Reed

Freelance Presentation & Document Designer

Self-Employed / Freelancer • Trabajador autónomo

Mar 2022 - Present • 4 yrs 7 mos

I design and format presentations, reports and academic posters for medical, academic and business clients — and I've spent years fixing the kind of documents people are embarrassed to send. Most of my work starts the same way: a rough draft, an old template, or a wall of text copied out of a report. I rebuild it from the structure up — clear hierarchy, consistent typography, a restrained colour system, and charts that actually show the point instead of hiding it. What I handle: - Business decks: pitch decks, proposals, quarterly reviews, internal reports - Academic work: conference slides, thesis defence decks, grant applications, posters - Data-heavy slides: table redesign, chart clean-up, figure relabelling, unit and axis corrections - Document formatting: Word reports with proper heading styles, table of contents, page numbering and print-ready layout - Bilingual work: Chinese to English and English to Chinese, with terminology checked rather than machine-translated Tools I work in: PowerPoint (advanced, including Slide Master and custom themes), Word, Excel, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for image and figure work. How I work: 1. You send the content, any brand colours or logo, and your deadline. 2. I send back one or two sample slides so you can approve the direction before I build the rest. 3. I deliver the full file, then revise until it's right. I work in both English and Chinese, I reply quickly, and I keep the file editable — you get the source file, not a flattened image. If your content is technical, that's an advantage rather than a problem: I read the material properly before designing around it.

Laboratory Specialist

Public Health Watch • Tiempo completo

Jun 2016 - Present • 10 yrs 4 mos

Ten years of hands-on experience in clinical laboratory testing and disease control, working inside a public health system where a misread number has real consequences. My daily work involves diagnostic reports, quality-control records, instrument validation documents, standard operating procedures and regulatory submissions. That means I'm used to reading dense technical material, checking figures against source data, and keeping formatting consistent across long documents that other people will audit. What that gives you as a client: - I don't get lost in technical content. Method sections, reference ranges, sensitivity and specificity, limit of detection, quality-control charts — I know what these mean, so I design around the logic instead of just moving boxes. - I check numbers instead of copying them. Units, decimal places, sample sizes and axis labels get verified against the source. - I understand compliance documents. If your deck or report has to survive review by a committee, a regulator or a journal, I know what those readers look for. - I'm reliable on deadlines. Laboratory work runs on fixed schedules; I treat client deadlines the same way. Typical materials I've worked with: HIV and hepatitis nucleic acid testing, viral load monitoring, instrument comparison reports, laboratory capacity assessments, tender and bid documents, training materials for laboratory staff, and conference presentations for clinical and research teams. If your project involves medical, biological or laboratory content and you need it to look professional and read correctly, this background is the reason to work with me.