Erica L. Griffin, Ph.D., CF APMP

Experience

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  University of Chicago Press

  Oct 2001 - Nov 2008

  Manuscript Editor

  • Copyedited and formatted scientific manuscripts for 3 astronomy journal issues per month, following in-house style and templates.• Proofread galleys as final quality check, adding author responses to queries before typesetting and production.• Corresponded with authors via e-mail and telephone regarding editing queries, ensuring all article content was complete and accurate.• Collaborated with editorial and production staff, ensuring all deadlines were met, including participating in peer review and workload sharing. Show less

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  Motorola Solutions

  Dec 2008 - Jul 2014

  • Researched, uploaded, edited, maintained, and monitored proposal and product information documents in database, ensuring content was professional, strategic, and competitive.• Assisted proposal teams by identifying and retrieving text, images, and data for opportunity pursuits, and developing department writing style guides.• Created persuasive messages emphasizing customer needs, enhancing strategic messaging and competitive intelligence via storyboarding / editing sessions.• Evaluated in-house proposals for clear communication of win strategies, presenting colleagues with techniques that satisfied customer requirements and improved overall writing quality, style, and presentation.• Provided desktop formatting support for channel partner proposals, delivering 70+ electronic proposals. Show less

  • Content Developer/Copy Editor

    Aug 2011 - Jul 2014

  • Proposal Specialist

    Dec 2008 - Aug 2011
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  EF Johnson Technologies, Inc.

  Feb 2016 - now

  Facilitate proposal kick-off, strategy, and status calls, as well as reviews; provide presentation templates, agendas, and meeting minutes to participants and stakeholders.Partner with Sales, Product Management, Engineering, Implementation, Legal, and Service teams to translate baseline offerings and themes into compelling discriminators/win themes.Use SharePoint to maintain, search, and retrieve proposal material, providing instruction and documentation to internal team members.Collaborate with internal teams to develop, validate, and review all documentation throughout the proposal response process. Show less Collaborate with Sales, Pre-sale Engineer, and Proposal Manager to develop win themes, cover letters, and executive summaries. Work closely with internal team to draft and finalize best-in-class, proposal-ready content.Participate in continuous improvement of the proposal development process, as well as maintenance of knowledge databases. Identify content gaps, develop process for creating/capturing needed content contact, maintaining it and using it for go-to-market presentations and proposals. Show less

  • Proposal Manager

    Aug 2019 - now

  • Proposal Writer

    Feb 2016 - Aug 2019