Spectrum Writing Services Staff Biographies Sheri Dursin brings to Spectrum Writing Services over fifteen years of writing experience in academic and professional settings.  Her work and career have always been inspired by a passion for writing.  She wholeheartedly believes in the transforming power of clear, effective written communication.  Clients are always impressed by Sheri’s natural ability to take their thoughts and ideas and create a clear and compelling message.  Sheri’s writing experience covers a wide range of topics, styles, and products.  She has written everything from straightforward procedural manuals to witty, inspiring articles.  Recently, she co-designed an employment training curriculum for a national non-profit organization serving women in poverty.  The curriculum consisted of 19 workshops, over 200 exercises and handouts, and a facilitator guide.  It is currently being implemented by local training facilities across the country.  Sheri spent the majority of her professional career in the academic world, at Tufts, Northeastern, and Boston University.  During this time she became highly competent in research and data analysis; her specialties included consolidating information, writing reports, and evaluating results.  Sheri has additional experience writing newsletters, customer correspondence, informational brochures, project reports, mission statements, and letters of recommendation.  She received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Holy Cross College and a Master of Science in College Student Development from Northeastern University. Barbara Meyer brings over fifteen years of corporate business experience to Spectrum Writing Services.  She has focused her efforts on organizational effectiveness, human resources and the retention and management of intellectual capital. Barbara understands the challenges both large and small organizations face in attracting, servicing, and retaining customers as well as the importance of an effective business infrastructure.  Areas of writing and consulting specialty include strategy development and business planning; measures and metrics; reward and recognition systems; training and procedural manuals; training curriculum for single and multiple day sessions; speech writing; survey development; position definition with linked skills and competencies for the individual employee; and resume writing. Barbara’s human resource experience spans the disciplines of compensation, employee relations, employee and executive development, sourcing, and training. She has staff management experience and has directly supported senior level executives with their organizational effectiveness needs. She is an advocate for clearly defined and measurable business criteria that is driven through the organization and linked with individual job definition and associated reward systems. Barbara has industry experience in health care, managed care, insurance, and retail. She also has experience in strategic marketing and focus group design. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, with a focus on Industrial Psychology and a concentration in management from Central Connecticut State University.    Ann Marie Ferrante has an extensive background in research and writing, both in academic and real-world settings.  Her research experience includes data collection, survey design and analysis, and detailed reports on research findings.  As an educator, Ann Marie was trained in a number of techniques for teaching writing skills, and she has designed and implemented her own curricula targeting all types of written communication, including creative, non-fiction and research-oriented writing.  She is especially skilled at drawing out the reluctant writer and helping others put a unique voice to their written work.  Prior to her work as an educator, Ann Marie was employed at an international, non-profit educational organization for seniors and was responsible for all written correspondence dealing with customer satisfaction issues.  As a freelance researcher, Ann Marie has consulted in survey analysis and evaluation of a number of non-profit programs in the areas of education, employment and training.  Given her wide range of experiences with writing, both professionally and academically, Ann Marie is comfortable writing for a number of purposes and can easily adapt her tone and style to make it an appropriate fit for any kind of project.  Ann Marie received a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Anthropology at Colgate University, a Masters in Education at Harvard University, and a teaching certificate at Lesley College.   Dating back to his days as a columnist and editor for his college newspaper, Mark Dursin knew his career would involve his passion for writing.  He was right: Mark has written everything from promotional brochures, to educational curricula, to non-fiction articles (for publications such as the Hartford Courant and ESPN.com).  He is most proud, however, of his experiences helping others with their writing.  Since 1995, he has taught composition and literature courses, at the high school and college levels.  For four years, Mark worked as a writing instructor at Boston College; in this capacity, he taught a wide variety of assignments (including researched essays, personal narratives, literary analyses, and persuasive arguments) and met with students weekly in individual conferences to discuss their works-in-progress. Realizing that he could better serve students by reaching them at younger ages, he became a secondary school teacher in 2000; currently, he teaches English at Glastonbury High School in Glastonbury, Connecticut.   In addition to these experiences, he has also, during the course of his career, taught business communication courses to adult learners; created and maintained web pages; delivered conference papers on student writing; and assisted with the writing, researching, and editing of government proposals.  Mark received his Bachelor of Arts in English from the College of the Holy Cross, his Master of Arts in English from Boston College, and his Secondary Education Certification from Central Connecticut State University.   Copyright © 2005 Spectrum Writing Services.  All rights reserved.