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- $25 hourly
- 5.0/5
- (9 jobs)
Do you need an accurate, fast editor? Need writing that persuades and directs readers? Looking for a partner you can count on? You've come to the right place. "𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱!" J Francis, SDI I can make you sound like you on your best day with writing that's ✒️ Clear, concise, and correct ✒️ Actionable ✒️ In your unique brand voice 𝗦𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆: I recently copyedited and proofread a suite of four hardware assembly manuals (𝟑𝟖𝟑𝟎𝟎 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬/𝟑𝟑𝟎 𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬) and corresponding checklists (𝟔𝟗 𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬) in 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬, with 𝟏𝟎𝟎% 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲, removing the cost of additional review cycles. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴: I have been rehired by clients time and again because my editing and proofreading work is clear, concise, fast, and dependable. 🗯️ "𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗲'𝘀 𝗮 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗿 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗻𝘁!" J. Dwyer, Scientific Drilling International 🗯️ "𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲." D Young, Job Corps Data Center 🗯️ "𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗮𝗱𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱.." J Craven, RealEC Technologies I specialize in writing and editing in Microsoft Word, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe Acrobat PDF. I also edit in Google Docs. 𝗪𝗲'𝗿𝗲 𝗮 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗳𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴: ✍️ I'm no writer but I've been asked to present a report to leadership. ✍️ I don't have the time or expertise to make this document its best. ✍️ This document is close, but it needs better organization to be great. ✍️ I'm ready to publish, but I want a second pair of eyes. ✍️ I need this document to be followed not discarded. 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀: Let's transform your ideas (and even your internet research) into your unique voice and elegant contribution to the bookstore. 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗮 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗳𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝗜 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂. AI cannot write a book. HINT: AI is your unpaid intern. 🤖 🤓 It's no more than a stack of library books 📚on your desk. I'm particularly comfortable editing in the following genres: – Memoir – Hobby – Self-help 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀: I write in the following industries: – Business writing – Public administration – Custom hardware manufacturing – Commercial construction – Quality Management, including policy and procedure development 𝗠𝘆 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱: I taught English rhetoric and American literature at the college level. I have 25+ years of experience writing, editing, and proofreading for clients including Skanska, Diebold, Fiserv, and SpaceX. I have a masters in technical communication, a "master proofreader" certification, and a graduate certificate in online training development. Working with me you will have better, clearer writing that increases your reader's confidence. 𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝘀: Message me. Let's get on a call today!
Technical Writing
SurveyError DetectionPDFEnglishBusiness EditingPolicy WritingMicrosoft WordWritingProofreadingCopy EditingChicago Manual of StyleAP Style WritingLine EditingEditing & Proofreading - $75 hourly
- 4.7/5
- (2 jobs)
🚀 Kristen Ellerbe Taylor - Full Stack Product Manager and Agile Coach 👋 I'm Kristen, a former back-end engineer. seasoned Full-Stack Product Manager, and Agile Coach. I am passionate about driving innovation, empowering people to build high-impact products, and transforming teams to be quick, smarter, and better. 🌟 Strengths and Skills: Full Stack Product Management: From ideation to execution, I bring a holistic approach to product development, ensuring a seamless blend of user-centric design, technical feasibility, and business viability. Agile Mastery: I'm your Agile spirit guide, moving storming teams quickly to high-performing self-sufficiency through successful Agile adoption, empowering them to deliver value-creating software. Strategic Vision: I've honed my strategic thinking through years of experience, helping companies find their North Star and charting a course to get there. Data-Driven Decision Making: My analytical mind thrives on data, turning it into actionable insights to drive product and team improvements. 🏆 Accomplishments and Projects: 🏆 Product-Market Fit Champion: Led a Series A EdTech curriculum company through a journey to find its product-market fit, resulting in exponential growth and investor confidence. Agile Transformation Catalyst: Spearheaded Agile transformations in various organizations, elevating teams to high-functioning units delivering 90%+ on-time monthly releases. Cost-Savings Superhero: Slashed cloud-based expenditures by $2.5M annually by optimizing infrastructure and streamlining cloud services. Engineering Foundation: Armed with practical engineering experience on tiger teams, back-end, full-stack, and customer-facing teams. I have a strong technical foundation to bridge the gap between engineering and product teams. 🎯 Education: 🎯 B.S. Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (2013) Ready to collaborate on your next exciting project? Let's chat and transform your ideas into reality!
