Hi there! I am Marc Phillippe Babineau, a Maritimer by birth and in heart (Canadian), and I was a Senior Technical Writer and Training Specialist for Atlantis Aerospace, in Brampton, Ontario. Here, I wrote technical manuals and wrote and taught training platforms for the end users, who were mainly military customers. I wrote and taught on full flight simulators, as well as military drones, heads-up-display (HUD) simulators, and fixed-base simulators for a variety of aircraft and helicopters, including the Airbus' first forays into the aircraft business.

I worked at Picker International, a maker of medical diagnostics machinery, as an intermediate technical Writer, writing about military advanced hospital units (trailers used as surgical and diagnostics units), X-Rays, CT scanners, and MRIs.

I have three community college diplomas, in Computer Systems Engineering Technology, Computer Science Engineering Technology and Technical Writing Engineering Technology from Ottawa's Algonquin College. I graduated within the top five of each class, topping out at number 2 (oh, so close! Just 2 percentage points from my only top of the class award!).

At present, i am disabled, with major back injury and disease. I went through cancer and back surgery, and countless specialists, and now suffer from chronic pain, with limited mobility. Therefore, I am now writing at home, and helping others to fulfill their dreams of writing well to a professional audience, at one of the best writer's resource sites on the Internet, Helium.com.

At Helium, I am a Travel Channels Site Steward, and am responsible for Canada and the American Northeast. I have sold 28 articles in one day during the real estate frenzy here at helium, with four first place finishes at $200 each! Who said you can't make money here? I bought myself a 52 inch high definition LCD television and a powered center channel speaker with my easy earnings for that Marketplace frenzy. I have won a few writing contests (8 wins so far...) and one Journalism Award for 1H20.

If you have any ideas for titles for Canadian content in Travel, please feel free to contact me. I can also be contacted to help you with your writing, and especially in forming proper introductory paragraphs and with proper grammar and structure.

All you need is the heart, the willingness to stick to it, and the ability to accept critiques. If you would like help with your articles, for any channels, please feel free to contact me, and I can go over your article with you paragraph by paragraph if you wish. And, please, feel free to write as much as you can in the Travel channels, as every trip you have ever taken, and every city you have ever lived in is at least 2 or 3 Travel articles waiting to be written.

Write on!

My passion is ...

Animals, writing, fishing, camping and bird watching, walking my dogs.

I know too much about ...

Nothing, and not enough about everything...

My parents always told me ...

to go outside and leave them alone...

My childhood ambition ...

to be an Air Force Pilot like my Dad.

My favorite memory ...

Working at Luke Air Force Base, in the Arizona desert, camping in the Grand Canyon with no tent.

Why I write ...

to promote socialism and because my brain hurts!

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I read new authors, watch anything that is not a repeat (especially Family Guy), Listen to Bowie and Neil Young, the Who, Allman Brothers etc.

My first job ...

Delivering the Ottawa Journal at age 8

My best moment ...

teaching a room full of US Military Generals how to use a new system

My inspiration ...

to keep waking up

Arts & Humanities > Writing at Helium (Other) The 2008 birthday card for Helium

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Thank you for being a friend. Travelled down a road and up again. Your heart is true, you're a pal and a confidant (Andrew Gold).The 2008 birthday card for Helium, from me, to you...From an idea to a well established writer resource website, you have become a place where even a schmutz like me can make over $1,000 in a few months simply by writing about things that I know about, things that I am interested in, places that I have been and things that I have done. Just six months ago, I was no more than wasting my days away, a disabled male in his mid 40's, suffering from chronic pain due to ...

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• Marketplace Premier Writer
• 1Citizen Journalism Awards
• 8Writing Contest Winner
• Channel Steward
• Marketplace Approved Writer
• 36Marketplace Articles Sold