!!!PROJECT MANAGEMENT\nI am an experienced project manager with excellent grounding in scheduling and budgeting in a government context where there is little space for delays and intense oversight of budgets. \nIn the context of video games, I have scheduled, written and coded video games within set deadlines as well as sourcing assets within the budget of the game. \n\nI have been responsible for:\n\nScheduling \nCommunicating changes to project sponsors\nCommunicating between project sponsors, owners and staff to ensure agreement on project goals and outcomes\nContracting service providers \nEvaluating tender and grant applications and identifying promising contenders\n\n!!!ADMINISTRATION\nI have been an executive assistant and customer service officer in a variety of contexts, including:\n\nCustomer service, including complaints handling and maintaining customer relations\nConference management, including site selection, calendaring and invitation management, and booking flights and accommodation for attendees\nFile management, including uploading submissions to host websites \nDay to day administration such as meeting management and resource maintenance\n\n\n[[Return to main story|business]]

I have been an editor in a variety of contexts, including QA for video game narratives as well as for magazines and websites. \n\n!!!QA\n[[Little Witch Story|http://littlewitchstory.com/]], Snow McNally\nCopy edit, playtesting and comment on story flow\n\n[[Rex Hightower and the Unicorn's Kiss|https://ktjayne.itch.io/rex-hightower-and-the-unicorns-kiss]]\nCopy edit and playtesting, including logic editing\n\n[[A Wild Catgirl Appears!|https://newwestgames.itch.io/a-wild-catgirl-appears]]\nDiversity consultation \n\n!!!Editing\nI have been an editor for SEEK.COM.AU and also undertook copy and substantive editing for magazines including the Melbourne Weekly and BRW. In more recent times, I have acted as a beta reader for fanfiction writers, including substantive structural editing. \n\n\n\n[[Return to main story|business]]\n

She sits bolt upright, excited to have a quest.\n\n"I can do a lot of things," she says. "In my long and eventful life, I have been a bard, a barber-surgeon and a seneschal in the service of Good Queen Bess." \n\n<<if $readbard is false>>[[Ask about bard skills|bard]]<<else>>[[Ask her to repeat the bard skills|bard]]<<endif>>\n<<if $readbarber is false>>[[Ask about barber-surgery|barber]]<<else>>[[Ask her to repeat the barber-surgeon skills|barber]]<<endif>>\n<<if $readseneschal is false>>[[Ask about seneschals|seneschal]]<<else>>[[Ask her to repeat the seneschal skills|seneschal]]\n<<endif>>\n\n[[Great, you're hired|continue]]

<<silently>><<set $readseneschal to true>><<endsilently>>"I was a servant of Good Queen Bess for many years," she says proudly, "working with the traders and merchants of her realm. I have received the supplications of those who sought the Queen's largesse to trade overseas, display their wares, or set up a shop. I know what the monarch would hear from her subjects, and how to sort the goats from the sheep. \n\nMore traditionally, a seneschal supports their lady's household: I employed artists, bards, and troubadors for my lady's entertainment; I ensured that her guards were properly fitted with uniforms, rooms and horses. I made sure the harvest was brought in in good time - no detail missed my notice.\n\nI wielded a mace against troublemakers and miscreants; I soothed the nerves of the aggrieved; I cried the news of Good Queen Bess and her officers of the Crown. \n\nIn short, I did all things on behalf of my lady, and her governance was efficient and prudential."\n\n[[Read in plain English|project]]\n\n[[Ask about being a bard|bard]]\n[[Ask about being a barber-surgeon|barber]]\n\n[[Continue|continue]]

You enter a bustling tavern, packed to the rafters with merrymakers enjoying a drink, a slap-up meal and a joke. Families nurse their toddlers on their knee, wrangling swaddling and foaming milk; elderly wizards contemplate the choice of red or white wine; orcish workies sink their fangs into well-earned burgers with egg yolk seeping out of the bread. \n\nHiding in a corner on a table for 1 and a half people is a dwarva, deep in thought and tugging at her straggly beard. She has a square face and heavy, furrowed eyebrows, and a notebook covered with large, scrawled handwriting sits open in front of her. What looks like a "Reserved" sign, on closer inspection, says "Will work for food/booze/GDC tix". \n\n[[Approach the dwarva|speak]]

The dwarva pulls a scroll from her jerkin and hands it to you. It's covered in mysterious, incomprehensible runes. \n\nThe Parliament of Fowles: [[@ms45|https://twitter.com/ms45]]\n\nThe Boke of Facyes: [[Ms .45|http://www.facebook.com/ms45zine]]\n\nThe Glass of Little Wisdom: [[Saint Barbara|http://saint-barbara.tumblr.com/]]\n\n"These documents inscribe the extent of my powers. I urge you to scry them carefully. If what you see pleases you, I would be happy to accompany you on an adventure."\n\nShe rises to her feet and offers to shake hands. Her head barely reaches the bottom of your chest, so you bow a bit and shake her hand. \n\nBarbara of House Kerr is now available to join your party!\n\n//I hope you enjoyed playing Dwarva for Hire! If you're interested in hiring me, please contact me via any of the channels listed above. cheers, Barbara Kerr//\n\n[[View a PDF resume|https://www.dropbox.com/s/phxswgmpesfanur/Barbara%20Kerr%20-%20Video%20Game%20Production.pdf?dl=0]]

<<silently>><<set $hassle = "yes">><<endsilently>>"Can I get you a drink, little lady?" you ask. She's on her own, she's surely on the pull.\n\nShe fixes you with a cold stare. \n\n"I'm going to let you walk out and start again," she says.\n\n[[Walk out and start again|speak]]\n

