Microsoft Word
2003
CWA New Media
- Document formatting and rights and permissions research
- Technical writing and preparing project proposals
- Developing and presenting a course in advanced formatting in Microsoft Word
Fringe New Zealand Festival
- Editing and website usability testing (volunteer)
Learning Media
- Project management of Maori visual arts and technology development projects
- Editor and project manager for The Home-School Partnership Folder
- Editing academic reports on government-sponsored mathematics initiatives
- Training staff in intellectual property procedures
- Editing, project management, and copyright clearance for Literacy Leadership project
Write Group (for Ministry of Justice)
- Copy-editing Attitudes
to Crime and Punishment: A New Zealand Study (2003, Ministry of Justice).
Watson Consulting
- Editing and writing proposals
2002
CWA New Media
- Preparing tenders for international e-learning projects
Learning Media
- Training staff in intellectual property procedures
- Editing primary-school mathematics activities
- Advising on future online development of Literacy Leadership professional development materials
- Project managing the development of a key Maori visual arts teachers' resource
- Costing the development and production of several teachers' handbooks
- Project management and editing materials for students from non-English-speaking backgrounds, including The
Home-School Partnership Programme.
Before 2002
Before I became self-employed in 2002, I worked on a number of short-term contracts, often
concurrently with university courses.
Content Manager/Assistant Content Manager, 2001–2002
- Learning Media Limited: administrating the content management process for a database-backed
website
Desktop Publisher, 2000
- Bank of New Zealand: training design and editing; formatting and proof-reading training modules
Parliamentary Officer (Hansard), 2000
- Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives: transcriber/subeditor (included acting as style
editor for Youth Parliament 2000 Hansard and training co-workers in grammar and computer skills)
FCA Peer Editor (part-time), 1999
- Victoria University of Wellington: working with international students on their formal essay writing
skills.
Publishing Assistant/Rights and Permissions Officer, 1997
- Learning Media Limited: working on a new series of more
than 96 children's books with a very tight
deadline. Responsible for: editing, project management, and
proofreading tasks; writing style guidelines for future series;
dealing with copyright enquiries and requests; archiving original
artwork files (including hiring, training, and supervising temporary
workers).
Publisher's Assistant, 1995–1996
- Learning Media Limited: assisting the Publisher.
Responsible for project assistance and proofreading for
development of a new series of children's books; creating a database of
artists and ensuring all frequently hired artists had new contracts;
archiving original artwork files.
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