Orange County STC

Member Resumes

Orange County STC has created this web page as a chapter benefit to its members to facilitate employment information exchange. This page is, in effect, an online version of the Employment Information booth at the STC Conference. Members of OCSTC can place their resumes online for review (and download) by contract agencies, temporary agencies, and other profit, nonprofit, private, and public companies and their representatives.

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Resumes

Steve Adams
Seven-plus years experience writing, maintaining and publishing: technical manuals, job instructions, bulletins, brochures, instructional manuals, and company literature. Let me build your documentation from the ground up with a firm foundation and effective textual and graphics content.

Jennifer Anthony
**NOT CURRENTLY LOOKING**
Jennifer has nine years of technical communication experience, and has won an STC Award of Excellence for her work. She has experience creating online (PDF) and printed documentation, as well as online help, for hardware and software products. She has written and edited for a variety of audiences, including end-users, administrators and developers. Her computer skills include FrameMaker, RoboHTML, Adobe Acrobat and Dreamweaver. She graduated with High Honors from California State University, Fullerton, with a degree in Communications - Journalism.

Terri Avizienis
Seeking a staff/contract position in writing or editing. Let me help make your documents fit the user.

I have over 6 years of technical writing and editing experience, using Word and FrameMaker. My experience includes over 2½ years in the medical devices industry, writing assembly procedures and developing or revising documents for new product development processes.

In addition to completing my tech writing certificate at UCLA Extension, I am a senior member of STC, and have received a Distinguished Chapter Service Award.

Doris Bernstein
Senior Technical Writer with proven track record of excellence in producing documentation for software, hardware, policies, and procedures. Skilled working with subject matter experts and end users at all levels of corporate structures to develop and deliver first-class documentation as value-added components to products. Expertise transforming complex information into easy-to-understand content for the end user in multiple industries. Key competencies include online Help, user guides, reference manuals, quick start guides, training manuals, and technical reports. Proficient using RoboHTML, FrameMaker, MS Word, Acrobat, and other technical writing tools.

Ashley Bryant
A self-starter with a commitment to quality, Ashley is a recently certified technical writer and experienced trainer. Her writing projects include programming documentation, procedures manuals, quick reference guides, and tutorials. Her computer skills include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, FrontPage, Captivate, and Photoshop.

Anne G. Davis
It takes special skill to strip down technical information to reveal its essence and clarity for the layperson to understand. Clear, precise communication is the cornerstone of all personal and transactional interaction. An intense writing background enables me to arm companies with the highest caliber of written documentation to help their associates better express themselves using words and ideas. Whatever they need to say, I help them say it with poise and precision. They become empowered to connect the dots between departments, managers, clients, and customers.

Teresita Del Sol
Results-driven professional with a proven track record in project management, technical writing, editing, and translation. Major strengths include:

• Organization and leadership skills

• Disciplined

• Multilingual-Spanish

• Self motivated

• Task oriented

• Varied experience

Warren Ettinger
I am a journalist-turned-award-winning-technical writer who seeks to bring his superior writing, interviewing and sleuthing skills to bear as a technical writer or documentation manager for a leading IT firm.

I have documented an array of business processes as well as hardware and software usage; and facilitated improved incident data quality; and provided incident analysis and operational reviews.

Jennifer Gardelle
I am a lead editor for Computing in Science and Engineering (one of the IEEE Computer Society's 13 magazines), and I have a BA in English and a certificate in Technical and Professional Communication from California State University, Long Beach. Although I'm not interested in changing careers, I am interested in finding writing and/or editing assignments on a contract basis.

Barbara Giammona

I am an experienced technical communications manager returning to the Orange County marketplace. I have successfully built or rebuilt several technical communications teams from the ground up. I am a recognized leader in the field with a masters degree in technology management. And I am available to come to work for you! I also have several years of experience leading corporate communications efforts for technical organizations. I'd welcome the opportunity to talk to you about an opening with you company.

Bruce Giddens (Resume also in TXT format and DOC format)
Offering over ten years experience writing, maintaining and publishing user manuals, policies, processes, procedures, online help, web sites, bulletins, and brochures—in multiple industries including aerospace, banking, finance, human resources, software, manufacturing, engineering, design, and construction.

