Lucy Schrader

Editorial, Content strategy, Web

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About me

I'm a content specialist with nine years' experience delivering high-quality material for the web. I have a strong public service, user-centred ethos, and I work hard to make sure anything that goes live is worth it.

Skills

  • Source, write, edit, and revise content
  • Shepherd content creation
  • Find content gaps
  • Establish style guide, including accessibility guidance
  • Fairly represent and involve the range of people in NZ
  • Copyediting and technical QA
  • Develop content strategy
  • Understand the organisation
  • Create workflows for audit and redevelopment
  • Embed content in business processes
  • Educate and form consensus
  • Coordinate content across channels
  • Create web and offline writing
  • Develop promotional and advisory content
  • Draft, consult on, and present reports and analysis
  • Perform research, analysis, and presentation of history
  • Knowledge of mātauranga Māori and tikanga Māori
  • Publication and distribution of public history and heritage
  • Synthesise multiple inputs
  • Seek out new people
  • Help colleagues connect
  • Develop new mutually beneficial relationships
  • Work easily with HTML and CSS
  • Capable with Python, new to Ruby
  • Identify bugs and test solutions
  • Propose and outline technical changes
  • Participate and run in Agile
  • Rapidly switch tasks
  • Contribute to long-term planning
  • Learn new things all the time
  • Edit images, audio, and video
  • Develop and edit screencasts
  • Create transcripts and captions
  • Plan and run workshops
  • One-on-one advisory and skills development sessions
  • Develop usable documentation

Experience

Content editor, Intranet redevelopment, Ministry of Justice

(2017 – current)

Content designer, Services to Schools, NLNZ

(2015 – 2016, secondment)

Online editor, National Library of New Zealand

(2010 – 2017)

Web editor, Immigration New Zealand

(2006 – 2007)

I've worked on

Just a handful of the things I've done.

NLNZ blog

A consistently interesting, deep, and varied source of information and ideas.

Flickr uploader

Pushes hi-res images and their metadata to Flickr so they can be freely used.

Writing

My bits from the blog: open data, flying quadcopters, and special highlights.

Site inventory

Hilariously incomplete, but going to be super useful one day.

Education

Victoria University of Wellington

(2008 – 2010)

Masters of Museum and Heritage Studies

Otago University

(2002 – 2005)

Bachelor of Arts with Honours in History

I like

Knitting

A friend taught me the basics a couple of years ago, and since then I've made scarves, hats, an entire cardigan, and an amazing big winter blanket.

Reading

Books are amazing. I've recently read Ibram X Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning, Sarah Waters' The Paying Guests, Jeanette Winterson's Gut Symmetries, Rivers Solomon's An Unkindness of Ghosts, and Sarah Farizan's Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel.

References

Available on request. Email lucy@schrader.nz to ask!