Manager of Technical Publications Department

20 years experience as a Technical Writer for a wide variety of software and hardware products. Includes over ten years experience as a senior-level writer and over five years as a project lead. Manager-level responsibilities included:

• Planned and scheduled multiple documents for a single product, and manuals for multiple products released concurrently.
• Organized/chaired meetings of project teams whose members included technical writers, engineers, and marketing.
• Trained and supervised a Junior Technical Writer, who assisted me (I was the lead technical writer).
• Coordinated all technical publications, as Director of Publications for a software company in Germany.
• Helped organize and coordinate a technical writing team to create an in-house style guide.
• Coordinated a team of tech writers and engineers that developed and implemented a PDF-based online help system that was accessed via the software product's own GUI.

Successfully wrote, published, and marketed four specialty books, as a one-man publishing company (registered as a small business with State of California, and licensed by City of Sunnyvale).

Two years as a Trade Show Manager, organizing all aspects of corporate participation in trade-shows nationwide.

Founder, and for 20 years president (volunteer), of a nationwide non-profit historical society (300 members).

Five years as state-wide Secretary of a nationwide non-profit organization (400 members state-wide, 5000 nationally).

Callidus Software, Inc., 160 West Santa Clara St, Suite 1400, San Jose, CA 95113 -- 2000
Senior Technical Writer

Vitesse Semiconductor, 3100 De La Cruz Blvd., Santa Clara, CA 95054 -- 2000
Contract Senior Technical Writer (through agency)

Remedy Corporation, 1505 Salado Drive, Mountain View, CA 94043 -- 2000
Contract Senior Technical Writer (through agency)

Jetstream Communications, 983 University Ave. #A, Los Gatos, CA -- 1999-2000
Contract Senior Technical Writer

Repeater Technologies, 1150 Morse Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA -- 1999
Contract Senior Technical Writer

Quickturn Design Systems, 55 West Trimble Ave., San Jose, CA -- 1994-1999
Senior/Lead Technical Writer

CADIS Software, 400 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 108, South San Francisco, CA 94080 -- 1993-1994
Director of Publications (now part of Synopsys, Mountain View, CA).

Comdisco Systems, Inc., 919 East Hillsdale Blvd., Foster City, CA 94404 -- 1991-1993
Senior Technical Writer

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., 3393 Octavius Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95054 -- 1989-1991
Senior Technical Writer

ShareBase Corp., 14600 Winchester Blvd., Los Gatos, CA 95030 -- 1988-1989
Senior Technical Writer

CAE Systems/Tektronix, 5302 Betsy Ross Drive, Santa Clara, CA 95052 -- 1985-1988
Senior Technical Writer

EPRO Corp., 2342 Harris Way, San Jose, CA 95131 -- 1983-1985
Technical Writer, Marketing Writer, and Trade Show Manager

Corvus Systems, 2100 Corvus Drive, San Jose, CA 95124 -- 1982-1983
Technical Writer

B.A., English/Journalism, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ -- 1977

Senior Member, Society for Technical Communications (STC)