About Fran Kelly
Summary

Seasoned, responsible, many years corporate experience, document processing since 1986.
  • Intermittent freelance creative services experience since 1994, including work on The Knowledge Evolution, Verna Allee, published 1998.
  • Website design and content since 1997.
  • Copyediting since 2001, Chicago Manual of Style, including The Future of Knowledge, Verna Allee, published 2003.
  • Focus: Document polish, consistency, clarity, user-friendliness, advanced formatting, copyediting.

Retired 2008, continuing freelance, some pro bono.
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Current websites
  • www.valuenetworksandcollaboration – Designed and created, 10/10-03/11, continuing. This is an online book, Value Networks and the True Nature of Collaboration, authored by Verna Allee, based on her work and that of Oliver Schwabe.
  • www.vernaallee.com – Designed and created 1998, home for Verna Allee and her work as ValueNet Works, and previous in Knowledge Management: continuing, complete redo and simplification 2011.
  • www.valuenetworks.com – Content work 2009, continuing, extensive re-brand 2011. This was for Value Networks, LLC, 2008-dissolved 2011, continuing home of Verna Allee’s blog and related pages as ValueNet Works® and for licensing of the Value Networks software application.
  • www.greatpagesalive.com – Designed and created 1998, continuing, complete redo and simplification 2011.

Customers
  • Current: Verna Allee and Verna Allee Associates, Pleasant Hill and Martinez, CA, since 1998
  • Current: Steve Waddell, Boston, since 2001, http://networkingaction.net/
  • Previous: Oliver Schwabe, Germany, 2001-2010, http://www.euro-focus.com/
  • Previous: Value Networks, LLC, technology start-up, CEO Verna Allee, Chief Scientist Oliver Schwabe, CFO Ken Vanosky, San Francisco, 2008-2010
  • Also: Co-Editors Verna Allee and Dinesh Chandra, True Wealth and How Do We Create It, published by Indigo Press, India, 2003.
Verna Allee
Value Networks and the True Nature of Collaboration, Verna Allee
Steve Waddell
The Future of Knowledge: Increasing Prosperity through Value Networks, Verna Allee
Oliver Schwabe
The Knowledge Evolution: Expanding Organizational Intelligence, Verna Allee
Corporate
Proposal Layout Assistant, Carollo Engineers, Walnut Creek, CA, 2006-2008
Creative Services, 1999-2003:
    Ernst & Young, Walnut Creek
    Prudential Volpe Technology, San Francisco
    Lehman Brothers, San Francisco
Document Processor, A C Nielsen, San Ramon, CA, 1998-1999
Section Secretary, Merrill Lynch, Denver, 1996-1998
Resources Trust Company, Denver:
    Publications Technician, 1993–1994
    Marketing Department Secretary and Corporate Communications Word Processor, 1986–1992
    Awards for innovation and for internal customer service
Previous since 1970, mostly financial services, Denver (Frances Woodruff)

Memberships and volunteerism
Bay Area Editor’s Forum, San Francisco
Best Friends Animal Sanctuary for abused and abandoned pets, Kanab, UT
House Rabbit Society, Richmond, CA

Education
Wichita State University (Frances Allee)
Continuing education:
Arizona Tech - computer programming, diploma, high honors
Metro State-Denver - GIS, 4.0 (1990)
“The Versatile Copyeditor” - 15-hour course (04-05/2002)