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Well Chosen Words Principals
President: Judith M. Herr
Professionally, Judith Herr is a recognized expert in proposal management, technical presentation preparation/coaching, training, and coordination of complex documentation projects. For her clients, she manages the proposal process from pre-proposal strategizing through writing and review to production and delivery in response to requests for proposals (RFPs) issued by government agencies and corporations. Wins have included contracts for her clients to do work for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Institute of Health (NIH), Kaiser Permanente, and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Professional Résumé
Judith has several ongoing projects. 
At the June 2008, Annual Meeting of the Society for Technical Communication, she formally joined the society's Board of Directors.
Recent Presentations:
- Handouts for the STC CIC SIG Proposal Progression held February 26, 2008.
- Judy developed a brief workshop on "Writing Winning Grant Proposals." for the LavaCon Conference in New Orleans. Materials for the workshop are found here and here.
- She offered the presentation Working Outside the Documentation Box at the IEEE PCS Conference in Seattle in October, 2007
At the 2006 STC conference, she was involved in a number of activities. She presented in a session entitled, "Being a Consultant: Where Contracting Ends and Consulting Begins"
and moderated a session called, " Virtual Management--Strategies for Thriving." She was also involved in the presentation of a Post-Conference Workshop on " Collaborative Learning Tools ."
She performed many functions for the Touchstone Publications
Competition, including Director
of Touchstone 2000 and Chair of the Advisory Committee for 2001-2002.
She presented Telephone
Courses on creating responses to RFPs (Requests for Proposals) called Winning New Business: Preparing the Proposal. The courses were in two halves, 101a and 101b. Materials for the 101a seminar an abstract and a powerpoint presentation.
She gave a presentation at the 2005 LavaCon entitled, Blogs and Wikis and Bears, Oh My!: Selecting Web Collaboration Tools for Managers.
- Also
- Supporter/volunteer, Crane Ridge and Del Arroyo 4-H projects
(including Alameda County Fair animal exhibitions and auction) §
- Chair, Sunday Services Committee, Unitarian Universalist Church in
Livermore
- Volunteer Coordinator, Livermore Community
Thanksgiving, 2000, 2001,
2002,
2003, and 2004
- Chair, Emergency Winter Shelter, 2002
- She sporadically maintains a blog (along with Monty). Early blogging efforts also exist.
Vice President: Monty L. Herr, PhD, CIH
Résumé
Monty is currently Associate Clinical
Professor teaching in the Tulane University Center for Applied Environmental Public
Health.
For several years, Monty was employed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
He retired in July, 2003. He now does occasional work for
- Jacobs Engineering performing services for
LLNL's Counterproliferation Analysis and Planning System (CAPS)
- Integrated Science Solutions, Inc.
He was a Director and Secretary of the Board of
Directors of the American Industrial Hygiene
Association. He was honored as a Fellow of
the Association.
Prior to that, Monty was a Director and was Secretary of the American Board of Industrial Hygiene.
Monty gave a talk on Chemical Hormesis at the
2004 annual meeting of the AIHA Yuma Pacific Southwest local section. Presentations from that meeting are available at this hyperlink. He also gave a Chemical Hormesis talk at the annual meeting of the California Industrial Hygiene Council in December, 2004.
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