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Writing,
Editing, and Desktop Publishing Services based in Orange County, California
U.S.A.
ESTABLISHED 1992
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LEXICORPS is the "dba" of Charles
Bosdet. I'm an independent writer, editor, and desktop publisher who has
prepared hundreds of engineering reports, scientific papers, marketing
brochures and presentations, and winning proposals for a variety of
companies
since
1988.
I operate LEXICORPS as a "virtual
company," usually working alone with customer executives, managers, and
employees. When necessary, I call on the proven
talents of other independent specialists for graphic arts support, pricing
and financial strategy or analysis, and the like. For instance:
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An engineering company needed 2,000
full-color marketing brochures for a convention in two weeks. The
brochure needed to be understandable and useful to engineers already familiar
with the technology and to consumers who knew nothing about it.
I designed and drafted a brochure that met both objectives, employing an
artist to turn my sketches into polished illustrations as I finished writing
the copy and arranged for production. The customer received and approved
the final proof in seven days, and the finished brochure was delivered
on time. It was a hit.
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A financial consultant needed a business
plan in three days for a start-up technology company in need of investors.
Starting with the consultant's sketchy draft and additional information
about the company, I wrote the administrative and technical chapters. A
trusted business-management associate prepared the pricing, financial,
and sales chapters, and we hammered out the marketing approach together.
Leaving some "fill in the blank" sentences for data that were not available
to us during our holiday-weekend marathon, we delivered a credible and
otherwise comprehensive plan on time.
SERVICES
My service and
product documents — new-business
proposals,
marketing materials, engineering reports,
and such — have included power stations, advanced commercial and military
aircraft, magnetically levitated trains, nuclear submarine systems, shipboard
power systems, computerized document imaging and retrieval systems, and
electric vehicle batteries.
Sometimes a company needs someone
who understands writing, editing, graphics requirements and production,
just to effectively manage the people who are actually preparing a report,
proposal,
or other collaborative publication. I do that routinely, typically
working with three to 20 people — engineers, pricers, marketers, and so
on — to produce documents of 200 to 3,500 pages. For instance:
A large corporation needed to prepare
and deliver a critical, 3,500-page "bet the company" proposal in 90 days.
I screened and hired eight free-lance editors, then organized and managed
the editorial and production teams that converted contributions by more
than 120 writers into a complete and compliant document. We delivered
the proposal on time and met every corporate objective.
General Publications Services
Marketing collateral, reports,
news releases, etc.
Writing and editing
Desktop publishing
Publication management
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Proposal Services
Planning and management (technical,
management, and cost books)
Storyboarding
Writing and editing
Desktop publishing
I have prepared or managed the preparation
of technical and cost-price proposals to an assortment of commercial and
government customers in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
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Research Services
Technical research using the
Internet and technical libraries
Writing, editing, and publishing
the results
One recent research project required
the rapid location and acquisition of shipbuilding documents that would
describe the design and shipyard construction-management processes for
a 1,500-ton vessel. Searching corporate, university, and government resources
worldwide on the Internet, LEXICORPS was able to provide its customer with
more than 1,400 pages of useful "hands-on" manuals and guidelines in three
days. You can see a byproduct of this research, the LEXICORPS
Ship
Design and Construction Resource Page,
here on the Web.
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CLIENTS
Some current and former clients include
law firms, software and other computer-related companies, engineering and
R&D houses, financial consultants, aerospace companies, and the Federal
Aviation Administration. LEXICORPS qualified as a desktop publishing vendor
to Beckman Instruments Corporation in 1996.
I am accustomed to helping business
people and engineers whose command of English is limited, and count many
natives of Russia, Europe, India, China, and Japan among my clients.
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BACKGROUND
My management, writing, editing, and
publishing experience spans a number of industries and includes —
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13 years in commercial and technical
writing, editing, and publishing
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Producing 17 videos for a professional
organization
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Writing advertising copy
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Providing public relations strategy
and support for a start-up engineering company
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Ghostwriting corporate strategy documents
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Designing and publishing newsletters
for a Fortune 500 company
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Nearly 15 years as a newspaper editor
and writer
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Radio news reporting
I'm always interested in new endeavors,
and am adept at applying experience from one industry to new challenges
in another.
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