I create comprehensive back-of-the-book and embedded indexes for general and scholarly trade books, textbooks, cookbooks and biographies.

My fields of expertise include aviation, bibliographies, cooking, engineering, history, international relations, library and information technology, mathematics, military and defense, music, and physics.

I have 30 years of experience in software development in the military aviation field, involving military standard documentation. I am a qualified Library Technician, and I also have experience as a technical writer, documenting Canadian aircraft operator processes.

Education

Indexing: Theory and Application, University of California Berkeley Extension

Information and Library Technologies, John Abbott College, Canada

BSc (Electrical Engineering), University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Workshops, Webinars and Conferences

American Society of Indexers: Culinary Indexing – Food for Thought (2020), ASI 2020 Online Conference, New England ASI Sewing Machine Index Review (2020)

Indexing Society of Canada: Indexing Gwich’in Oral History (2021), Caring about Equity, Diversity and  Representation: a Conversation on Ethical Indexing (2020)

Affiliations

Indexing Society of Canada: https://indexers.ca/acadp_listings/wendy-savage/

Friends of Beaconsfield Library: https://beaconsfieldfriends.weebly.com/

Beaurepaire-Beaconsfield Historical Society: https://shbbhs.com/index.php/en/

Volunteering

Indexing Society of Canada

Friends of Beaconsfield Library

Meals on Wheels (West Island)

Work History

Engineer/Technical Writer, Montreal, Canada

Stagiaire at Beaconsfield Library, Montreal, Canada

Stagiaire at Canadian Jewish Archives, Montreal, Canada

Software Analyst, Pretoria, South Africa

Systems Engineer, Midrand, South Africa

Software Engineer, Pretoria, South Africa

References

Available on request