Howard Goldman

• Fast-starter, with 25 years of successful experience guiding technical documents from conception through release.

• Reducing document turn-around time.

• Effective manager of priorities, projects, programs, and deadlines.

• Attention to detail, clarity, and simple English.

• Excellent teamwork skills: organized, dependable, motivated, and goal oriented.

Mary Ann Howell

• Electronics design background

• 18 years experience in technical writing

• BA in Journalism

• Certified Adobe FrameMaker instructor

• Very comfortable with most Adobe and Macromedia software

• Efficient manager

• Likes to write

• Likes to teach

• Likes people

Janel Hutchinson
Janel Hutchinson, a sharp, organized, detail-oriented self-starter, creates and customizes, with minimal supervision, documentation for diverse audiences. A certificate in Technical Writing, MA in English and other experience have helped her gain above-average writing, analytical and problem-solving skills. She is a team player with excellent relationship building skills and cross-cultural sensitivity who works well with a diverse group of people and in a fast-paced environment. With minimal supervision, she conducts research and produces documents for internal and external use.

Jeff Klein
Clio Award-winning Technical Writer for DIRECTV, Boeing, U.S. Navy, Countrywide and Ceradyne. Work has focused on policies and procedures, manuals, user guides and training materials, as well as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOx) projects. Accomplished user of Word, Visio, PowerPoint, Photoshop, RoboHelp, Acrobat, HTML.

Ron Lee

• Over 10 years technical writing, end user documentation

• On-line help/documentation development and architecture design

• Information mapping

• Single-source design and implementation

• Standards development

• Project management

• Documentation management

• Web page design and development

• Dynamic XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, JAVA, Perl, Visual Basic, C

• Quadralay WebWorks macro language

• Access and Paradox database operation and programming

• Video and animation development

• Extensive tools-of-the-trade experience

Jim Lowerre
Take the following:

• More than ten years of experience in technical documentation

• Experience across a broad technological spectrum (including information technology, defense/aerospace, environmental remediation and nuclear waste engineering)

• Skilled with major document authoring applications coupled with the ability to quickly learn new ones

• BA degree in Communications (CSU, Fullerton, CA)

• Outstanding English skills (written and oral)

Heat white-hot and transfer to sumo ring. Cold-roll until formed into shape, then drop-forge and polish to final shape and dimensions.

The result - Jim "Yukikaze" Lowerre:

• Experienced documentation professional

• Long-time OCSTC Badge Engineer

• USA champion amateur sumotori

E-mail him at jimlowerre@yahoo.com

Suzanne Madison
Suzanne is an accomplished technical writer seeking to use the following experience to assist you with your writing projects:

• 15 years writing/editing both technical and human interest corporate newsletters

• 6 years writing/producing electronic and paper-based software user's guides and policy, procedure, and human resource manuals

• 4 years designing training programs and materials

Jim Marchant
Documentation, phone support, and training help users get the most out of complex systems—and I've done them all. I've produced manuals, release notes, training aids, and knowledge-base documentation in printed, web and program-embedded formats. I emphasize graphics and reinforce images with drawing and retouching tools. I enjoy research, and am seasoned in interviewing sources that can be hostile, promoting agendas, stressed, or in a hurry. As an editor, I have enforced document thoroughness, completeness, organization, and consistency. Conversion coming up? I've done many, emphasizing content re-use and repurposing.

Michael Opsteegh
**NOT CURRENTLY LOOKING**
Michael Opsteegh is an energetic, young grad student, who is currently working on his thesis. He is sharp, organized, and creative. He has two years of experience writing and editing policy and procedure manuals and user guides in the financial services industry, and he has experience writing and designing software user manuals and developing online help. He has also written and edited proposals, web pages, and persuasive brochures for various offices at CSU Long Beach. Michael loves what he does, and his personal mission is to weave quality and enthusiasm into every project he undertakes. He is also a coffee-drinking, computer-savvy rebel, who has to split a few infinitives for the sake of style. If your writing team needs a shot in the arm, call Michael Opsteegh; he's bound to make your company's next manual a real page-turner.

Matthew Pepping
A Technical Writer with an engineering background in the healthcare (medical device), information technology, conusmer product and telecommunications industries.

