Lary’s Resume

10/2005 – 10/2008 Writer/Researcher/Proofreader
i4cp Inc Seattle WA (Salary: $35k) Telecommuter

Lary with Kenny Moore

As a career-long telecommuter, Lary Crews is, by temperament, a self-sufficient, self-motivated worker. With the team at Seattle think tank i4cp, Crews teleworked in a fast-paced business situation with daily deadlines. With his excellent writing skills and a natural gift for proofreading and grammar, Crews became the writer/editor of six critical HR issues and worked with marketing, sales and IT to supply i4CP’s member firms (typically Fortune 500 companies) with superlative encapsulated research on HR best practices in their business sectors. The Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) is the world’s largest private network of corporations focused on improving workforce productivity. Crews also participated in annual conventions held by the company.

Although Crews was the resident authority on Flexible Work Arrangements such as telecommuting, job sharing and flextime, he also managed the Mental Health in the Workplace, Substance Abuse, Health Promotion and Wellness and Work Ethic and Attitudes knowledge centers. Daily, he read collected research, analyzing and choosing articles that would most benefit members. Crews would then recapitulate the article in two paragraphs with proper APA citation and – after editing and proofing – would place it online. The research staff created the “continuous update” summaries weekly, covering issues in all of 60+ Knowledge Centers. In addition, Crews wrote three published Highlight Reports – Benefit Trends, Retirement Benefits and Flexible Work Arrangements. These special reports were published both online and in paper editions.

10/1985-10/2005 Freelance Writer/Editor/Proofreader
Sarasota FL (Income: Ave $ 27K) Telecommuter

Lary Crews pursued a full-time freelance writing, editing and proofreading career for 15 years, writing more than 1,000 magazine articles/columns, mostly for business magazines. Noted for his ability to pick up the technical argot of clients quickly and effectively, Crews wrote radio, television and magazine ad copy for a half-dozen local advertising agencies. Crews also did freelance proofreading of both fiction and nonfiction books. He was Managing Editor of the Sarasotan Quarterly glossy city mag and the Florida Business Journal bi-weekly tab newspaper. In addition, Crews wrote four published books and appeared on local television more than two dozen times promoting his books. Two of his books –Kill Cue and Extreme-Close-Up – have been reprinted and are available from Amazon.com. Before he began his writing and editing career, Crews was a respected broadcast journalist for CBS Radio News in Tampa Bay, covering everything from politics to zoology. He holds a BA in Journalism/English and a Master’s Degree in Content Editing.

8/1992-12/2001 Writing Teacher/Proofreader
America Online Vienna VA (Salary: $35K) Telecommuter

Via AOL’s Online Campus, Lary Crews taught more than 4,000 students how to write their first novel, meeting with them in a virtual classroom twice a week. “We AOL teachers paved the way for future E-learning classes with our use of interactive chat scripts to teach classes,” Crews explains. “We used organized chat rooms, monitored message boards and extensive Email newsletters to teach our students. Lary’s Writing the Novel course was honored with a full page spread in the 3rd Edition of The Official America Online Tour Guide, published in trade paperback editions. Former America Online producer Paul Hyland, interviewed in July 2008, recalls:

“Lary was one of the most popular teachers in what was a very early offering in the online classes’ space on AOL. He managed to work within what was one of the earliest online course-ware offerings, patched together from our standard community technology, and was consistently praised by the folks running the program, and even managed to be noticed by the earliest chroniclers of the adventure that was AOL.”