Role

Research, writing, sales and marketing

Background

After gaining a Masters degree in geography, Doug Stevens trained as a teacher and then followed a career as a senior manager in the New Zealand polytechnic sector. He now works full-time writing for nzfishing.com about trout fishing opportunities and about environmental issues such as access and water quality that affect angers.

Expertise

Doug has been a passionate fisherman since the age of four when his grandmother took him fishing at the Waiheke Island wharf. Back home he was often to be found with a line dangled hopefully into the water trough on the family farm.

His favourite fishing waters remain the streams of the central North Island where he grew up. Doug has fished extensively around New Zealand, as well as in England, Scotland and France. Mongolia and Patagonia are on his to do list. He was a volunteer controller at the 2008 World Fly Fishing Champs in New Zealand.

Email: doug@nzfishing.com

Blog: Doug's diary

Role

Web design and editing

Background

Beverley Stevens has a psychology degree and a broad background in the IT industry working in software support, training and documentation roles with IBM New Zealand, Telecom New Zealand, Digital and BBC World Services. She has also worked in Teheran, London and Auckland as a teacher of English as a Second Language.

For many years has Bev provided contract technical writing, documentation and information design services to a wide range of New Zealand companies operating as DesignIT.

Expertise

Bev's areas of expertise include:

- User-centred design

- Information mapping / information design

- Technical writing and editing

- Visual design

nzfishing.com was one of three finalists in the Sports and Recreation category of the 2009 NetGuide People's Choice Web Awards.

nzfishing.com designer/editor Bev Stevens was one of two finalists in the Best Individual category of the 2008 Writemark Plain English Awards for her work on the site.