Distinguishing experience:

• Writing various types of documentation to comply with FDA 21 CFR (Quality System Regulations)

• Creating engineering and manufacturing documentation to support new product introduction

• Producing training documentation for electronic document management systems

Additional writing experience:

• End-user and training documentation

• Internal processes and procedures (ISO 9001)

• Corrective and preventative action reports

Elaine Randolph
I am a customer-driven IT professional with over 25 years of experience and a wide range of skills. I love to work on software development teams where I can utilize my skills in analyzing, problem-solving, and writing.

Personal Characteristics:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Interacts well with team members and managers

• Highly adept at learning new technologies and software tools

• Highly adaptable

• Dedicated to serving customers

• Enthusiastic and dynamic

Professional Skills:

• Printed documentation development

• Online help design and development

• Web page development and maintenance

• Usability testing

• User interface analysis

• Training

Joel A. Rice
More than seven years of experience as a technical writer for three technology consulting organizations, specializing in the documentation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and application development systems and the creation of web-based tutorials and online help. Skilled in the translation of complex systems documentation into user-friendly guides.

Connie Sanders
My professional background reflects a wide range of experience and achievements in the technical writing field, including managing groups and projects, creating user guides, training materials, and quick start documents. I have also managed the technical document process in many different content areas.

Please review my resume to better understand my skill set, including writing, editing and formatting various types of business documents, developing technical publication style guides, proactively creating required documents, and managing other writers to complete projects on time.

Bruce Tepley
Need a technical writer who lives to transform tangled tech-speak into organized descriptions and clear procedures? Give me fifteen minutes with your developers and show the world what you produce!

Providing for you:

• Skilled technical interviewing

• Hands-on background: software, environmental, telephone engineering, and financial

• Award-winning document design

• Document management and supervisory experience

• Guides and procedures, any audience

• API/SDK reference materials

• Enthusiastic researcher, open to new fields

For full-time, part-time, or contract solutions, call or email today!

Richard Thompson
Seeking an interesting and challenging position as a Technical Writer/Illustrator in a high technology business environment. I have extensive experience in designing and writing technical, user, and service training manuals. I also have experience in producing product enhancing marketing materials, including sales brochures, packaging designs, web graphics, and other collateral materials.

William Wood
Do you need a technical writer who can also produce marketing collateral and Web sites?

I do all three, whether you need a full-time, part-time, or contract solution.

What you get:

• User-friendly technical documentation for diverse groups

• Results-oriented marketing collateral

• Current software experience

• Documentation management

• Experience in software, environmental engineering, and manufacturing

• Open to new industries

Contact billwood323@yahoo.com to see how I can solve your documentation challenges!

Barbara Young
Looking for a Sr. Marketing Writer or Editor with high-tech experience?
 
I'm a trained, creative mind planted right smack in the middle of the technological boom: I've dabbled in storage, peripherals, enterprise servers, wireless technology, Web shopping--the whole shebang--as a marketing copywriter (ad campaigns, interviews/promotional marketing articles, brochure copy), technical writer, and a technical editor for 11 years. Taking dry, functional, tech-y products and doing something intelligent and edgy or serious and sophisticated--whatever works--is the ultimate challenge.

To ensure fairness to all parties, please be advised that these policies will be followed strictly:

• Only members of the OCSTC can have their resumes posted.
• Once a year, these pages will purged of OCSTC members who did not pay their STC renewal dues.
• If you transfer to another STC chapter, your resume and profile will be removed.
• By posting your resume you have agreed that your resume is subject to perusal and download by employers, contract agencies, temporary agencies, and other profit, nonprofit, private, and public companies and their representatives. Further, the PDF might be subject to index by a search engine. 

Note: Neither OCSTC nor STC makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information on the resume pages. See the Disclaimer for further information and limitations.

Procedures

1. Create your resume
2. Create a copy of your resume in PDF format if you own Acrobat.
   1. use a file naming convention that includes your first initial and last name, e.g., "resume_jrandolph.pdf"
3. For the resume index on this page (see "Sample Text" below):
   1. indicate how you want your name to appear (e.g., Jeff Randolph; Jeffrey A. Randolph; Jeffrey Alan Randolph, BA; and so on)
   2. include a short profile paragraph of no more than 75 words
4. Send the PDF, name information, and profile by email to Jeff Randolph

Sample Text