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Becky Golden-Harrell

Becky Golden-Harrell is a technical editor with 16 years’
experience editing complex, multidisciplinary technical
manuscripts. Ms. Golden-Harrell also has many years of
experience managing and directing complex projects from
manuscript preparation to publication at academic and
commercial publishing houses.

Her areas of expertise lie in many areas, including coordinating
large projects prepared by multiple authors and ensuring
resulting work has a consistent style, tone, and terminology. Ms.
Golden-Harrell has experience establishing and maintaining
guidelines and standard practices for formatting, editing, and Becky Golden-Harrell
producing documents. She manages workflow for large, Education
complex projects – defining and maintaining schedule and Boston University
budget to ensure on-time, on-budget completion and provides MS, Marketing
excellent editorial support tailored to needs and schedules of
individual projects. Other tasks include providing feedback and California Polytechnic State
University, San Luis Obispo
direction to authors in regards to writing and project style, as BA, English
well as overall editorial quality check for documents.

Project Experience

Fox Canyon Groundwater Supply Plans, Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency, Ventura
County, California. Served as lead technical editor responsible for reviewing three Groundwater
Sustainability Plans (GSPs) for three groundwater basins (Las Posas, Oxnard, and Pleasant Valley)
in Ventura County, California. The Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency (FCGMA)
developed goals to maintain groundwater conditions at levels identified in 2015 but to allow
enough operational flexibility that groundwater levels could still decline without undesirable results
and then return to those levels. As the lead editor, Ms. Golden-Harrell developed custom templates
for the three GSPs to meet requirements of the Department of Water Resources Bulletin 118 and
Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. She also developed a style guide and reviewed the
three GSPs for public review and comment. Ms. Golden-Harrell ensured all references cited in the
GSPs were on hand and prepared the administrative record to supply to the FCGMA at the time of
public review. Ms. Golden-Harrell also helped to organize and catalogue comments received from
the public and advised on the response to comment process.

Mid-Coast Corridor Transit Project, San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) and California
Department of Transportation (Caltrans), San Diego, California. Served as lead technical editor
responsible for reviewing the Biological Resources Technical Report (BTR) and associated work
products in support of this regional transit project. The project involved evaluation of light rail, bus
rapid transit, and commuter rail alternatives. Became familiar with SANDAG style resources and
style/formatting choices of the contract’s prime, Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB, now WSP). Developed a
formalized quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) program that was reviewed and approved
by PB and attended an all-day training on QA/QC procedures at PB San Diego.

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