World Class Indexes for World Class Books
Printed books aren't dead yet.  And an index adds value to every non-fiction work.  An index shows that both the author and publisher are committed to serving the readers' needs not for just that first reading but for years to come.

Trust your book's index to a serious information professional with years of experience and a passion for mastering the depth, subtleties, and nuances unique to each book and every reading audience.  Click on the Contact page and send me a note describing your project. 

Professional Affiliations and Activities

• Member of American Society for Indexing since 1980.
• President, American Society for Indexing, 1990-91; Board of Directors, 1987-88.
• President, Pacific Northwest Chapter, American Society for Indexing, 2006.
• Member, American Society of Information Science & Technology, 1980-2000.  Special Interest Group program referee, 1996.
• At-large Delegate, White House Conference on Library and Information Services, 1991.
• Speaker at 2001 Pacific Northwest Chapter of American Society for Information Science and Technology ("What We Know about Information Retrieval on the Web").

• Fifteen-year career at Microsoft Corporation. Individual contributor, manager and data analyst for MSN and Windows teams.
• Fourteen-year career at Xerox University Microfilms, UMI Inc., Proquest Information and Learning.  Positions as indexer, manager, director, vice-president.  Liaison role with academic and research libraries and Council of Graduate Schools.
• Library assistant at University of Michigan Graduate Library in Ann Arbor.
• Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa.  Graduate work in Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa and the University of Michigan.  Teaching positions at University of Iowa, Rutgers University and University of Michigan.  Research in medieval and nineteenth-century Spanish literature.

Subject Areas and Interests

• Anthropology
• Language, Linguistics, Literature
• History
• Information and Computer Science
• Sports
• Medicine and Health
• Stamp Collecting