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HiI'm a technical writer, freelance science and tech writer, ghost-writer, and documentary filmmaker based in Vancouver, Canada.

In addition to ongoing technical writing for corporate clients and ghostwriting for C-suite clients, my work has been featured in Technology Review, Inverse.com, Motherboard (Vice), ExtremeTech, PCMag, Vancouver Magazine, Geek.com, The Huffington Post, The Metro News, and more.


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Jobs

Technical Writer - Business analysis and document creation

- April 2017 - July 2019: Senior Technical Writer, Etherparty
- January 2017 - Current: Technical Writer, Freelance

Writer/reporter - Science, technology, culture

- Inverse - Writer profile
- ExtremeTech - Writer profile
- Motherboard - Writer profile
- MIT Technology Review - Writer profile
- Vancouver Magazine - VanMag website
- Geek - Writer profile
- The Huffington Post - Writer profile
- The Metro News - Metro website
- Also: Macleans Magazine, The Albatross, Sad Mag, more.

Editor - Section/substantive editing

- Canadian Traveller Magazine - Editorial Assistant
- The Peak - Opinions Editor

Summary

BSc - Molecular Biology & Biochemistry

Simon Fraser University, 2013

- Extended Minor: English.
- Certificates/Training: CP Style, Substantive Editing

6 years experience

- Writing and editing for print and the web.
- Finding and pitching stories, and taking assignments.
- SEO
- Adobe Creative Suite

References and further detail

Available upon request. Ask away!

WRITING

Selected writing

SELECTED WRITING

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Feb '20
White Paper samples

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Mar '17
The FBI Uses "Abhorrent Crimes" To Extend Its Digital Reach

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Aug '15
When Canada Learned It Had Spies

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July '15
Did these researchers just create an autistic computer program?

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Oct '15
How Your Device Knows Your Life through Images

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Mar '15
Stealing Nuclear Waste Is About to Get A Whole Lot Harder

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Mar '15
How DARPA Will Decrypt Totally Novel Languages

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Feb '15
Will Robots Be Able to Help Us Die?

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Feb '15
Bizarre Rubbing in Northern Killer Whales

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dec '13
DoD Report Reveals Plans for Autonomous War Tech

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sept '13
Confronting Society's Absurd Enthusiasm for DARPA

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April '14
Gene Therapy Comes of Age, Allows Whole Genome Editing

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May '14
Mother Nature's 2 Billion-Year-Old Nuclear Reactor

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Nov '14
Jurassic Park was Anti-Science, Why Shouldn't World be Too?

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Jun '14
Cosmos Is Out For Straight-Up Ideological Conversion

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Mar '13
The Quest for the $1000 Genome

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Mar '14
Space Elevator Could be Built by 2035, Says New Study

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June '14
Is It Possible to Make a Computer Totally Invulnerable to the NSA?

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Oct '14
You Claim to Think the News Is Important - I Don't Believe You

FILM

Documentary work

I've been making documentaries as a hobby for the past several years, collected below.




The Lesser Satan: Iran and America Through History

A 5-episode documentary miniseries detailing the history of the US-Iran relationship.






THE RED LINE

A documentary about the history, present, and future of chemical weapons, and the world's attempts to control them.






The Fall of Mosul

A documentary exploring how a modern city of almost two million people fell to a force of fewer than 1500 jihadi rebels.





OTHER PROJECTS

Websites, stories, more

FreeFall

Here's a science fiction short story I wrote while I was travelling, about a group of scientists who get stranded on a space elevator. It was published in Clarkesworld Magazine in June, 2013.




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