From: Aleon@cup.portal.com (Leon Dale Chrisman)
Newsgroups: ba.jobs.misc
Subject: Technical Writer available in Bay Area
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 19:29:33 PST
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4635 Armour Drive        J. CHRIS HARVEY     Home: (408) 492-9737
Santa Clara, CA 95054                     Message: (408) 451-0700
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                             SUMMARY

     Technical writer with 4 years of software industry experience.
     Major strengths include technical knowledge, writing ability,
     organizing and planning, research ability, and a sense of user
     needs. Over 3 years of experience with the UNIX operating
     system (C shell, vi text editor, troff, and system administra-
     tion). Familiar with Sun, IBM, HP, DECstation, and VAX/VMS
     workstations. Proficient user of FrameMaker and Interleaf
     publishing software. A responsible, persistent, focused, swift
     learning, hard worker.

                           EXPERIENCE

Technical Writer                                        1989 - 92
     Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, CA

     Created end user manuals for application and interface soft-
     ware used to design digital and analog electronics. Developed
     system administrator manuals for installation, network li-
     censing, printing and plotting, system configuration, and
     system management.

     -    Exceeded company standards for manual accuracy and
          completeness by personally testing procedures for
          installing and setting up systems, which increased
          customer satisfaction and saved time and money in terms
          of field and hotline support.

     -    Organized a multi-discipline team to develop and review
          documents on software installation. The team included
          persons from research and development, domestic and
          overseas applications engineering, installation hotline,
          quality assurance, training, marketing, manufacturing,
          and corporate editing. 

     -    Created the company's first conditional text manuals for
          hardware platforms, reducing writing time for quarterly
          updates by 3 weeks and improving manual quality.

     -    Recommended replacing several proprietary system adminis-
          tration utilities with operating system equivalents,
          cutting engineering development time and support costs.

     -    Developed a process for transforming desktop-published
          documents into ASCII text files for the customer online
          information service, giving customers easy access to
          installation information.

     -    Recognized by the division Director of Systems Integra-
          tion for contributing to a software release under a
          critical time constraint.

     -    Promoted within 18 months.

Document Administrator                                       1989
     Xerox Imaging Systems, Mountain View, CA

     Maintained marketing literature library. Performed various
     administrative tasks while assisting Director of Marketing
     Communications.

File Coordinator                                             1988
     Sponsored Projects Office, Stanford University

     Organized and maintained files for about 4,000 university
     contracts and grants. Used a computer database and other
     reference tools to find data on current contracts and grants
     for university and office staff.

Student Teacher                                              1987
     Memorial Middle School, Albany, OR

     Developed curriculum and held classes five periods per day for
     about 120 students. Taught tool and machine use and demon-
     strated various manufacturing processes. Received a grade of
     four out of four on 22 of 23 evaluation criteria from mentor
     teacher.

                            EDUCATION

B. S. in Industrial Arts Education                           1988
     Oregon State University

     Emphasis on communications, electrical engineering, industrial
     engineering, education, mathematics, and graphic arts.

Teaching Certificate                                         1988
     State of Oregon

Digital Circuits and Systems course                          1989
     UC Santa Cruz Extension

Discrete Math and Pascal Programming courses                 1990
     San Jose State University 
 
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