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User Acceptance TestingSoftware DebuggingRequirement AnalysisDatabase DesignAPI DocumentationBacklog GroomingPythonSQLMongoDBJavaScript - $70 hourly
- 5.0/5
- (22 jobs)
Hello! I'm Valicia, a copywriter who creates impactful copy and content for health and tech businesses. I translate complex ideas into engaging messaging to help more readers make informed decisions about and get excited to invest in your solutions. If you need support increasing the visibility of your products or services, reaching more customers, and making a bigger impact in the industry, I'm here to help. 💡How I help I have 10+ years of experience in STEM, including creating messaging to inform, educate, or encourage reader buy-in. As an AWAI Verified(TM) copywriter and CompTIA A+ Certified IT professional, I have the knowledge and expertise to support your upcoming project in the following ways — ✅Copyediting & proofreading ✅SEO blog posts ✅Research-driven articles ✅Conversion-optimized websites & sales pages ✅Copy punch-ups (for web pages, SM bios, emails) ✅21-point website audits (Copy, content, SEO, UX, etc.) Have a custom project not covered here? Send me a message to start the conversation. Client Testimonial 🙌🏽: "Thanks to your help with our messaging, we got picked up for $29K in renovation and donations for operational expenses." --M 💡How we'll work together If you want copy and content that gets more eyeballs on your solutions to help you increase sales and impact, I need to "get into your head". Actually, I'll also need to do the same for your customers. My proprietary process V.I.S.I.B.L.E. helps me collect the information we need to make our project a success. Here's how that works. 1️⃣I'll gather the information we need to make the project a success. If you don't have a brief, be prepared to answer important questions so I can gather insights about your business and marketing goals. At minimum, you have to at least understand the problem you can solve OR your target audience to get the most out of messaging-related services. (Not sure you have what's needed? Message me to learn more.) 2️⃣Next, I'll do the work. For example, with copyediting and proofreading projects will be completed in either Microsoft Word or Google Docs, using each platforms feature for commenting and tracking changes. For audits, I'll through my 21-point assessment for your website. For copy and content, it's creating the strategy and outline for your approval, which streamlines the revision process and reduce any back-and-forth or unwelcomed surprises. We'll collaborate through the Upwork platform and mostly in Google Docs throughout the project. 3️⃣You'll receive your final deliverable for review. With copyediting and proofreading, you'll receive both a clean copy of your file and one with tracked changes. For audits, you will receive a document outlining areas and providing recommendations for improvement. For copy and content, you'll receive a final wireframed deliverable for immediate use in your marketing strategy (just hand off the document to your designer, VA, or CRM manager). Client Testimonial 🙌🏽: "Valicia is an extremely talented writer. She is detail-oriented, articulate and really focused on making sure the needs of her clients are met." --E 💡Your next steps Ready for expert support on your next project? You can either . . . 👉Invite me to review a proposal you've created. 👉Message me now to start the conversation. I'm excited to help you meet your copy and/or content goals with high-quality, impact-driven copy and content services.🎉
Technical Writing
Sales WritingCopy EditingContent WritingArticle WritingWebsite ContentWebsite CopywritingCopywritingSearch Engine OptimizationSEO WritingTech & ITHealth & Fitness - $50 hourly
- 5.0/5
- (14 jobs)
A seasoned professional with a unique blend of expertise in sales and content creation, I offer a distinctive skill set that bridges the gap between persuasive communication and technical precision. My background in telesales, coupled with my proficiency in crafting compelling content, positions me as an ideal candidate for a wide array of projects on Upwork. In the realm of sales, I've honed my skills through extensive experience in both B2B and B2C environments. My expertise spans telemarketing, telesales, and cold calling for services and tangible products. I've successfully led appointment-setting initiatives and have a proven track record of converting leads into valuable business relationships. My career trajectory has included leadership roles such as Vice-President and Director, underscoring my ability to drive results and manage high-stakes projects. My technical writing prowess is equally impressive. Armed with a Master's Degree in English from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, I bring a refined understanding of language and communication to every project. This academic foundation, combined with real-world experience, enables me to create clear, concise, and engaging technical content that resonates with diverse audiences. What sets me apart is the synergy between my sales acumen and writing skills. My sales experience informs my writing, infusing it with persuasive elements and a keen understanding of audience needs. Conversely, my writing expertise enhances my sales approach, allowing me to craft compelling pitches and communicate complex ideas effectively. This unique combination makes me exceptionally well-suited for projects that require a blend of technical understanding and persuasive communication. Whether it's creating sales-driven content, developing technical documentation with a marketing edge, or crafting persuasive proposals, I can deliver results that exceed expectations. My specialized profiles offer a more in-depth look at my capabilities and achievements. I invite you to explore them for a comprehensive understanding of the value I can bring to your projects. I'm excited about the opportunity to collaborate with you, leveraging my diverse skill set to drive success in your endeavors. Let's work together to create impactful content and achieve your business objectives.
