Partial Portfolio
During my career, I’ve worked on too many documents to mention–and for some of them, I can’t really talk about them anyway.
I’ll post some links here to some of my more “publicly available” documents in case you are curious about what I’ve been working on over the last bunch of years.
Wait Marketing: Is It the Right Moment? by Prof Diana Derval
Since 2007, I have been providing editorial services to Prof. Diana Derval and DervalResearch of Amsterdam, Netherlands, for her journal articles and books (and other documents).
Cisco IOS Dial Services Quick Configuration Guide
(Cisco IOS Release 12.1)
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_1/dial/installation/guide/121dsqcg.html
As a staff technical writer for the Small Provider Line of Business (SPLOB), I coordinated with a team consisting of another CCNA writer, an editor, a Subject Matter Expert (SME-CCIE), and two managers to produce this Quick Configuration Guide for the 12.1 Release. The document is provided primarily as an online assistance and education aid for those wanting to quickly set up a basic network with three types of Cisco products. A hard-copy document was also available. To see what the hard copy document looks like, click on each section header on the left side of the screen, then click on the PDF icon at the top right corner.
This document (hard-copy) won an award of Achievement from the Northern California Society for Technical Communication Technical Publications Competition.
Veritas Cluster Server 3.5 Traffic Director
Release Notes
Solaris
ftp://exftpp.symantec.com/pub/support/products/VCS_Traffic_Director/249729.pdf
As a staff technical writer, I was part of the development team for this software product that was a load-balancing/traffic direction application used on Storage Area Networks (SAN) to provide high-availability and reliability for critical Network Attached Storage (NAS) facilities. Starting from the initial planning meetings through the actual development, QA testing and validation, and final production, I participated in the engineering group meetings and provided input on the user interface (with regard to usability and function) and produced the final documentation suite for this product. This document is one of the set of release notes that went out with the product manual, software CDs, and other materials. Veritas has since been bought by Symantec, and this product is no longer supported.
Veritas Cluster Server 3.5 Traffic Director
System Administrator’s Guide
Solaris
ftp://exftpp.symantec.com/pub/support/products/VCS_Traffic_Director/249730.pdf
I was part of the development team for this software product that was a load-balancing/traffic direction application used on Storage Area Networks (SAN) to provide high-availability and reliability for critical Network Attached Storage (NAS) facilities. Starting from the initial planning meetings through the actual development, QA testing and validation, and final production, I participated in the engineering group meetings and provided input on the user interface (with regard to usability and function) and produced the final documentation suite for this product. This document is the main manual that went out with the release notes, software CDs, and other materials. Veritas has since been bought by Symantec, and this product is no longer supported.
Verilink HDM 2180 User Manual
http://www.bestdatasource.com/Verilink/data_sheets/hdm2180.pdf
As part of a documentation team, this was one of the manuals I was responsible for. In addition to working closely with the Engineering and QA/Testing groups, I verified the document’s accuracy by accessing the test laboratory and capturing the screen shots for the document from live equipment. When not writing my own assigned documents, I provided editorial assistance for the other team members and their documents. (Scroll down to the bottom of page 5 to see my name listed in the credits.)
Force10 Networks
FTOS Configuration Guide for the E-Series
Version 7.7.1.0
As a contractor editorial consultant to assist the technical documentation team, I wrote some of the sections and provided editing for this document while working on a specific document that I had originally contracted for.
The Cascade Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor Concept
http://www.incredibleeditables.com/CascadeLLNLreport.pdf
As a contractor technical editor/writer working with subject-matter-expert scientists and engineers, I managed, coordinated, assisted with writing and editing, and scheduled final production for this Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Technical Report.
