: About Me

Marc Phillippe Babineau, is an international award winning writer and a Channel Manager for two Travel Channels here at Helium.  Writing is a passion, and it shows in the articles now being purchased by Yahoo!, Constant Content and oDesk, as well as Reviewstream.com.

A Technical Writer by trade and a Maritimer by birth and in heart (Canadian), I was a Senior Technical Writer and Training Specialist for Atlantis Aerospace for six years, in Brampton, Ontario. There, I wrote technical manuals and wrote and taught training platforms for the end-users, who were mainly military customers, but also international passenger carriers. 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 for three years, writing technical manuals for military advanced hospital units (trailers used as surgical and diagnostics units), X-Rays, CT scanners and MRI machines.

I have three college diplomas, in Computer Systems Engineering Technology, Computer Science Engineering Technology and Technical Writing Engineering Technology, all from Ottawa's Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology.

Here at Helium, I am the Travel Channel Manager for Canada and the Airlines and Airplanes Channels.  If you have any ideas for titles for Canadian content in Travel or in Local Guides, or some timely ideas for Airlines and Airplanes, please feel free to contact me.

I can also be contacted to help you with your writing, especially in forming proper introductory paragraphs (one of the more important aspects when entering into contests), as well as with proper grammar and structure.

Look out for me in the Contests... but only in subjects that I am passionate about.

All you need is the heart, the willingness to stick to it, and the ability to accept critiques to advance your writing career, and to become a 4 or 5-starred writer here at helium.

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 so wish.  My Inbox is always open!

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 Channel articles just waiting to be written.

Write on! And enjoy doing it.

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

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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 ...

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• Marketplace Premier Writer
• 1Citizen Journalism Awards
• 16Writing Contest Winner
• Marketplace Approved Writer
• 36Marketplace Articles Sold
• Channel Manager Canada
• Channel Manager Air Travel & Airlines
• Helium Charter Member