| objective |
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To
write impeccable documentation
about
fascinating technology with innovative, dynamic people.
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| profile |
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Professional
technical writer for 16 years, with experience ranging from bare metal
to enterprise software systems
Experience documenting open-source platforms, including embedded
systems, mobile, and carrier-grade Linux with real-time features, and
clusters
Experience with engineering and documentation best practices,
productization and support processes, and project-management strategies
Experience documenting and creating open-source development tools
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Experience
documenting microprocessor hardware: specifications, programming
guides, manufacturing guides, tools guides, datasheets, interfaces, and
white papers
Experience documenting software: specifications, user's guides, API
guides, development tools guides, white papers, and conceptual articles
Project management: realistic scoping, inter-group communication,
research, and problem resolution
FrameMaker, Acrobat, Photoshop, RoboHelp, Visio, Word, OpenOffice,
HTML, XML, DITA
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| experience |
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MontaVista Software
Senior Technical Writer and Developer Advocate |
September 2008
– present |
| Created and maintained architecture
documentation for Dell Latitude ON, a Linux-based secondary system inside
Dell enterprise laptops. Helped to create and maintain an embedded Linux
community. |
Access Systems Americas
Principal Technical Writer |
November 2005 – September 2008 |
| Created and maintained
documentation for ACCESS
Linux Platform, a Linux-based telephony and
middleware platform for mobile devices. Major projects included
developer documentation for networking, telephony, and messaging, as
well as licensee (phone manufacturer) documentation for hardware
configuration, system porting, platform customization, and phone driver
development. Member of style and API committees. Promoted conversion to
modern, open-source documentation solutions. |
Independent Contractor
Principal Technical Writer |
August
2004 – present |
Created technical
documentation and white papers for several companies under contract,
including:
- PathScale
– white paper covering new compiler optimization features
- Scyld
Software – complete documentation set review and
edit for Beowulf cluster software
- MontaVista
– edited real-time features in documentation for mobile and
carrier-grade Linux
- NESSUS/SWRI
– edited documentation for probabilistic analysis software
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Orion Multisystems
Tech Pubs Manager and Senior Technical Writer |
September 2004
– August 2005 |
| Created and maintained
complete documentation set, style templates, and marketing materials
for revolutionary cluster-based personal supercomputing workstations.
Major projects included a hardware guide, a software installation and
configuration guide for customized Linux cluster distribution, and
several articles, white papers, and other marketing collateral. |
Transmeta Corporation
Senior Technical Writer, MTS |
November 1999
– September 2004 |
| Created and maintained
external technical documentation for innovative microprocessor design.
Created white papers, datasheets, release notes, customer notices, and
large-scale programming interface documents. Created style templates
and managed archives. Created documentation plans and schedules. Taught
regular seminars on technical writing for engineers emphasizing
FrameMaker and Acrobat. |
Netscape Corporation/AOL
Principal Technical Writer |
April 1998
– November 1999 |
| Wrote, edited, and updated
technical manuals for software and APIs for the Netscape Application
Server and related tools. Created a Programmer's Guide, Migration
Guide, and associated documents. |
Wind River Systems
Senior Technical Writer |
January
1996 – March 1998 |
| Wrote, edited, and updated
technical manuals and online help for software and APIs related to
embedded-systems development with Wind River’s VxWorks
operating system. Developed an HTML conversion process from FrameMaker.
Developed an online help system using RoboHelp. |
Cygnus
Support (now RedHat)
Technical Writer, Tech Pubs Manager |
June
1992 – December 1995 |
| Created and edited technical
documentation for GNU C/C++ development tools. Maintained monthly
newsletter using FrameMaker, and created FrameMaker template for
company newsletter. From May 1994, managed a small department creating
documentation on a quarterly revision schedule. Created and maintained
one of the first corporate web sites and intranets. Authored a
database-oriented web application in Perl. Co-authored GNATS, the GNU
problem report management system. |
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| publications
& presentations |
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| education |
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Bachelor of
Arts in Literature and Creative Writing, University of California Santa
Cruz, 1992 |