Qualifications

My resume includes practical and academic work that spans over ten years. A summary of my qualifications includes:

  • Experience assessing a growing company’s documentation needs, implementing new documentation strategies, and developing new documentation sets.
  • Experience managing projects and small documentation teams including hiring, supervising, planning, and other general management functions.
  • Highly qualified to research, write, and publish technical and user publications including hardcopy and online documents.
  • Expertise with online help, text documents, graphical illustrations, document design, and computer-based training.
  • Experience working with preferred documentation tools, including FrameMaker, Word, Acrobat, WebWorks, and RoboHelp.
  • Expertise with information design and assessing documentation distribution medium.
  • Masters degree in technical and professional writing from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Published author for magazine and book, and speaker at Help Technology Conference.
  • Instructor of HTML course in continuing education program.
  • Ability to learn new products, projects, and tools very quickly.
  • Strong skills with software user interface design and with human-computer interaction, particularly for web sites and online documentation.
  • Background includes design and implementation of web-based university.
  • Experienced with oral presentations, including training, demonstrations, and round-table discussions.
  • Aggressive hands-on approach and strong decision-making skills led to rapid advancement through levels of documentation professions.