CV – Skills & Experience

Below is a summary of Eileen’s skills and experience. For a more traditional resume of prior work experience, please refer to CV – Chronological.

Writing & Editing

• Fiction writing –
  • Authored twelve full-length fiction novels and eight fiction short stories.
• Business writing –
  • Nine years experience with business writing in highly competitive corporate environment.
  • Produced client-ready business reports with comprehensive analysis and actionable recommendations.
• Academic writing –
  • Graduate-level academic and theoretical analysis at an Ivy League institution.
• Editing –
  • Critiqued fiction writing, providing feedback on story/character development, and copyediting.
  • Edited reports for co-workers, providing feedback on utility to client’s needs, and copyediting.
  • Edited essays for classmates and academics submitting articles to prestigious international affairs academic journal.

Speaking

• Workshops and discussion panels –
  • Word on the Street – romance genre fiction.
  • Toronto Romance Writers’ monthly meeting – travel and writing, character development.
  • Romance Writers’ of America’s annual conference – travel and writing.
  • Toronto Public Library’s Pride Month programming – LGBTQ+ self-publishing.
  • New England Romance Writers’ of America’s annual conference – travel and writing. (Cancelled due to Covid-19.)
  • Northern Hearts Conference – world building and setting.
• Moderator –
  • Northern Hearts Conference – moderated discussion panel with Farah Heron, Molly O’Keefe, Naima Simone, and K.A. Tucker, romance authors.
• Live interviews –
  • Albourne America’s annual client event – Steve Nelson of Institutional Limited Partners Association.
  • World of Stories podcast – Jackie Lau, romance author; Tamsin Parker, romance author; ‘Nathan Burgoine, speculative fiction author; Ekaterine Xia, speculative fiction/romance author; Ann Gagné, educational developer.
• Client pitches and workshops –
  • Albourne Partners – pitched new products to existing and prospective clients.
  • Albourne Partners – ran workshops on operational due diligence best practices to existing and prospective clients.
  • Albourne America’s annual client event – pitched services to China-based prospective clients. Pitch made in Mandarin.

Podcasting

• Production –
  • World of Stories podcast – recorded, edited, and published episodes.
  • World of Stories podcast – invited guests and researched interview questions.
  • World of Stories podcast – wrote scripts and transcribed episodes.
  • Albourne Partners – researched podcast topics, recruited guests, wrote scripts.
• Host –
  • World of Stories podcast – hosted bi-weekly podcast, developing chemistry and conversational dynamics with co-host.

Teaching

• Albourne Partners – taught private equity 101 and private markets operational due diligence to co-workers in Toronto, Hong Kong, and London.
• Columbia University – economics tutor to graduate-level students.
• McMaster University – calculus teaching assistant to university-level students.
• Knitting – casually taught local women in rural Kenya, co-workers, friends.

Event Planning

• Northern Hearts Conference – strategic planning, programming and speaker relations, swag and promotional materials sourcing.
• Albourne Partners – organized business writing workshop, sourced course/instructor from corporate training firms.
• Westside Community Church – planned retreats, including transportation, lodging, programming, and entertainment.
• Westside Community Church – planned international group travel, including transportation, lodging, and conference registration.

Project Managing

• Budgeting –
  • Open Secrets Project – project budgeting, financial reporting.
• Strategic Planning –
  • Open Secrets Project – strategic planning regarding direction of project, drafting job description for hiring, determining timeline of project
  • Northern Hearts Conference – strategic planning regarding conference programming, diversity representation, and accessibility.
  • Albourne Partners – strategic planning regarding departmental communications with internal and external stakeholders.
• Team Leadership –
  • Open Secrets Project – facilitated discussions with project participants.
  • Albourne Partners – oversaw work of junior staff and interns in day-to-day work, directed staff to meet departmental communications priorities.
  • Diligence USA – oversaw work of junior staff and interns in day-to-day work.
  • Journal of International Affairs – oversaw work of production assistants in the formatting, layout, and graphics of academic journal.
  • Westside Community Church – direct team of volunteers to produce weekly religious services.