Technical Writing
GhostwritingBusiness WritingContent MarketingContent StrategyBlog ContentWritingSearch Engine OptimizationCopywritingB2B MarketingSales & MarketingTelemarketingSalesTech & IT - $50 hourly
- 5.0/5
- (7 jobs)
Credentialed and highly skilled professional and technical writer with diverse writing experience and the ability to extract relevant information from experts and deliver well-formatted documents concisely and accurately to various audiences. Areas of expertise include: ✅ Technical Communication ✅ Policy & Procedure Writing ✅ Executive/Legislative Writing ✅ Print & Media Writing ✅ Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint & Visio ✅ Primary Research & Interviewing ✅ Template Creation ✅ Instructional Materials ✅ Education lesson plans
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FAQProfessional ToneTechnical EditingContent ManagementInstruction ManualLesson Plan WritingContent WritingEnglishArticle - $105 hourly
- 4.9/5
- (58 jobs)
"Dea was truly brilliant. She is so knowledgeable and provided fantastic insight into the RFP process. Definitely our go-to for any future RFP projects, would highly recommend working with her if you get the chance!" Private client As a business owner, you require persuasive, professional writing and design to support your products and services and grow your business. Every document you produce is a business development tool. The more professional it is, the more seriously your clients and funding agencies will take you, and the faster your business will expand. Suppose you need an experienced proposal manager and writer to help you build your business. I bring a wealth of specialized skills, over 40 years of technical writing experience, and more than 20 years of proposal development experience. With this, I can confidently move your business into the future. My expertise includes responses to government and commercial procurement RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs and the development of grant applications, including SBIR and STTR grants. I know the FAR and I have written many successful fully compliant proposals for federal, state, and local government contracts and grants. I also provide editorial and compliance services in finalizing submission documents, which are critical to the success of government applications. If you have a manuscript, book-in-progress, white paper, or journal article, I provide developmental editing services that ensure your document is well-organized, clear, and engaging. Services provided by a developmental editor range from copy editing to complete reorganization and clarification. Suppose your business needs a technical writer to develop content that describes your products or services. In that case, I have the technical background to understand and document your services and products accurately and professionally. What I offer: • Broad education and experience in science, technology (IT), and the humanities • Excellent writing and editing skills • Knowledge and use of business products, such as Ms. Office products (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel), Google products, and Adobe Acrobat • Strategic business consulting • Meticulous research skills • 40 years of technical writing, including how-to manuals, white papers, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) • Up-to-date knowledge of cloud computing, open-source applications, data management software, AI and machine learning, natural language processing, and agile development • I have more than 20 years of proposal development experience (government and commercial) working with small businesses and major corporations. I am fully credentialed in the Shipley proposal process, the industry standard for government procurements. Examples of my experience include the technical documentation of: o Open-source and proprietary data management systems for various organizations o Major operating systems for IBM o Semiconductor manufacturing for Mitsubishi o Robotics development and use in the nuclear fuel industry for GE o Network technology for FiberLAN, a subsidiary of Siemens Corning o SAS software products in the US and Europe, including core (base) stat software (full product lifecycle); vertical products, such as financial, pharma, and natural language processing; website development for iBiomatics (a pharma spin-off); software localization/globalization; executive briefings; and white papers. All phases of Proposal (RFP, RFQ, RFI), grant preparation, and Business Development for: o RTI (not-for-profit global contract research organization), including federal, state, and local proposals, RFI responses, executive briefings, and presentations, focused primarily (but not entirely) on health research topics. Agencies included many institutes at NIH, CDC, CMS, DOT, DOD, military branches, Dept. of State, and others. o SciMetrika (public health research organization), including federal proposals, RFIs, executive briefings, presentations, and capture management o Numerous small and large public and private organizations while working as a freelance consultant, including long-term contracts on Upwork for multiple proposals.
