Occupational Fatality Investigation & Prevention Research
Eleven years of field research with the Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program, involving approximately 90 occupational fatality investigations.
Full recordIndependent practice
For organizations working with complex, scattered, or incomplete information.
Information Architect & Researcher
Research • Interviews • Information Synthesis • Professional & Technical Writing
“I take complicated information, find the important story inside it, and turn it into something people can understand and use.”
The work
From source material to a clear line of thought.
The situation
The relevant information may be spread across records, reports, interviews, and institutional memory. Important context is missing. Findings exist, but they have not yet become a usable whole.
This work brings disciplined research, attentive listening, and structural thinking to that problem—then produces a document designed for a real decision, audience, or process.
Selected work & experience
A record of engagements, in brief.
Small-Business Workforce Research & White Paper
Independent consulting engagement for the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center, examining employer perspectives on hiring individuals participating in substance abuse rehabilitation.
Full recordIndustrial Process Documentation & Knowledge Capture
Interviews with experienced maintenance personnel at a grey iron foundry to begin translating practical maintenance knowledge into written procedures.
Full recordIndustrial Environmental Compliance & Regulatory Documentation
Environmental and operational responsibilities at a grey iron foundry, including air and water-discharge reporting, hazardous-materials recordkeeping, brownfield oversight, and regulatory inspections.
Full recordServices
Six ways to make complex information useful.
Research and research briefs
Focused inquiry that finds, assesses, and distills the information decision-makers need.
Interviews and findings
Carefully structured conversations translated into themes, findings, and usable insight.
Information organization and synthesis
Scattered sources brought into a coherent structure with gaps, patterns, and priorities made visible.
SOP and process documentation
Operational knowledge turned into clear, durable guidance people can follow.
White papers and major reports
Substantive, well-organized documents grounded in evidence and built for a defined audience.
Professional & technical writing from source material
Clear professional documents developed from research, interviews, records, and existing content.
Method
A rigorous path from question to document.
Define
Establish the question, audience, sources, and intended use.
Investigate
Review the material, conduct research, and interview relevant people.
Synthesize
Identify gaps, patterns, evidence, and the essential story.
Deliver
Produce a clear, structured, decision-ready document.
Organizations served
Law firms and consultants
Small and midsized businesses
Safety and environmental organizations
Healthcare and public-health organizations
Nonprofits
Universities and research organizations
Selected experience
Evidence, method, and outcomes.
Project record in preparation
Real project examples will be published here following review for client permissions and confidentiality.
Each case study will document the context, assignment, method, deliverable, and practical use of the work.
View the case-study structureProject inquiry
Have a complex body of information that needs to become useful?
Bring the source material, open questions, and intended audience. We can determine the right scope from there.