Andrew Safer
Writer | Editor | Communications Consultant | Workshop Facilitator
58 Pennywell Road
St. John’s, Newfoundland A1C 2K9
(709) 722-2716
asafer@nf.sympatico.ca

CV CONTENTS

Writer/Editor
Technical Writing
Media Relations & Marketing Communications
Magazine & Newspaper Articles
Conference Reports
Special Projects
Books
Curricula

Workshop Facilitator - Presenter

Awards & Distinctions

WRITER/EDITOR

TECHNICAL WRITING & EDITING

-     Created, wrote/edited technical and business documents for the offshore oil           and gas industry for:

• Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (Drilling and Production Guidelines)
• EnCana Resources (Policies and Procedures Manualand Project Execution Plan - Deep Panuke)
• Corridor Resources Inc. (Environmental Assessment)
• Exxon Mobil Canada (Design Basis Memorandum – Alma Tier Two - Sable Offshore Energy Project)

-     Wrote manuals and user guides for:

• MT&T (now Aliant): Mpowered PC (MT&T’s first DSL Internet service)
• Info Canada
• Seimac Limited:PRO FIND 406 EPIRB manual
• Positronic Software: Perfect Player Poker manual
• FastLane Technologies (Reviewers’ Guides)

MEDIA RELATIONS & MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS

-     Wrote web site content, marketing collateral, case studies, press releases,           backgrounders and corporate profiles for:

• Applied Courseware Technology
• Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
• Bedford Institute of Oceanography
• Canadian Information Processing Society
• Core Networks
• DDA Computer Consultants
• Dalhousie University
• Environment Canada
• Department of Industry Trade and Technology— Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
• Halifax Port Corporation
• Industry Canada
• InfoInterActive, Inc
• Kespuwick Community Congress
• MediaSpark
• National Research Council—IRAP
• Natural Resources Canada
• Neill and Gunter (Nova Scotia) Limited
• Pictorius
• Private Business Networks
• Satlantic, Inc.
• Seimac Limited
• Satlantic, Inc.
• TARA (Telecom Applications Research Alliance)
• Upstream Solutions Inc. (St. John’s)

MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS

Magazines

• Architectural Record (US)
• Atlantic Business Report (NB)
• Atlantic Fisherman (NS)
• Atlantic Journal of Opportunity (ACOA)
• Atlantic Lifestyle Business (NF)
• Atlantic Progress (NS)
• Aviation & Aerospace (PQ)
• Bedford Monthly (NS)
• Bluenose (NS)
• BOMA Atlantic (NS)
• CAD Systems (ON)
• CADENCE (US)
• CBT Solutions (US)
• Canadian Business (ON)
• Canadian Chamber of Commerce Journal in Japan (Japan)
• Canadian Civil Engineer (ON)
• Canadian Computer Reseller (ON)
• Canadian Consulting Engineer (ON)
• Canadian Grocer (ON)
• Canadian Lawyer (ON)
• Canadian Petroleum Association Review (AB)
• Canadian Sailings (ON)
• Canadian School Executive (BC)
• Channels (Ocean Production Enhancement Network) (NS)
• Commercial Fisheries News (US)
• Commercial News (NS)
• Communique (Canadian Dental Association)
• Computerworld (US)
• Computing Canada (ON)
• Contours (Canadian Hydrographic Service)
• DesignNet (US)
• Eastern Woods & Waters (NS)
• Engineering News-Record (US)
• Fishing News International (UK)
• Forestry, Oil & Gas Review (AB)
• Harrowsmith Country Life (ON)
• Home Business Report (BC)
• ICOD News (International Centre of Ocean Development) (NS)
• Info Canada (ON)
• InnovatioNS (NS)
• I.T. Magazine (ON)
• Journal of Ocean Technology (NL)
• Maclean's (ON)
• Marine Technology Reporter (US)
• Metal Bulletin (UK)
• The Mother Earth News (US)
• Mutual Fund Review (ON)
• Navigator (NL)
• Nova Scotia Business Journal (NS)
• The Nova Scotia Surveyor (NS)
• Offshore Technology (UK)
• Open to the World (NS)
• OSCA Reports (Ontario School Counsellors Association) (ON)
• Platt's Oilgram News (US)
• Port of Halifax Magazine (NS)
• Report On Business Magazine (ON)
• Sea Technology (US)
• Seafood Leader (US)
• Sexual Health Exchange (The Netherlands)
• Silicon Valley North (ON)
• Software News (NS)
• Southender (NS)
• T-Notes (Technical University of Nova Scotia) (NS)
• World Highways (UK)

Newspapers

• The Chronicle-Herald/ Mail-Star (Halifax, NS)
• The Citizen (Amherst)
• The Daily Camera (Boulder, Colorado)
• The Daily News (Dartmouth, NS)
• The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
• The Guardian (Charlottetown)
• The Oran (Inverness County)
  

CONFERENCE REPORTS

-     Provided note-taking service and wrote conference reports for:

