Address and organization affiliation:
Tools for Brilliance, LLC
One World Trade Center
121 Southwest Salmon Street, 11th Floor
Portland, OR 97204 USA
Rodney.Merrill@toolsforbrilliance.com
Elite Word & Image
35798 Dow Lane
Astoria OR 97103 USA
Rodney.Merrill@Elite-Word.com
Email and phone:
Home email: Rodney.Merrill@charter.net
Home phone: (503) 325-8259
Business phones: (503) 741-9616 or (503) 325-1835
Web links to your information and articles:
www.elite-word.com
www.toolsforbrilliance.com
Don, a participant in Rodney’s doctoral research alleged that he is an eccentric. Although Rodney protested and made the case for mainstreaming him, Don was intractable the matter and Rodney sometimes sighs to know that he remains an eccentric in at least one relational space. One of the exhibits Don presented in support of his case was the curriculum vitae that follow. Rodney admits that some days he agrees with Don’s characterization. On other days, he feels more like a bricoleur always making do on the bricoles available and always on the verge of discovering-constructing a sort of kaleidoscopic consilience.
Academic education:
Rodney holds academic credentials in several fields, including an A.A. in Liberal Arts and Sciences, 1972, B.A. in Sociology, M.P.H. in Health Education, M.A. & Ph.D. in Community Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Applied Social Science.
Vocational education:
Rodney holds numerous vocational credentials and certifications, including Certified Life Coach, Sport Psychology Diploma, Certified Sport & Performance Hypnotist, Certified Master Hypnotist, Certified Master NLP Practitioner, Certified Time Line Therapy™ Practitioner, Chikara-Reiki-Do Reiki Master Practitioner, Usui Shiki Kyho Reiki Master Practitioner.
Iowa State University undergraduate creative writing program 18 semester credits,
Rodney is currently engaged in professional writing (Elite Word & Image) and, more recently, personal & professional development coaching (Tools for Brilliance). As his coaching practice continues to build, Rodney is looking for faculty positions with online, distance learning, and research degree programs in interdisciplinary studies, social sciences or coaching studies. Also interested in independent or collaborative writing, rewriting and content editing projects.
Over 400 publication credits including corporate feature writing, distance education, biomedical ethics, health and fitness, environmental issues, practical psychology, self-reliance skills, cooking, and creative nonfiction writing; educational media reviews; personal essay, nature essay, and poetry. Have worked with corporate, business, and nonprofit materials including operations manuals, reports, newsletter articles, brochures, and forms. Experienced in copyediting, content editing, proofreading, rewriting, and ghostwriting.
Have written for several divisions of Hewlett Packard including Hewlett Packard MarCom and Corporate Communications, Pacific Family Medicine, LLP (Astoria OR), Woodland Group (Arcata CA), CPC Computer & Services, (Arcata, CA), Manifest Ultimate Health (Istanbul, Turkey), Writer On Line, The Slate, Tiny Lights, Writer’s Haven, The Internet University, Humanity and Society: Journal of Association for Humanist Sociology, Media Profiles, BackHome Magazine, Backwoods Home Magazine, Backwoods Home: The Best of the First Two Years, Backwoods Home: The Third Year, Ruralite Magazine, Worcester Magazine, New Times Magazine, National Beauty School Journal, The Compleat Nurse, Self-Employed America, Aspiring Writer Magazine, Authors, Gruene Street, NovelAdvice, The Writer's Home Page,Writer’s Haven, Columbia Pacific University Abstracts, Buenaventura Daily, Ventura County & Coast Reporter, and Santa Barbara Independent. Contributed a chapter on toxic household chemicals to the perennial Encyclopedia of Country Living: Carla Emery's Old-Fashioned Recipe Book.
My essay writing has appeared on the recommended reading list of composition and literature courses at Texas Tech University, Metropolitan State College (Denver), and Armstrong Atlantic State University (Savanah).
Work I have done:
- Mail sorter
- Grocery store bagger
- Dishwasher
- Waiter
- Short order cook
- Dinner cook
- Assistant Chef
- Restaurant manager
- Multi-unit restaurant manager
- Cosmetologist
- Salon owner
- Gift shop owner
- Giftwares liquidator and wholesaler
- Flower shop owner
- Freelance writer
- Educational media reviewer
- Magazine assistant editor
- Magazine associate editor
- Magazine contributing editor
- Distance learning consultant
- University lecturer
- Master and doctoral dissertation supervisor
- Master and doctoral dissertation reader/evaluator
- Marketing communications writer
- Personal & Professional Development Coach