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Catherine Girczyc

EXPERIENCE


  • ​Convera, Global Manager, Technical Communications, 2020 on.
  • Western Union Business Solutions, Global Manager, Technical Communications, 2016 - 2020.
  • Western Union Business Solutions, Senior Technical Writer, August 2012 on.
  • Western Union Business Solutions, Technical Writer, Vancouver, 2010-2012. 
  • Freelance consulting, Technical Writing education, July 2011 on.
  • Healthlink BC, QA Lead (Technical Writer), Burnaby, 2009 to May 2010.
  • The Research House, Business Plan, Vancouver.
  • The Navigator Fund, Communications Briefings, Vancouver. 
  • The Collector (TV series) Website, Story Consultant.
  • Just Cause (TV series), Segue and Synopsis Writer.
  • DMG (TV series) Synopses, Publicity Writer.
  • Publicdebate.ca, Issues Writer.
  • Wells Communications, Publicity Writer various.
  • Alberta Health, Ministerial Correspondence Writer.
  • HDC Consultants, Technical Writer.
  • Dynacor Inc., Business Writer/Editor.
  • Edmonton Research Park, Business Writer/Editor. 
  • Audesyn Inc., Technical Editor.
  • Private consulting – edited M.Eng and Doctoral theses in Computer Engineering. 
Technical Communications
Other Writing and Teaching
  • On an occasional basis, teaches technical & business writing for Vancouver Community College (VCC). 
  • Courses taught: Project Management for Technical Writers, Copyediting, Online Documentation, Industrial Report Writing, and User Manuals. 
  • High student evaluations received.
  • Kwantlen Polytechnic Uni: Writing for Television 
  • STC West Coast,  2013 + 2017 How to use MadCap Flare.
  • The Collector (TV series) Website, Story Consultant.
  • Just Cause (TV series), Segue and Synopsis Writer.
Creative Writing
TELEVISION WRITING

TRUE PULP MURDERStory Consultant
CANWEST GLOBAL TV
13 Episodes-3 as writer
Make Believe Media  Producer: Lynn Booth
Release: 1 Sept 2007

THE COLLECTOR IIIWriter
CHUM TV
Ep. 3-4: Vampire 
No Equal Ent. Showrunners: Jon Cooksey & Ali Marie Matheson
Release: 31 Jan 2006

COMMANDER’S LOGWriter
Ep.s 5 & 6 Doc & Boom
Cyrano Productions Producer  Craig Bowlsby
 2005-2012

THE COLLECTOR IIWriter
CHUM TV
Ep. 2-02: Ufologist 
No Equal Ent. Showrunners: Jon Cooksey & Ali Marie Matheson
Release: 15 Jan 2005

JUST CAUSEWriter (Story)
PAX TV, W Network
Ep. 114: Dream House
Prod: Val Stefoff & Rhonda Baker& Minds Eye Pictures
Showrunner: Jacqueline Zambrano
Release: 2 Feb 2003

BAND ON THE RUNWriter – 2 episodes
TVOntario
Grade 7: Glam Band 
Grade 8: Birdland
Story Editor: Bill Pasnak
Prod: Brian Murphy
Release 2000

SCI SQUAD CADETWriter
TVOntario/Discovery
Grade 4: Episodes 1&2
Prod: Brian Murphy
Story Editor: Bill Pasnak
​Release: 1999

BILLY THE CAT Writer
NOA Animation 
“Eau de Junkyard”
Prod: Herve Bedard
Story Editor: Judy Valyi
Release: 1 Sept 2001

CYBERSIX Episode 12 Writer
NOA/TMS Animation 
“Dust to Dust” or “Terra”
Prod: Herve Bedard
Story Editor: Barry Whittaker
Release: 1 Oct 1999

ESPRESSO WriterCBC Radio
Prod: Martin Fishman
Vanishing Point 1991 








SHORT STORIES & POETRY


Cat Girczyc works as a technical communications manager while
pursuing creative writing at night. Her work appears in On Spec,
Tesseracts, Neo-Opsis, Polar Borealis, and elsewhere. 

In 2020 she won a Women in Film & TV #FromOurDarkSide
award for her script Lights, Camera, Paranormal Action. She’s
a Writers Guild of Canada member and has sold 15 television
episodes, including two episodes of the dark fantasy The Collector
and the animated series Cybersix. 

Her story 'Her story 'The Lady M’ was a finalist in
the 2022 Writers of the Future (WOTF) competition, Quarter 1 and will appear in Pulp Literature magazine in Autumn 2023.



THEATRICAL WRITING

  • DEAD SLOW (with T. Crighton) produced & a hit of the Edmonton Fringe Festival 1993.
  • FOLDED SPACE produced as part of the ConText 91 Science Fiction Convention 1991. Also produced as part of the Edmonton Fringe Festival 1991
  • RHEA an M.F.A. thesis play professional workshop by Northern Light Theatre 1988.
  • LONE SHARK published by Spintrian Press, Regina 1989 after performances at the Edmonton ConText 89 Science Fiction Convention 1989 & at the Edmonton Fringe Festival 1987.
  • ISLANDARY PHYSICS produced at the University of Alberta Drama Dept 1986.
  • RHINESTONES produced at the University of Alberta Drama Dept 1985.