SUMMARY

Rick Rice has more than 30 years of professional writing and editing experience, including: research papers; engineering and environmental studies; technical proposals for architectural and engineering design projects; technical journals; software user guides, release notes, and tutorials; technical procedures and help systems; training materials; technical program management plans; and editorial (news and feature) development for commercial publications.

•          30-plus years of experience as a writer/editor

•          20-plus years of experience in technical writing

•          12-plus years of experience in proposal writing

INDUSTRIES

•       Environmental Engineering and Design

•       Architectural Design

•       Transportation 

•       Construction

•       Software Development

•       Corporate Training 

•       Financial Services 

•       Telecommunications

•       Mining

•       University Research

•       Commercial Publications 

•       Cable Television 

SELECTED CLIENT ORGANIZATIONS   

•       Bechtel National 

•       Bechtel Infrastructure 

•       Bechtel Mining and Metals 

•       Innovative Technical Solutions, Inc. 

•       Caltrans 

•       University of California-Berkeley (Pavement Research Center) 

•       URS Corporation 

•       Shaw Environmental and Infrastructure 

•       Royston Hanamoto Alley & Abey (RHAA) 

•       BayGroup International 

•       Legacy Marketing Group 

•       IKOS 

•       Wells Fargo 

•       GT Global

EDUCATION            

•       B.A., English-Journalism, Fort Hays Kansas State University, 1975 

•       Post-graduate work in Journalism, Ball State University, 1975-76 (no degree) 

•       Certificate in Technical Writing, Webster Technical Institute, 1998 

•       JAVA and JavaScript Programming - San Francisco State University (Extension), 2000 

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS 

•       Skilled writer and technical editor

•       Skilled data gatherer, i.e., interviewer, researcher

•       Strong interpersonal communications, source development skills 

•       Skilled at writing research abstracts, summaries, syntheses of research 

•       Effective project manager 

•       Knowledgeable of online resources 

•       Conversant with the most commonly used style guides 

•       Versatile and creative 

TECHNICAL SKILLS      

•       Type 70 WPM 

•       Print Documentation: MS-Word, FrameMaker, PageMaker, Quark 

•       Online Documentation: FrontPage, FrameMaker (PDF), Doc-to-Help, RoboHelp HTML, HTML editing 

•       Spreadsheet: MS Excel  

•       Project: MS Project  

•       Graphics: Illustrator, Visio, PaintShop Pro, Freehand 

•       Presentation: MS-PowerPoint 

•       Document Control: Visual SourceSafe  

•       Database: MS Access 

•       Programming: JAVA, C++, Basic; JavaScript 

PROFESSIONAL/PERSONAL REFERENCES      

•       Included on my downloadable resume and available upon request (click here for my abridged basic resume designed for scanning into databases.

PERSONAL PROFILE  

•        Married 19 years

•       Wife: Joanne Heenan Rice - Bay Area native

•       Two children - Gillian -11, Griffin - 9

•       Homeowner – Benicia, California

•       Wife is an interior redesigner and teacher

PERSONAL INTERESTS      

•       Musician – Guitar (rock, pop, jazz, country, folk) since 1964, Bass, Piano, Violin 

•       Singing (rock, pop, jazz, country, folk) 

•       Multi-Track Digital Recording and Production – Cakewalk Sonar Producer 5 

•       Songwriting (rock, pop, jazz, country, folk)  

•       Long and Short Fiction Writing 

•       Screen Writing 

•       Poetry Writing  

•       Non-Fiction Writing (historical) 

•       Baseball  

•       Game Design (with son Griffin) 

•       Music Production (with daughter Gillian) 

•       Family Road Trips