Freelance Copy-editing and Proofreading Service

Short C.V.

Name

SALLY ANN HUISH

    
Date of Birth   11 April 1956    
Address  Rose Cottage, Hatch Lane    
  Chartham Hatch E-mail: sally.huish@googlemail.com
  Canterbury, Kent, UK Phone:  01227 732152
  CT4 7LS URL: www.sahuish.co.uk 

Qualifications and Training

2004 PTC: Basic Proofreading by Distance Learning (distinction).
1978-1985 Open University: First Class BA (Honours), earth sciences.
1974-1976 Bristol Polytechnic HND Applied Biology.
Other courses: Fish Biology and Fisheries Management. Short course at Nottingham Univ., 1984.
Introduction to Archaeology. Dept. Extra-mural Studies, Exeter Univ., 1981.

Areas of Expertise

  • Copy-editing and proofreading: an eye for detail and experience of copy-editing and proofreading scientific books, journals and reports. On-screen editing in Word and LaTeX. On-screen marking up of pdfs. Recent clients: British Precast; Informa UK (Garland Science); Sage Publications; The Concrete Centre; Words & Pages; Wye College Agricola Club.
  • Experience of writing reports; compiling and editing multi-author reports and newsletters.
  • Using PC’s: word processing; databases and analysis; geographic information systems.
  • Working experience of: microbiology; soil ecology; fish ecology; wildlife conservation in Africa.

Equipment and Software

PC; CD-RW; laser printer; A3 colour inkjet; scanner.

McAfee Anti-virus software, Windows XP, MS Word, Excel, Access, LaTeX, Adobe Acrobat, OCR software, Dreamweaver and Fireworks, Photoshop, PageMaker. GIS software including MapInfo, Surfer and MapViewer.

Membership of Professional Organisations

Associate of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders.

Special Interests

Africa; agriculture; archaeology; biology; botany; conservation; earth sciences; ecology; environment and development; fisheries; gardening; genealogy; geographic information systems; microbiology; natural history; ornithology; rare breed livestock; travel; wildlife; zoology.

Employment

2004-2009

 Self-employed. Copy-editing and proofreading service.

1994-2004

Self-employed, UK. Digitizing and GIS services to environmental projects.

1989-1993

Frankfurt Zoological Society, Tanzania. Project Officer, wildlife monitoring.

1988-1989

Serengeti Ecological Monitoring Programme, Tanzania. Assistant Project Officer.

1987

South West Water. Fisheries Biologist, Roadford Fisheries Investigation Team leader.

1984-1987

South West Water. Fisheries Technician, Roadford Fisheries Investigation Team.

1979-1984

University of Exeter. Research Technician Grade 4, soil ecology research project.

1978-1979

University of Exeter. Research Technician Grade 3, diabetes research project.

1976-1978

Cumbria Area Health Authority. Junior MLSO (Bacteriology).