Background: BSc Honours (Genetics/Microbiology) graduate; seven years of university-level teaching and research experience in Biochemistry; over five years in-house, honing skills in acquisitions, copy- and production editing, and project management in STM Publishing. Last in-house position: Senior Editor, Springer-Verlag, Singapore. Current freelance contracts: copy- and structural editing of journal papers in Microbiology/Biotechnology & Obstet/Gynaecol; indexing, copy editing, and proof reading Canadian secondary-school sciences textbooks; copy editing medical texts for STM publishers. Past freelance contracts: content extraction and rewriting college-level Chemistry for the Internet; copy editing eLearning course transcripts; translating Afrikaans to English and vice versa.