Résumé - Paul Cipywnyk

Employment:

Owner/Editor. February 2000 to present.
Cipko Consulting Ltd.

Editor. November 1997 to July 1998.
Bloomberg News, Tokyo, Japan.

Copy editor. April 1996 to November 1997.
Nikkei News Bulletin, Tokyo, Japan.
Nikkei Net Interactive

English Teacher - Private contract. June 1988 to March 1996.
Anderson Mori Attorneys-at-Law
(now Anderson Mori & Tomotsune), Tokyo, Japan.
Established and ran program tutoring lawyers.

Co-owner/Director. October 1993 to November 1994.
Professional Communication Specialists, Inc.
(P.C.S. Language Center), Tokyo, Japan.
Incorporated and ran company with partner.
English teaching, editing, rewriting, proofreading.

Writer - Freelance columns and articles. December 1990 to May 1993.
The Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo,  Japan.

Education:

Master of Arts in Professional Communication, 2007.
Royal Roads University, Victoria, Canada.

Bachelor of Journalism, High Honours, 1985.
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

Bachelor of Education, 1983.
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.
Secondary (High School) Specialization: History, English, and Psychology. Saskatchewan (Canada) Professional "A" teaching certificate.

Bachelor of Arts, 1978.
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.
Major - History; Minor - English.

Certificates and Courses:

Introduction to Canadian Business - BUSA 1005
Management - BUSA 2005
Organizational Behaviour I - ORGB 2205
Organizational Behaviour II - ORGB 2305
British Columbia Institute of Technology, Spring 2000

Certificate in Internet Publishing
University of British Columbia, December 1999.

Financial Management 1100 (Accounting 1)
British Columbia Institute of Technology, Summer 1999

Primary Course in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, 1998.
Canadian Institute for Rational Emotive Therapy.

Volunteer Work/Memberships:

President of the Board of Directors of the Stream of Dreams Murals Society.

President of the Edmonds Town Centre Business and Community Association.

Member of the Burnaby Board of Trade. Sat on the Burnaby Business Excellence Awards Nominations Committee in 2006.

Member/Webmaster/List Owner Byrne Creek Streamkeepers.

Voting member of the Editors' Association of Canada.

Member of the Society of Writers, Editors and Translators.

Community Representative, Kingsway Corridor Sustainability by Design Charrette, 2006.

Member of the Strata Council at Fransisco Lane for four years, president for three.

Past member of the volunteer committee for Intermarriage Workshops sponsored by the Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens' Association.

Publisher of the Tokyo PC Users Group's Algorithmica Japonica newsletter January 1996 to October 1998. DTP, graphics, proofreading, HTML conversion.

In teens and university years was an executive member of several
Ukrainian-Canadian youth and cultural organizations.

Awards:

2006 Environment Award for Community Stewardship from the City of Burnaby.

Languages:

Intermediate oral Japanese.

Read, write and speak Ukrainian at intermediate level.

Computer Skills:

Twenty years experience with DOS/Windows 3.X/Windows 95-98/Windows 2000/Windows XP Pro: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, HomeSite, Dreamweaver, Quicken, Quickbooks Pro, FTP Voyager etc.

Several years experience with Linux:
Running Fedora on office LAN.

Two years experience with Macintosh 7.X: WordPerfect, ClarisWorks, etc.