John Geddes

John S. Geddes, MA 847 Ninth Avenue North, St. Petersburg, FL 33701 Home:- Cell:- E-mail:- Key Skills • Editing and proofreading of works ranging from resumes to books. • Authoring of training guides / product manuals and articles (on a variety of subjects). • Rewriting from source data – composition enhancement for international students. • Transcribing and subtitling (including summarizing) of material to legal-grade accuracy, working to meet tight deadlines without compromising quality (over 11,000 keystrokes per hour). Education • London City and Guilds — London, England IT Certificate 7262 Microsoft Usage (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) and Computer Theory Obtained distinction (98%) for all coursework, August 2004. • Buckingham University – Buckingham, England Honors M.A. Degree Biography Awarded a First Class for thesis & Merit for coursework in research degree, March 2003. • I.T.C. – Milton Keynes, England Diploma Teaching English as a Foreign Language Awarded diploma with Merit for weekend ‘crash’ course involving role play (Feb 2003). • London School of Journalism – London, England Diploma Freelance Journalism and Feature Writing Awarded Diploma with Distinction, March 2000, further to distance coursework. • University of Manitoba – Winnipeg, Canada B.A. Degree Major in Political Science/Minor in History Graduated with Merit in major, October 1996. Electives included Spanish and sciences. • St. John’s Ravenscourt High School – Winnipeg, Canada Matriculated in June 1992 Fields of study included History, English and Creative Writing. High School Diploma Accomplishments Commendation awarded in May 2011 for exhibiting exceptional performance in supporting Thames Valley Police force values, and for the technical preparation and completion of the Interview Library, Interview Summarizers and Team Leader comprehensive user guides. Work Experience The Text Vet – St. Petersburg, Florida Jun 2004 – now • Provide efficient and outstanding document-enhancement solutions to all types of clients, currently as a Course Editor for the Interaction Design Foundation. I have also been involved in the following major assignments: Notable Projects: Proofit/Grammarly – (Remote) Proofreader-editor Feb 2015 – Jun 2018 Edited materials (mostly academic works) Thames Valley Police – Milton Keynes, England Transcriptionist/Editor, Sept 2007 – June 2011 • Maintained figures above benchmark for minutes of Police interviews transcribed per day, including supporting administrative role of logging data on various spreadsheets. • Decided which parts of suspect interviews could be summarized and which needed, by law, to appear verbatim for the Crown Prosecution Service and/or Courts. • Selected to document processes for Interview Library, Summarizers and Team Leaders from notes into user guides (which were received well), I received a commendation. • During contract was able to perform external contract work for Argos and Homebase stores, typing and proofreading 2008 catalogs. Baumatic – Reading, England • Instruction Book Rewriter, Jan 2005 – Dec 2005 Rewrote over 200 product manuals for prestigious kitchen appliance company, mostly involving enhancing old manuals into standard English. Also rewrote letter templates for marketing department. Significantly reduced consumer helpline calls and emails for technical department. Activities and Interests • A frequent volunteer, who has pulled planes for the Special Olympics, signed copies of his own book for Tsunami Relief and assisted in flood relief efforts by sandbagging. More recently, am a frequent volunteer at The Dali Museum and at Friends of Strays. • Enjoy keeping fit, travel, book collecting, adventure gaming, photography, pet keeping, designing uploads for personal photography projects on YouTube, history, cinema and current events.