• Softworld (Fredericton)
• Fourth International Conference on Short- and Medium-Span Bridges (Halifax)
• Canadian Institute of Mining Conference (Halifax)
• Canadian Council of Grocery Distributors (Dartmouth)
• NovaKnowledge (Halifax)
• EDI Council of Canada’s Second Annual Spring Forum (Moncton)
• Nova Scotia Cultural Network (Halifax)
• Canadian Agri-foods Marketing Council, for Infolink Consultants (Halifax)
• Xenotransplantation, for InfoLink Consultants (Halifax)
• Emissions Trading, for InfoLink Consultants (Halifax)
• Not-For-Profit Framework Law, for InfoLink Consultants (Halifax)
• National Education Association for the Deaf, for InfoLink Consultants (Halifax)
• Canadian Parents for French, for Infolink Consultants (Halifax)
• Gender Equality Consultation, Status of Women Canada, for Infolink Consultants (Halifax)
• Critical Habitat of the Right Whale, for Department of Fisheries and Oceans (Dartmouth)
• Environmental Quality in Canadian Cities/Brownfield Redevelopment, for InfoLink Consultants (Halifax)
• Conference on the Governance of High Seas Fisheries, for Infolink Consultants (St. John’s)
• Health Council of Canada Jurisdictional Interviews, for Conference Publishers (Halifax and Charlottetown)
• Emergency Preparedness, for Conference Publishers (Halifax)
• Out of the Basement - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, for Bobbie Boland/St. John’s Housing and Homelessness Network (St. John’s)
• HR Council on the Voluntary and Non-profit Sector, for St. John’s Housing and Homelessness Network (St. John’s)
• From the Outside In – Complex Needs, for St. John’s Housing and Homelessness Network (St. John’s)

GOVERNMENT WRITING

-     Completed writing assignments—from speeches to magazine articles—for:

• Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
• Canadian Hydrographic Service
• City of St. John's - Economic Development & Tourism
• Department of Fisheries and Oceans
• Economic Renewal Agency
• Environment Canada
• Government of Newfoundland and Labrador—Department of Industry, Trade and Technology
• Government of Nova Scotia—Department of Economic Development
• Government of Nova Scotia—Publishing Office
• Industry Canada
• InNOVAcorp
• International Centre for Ocean Development
• International Development Research Centre (Ottawa)
• National Research Council
• Natural Resources Canada
• Sustainable Economic Development Agreement
• Workers’ Compensation Board of Nova Scotia.

SPECIAL PROJECTS

• Wrote “Biotechnology in Atlantic Canada” for Canada’s Ocean Strategy—the Atlantic/Dalhousie University
• Prepared international oil and gas project summaries and contributed to a submission to the Public Review Commission for Corridor Resources Inc.
• Wrote kit folder marketing collateral for Clear Picture Corporation
• Wrote “Safety and Security Capabilities of Selected Nova Scotia Firms” for Nova Scotia Business Inc. (trade show collateral)
• Wrote Halterm’s 25th Anniversary Supplement for the Daily News
• Co-wrote “A Retrospective: Three Quarters of a Century at the Halifax Fisheries Research Laboratory” with James E. Stewart, Science Branch, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Bedford Institute of Oceanography
• Edited Gender and Peace Support Operations for the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, Cornwallis, NS
• Edited A Profile of Small Business & Entrepreneurship in Nova Scotia for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
• Edited Surviving Your Personal Injuries Insurance Claim: A Guidebook for Dr. Mary Lynch, Pain Management Unit, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax

BOOKS

• Cracking the Theft Rings: The Story of a Cop at the Port of Halifax – by Billy Taylor; with Andrew Safer, Frontlist Publishing, 2008.
  (www.crackingthetheftrings.com)
• Fifty Years of Emergencies: The Dramatic Life of a Country Doctor - by Dr. Arnold Burden, with Andrew Safer, Lancelot Press, 1991.

• Healthy Relationships: A Violence-Prevention Curriculum - co-developed by Andrew Safer, Peter Davison, and Roger Davies; written by Andrew Safer, Men For Change, 1994.
• Youth in Care Newsletter Project Curriculum for Children’s Aid Society of Halifax (unpublished)
  
  

YOUTH PROGRAM DIRECTOR

• Director, Youth in Care Newsletter Project (www.youthnewsletter.net) Halifax (2000-2008)

WORKSHOP FACILITATOR / PRESENTER

• Facilitated workshops on Dealing with Difficult Emotions, Communicating Assertively, Overcoming Gender Stereotypes, Turning the Tables on Bullying, and Creative Writing for schools and community groups:

        -     Halifax

• Beechville-Lakeside-Timberlea School
• Dartmouth High
• Gaetz Brook Junior High
• Georges P. Vanier Junior High
• Graham Creighton Junior High
• Prince Arthur Junior High
• Ross Road
• Sackville Heights Junior High
• St. Catherine’s Elementary
• Sheet Harbour Consolidated
• Mount St. Vincent University Gender Studies Course
• YWCA of Halifax
• Family SOS (Positive Parenting for Dads)

        -     St. John's

• Community Centre Alliance
• Community Mediation Services
• Community Youth Network
• Murphy Centre Career Services
• New Beginnings


• Facilitated workshops and presented at conferences on Gender and Violence, Healthy Relationships, Dealing with Anger, and the Youth in Care Newsletter Project:
  
  
  • Austin Centre for Male Involvement, Austin, Texas
  • Atlantic Crime Prevention Conferences, Truro, NS and Corner Brook, NL
  • “Celebrating the Challenges” Special Education Conference, Kananaskis, AB
  • Child and Youth Care Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Conference, St. John’s
  • Healthy Relationships Curriculum trainings (Halifax, Los Angeles, Phoenix)
  • “In the Loop”, Nova Scotia Council for the Family, Truro, NS
  • WorldForum Child Welfare Conference, Vancouver, BC

EDUCATION

University of California, Santa Cruz: Creative Writing        1970 - 1972

AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS

• “Andrew Safer Award” presented by Youth Voices of Nova Scotia Society to two youths for their outstanding contribution to the Youth in Care Newsletter Project
  May, 2008
  
  
• National “Media Recognition Award”, EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) Council of Canada for several articles written about EDI implementation at the Port of Halifax
  November, 1994
  

  Award