From: jupiter2@netcom.com (Hal Broome)
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.resumes
Subject: ----- Technical Writer/Editor ----- SF Bay Area -----
Keywords: FrameMaker, Unix, CAD/CAM, Windows, etc.
Date: 8 Sep 92 22:51:55 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

Fredrick Hal Broome                             (408) 253-1959
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6394 Bollinger Road                         San Jose, CA 95129


Summary

*	Five years' experience in technical writing
* 	Three years' experience in CAD/CAM
*	One year's experience as editor of an on-line database
*	Never missed a Sun Microsystems deadline
*	Twenty years of professional publication (37 yrs. old)

Hardware and Software Skills

*	Operating Systems--UNIX, VMS, DOS, OpenWindows
*	CAD/CAM--Dracula (DRC), licensed Calma operator, Silver-
	Lisco, Tangate (helped test/develop while at Intergraph)
*	Workstations--Intergraph (Clipper), Sun Microsystems
*	Publishing Tools--FrameMaker 2.0 and 3.0; Interleaf;
	Scribe; Offload; Blueberry; troff; vi editor, etc.

Professional Experience

Sun Microsystems/SunSoft, Mountain View CA

Contract Catalyst Editor
February 1991-February 1992

*	Editor of SUCCESS, an on-line database of over 10,000
	technical, sales, and marketing articles
*	Wrote and published the user guide, THE SUN ELECTRONIC
 	LIBRARY, which included instructions on connecting to UUCP
*	Wrote on-line help notes
*	Wrote and revised internal technical documents on new
        software/hardware products; wrote abstracts, press releases
*	Quality control and copy-editing of all 10,000 documents
*	Solicited and helped engineers in preparing documents for
	submission to SUCCESS
*	Helped design the PROGRESS-built library
*	Performed customer service and prepared questionaires,
	surveys of CATALYST members (ISVs, OEMs, etc.)
*	Prepared LITERATURE LISTING for SunSoft OEMs and Resellers

Intergraph Advanced Processor Division (formerly Fairchild APD)
Design and Layout
1987-1990

*	Design, layout, and routing of Clipper Microprocessors
	(C2, C3, C4)
*	Wrote documentation of various layout processes; trained new
	hires
*	Edited C++ code for engineers; wrote internal TBL documents
*	Tested and helped develop Tangate CAD package in co-operation
	with Tangent; wrote internal documentation and reports on it

Independent Publications
1973 to present

* 	Revised and copy-edited Raj Singh's VERILOG manual
*	Revised Raj Singh's PROGRAMMING THE 386i/486i
*	Contributor as world authority to THE GOLD THREAD, ed. by
	William Raeper, Edinburgh University Press, 1990, the
	essay "The Scientific Basis of George MacDonald's Dream-frame"
*	Weekly columnist, headline writer for local newspapers

Edinburgh University, Scotland
Research Scholar
1981-1986

*	Clan Donald Kingsborough scholarship recipient; stipend
	from British Government to conduct and write up research
	on George MacDonald
*	Now considered a world authority on the author

University of Texas at Austin
Teaching Assistant
1980

*	Taught composition and English grammar courses

Education

B.A.:  University of Texas at Austin
Major: English

Ph.D.: Edinburgh University (1986)
Major: English Literature and Scottish Studies
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