OES Associates: Carol Hedberg
Carol Hedberg
For thirty-plus years Carol has written and edited technical and marketing materials in an array of industries.
What does Carol Hedberg do well?
- Help anyone convert complex information into plain English.
- Create documents that are well-structured, easy to read, and easy to scan with the eye, and search electronically.
- Edit anything you write. She is a superb editor.
- Write in any style, making it impossible to tell it was not written by the original author.
- Can balance 20 writing projects at the same time, all with different styles!
Milestones
- Has edited the content, style, and format of hundreds of contract reports, proposals, journal papers, presentations, illustrations, brochures, posters, press releases, and award-program literature.
- Worked with Cray, Honeywell Research Laboratories, Physical Electronics, Appliance Recycling Centers of America, National Computer Systems, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Wells Fargo and Control Data.
- Wrote 20 complex and critical proposals over a 10 week period for ARCA (Appliance Recycling Centers of America.)
- Received the President’s Award from Physical Electronics for a software manual with mathematical algorithms for understanding and displaying surface analysis data. The award cited the manual’s simple structure, examples, and accessibility of information.
- Wrote a report for Honeywell Research Centers (now Honeywell Technology Center) that received the highest score in 10 years. Instrumental in the award was her knowledge of mathematical text.
Earlier in Carol Hedberg’s career
- Technical writer and editor since 1978.
- BA, University of Minnesota. Interdisciplinary degree emphasizing Climatology, with coursework in the Math and Geography departments, and a focus on global climate change.
