Randall Lee (Randy) Williams
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
e-mail: randyman40 at shaw dot ca

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Offering more than a decade of successful and varied communications experience in both professional and volunteer capacities. Highly skilled at implementing communications plans and leading effective training sessions. Possess a proven track record in the use of new technologies and cross-media campaigns for communicating with constituencies and clients. Creative, innovative, highly disciplined and self-motivated with outstanding command of language, grammar, rhetoric, punctuation and formatting.

CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS

Writing chapters for the travel book Colourguide to the Canadian Rockies (Formac Press, 3 editions, 2002-2008) and an essay for the university textbook True North: Canadian Essays for Composition (Addison Wesley, 1999)

Editing Barbara Smith's bestselling "Ghost Stories" series, Lone Pine Publishing, 1999-2001

Originating Editor of "Folklore" popular history series (titles included Kootenai Brown, The March West, Outlaws of the Canadian West), Lone Pine Publishing

Pioneering author and editor of online content for Tripod.com/Lycos Network, 1996-1998; contributed original articles to Tripod's closed-circulation campus magazine and wrote two chapter-length essays for the book Tripod's Tools for Life: Streetsmart Strategies for Life, Work-and Everything Else (Hyperion Press, 1998)

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

MacWilliams Media (home business), Edmonton, September 1999-present

• Editor, writer and/or copy editor for dozens of print and online projects

Lone Pine Publishing, Edmonton, September 1999-June 2001

• Editor, copy editor, proofreader of books and media projects

Strathcom Media, Inc., Edmonton, October 1998-September 1999

• Editor, writer, proofreader, copy-editor of content for client sites
• Supervisor of all corporate writing, including press releases, client communications, informational packets and brochures

Tripod, Inc., Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, April 1996-August 1998

• Editor and author of on-line content about finance, politics and entertainment
• Supervisor of writing/research by interns and assistants
• Created concepts and copy for promotional campaigns

RECENT EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Full-time teacher, Grade 5 Cogito, Richard Secord School, Edmonton, AB, 2008-present

Full-time teacher, Grade 6, Rundle School, Edmonton, AB, 2006-2008

Full-time teacher, Grades 5/6 plus junior high options, Muir Lake Community School, Stony Plain, AB, 2005-2006

Full-time teacher, Grade 6, Millgrove School, Spruce Grove, AB, 2003-2005

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Local Communications Officer, Parkland Teachers (Local 10), 2004-2006

Instructor/writer of seminar for Canadian Authors Association, 2000

• Taught "effective online communications" to Edmonton Branch

Co-instructor/writer of publishing seminar for U of Alberta Extensions, 1999

Writing instructor, Harbert Writing Center, University of Montevallo, 1994-95

• Taught remedial writing, grammar, punctuation and formatting to university students from all disciplines

EDUCATION

B.Ed. with High Distinction, Concordia University College of Alberta
(After-Degree Program), Edmonton, AB, 2003

B.A., English, dual minors in Theatre and Speech Communications
University of Montevallo, (Returning Student), Montevallo, AL, U.S.A., 1996

SKILLS

• Diplomacy and sensitivity in working with writers, editors, clients and constituents to achieve highest-quality product
• Broad background in writing, editing and copy-editing for educational, corporate, entertainment markets, both in print and online
• Extensive general knowledge base
• Self-motivated and extremely well organized
• Eager and innovative team player

Complete CV and references available on request.