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Nena Bierbaum

35 Surf Street
South Brighton SA 5048

Business:

(08) 8296 6560

Private:

(08) 8296 6560

Mobile:

0410 310 497

Fax:

(08) 8296 2619

Email:

nena.bierbaum@flinders.edu.au

Editing, indexing, proofreading and rewriting books (fiction and non-fiction), reports, proceedings, papers, promotional material, manuals and theses.

Experience

Freelance:

Full-time editor since 1985. Clients include SA’s three universities, state and federal government departments, companies, corporations and private individuals. Books and reports edited for Allen & Unwin, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Government Publishing Service, Cambridge University Press, Era Books, Flinders Press, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne University Press, Modern Humanities Res. Assoc. UK, National Centre for Vocational Education Research, Queensland University Press, Adelaide Tuition and University of Western Australia Press.

Other:

Freelance journalist for O Globo and Daily Post (Brazil). 14 years overseas travel between 1969 and 2001 to North, Central and South America, Europe, Middle East, Central and SE Asia. Languages—Spanish, Portuguese and German.

Special skills

Academic editing, database management, design for effective communication, desktop publishing, electronic publishing, indexing, languages, on-screen editing, picture research, project management, publication production, report writing, research, word processing, writing and rewriting.

Areas of expertise

Aboriginal studies, architecture and planning, art and the arts, Australian studies, biography, cookery publications, economics, education and training, environment, equity issues, ethics, fiction, government and administration, health, history, languages, law, literature, philosophy, political science, religion, social sciences, social services, travel, women’s studies.

Computer software capability

Windows:

Database (MS Excel); Electronic publishing (MS Word); Page layout (MS Word); Spreadsheets (MS Excel); Word processing (MS Word)

Other:

Able to convert to Macintosh.