!!Dwarva for Hire\n\n!!!An Adventure Resume by Barbara Kerr\n!!!twitter: [[@ms45|https://twitter.com/ms45]]\n\n<<silently>><<set $hassle = "no">><<set $readbard to false>><<set $readbarber to false>><<set $readseneschal to false>><<endsilently>>\n\n!![[NEW GAME|newgame]]

The dwarva looks at you expectantly. "Do you have work for me, then? Or must I run some quests to win your approval?" She twirls the end of her moustache with her quill. \n\n<<if $hassle eq "yes">>[["Perhaps we should get to know each other a little better. I mean, as friends."|chat]]<<else>>\n[["Perhaps we should talk in a quieter place."|chat]]\n<<endif>>

<<silently>><<set $readbarber to true>><<endsilently>>You wave vaguely at your chin.\n\n"You're a barber-surgeon? I wouldn't have thought..." You trail off. \n\nShe might be glaring at you, but it's hard to tell - it might just be her eyebrows. "I cut //words//, not beards. I can give the lightest of trims or the cruellest of cuts. If need be, I can rebuild body parts into a whole new being, more beautiful than before."\n\n"Anyway," she continues, stroking her chin, "I quite like beards."\n\n[[Read in plain English|editing]]\n\n[[Ask about being a bard|bard]]\n[[Ask about being a seneschal|seneschal]]\n\n[[Continue|continue]]\n

<<silently>><<set $readbard to true>><<endsilently>>\n"A bard?" you ask. "So you sing?" \n\nA look of the utmost horror creeps over the dwarva's face. "Good lord no. The last time I tried to sing I ended up tied to a tree with a gag firmly wrapped around my mouth being guarded by an angry blacksmith with a mallet."\n\n"No, I am a scribe, a [[town crier|http://www.vic.gov.au/newsletters-v2/VicGovAugust2013Web.html]], a storyteller. I can weave tales of [[adventure|http://tinmangames.com.au/blog/?cat=94]], [[love and romance|http://saint-barbara.itch.io/queen-cobra]] or [[histories of great battles|https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/files/RP-HistoryoftheFranchiseinVictoria.pdf]]. I tell of miscellaneous [[entertainments|http://jayisgames.com/review/kudos-rock-legend.php]] and the [[fashions of the day|https://twitter.com/ms45/status/669389006912647168]]. \n\nIn truth, if I was granted a wish, I would do naught but scribble all the livelong day."\n\n[[Read in plain English|writing]]\n\n[[Ask about being a barber-surgeon|barber]]\n[[Ask about being a seneschal|seneschal]]\n\n[[Continue|continue]]

<<if $hassle eq "yes">>The dwarva scratches her chin thoughtfully. "Perhaps you should see some examples of my work first."<<else>>The dwarva can barely contain her excitement. "Of course!" she says, nearly knocking her mug over, "let me pencil you in."<<endif>> \n\n[[Arrange to meet in a less orc-filled location|contact]]

Dwarva for Hire

Ms .45\n(Barbara Kerr)

I have been a professional writer for over 20 years, covering fashion, entertainment, finance, social media and video games. \n\n!!!GAMES\n\n[[QUEEN COBRA|http://saint-barbara.itch.io/queen-cobra]] - dating sim created for Yuri Game Jam. 2500 words, five minutes playtime, twelve possible outcomes using NPC approval variables to influence success conditions. \n[[QUEEN COBRA AND THE MYSTERY OF THE NO-EYE-DEER DIAMOND|https://saint-barbara.itch.io/queen-cobra-the-no-eye-deer-demo]] - demo for mystery game to be released in Autumn 2016. The full game will use information gating to influence player's decisions on identifying the suspect, and there will be unique consequences for wrong decisions. \n[[REM|http://gamejolt.com/games/rem/107096]] was my entry for Asylum Jam 2015. It was my first attempt at both implementing a scoring system, and at writing horror. \nA full list of games I have written or QA'ed can be viewed at [[http://saint-barbara.tumblr.com/mygames|http://saint-barbara.tumblr.com/mygames]].\n\n!!!WRITING\n\nReviewer for Jay Is Games under pseud "Ms .45", 2006-2008 [[View sample|http://jayisgames.com/review/kudos-rock-legend.php]]\nNewsletter for the Victorian Government Bookshop, 2013 [[View sample|http://www.vic.gov.au/newsletters-v2/VicGovAugust2013Web.html]]\nSocial media manager for the Victorian Government Bookshop - scheduling and writing posts and responding to inquiries. 2013-2014 [[View archived Page|https://www.facebook.com/victoriangovernmentbookshop/]]\nHistory of the Franchise in Victoria, pamphlet commissioned by the Victorian Electoral Commission to celebrate 150 years of the State Parliament of Victoria. An accessible read for a general audience. [[Read|https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/files/RP-HistoryoftheFranchiseinVictoria.pdf]]\nFashion advertorial and blurbs for Australian Bride magazine, 1998 [[View sample|https://twitter.com/ms45/status/669389006912647168]]\n\n[[Return to main story|business]]

You cautiously approach the dwarva. She looks intense, but she wouldn't have a sign up if she didn't want people to talk to her, right?\n\n<<if $hassle eq "yes">>She's still glaring at you for hitting on her. This wouldn't have happened if you'd just kept it professional!<<else>>She snaps her head up to look at you. "Small skinny capp - oh. Can I help you?"<<endif>>\n\n<<if $hassle eq "no">>[["Can I get you a drink, little lady?"|flirt]]<<endif>>\n[[Gesture at the sign. "What sort of work are you offering?"|business]]\n\n