Technical Writing, Editing, Project Management - Proven Performance on Big-Money     Jobs

TE's "Lead Engineer" has a long record of success as a corporate writer and manager of publications programs – a master of detail in the international power systems engineering and marketing arena, who has also provided vital support in large-scale U.S. government projects.

Professional Highlights

• Lead editor, technical writer and documentation project manager for 18 years as consultant to Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC. Key roles in multi-million dollar projects for government, and U.S. and overseas utilities. 
• Production and quality assurance of engineering and marketing documents in numerous specialties - from leading-edge distributed computing and digital instrumentation to advanced mechanical and fluid systems. Lead developer of company technical writing standards.
• Spent 1999 supporting Software Technology Division full-time, helped generate and improve all types of documentation for engineering group libraries of analytical software for Unix^®, Sun^TM and PC. Instrumental in completing company Y2K effort.
• At Black Box Corporation, wrote for the Black Box Catalog and other business unit catalogs (hardware and software) and the company newsletter. Also generated press releases, promotional pieces and print advertisements.

U.S. Government Projects

    (with Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC and commercial partners)

Proposal for Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) Program dipole magnets for Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Design documentation for New Production Reactor (NPR) Program for U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Westinghouse and Bechtel Corp.

Professional Qualifications Summary

For nearly 20 years, I have refined engineer drafts into clear, concise, logical publications, and managed internal production resources to uphold demanding customer schedules. I will bring a high level of professionalism and thoroughness to every consulting assignment with you, as will all associates in the TE network.

Recent concentrations:

• Corporate writing/editing standards.
• Documentation for advanced light water reactor design.
• NPP major component replacement.
• Documentation project management.
• Modernization of plant computer, I&C and simulator technology for American and European utilities.

Education, Honors and Skills

Education: Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

1990 - M.A. Corporate Communications

1987 - B.A. Speech / Communications

Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society

Skills:

Adobe Acrobat - Competent

(EDMS 2000/Webtop) - Power User

Windows XP/NT  - Advanced

Microsoft Word - Advanced

Other MS Office applications - Competent

MS Visio - Competent

Lotus Notes - Competent

HTML, javascripts - Competent

ftp/e-rooms - Competent

Complete profiles and project references available on request. All associates in the Text Engineer network have comparable levels of experience in varied specialties - our strength!

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