Writing, Editing, & Content Creation
Growing up surrounded by books in a family of academics, Iain has ended up writing in almost every job he's held. In the software M&A sector, he's been ghostwriting for critical projects, reviewing and copy editing, authoring content marketing pieces, creating client-facing presentations, and writing internal training manuals, style guides, and documentation. When the writing needs to be great, Iain can help. And honestly, when doesn't it?
Technical Business Writing & Editing
One of the major challenges of technical diligence is writing long-form reports that analyze target companies in deep technical detail while remaining comprehensible to the non-technical deal partner. Of course, this isn't a challenge unique to the diligence sector. With seven years of experience writing, editing, and reviewing reports on deals worth up to billions of dollars, Iain will ensure your documents are clear, easy to read, and professionally polished – all while remaining technically accurate.
On a high-budget consulting engagement, the client-facing report is the lasting artifact that speaks to your quality. Don't think that shortcuts and automated solutions don't get noticed. When it needs to be as good as you are, get a professional.
Instructional Writing
Great training material is an investment that pays for itself manyfold. When instructional content is clear, readable, and designed for effective learning, onboarding is faster, employees make fewer mistakes, and training initiatives actually get done. Iain's deep experience explaining technical topics and teaching skill development in the arts enables him to craft training material that really works. Additionally, Iain is available to create and edit audio and video instructional material.
While most previous training material is under NDAs, a publicly available sample is the Learn Scheme for Max e-book, a beginner's guide to programming Scheme in Scheme for Max.
Speech & Presentation Writing
In addition to his extensive experience in technical and business speaking, Iain's stage performing
and academic speaking experiences uniquely enable him to craft clear, compelling, and engaging talks of all kinds.
Whether you need help from the beginning with research and outlining, a complete
scripted presentation with slides, or just a final punch-up to make it shine,
Iain will help you prepare the most enjoyable, interesting, and influential speech possible.
People want to do business with people they know, like, and trust – great talks make this happen.
Iain is also available to coach on delivery, memorization, and effective rehearsing.
Content Marketing
Drawing on his interdisciplinary academic background in both computer science and the fine arts, Iain creates content marketing pieces that are deeply researched, fun to read, and stand up to critical peer review. Iain can help with blog/vlog content, podcasts, white papers, long-form essays, and academic papers.
Check out some samples from the Ringstone Tech blog here, here, or here.