Barbara Donohue

Athens, OH USA
Website: http://www.the-engineer-who-writes.com

Professional Experience

A resourceful writer, ghostwriter, and journalist specializing in mechanical technologies, covering technology, science, business and general topics. M.I.T.-educated mechanical engineer with 15 years industrial experience in engineering, 20+ years as a writer and editor in journalism, marketing communications and technical documentation. Personable, professional, flexible and thorough. Skilled at turning technology into English and making complex material easy to understand. Writing: Articles, white papers, case studies, catalog copy, press releases, company and staff profiles, explaining technology, user guides, special projects. Ghost-writing: Creating articles for the trade press based on interviews with subject experts. Providing clients an authoritative presence in trade publications with minimal client effort. Web Content: Application notes, success stories, technology overviews, product details. Clear, concise copy, written for easy readability on-screen.

Total Media Industry Experience

24 Years

Other Work History

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - editing, writing, indexing Bose - Science writer, home entertainment products Wintriss Controls- tech and marketing writer Panametrics - tech writer Harvard Post Newspapers, Inc., Editor, The Bolton Common, a small-town weekly newspaper

Foreign Language Skills

French: reading only.

Computer Skills

MS office suite (experienced); Acrobat; Freehand, Illustrator FrameMaker, Quark XPress (intermediate)

Equipment

Desktop, laptop, digital camera and video, digital voice recorder.

Work Permits & Visas

US citizen

Associations

New England Science Writers (NESW) Editorial Freelancers Association

General

Coverage of "designer alloys" and custom sourcing options for metals.
Coverage of lab analysis and handheld x-ray fluorescence instruments relating to positive material identification in the machine shop.
Profile of a manufacturing company for Indianapolis Visions, a book profiling the city of Indianapolis, Ind.
Business profile of a manufacturing company for Indianapolis Visions, a book that profiles the city of Indianapolis, Ind.
Article about business partnerships for owners of cheerleading programs.
Article for a publication of the Association of University Technology Managers, about an environmentally sound termite control product developed at University of Florida and licensed to a pest control company. http://www.betterworldproject.net/documents/AUTM_09_BWR7.09_FNL.pdf
Article about employee medical insurance for a manufacturing trade magazine.
Profile of Motion Unlimited, a dancewear store in Chicago
Article ghostwritten for Textron Financial
Article for a publication of the Association of University Technology Managers, describing an agricultural product developed at Cornell and licensed to a company for production and distribution. http://www.betterworldproject.net/documents/AUTM_09_BWR7.09_FNL.pdf
Article for a trade magazine about how to select employees who have the right stuff for working in metal manufacturing.
Profile of June's Dancewear, a shop in Texas.
Coverage of the 2006 International Manufacturing Technology Show, the largest machining exhibition in the US. For a Singapore-based metalworking magazine.
In March 2009 www.todaysmachiningworld.com A very special class of materials can “remember� their shape. After deformation you can just heat them and they return to their original form. . . It’s expensive and hard to machine, but Nitinol is perfect for applications that require one or m
About CermaClad, a new method of cladding metal with corrosion- and wear-resistant coatings from the MesoCoat company.