About me

I am an enthusiastic, accurate, and thorough technical writer and technical editor with over ten years of experience. I've written for a wide range of audiences --  from programmers to naive end users. I'm looking for contract, contract-to-permanent, or permanent positions where I can contribute my skills in technical writing and technical editing to produce usable, accurate, and complete product documentation.

I have chosen writing samples for which I am responsible for the majority of the work: text, graphics, and layout. They represent the different kinds of documentation, written for different target audiences, that I have produced.

Description	Audience	Link to file(s)		Tools Used
API reference documentation for a telephony fax API in C	Software engineers	Reference entries from the NaturalFax™ Developer's Reference Manual (10KB)		Framemaker Quadralay Webworks Visio
		Programming Model from the NaturalFax™ Developer's Reference Manual (176KB)
User documentation for a GUI system monitoring application	System administrators	Excerpt from a final draft of Supervisor™ User's Guide: Chapter 2: Getting Started (678KB)		Framemaker PaintshopPro Visio
User documentation for an internal web-based bug logging & tracking application	Software engineers, graphic and user interface designers	RT "cheat sheet" (1.8MB)		Framemaker  Paintshop Pro Adobe Acrobat Pro
Regulatory documentation for LuckyMe™, an Internet subscription gambling site	Alderney Gambling Control Commission, Isle of Alderney, UK	Complete Functional Description of administrative and end-user elements of LuckyMe™ site: account administration, game applications, and procedures for playing the games. Includes detailed screenshots identifying elements of the user interface, showing user task flow.(8.4MB )		Framemaker Paintshop Pro Visio Adobe Acrobat Pro
		System Monitoring and Logging, a description of architecture and instructions for use, for LuckyMe™ site. (221KB)
Hardware installation and configuration documentation for two variants of a telephony board	Software and hardware engineers, system administrators	AG-8 and AG-8/80 Installation and Developer's Manual (11.9MB)		Framemaker Visio

Additional illustrations
Concept diagrams for programming model of a telephony fax API in C	Software engineers	Overview of fax application code structure (13 KB) Overview of On The Fly fax image conversion (9 KB) On The Fly fax image conversion to simplest format shared by transmitter and receiver (13 KB)		Visio
Hardware diagram for building a testbed for LuckyMe™, an Internet subscription gambling site	System administrators and hardware technicians	Rack setup (144 KB)		Visio Acrobat Pro

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Last modified on February 8, 2007