A few examples of my work, including articles, sponsored content, white papers, and case studies.

 

For Vention, I wrote an article that was essentially four case studies rolled into one. Click on the title above to see the article online, or on the image to download the pdf.

An Engineering-News Record Special Advertising Section I wrote. It previews the Groundbreaking Women in Construction Conference. Click on the title above or the image to download the pdf.


For Clark Builders, I wrote an article about metal building systems. Click on the image to download the pdf, or on the title above to see the article online.

A white paper I wrote for Stack Modular and Bird Construction. Click on the image or the title above to download the pdf.


An article I wrote about using Autonomous Mobile Robots to improve company logistics. Click on the image or title above to download the pdf. (The company didn’t use the footnotes I included. Contact me if you’d like the references.)

An article I wrote about using collaborative robots in the food and beverage industry. (The company edited it slightly, and didn’t include the footnotes. Contact me if you’d like the references!) Click on the image or title to download the pdf.


An article I wrote for the website, The Robot Report, about various robots that are helping out on construction sites. Click on the image to go to the website to view the article, or click on the title above to view the pdf. (Photo credit @Pomerleau.)

My article about how a team from two companies developed and manufactured fully-functional bathroom pods to improve the wellbeing of construction workers on high-rise building sites. Click on the image to go to the PBC Today website, or click on the title above to view the pdf. (Photo credit @Lendlease. The background is real, by the way, not Photoshopped!)


A case study I wrote for the company, Advanced Construction Robotics, about how their TyBot robot helps one of their bridge contractor clients. Clicking on the title above or the image will take you to a downloadable pdf.

Web copy I wrote for BMarko Structures, explaining what modular hospitals are, and listing the benefits. Click on the image to view the website, or on the title above to view the pdf. (The pdf is annotated with red arrows to show the part of the copy I wrote.)


An article I wrote for the Modular Home Builders Association about two residential modular construction family businesses.

An article about pop-shop shops constructed from shipping containers, which I wrote for BMarko Structures.

(Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash)


A post I wrote for a popular modular construction industry blog, ModCoach News. Click the title above to read the post.

I interviewed over a dozen women and wrote this article for the Modular Building Institute’s magazine. Click the title above to view the pdf or click on the image to read the article on MBI’s website.


A case study for robotics company, Apex Motion Control. Click the title above to read the case study.

This article for a national occupational health and safety magazine involved extensive research and multiple interviews. Click the title above to view the pdf.


A blog post I wrote for a major US-based trade organization serving the commercial modular construction industry. Click the title above to read the post.

A blog post I wrote for a major US-based trade organization serving the commercial modular construction industry.


I wrote or edited most of the web copy for this development and construction company.

A short blog post I wrote for the Women’s Enterprise Centre.


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A profile of Athabasca University learner, Jerod Dobson. Read about how a broken arm led to his career as a nurse.


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A slightly tongue-in-cheek — but nevertheless completely true — article at Business 2 Community.


A blog post I wrote for Custom Fit Online.

A blog post I wrote for Custom Fit Online.


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If you own a business, you’ve no doubt read plenty of advice about how to get your website to rank at the top of Google. But what if that’s just not possible?

In this article, I explain how small businesses can gather qualified leads by using gated content in the form of a white paper.


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This is my summary of an academic article recently published in the prestigious Journal of Consumer Research. It’s about marketing on social media.

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We are all familiar with the phenomenon of falsehoods being spread all over the internet and traditional media. This article uses the example of goldfish attention spans to remind us to take care not to become part of the problem.