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Creative WritingGovernment ProcurementFederal Acquisition RegulationsProject ProposalProposal WritingGoogle DocsTechnical EditingCopy EditingMicrosoft OfficeAdobe AcrobatDevelopmental EditingMicrosoft Visio - $150 hourly
- 4.5/5
- (2 jobs)
As a Certified Safety Professional, with over twelve years of professional manufacturing experience, I also hold a Master of Science in Industrial Health & Safety & a Bachelor of Science in Electronics & Computer Technology from North Carolina A&T State University. I have continued to expand my bandwidth in safety and welcome the opportunity to connect with you. I have worked for carious corporations in my career & I have learned from the best in the industry to become one of the best in the industry. I have a passion for people and sharing SHE. I have lead industry leaders in developing, implementing and managing occupational SHE programs. I am committed to improving SHE & partnering with organizations to improve their organizations Safety Culture. I have developed & implemented programs that have significantly reduced the number of accidents, injuries, and environmental impact events in the workplaces I have supported. I am a firm believers that organizations who are positioned to operate safely experience increased profitability, lower staff turnover, fewer injuries and long-term sustainability. Certifications: COVID Compliance Office Certificate Certified Safety Professional - BCSP Manager of Environmental Health & Safety (MESH) - National Safety Council OSHA Outreach Trainer - General Industry Additional areas of expertise beyond basic Safety & Health program management: Office Ergonomic Assessor Training Industrial Ventilation Design Specifications Industrial Ergonomic Assessments Tool Install Design & Reviews Safety Management System Database Development Audit System Development Expert Regulation Interpretation Safety Culture Assessments Continuous Improvement Practitioner Industrial Hygiene Management/Sampling Hearing Conservation Worker's Compensation I have an impressive resume & have worked for some of the best tech & manufacturing companies in the industry. I'm committed to my passion and look forward to connecting with the next wave of projects that improve the wellbeing and safety of our most precious resources, the human life.
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Web DesignTraining & DevelopmentEditing & ProofreadingLearning Management SystemEntrepreneurshipWebsite RedesignBusiness ManagementFinancial AuditProgram ManagementErgonomicsAIMS ChameleonProject WorkflowsWorkplace Safety & Health - $75 hourly
- 0.0/5
- (0 jobs)
🚀 Bioinformatics & Data Science Consultant | Python, R, SQL, and Automation Expert I help researchers, biotech companies, and data-driven teams analyze complex biological data, automate workflows, and extract meaningful insights using Python, R, and shell scripting. With 15+ years of experience, I have worked on projects ranging from genomic data analysis to predictive modeling and data visualization. 🔬 What I Do: ✔ Bioinformatics & Computational Biology – Genome assembly, variant analysis, sequence data processing ✔ Data Science & Analytics – Statistical modeling, classification, predictive modeling, data visualization ✔ Scripting & Automation – Python, R, SQL, Bash scripting for efficient pipelines ✔ Technical Writing & Reporting – Clear, well-documented results for research and industry applications 🛠 Tech Stack: Python, R, SQL, Bash, Perl, HPC environments, AWS/GCP (as needed) 💡 Need help with data analysis, automation, or scientific writing? Let’s discuss your project!
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