Functional Resume of Charles Bosdet

• Work History 
• Book flights  
• Publication Management 
• Editing and Writing 
• Education and Training 
• Computers 
• Professional Activities 
• Honors, Awards . . . 
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• 1993 - Present. Owner, Lexicorps Business and Technical Publishing. Full-time independent editor, writer, and publications contractor, Orange County, California.  Consulting Defense Export Control Coordinator since 1998.

 
• 1992-93. Senior Writer-Editor, staffed to Vice President of Quality, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California.

• 1987-93. Publications Manager, Principal Specialist Editor, Senior Writer. McDonnell Douglas, Long Beach, California.

• 1984-87. Editor — News and Op-Ed Pages, The Los Angeles Daily Journal, America's largest daily legal-affairs newspaper.

• 1982-84. Editor, The California Register, Sacramento, California, a weekly journal of state government quasi-judicial rulings.

• 1979-84. Editor in Chief, The Daily Recorder, Sacramento, California, a daily newspaper devoted to legal and state government issues. 

• 1978-79. Editor in Chief, The San Jose Post-Record, California, a daily newspaper focused on legal and state-government policy issues.

• 1976-78. Bureau Chief and Law Reporter, Capitol News Service, Sacramento, California.

Aerospace and Electronics

• Selected, trained, and managed editorial and production "tiger team" for 3,500-page "bet the company" financial proposal. The three-month, often 'round-the-clock effort shared credit for averting corporate bankruptcy.

• Published and managed preparation of more than 150 technical or cost proposals during 1993-96. Projects involved small to multimillion-dollar government and commercial projects worldwide, and typically required the ability to organize people and material quickly, communicate effectively, market the customer's product creatively, and meet deadlines.

• Managed 24 technical editors and artists to produce Douglas Aircraft Company's new-business and R&D proposals, valued at up to $350 million each; follow-on contract values surpassed $1.5 billion. 

• Established systematic processes to forecast and track publication workload, and to evaluate new editors. Developed TQM customer-satisfaction and employee-development systems.

Journalism

• Managed wire, wire photo, Op-Ed desks of largest U.S. daily legal newspaper. Responsible for editing and layout. Developed California's first daily newspaper for state government news. Hired and trained editorial staff and interns; supervised bureaus and freelance writers.

 Aerospace and Electronics

• Designed, wrote, and published 250-page illustrated flight-crew operating manual for jet airliner test program without any previous knowledge of jet engines. Three-month "crash program" required rapid assimilation of flight-test requirements, engineering data and blueprints, and substantial self-education in jet-engine design and operation, propulsion theory and fluid dynamics, avionics and electronics, electrical systems, airframe structure, and flight-test procedures. Clarity and accuracy were critical to flight crew safety.

• Senior or sole editor for various companies on multimillion-dollar, multivolume proposals; engineering and marketing briefings, reports, presentations and brochures, and strategic quality and business plans.

• Selected by MagneTek Defense Systems as editor-publisher for multinational proposal team.

Law

• Author, The Patent Principle: The General Circulation Status of ‘Special Interest’ Newspapers.  Researched and wrote definitive 55-page legal analysis that led California to reverse a recently enacted public notice policy. The extraordinary First Amendment clash pitted a handful of small legal and business newspapers, represented by the author, against the mainstream newspaper publishers' association and the State of California. 

• Selected by Douglas Aircraft Company attorneys as editor of federal contract claims worth $1.5 - $2 billion.

Journalism

• Substantial deadline editing, rewriting of wire, staff, and feature pieces; headline writing, photo editing, graphic design, page layout; development, planning, and execution of regular and special features.

• Some 50 California newspapers have published my articles on law, government, and technology issues.

• Improved several newspapers' design and content. Earned high credibility with readers, the judiciary, public officials, major news media.

• Helped develop, then edited and produced the California Register, a weekly journal of official quasi-judicial state administrative rulings and opinions (California attorney general, California Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Franchise Tax Board, Fair Political Practices Commission, Agricultural Labor Relations Board, and others).

Freelance Writing

• My editorial articles have been purchased and published by The Kansas City Star, the Los Angeles Daily News, The Orange County Register, and the San Jose Mercury-News, among others. Publishers have purchased my articles on first submission more than 85 percent of the time.

