I've written and designed professionally in the following contexts:
- B2B Tech Proposals (10+ years)
- Writing and copyediting for web and print collateral (10+ years)
- Academic Writing (10+ years)
- Learning development (6 years)
- Video and online script writing (5 years)
Scroll down to see samples of my writing and design work.
Learning Development
Free Cybersecurity Awareness Month Community Learning
Offered by the 501 Commons Tech Outreach and Education Program (TechOE) as part of annual Cybersecurity Awareness Month campaign. Built and hosted on Articulate 360. [Roles: Author | Designer | TechOE Program Manager | Awareness Campaign Coordinator] Year: 2024
Co-Authored Articles
Peer-Reviewed Research Article
For this collaborative academic writing project, I researched and wrote the literature review and conclusion sections, as well as co-edited the completed draft. Published in Journal of Educators Online. [Roles: Writer | Co-editor | Researcher] Year: 2020
Blog Article
[Roles: Writer | Co-editor | Blog Series Creator] Year: 2024
Banners, Slides and Marketing Collateral
Program Flyer
Plan IT, 501 Commons, Seattle, WA [Roles: Writer | Designer | Program Manager] Year: 2023
Event Banner
501 Commons, Seattle, WA [Roles: Writer | Designer | Event Creator/Manager | Program Manager] Year: 2024
Tech Services Presentation Deck
Tech Outreach and Education Program, 501 Commons, Seattle, WA [Roles: Writer | Designer | Program Manager] Year: 2024
Web Copy
Tech Outreach and Education Program webpage copy on 501commons.org. [Roles: Writer | Designer | TechOE Logo Design | Program Manager] Years: 2023 - 2025
Event Banner
501 Commons, Seattle, WA. [Roles: Writer | Designer | Event Creator/Manager | Program Manager] Year: 2024
Event Banner
501 Commons, Seattle, WA. [Roles: Writer | Designer | Event Creator/Manager | Program Manager] Year: 2024
Web Copy for Video Editing Website
[Roles: Writer | Page Designer]
Web Copy for Portfolio Site
[Role: Writer | Photo Editor]
Small Business Capability Statement
Print business collateral for federal government contract opportunities. [Role: Writer] Year: 2019
Holiday Theme Landing Page
Artist no longer sells her work as of 2021, but with her permission I've kept the non-indexed website in my portfolio. [Role: Writer | Site Designer | Photo Editor] Year: 2020
Reports, Proposals, and Guides
Cybersecurity Chapbooks
In 2023, I began writing a series of cybersecurity chapbooks about my experience of building an IT Security Program. To provide a candid and relatable resource for the benefit of other nonprofit professionals, the eBooks are conversational and lightly edited, and contain frank descriptions of the challenges I navigated. [Role: Writer | Document Designer | Chief Information Security Officer/TechOE Program Manager] Years: 2023 - 2024
You can view each chapbook in the series at the links below:
A Nonprofit Quick Start Guide to Building Cybersecurity Incident Response
A Nonprofit Quick Start Guide to Creating a Cybersecurity Awareness Program
Cybersecurity Essentials for Nonprofits (Second Edition)
Excerpt from Response to RFP - B2B Commercial Behavioral Health Insurance
I wrote (and assembled from a proposal library I constructed from existing content) this winning sales proposal, as a member of the marketing department at Occupational Health Services (OHS), a family-owned managed behavioral health insurance company formerly located in Larkspur, California. OHS specialized in Employee Assistance Plans (EAPs) for corporate and government employers. It merged with its competitor Managed Health Network (MHN) in the late 1990s. I have removed all customer and proprietary information from the excerpt below. [Role: Writer | Editor | Coordinator] Year: 1994
Excerpt of Nonprofit Management Evaluation Report
I wrote this report excerpt after a five-month pro bono consulting project that I completed for 501 Commons, a Seattle-based nonprofit capacity building agency. All client information has been removed. [Roles: Consultant | Writer | Document Designer} Year: 2019
One Sheet Funding Proposal for Documentary Film Short
My work on this two-year film project included an extensive literature review, funding research, and proposal writing and editing. I co-authored and edited the excerpt below with director Mark Ravitz. The proposal sought to persuade qualified gay and lesbian nonprofits to provide 501(c)(3) umbrella status for the project. The film successfully received umbrella status from the Santa Barbara Gay and Lesbian Business Association. The short played at the 2013 OUTragious LGBTQ Film Festival in Santa Barbara to positive reviews. Soon afterward, the director decided not to continue with the proposed broadcast length version in order to pursue other projects. [Roles: Researcher | Copyeditor | Writer] Year: 2013
About the 501 Commons TechOE Program
Beyond developing our Tech Outreach and Education Program (TechOE), I repurposed a well-known but discontinued technology planning cohort program, Plan IT, and transformed it into an on-demand service for individual organizations. We completely reimagined the marketing, service and pricing levels, consultant training, and service delivery. We also expanded Plan IT to include cybersecurity and compliance planning, and created assessment tools for client use to support the new service scope.
501 Commons is a nonprofit capacity building 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Eight-five percent of its annual budget comes from the sales of professional services. The TechOE and Plan IT consulting brought in $116,000 in combined revenue during its first 11 months, a goodly sum for a pilot program!
The excerpt below is from the 501 Commons Annual Report describing the programs I founded, refreshed, and managed from 2023 to 2025. [Roles: Program Founder and Manager | IT Consultant | Chief Information Security Officer] Year: 2023 - 2025
A Thoughtful Thank You from 501 Commons...
In 2018-2019, I completed five pro bono consulting projects on behalf of 501 Commons in Seattle, Washington and was recognized with their New Member Award for excellent client service. You can read what 501 Commons staff and clients had to say about my work at the Kudoboard link below. My consulting projects included IT planning, marketing and internal communications strategies, creating roadmaps for achieving goals related to market engagement and growth, funding development, and digital transformation for productivity. Year: 2020
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