Professional Profile
Mr. Nelson is a Senior Technical Editor with ToxStrategies’ Client Services group. He has been editing and writing professionally for four decades, and his experience in editing scientific material spans a variety of disciplines. He has developed a specialty in recasting highly technical writing and information for consumption by specifically targeted audiences, including scientific peers, regulators, attorneys and jurors, and the general public. Through a long career editing scientific materials in a consulting environment, Mr. Nelson worked with increasingly technical material, assimilating enough of the science along the way to ensure that the firm’s work products are clear and concise, retain their scientific integrity, conform to the rules of English grammar and corporate styles and conventions, and are intellectually accessible to the intended audience.
Mr. Nelson has worked with a wide variety of publication types, including corporate reports to clients and regulators, litigation support materials, technical manuscripts for books and peer-reviewed journal submittals, posters and presentations for scientific conferences, proposals and marketing materials for technical consulting services, and post-graduate theses and dissertations. He has also generated original material—for example, he reviewed a decade’s worth of research conducted by a national agricultural association and summarized the work in a publication issued by the association to its members/investors. Mr. Nelson also writes copy as needed for technical proposals and marketing collateral, as well as literature reviews, technical reports, and research articles.