• Export Controls Training, L-3 Communications Corp. (Washington, D.C., 1999).

• Defense Trade Export Licensing, Society for International Affairs (Washington, D.C., 1999).

• Proposal Cost Volume Management, MagneTek Defense Systems (1993).

• Baldrige National Quality Award Evaluator Training, McDonnell Douglas (1991-92).

• Total Quality Management System, McDonnell Douglas (1990-92).

• Proposal Writing, Shipley Associates (Certificate, c. 1988).

• Strategic Business Initiative, McDonnell Douglas (1987-90).

• Majors: History of Science and Technology, Political Science. University of California, Davis. Dean's List. Additional studies in science history at U.C. Berkeley.

• Associate of Arts, Science and Journalism emphasis, Saddleback Community College, Mission Viejo, California.

Software

• Windows: Currently use the Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Binder), Project, and Image Composer; ABC FlowCharter, PhotoFinish, PhotoStudio, OmniPage, DeskScan, PCAnywhere, Alta Vista Search (desktop), Adobe Acrobat 4 and Distiller, .  Have used FrameMaker, WordPerfect (5.2 and 6.1 extensively; Corel 8), Freelance Graphics, PhotoShop, PhotoStyler, PhotoMagic.

• Web Tools (Windows): Front Page 98, HotDog Pro, Netscape Communicator and Netscape Gold 3.0, WebCompass. Have used QuickSite Developer, WebAuthor, HomePage Wizard.

• Multimedia (Windows): CoolEdit (audio), GoldWave (audio), CD Creator.

• Macintosh: Previous experience with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PhotoShop, OmniPage, Wordscan Plus, DeskScan II, Ofoto 2. Some FrameMaker experience.

• GML tagging on IBM VMS system. Typeset and format coding on Atex, NBI, and Compugraphic systems.

Hardware

• IBM PC compatibles.
• IBM VMS (mainframe).
• Apple Quadra 700, Performa, PowerBook, Mac II series.
• Sun SPARCstation and Models 3/60, 3/80.
• Atex, NBI, and Compugraphic typesetting and newsroom systems.

Education

• Guest lecturer, California State University, Long Beach (May 1991, November 1991): Proposal writing and production.

• Invited speaker, Association of Proposal Management Professionals National Conference, 1991: Proposal management and publication.

Society for Technical Communication

• Video Program Manager and Associate Producer (17 videos), Region 8 Annual Conference, San Diego, California (Nov. 1994).

• Orange County (California) STC Internet Committee Chairman (1994-95).

• Member, Governing Board, 1994-95.

• Judge, 1994-95 Publications Competition.

Association of Proposal Management Professionals

Journalism

• Member, Capitol Press Corps (California), 1976-86.

• Judge, California Newspaper Publishers Association statewide competition (c. 1982).

Government

• Appointed commissioner, Santa Clara County (California) Data Confidentiality Commission (1979).

• Expert witness on newspaper adjudications, California Assembly and Senate judiciary committees (1979).

• Legislative liaison for Association of Court and Commercial Newspapers, California (1979-83).

 Aerospace / Aviation

• Douglas Aircraft — Two formal awards from Douglas president and vice president of quality (1991, 1992). Presidential performance award (1992). Eight formal awards for outstanding performance and teamwork (1988-92). Special recognition from Marketing, Engineering, Manufacturing R&D, Propulsion, Flight Test departments (1987-91). Selected as editor of company's Baldrige National Quality Award-based corporate evaluation report (1991, 1992).

• Pratt & Whitney, U.S. Air Force — Prepared experimental jet-engine operation and flight-test manual for Douglas Aircraft. P&W, the engine's maker, adopted the book as its engineering reference (1989). Ex-director of USAF Flight Test School judged the book "best I've ever seen" on an experimental jet-engine program, an appraisal shared by program test pilots.

Journalism

• First Place, Best Special Issue award from California Newspaper Publishers Association (1981) for comprehensive analysis of 1,800-page California state budget.

• Contributing writer and editor, award-winning insurance series, United Press International Western Region competition (c. 1985).

• Numerous employer notices for performance, creativity, professional contributions (1977-87).

• Security Clearance:  Secret and SA (inactive).
• Managed the second-largest classified repository at Douglas Aircraft Company.
• Arranged publications support for classified programs as manager of proposals and scientific publications group.