My Current Goal

My current career goal is to find comparable work as described anywhere on this website and in my resume. I have had an incredible career path, all of it very intense, challenging, and amazing. I am looking for a role as a senior technical writer, editor, business analyst, documentation consultant, publications specialist or instructional materials author and designer. I am also very good at training the trainer. Under the right circumstances, I could also be a presenter.

The experience described on this website highlights what were very important accomplishments for the corporations I worked for. These also gave me great satisfaction and honed my skills and confidence. I excelled and I exceeded expectations and my work was always within deadline, under budget, very well received and acknowledged with gratitude. I also pride myself on going the extra mile, and I often receive and deliver peripheral materials related to my project, often with great surprise and appreciation. (For example, I once fully documented a PO, receivables system and a time reporting system because these were very much needed as these dovetailed into the manufacturing enterprise resource planning system I was documenting.) I author very difficult and complex materials with engineering or other support. My materials are all very well received with great relief and at times great surprise. Sometimes even flurries of modifications result based on the depth with which I proceed, and questions I may raise.

My skill sets are broad, if you need any such documentation, especailly if prior attempts have failed, contact me, and let's talk!

• Manufacturing
• Engineering
• Biotech
• Computerized maintenance management
• Enterprise resource planning systems (such as Maximo, Indus Passport, SAP, PeopleSoft and Oracle, etc.).
• Work instructions to meet ISO requirements for both the 8000 and 9000 series
• Licensing manuals
• Product data sheets
• Operation or system manuals
• User guides
• Reference materials
• Instructional materials
• Policies & Porcedures (P&Ps)
• Standard Operating Pprocedures (SOPs)
• Web content
• Marketing copy (from "raw" engineering or technical information
• White papers
• Editiing (scientific, marketing, technical or just plain copy)

More about my skill sets


Usually I arrive when the documentation project has already failed. Then, in a very efficient and streamlined manner, I pick up whatever pieces there are and I put in place whatever documentation is needed for whatever audience. These past achievements depended on receiving briefings and instructions from the world-class specialists and the engineers present along with their timely reviews of my work to fine tune and finalize everything. It is this sort of interfacing and work environment I seek, in any type of employment context (full, part time, contracting, contractual, possibly permanent, or possibly corp-to-corp). My rates are very competitive, but fair. The advantage of hiring senior and experienced mid-career level personnel is that the job gets done very quickly to a very high standard often exceeding expectations and beating even the stiffest of deadlines and budgets.

My Preference

I prefer working with engineers and scientists, especially world class ones as I have found them to be very humble and very hardworkinig. With only one exception in over fourteen years of technical writing, I have found engineers to be very collaborative and very appreciative of my talents and ability to communicate for them. With their help, I can write for any audience in order that their inventions, prototypes or new hardware or software can be properly understood and operated. I am passionate about science and engineering and I am always eager and exhilirated to learn and write about leading edge technologies. My approach and enthusiasm is often an important factor in energizing key staff to build momentum to get the writing piece of the project done.

My Strengths, Talents and Ability

Overall, I am very sensitive to the needs and requirements of whatever and for whomever I am writing. I take great care to present materials in such a manner that they meet expectations. If there are no stated expectations or the lack of clearly set standards, or if those are moving targets, I can be creative, patient, professional, and work proactively towards achieving the goal.

I prefer to be given tasks and allowed to run with them independently based on clear criteria and standards. I can assimilate and act on instructions and "wish lists" from multiple sources and consolidate those into properties and presentations that exceed expectations. However, mutual respect, collaboration , honest communication, with sufficient feedback and timely reviews are necessary to accomplish that end. I am most comfortable with just getting the work done once standards and expectations have been determined and set.  I prefer to work as a senior tech writer and editor, with that level of latitude, and respect accorded me! I actually consider myself a close peer of engineers, because I can explain what they are inventing and how to work it -when often they cannot! But, someone has to tell the tech writier. I am not telepathic, or a subject matter expert. Only once have I quietly given myself the title of telepathic tech writer -only once in the midst of the most unusual and never before experienced weird political games that I have luckily only once seen an engineer play - which is why I prefer working with engineers!! I guess there is a first time for everything and may it rest in peace!

My strongest strength and ability, as well as my preference, is understanding and writing about complex high-end, state of the art, leading-edge technologies. I love writing about such with engineers that appreciate my communication abilities. I do have a knack of making complex material accessible to technicians and laymen. I prefer science and engineering as in those disciplines, there is only one way to do it : "The Right Way" -so that the equipment functions and is operated easily, the way it is supposed to. It either does or it doesn't, there is no gray area!