As a child, Andrea wrote detailed instructions for crafts on index
cards. This attention to detail inevitably led to a Certificate in
Technical Communications from Simon Fraser University. She spent 10
years as the Communications Manager of a national software and
services provider for independent securities and mutual fund dealers.
While there she worked on every project that involved words and design
from websites to online help, newsletters to marketing collateral,
training materials to sales proposals. She often shaped bullet points
and half-sentences into polished pieces for colleagues who would state
“that’s what I meant to say” upon reading the finished product.
Andrea has taken this experience into her freelance work:
- Read All About It!: The story of a kidnapping." British Columbia History, 54.4 | Winter 2021.
- "Reading the Census to Find Indigenous People in BC." British Columbia History, 54.3 | Fall 2021.
- Using DNA Painter’s What are the Odds?, Maple Ridge Historical Society Family History News, July 2021.
- Beyond Schedule 1 of the Census, Maple Ridge Historical Society Family History News, January 2020.
- Family History Group Submission to Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology In Regard to Statutory Review of the Copyright Act with Gina Leigh, Alberta McNamara, and Brenda L. Smith
- Text for RoboShowing® website,
ThinkAnalysis Inc., 2018.
- “Who was Johnny Ussher?” British
Columbia History,
Vol. 48 No. 4 (2015), 11-15.
- "Disclosure:
what’s all the fuss about?: The (un)expected impacts of CRM2.”
Smarten Up Institute. June 26 2014.
- Contributed to St. Thomas Anglican Church 1873-2013: A History
of St. Thomas Parish 140th Anniversary Edition, Chilliwack:
St. Thomas Anglican Church, 2013.
- “Romance
at Melrose Café.” Maple Ridge Historical Society Family
History News, January 2013.
- “Cabinets of Curiosities: Grandfather’s Winning Horse Plow.” British
Columbia History,
Vol. 46 No. 1 (2013), 48.
- ““ETFs – How to calm the investor’s nerves.”
Smarten Up Institute. March 6 2012.
- “Cabinets of Curiosities: Chilliwack to ANZAC and Back.” British
Columbia History, Vol. 44 No. 4 (2011), 48.
For other writing samples not available online please contact
me.