I have independently studied the Project Management Body of Knowledge. My understanding of the five project management process groups (Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling & Monitoring and Closing) and the nine knowledge areas (Integration, Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Human Resource, Communications, Risk and Procurement) have allowed me to see a number of projects, both large and small, through to successful completion.

While living in Australia, I founded a nonprofit organization called SustainaBundy, dedicated to sustainability efforts in the Bundaberg community. In the year and a half that I was with the organization, I successfully helmed two major projects:

The 2008 SustainaBundy Directory and Guide: how to live a GREENER life in & around Bundaberg was a self-published 100-page sustainability guidebook for the region. I wrote many of the articles, coordinating with the authors of other articles and handling all of the editing. I sold and created many of the ads in the publication, managing one salesperson and liasing with all the advertisers to ensure that the publication paid for itself. I also managed all of the layout, design, graphics and photography in the publication, as well as marketing and promotion of the guidebook through the SustainaBundy website, local radio, newspaper, events, presentations, meetings and local retailers. The guidebook became a standard of sorts, with organizations all over the world and even some city councils requesting copies to be used as a blueprint for their own efforts.

I also managed the successful organization and execution of the Bundaberg 2008 World Environment Day Celebration. The needs of a wide variety of stakeholders had to be met within a very short timeframe: just three months! Heading up a committee of 8 and with a very small budget consisting entirely of donations from local NGOs, businesses and the city council, I was able to coordinate and promote an event with over 20 participating exhibitors, 5 live bands, numerous presenters and over 700 attendees - on a heavily rainy day! With shrewd planning and massively coordinated volunteer efforts, several hundred dollars of the budget were donated to nonprofit organizations participating in the event, rather than being spent on the event itself.

My project management abilities have also been of great value while managing large freelance multimedia projects.

In 2001, I was contracted by a Russian game development company to provide script editing, voiceover and audio production for the English version of their hit PC game. I proofread, edited and corrected the 100 page script, auditioned and hired voice actors, completed all recording sessions and revisions, edited, produced and uploaded all of the audio files according to specifications, by deadline and on budget.

The company was so pleased with my work that they further contracted me to manage the localization of the game into German. I auditioned and negotiated contracts with the German voice production company before managing the voice recordings of the German script - and in the end I was asked to complete the production of the German voiceover files as well, even though I didn't speak a word of the language!

Even with challenges such as working with two different teams for whom English was a second language, the Russian company was obviously confident in my abilities to successfully manage their projects. Though I wasn't offering voiceover services on the scale that they required, in 2005 the company contracted me yet again to edit the much longer English script for the sequel to the original game.