Resume

Summary

Polished writer with 10+ years of experience and B.S. in Electrical Engineering, looking for work near Seattle. Passionate about learning new and complex ideas and communicating them clearly to non-expert audiences. Regularly meets multiple deadlines with minimal supervision and contributes significantly to team efforts.

Applications Skills

Mastered: Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio) and Adobe Acrobat.

Proficient in: Microsoft SharePoint, Google Docs and Sheets, Open Office, and Adobe Illustrator.

Familiar with: Microsoft Publisher, Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, and Lyx (LaTex).

Basic Coding: HTML, JavaScript, C++, Perl

Document Project Highlights

Document Management Process Design

Established process to manage client documentation, leveraging platform features to automate document control and significantly reduce business costs.

  • Formulated governance for SharePoint site and libraries.
  • Developed procedures, checklists, and forms for entire document lifecycle.
  • Simplified formatting template styles and structure.
  • Met one-on-one with document custodians for hands-on process introduction.
  • Created a library of user-friendly training and guidance.

Project Management

Managed three writers to produce a 50-page oil well instruction manual in eight weeks.

  • Moderated weekly progress meetings and scheduled content meetings with subject matter experts.
  • Optimized workload for each writer.
  • Spot-edited early drafts to improve consistency across writers.

Technical Editing

Edited academic and industry technical documents for clarity, grammar, and style.

  • 75-page book on proprietary directional drilling steering subsystems.
  • Mechanical engineering Master’s thesis on fluid dynamics.
  • Psychology Master’s thesis on diagnostic classification systems.
  • Doctoral dissertation on integration of technology in education.

Invention Disclosures

Collaborated with client to prepare invention disclosures for their legal department.

  • Interviewed inventors and technical experts.
  • Wrote invention descriptions for a non-technical audience.
  • Developed illustrative diagrams and graphs.

Web Application User Guide and Help Text

Collaborated with web developer to provide help documentation for an oil field data entry and reporting application.

  • Interviewed application developer and leveraged existing help documentation.
  • Thoroughly explored application via administrator access.
  • Created illustrated instructions for common tasks, cataloged features of interactive screens, and corrected mouse-over help text.

Document Simplification

Reduced 300+ pages of piping standards and procedures from multiple business divisions into a single 40-page manual.

  • Reviewed documents for redundant content.
  • Highlighted “need to know” requirements versus “nice to know” guidance.
  • Collaborated with experts to clarify vague text.
  • Reorganized core content to improve logical flow, and edited for grammar.

Employment History

Senior Technical Writer

Information Development Inc., Houston, Texas – Jul. 2006 to Present

Electrical Engineer

Augmentix Corporation, Houston, Texas – 2003 to 2005

Foxconn Corporation, Houston, Texas – 2002

RadiSys Corporation, Houston, Texas – 2001 to 2002

Education

Master of Arts in English Literature

University of Houston, Houston, Texas – June 2006

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

Rice University, Houston, Texas – December 2000

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