Laura Bayer, Senior Technical Writer.

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Skills

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Written technical communication authoring and editing, index development, FrameMaker template design and documentation, functional specifications, data sheets, white papers, application program interfaces, basic illustration.

Have experience with the following program products, environments, and languages:

  • Agile
  • FrameMaker
  • DITA
  • Word
  • HTML
  • Structured FrameMaker
  • Excel
  • Acrobat
  • Doxygen
  • MediaWiki
  • Visio
  • OmniPage Pro
  • Windows NT/98/ME/XP
  • UNIX
  • Linux
  • C
  • C++
  • SQL
  • Java
  • JavaScript

Experience

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LB Communications, Inc.

Senior Technical Writer/Editer/Indexer (April 1997 - Present)

Author of functional specifications, user interface documentation, and user manuals. Documenter of manufacturing procedures. Author of on-line documentation in an Agile software development environment. Formatter of documentation for revranding. Docoumenter of a market-data transaction messaging system. Preparer of approximately 10,000 legal technical disclosures for defensive publication. Updater of flight crew training materials and procedures. Developer of DataStage ETL job documentation. Webmaster.

Ardent Software/Informix

Senior Technical Writer (January 2000 - May 2000)

Senior technical writer, editor, indexer using PC FrameMaker to write manuals for DataStage database tools.

ZiLOG

Team Leader/Senior Technical Writer (May 1997 - December 1999)

Team Leader, senior technical writer, editor, indexer using PC and Macintosh FrameMaker to write manuals and product specifications for consumer-product designers and Internet-appliance users. Design and develop FrameMaker templates for multichapter guides and manuals. Areas of technical expertise include digital signal processing (DSP) used in television, modems, and graphical user interface (GUI) for software emulation.

Novellus Systems

Senior Technical Writer (February 1996 - April 1997)

Technical writer/editor/indexer in Technical Publications using FrameMaker, CorelDraw, DynaText SGML tools, HiJaak Graphics Suite, and Word in support of semiconductor-equipment hardware and software.

Lam Research

Technical Writer (October 1994 - February 1996)

Technical writer/editor in the Product Training and Technical Publications using FrameMaker, Adobe Illustrator, HiJaak Graphics Suite, PhotoStyler, and other software for PC/Macintosh cross-platform development.

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Consulting Editor/Technical Writer (May 1994 - October 1994)

Rothenberg Computer Systems

Documentation Manager (August 1993 - May 1994)

Plan and prepare end-user manuals and internal-use documentation. Edit and rewrite online help screens. Perform pre-release testing. Supervise one assistant writer.

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Consulting Editor/Technical Writer (May 1993 - July 1993)

API

Technical Writer/Editor (December 1992 - May 1993)

Prepare resumes, marketing and business materials, and correspondence. Prepare data-flow diagrams and documentation using WordPerfect and CorelDraw.

IBM

Technical Writer and Application Development Project Planner (September 1989 - July 1992)

Document and control software development projects. Serve as site representative for software user-interface council. All projects involve international cross-organizational activities.

System Programmer/Application Support/System Support/Marketing Account Administrator (March 1982 - August 1989)

Provide system support for worldwide marketing-support computer systems in Palo Alto, CA, Dallas, TX, and Boulder, CO.


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