The following summary shows many of the projects for which I have
written. The summary contains the subject, a brief description of the
subject matter, the skills it took to produce the information, and the
audience for whom the information was designed.
- Electronic Design Automation: Performance Engineering
- Decribes package and PCB design. Demonstrated the ability to
quickly learn new software and authoring tools in a new product
space.
Audience: chip and PCB designers.
- Electronic Design Automation: Logic and Verification
- Describes gate-level and register transfer level systems design.
Demonstrated the ability to manage over 2000 pages of information.
Audience: systems designers
- Operating system software: System Monitoring and Diagnostics Manual
- Describes a real-time monitoring, diagnostic, and correction
tool that assists system managers in improving OpenVMS system and
VMScluster performance and availability. Demonstrated technical
abilities and information organization skills. Reduced the page count
by nearly 50%, saving production costs.
Audience: system managers, and programmer/analysts.
- Software: Online Documentation for Backup Management
- Describes a tool for performing common backup operations. The
documentation is 100% online, which demonstrates thoroughness of
content in the subject.
Audience: all users.
- Software: Regression Testing Software Guide and Quick Reference
- Describes a CASE tool for regression testing.
Demonstrated excellence in writing, organization of information,
and completeness of information.
Audience: software programmers and project leaders.
- Programming: Programmer's Quick Reference Guide
- Provides concise command information.
Demonstrated skills for organizing and presenting concise
information.
Audience: software programmers.
- Software: Screen Capture User's Guide and Installation Guide
- Describes a screen capture utility that also has rudimentary
graphics editing and image file conversion capabilities.
Demonstrated capability to work on multiple projects, the
creation of graphic examples, and comprehensive understanding of the
product.
Audience: all users.
- Operating System: System Utilities Documentation Guide
- Master index for the operating system documentation set.
Demonstrated skills for coordinating, organizing, and presenting
concise information in an easy-to-use format.
Audience: all users of the VS operating system.
- Operating System: Command Line Dictionary
- Describes the commands, qualifiers, and keywords of the command
line interface.
Demonstrated the ability to manage complex books, to provide
different (audience information from the same set of source files,
and the ability to write about a diverse number of commands.
Audience: all users of the operating system.
- I also wrote an automated build procedure, which demonstrates my
technical ability to reduce complex processes, and create
maintainable projects.
- Policy: Guidelines for Creating Online Help
- Describes the requirements and guidelines for creating,
reviewing, and addressing issues for online help.
Demonstrated my ability to set policy.
Audience: technical writers and editors.
- API: Windows System Management Manual
- Describes the programming interface to DECwindows Motif.
Demonstrated my ability to understand and document technical
concepts.
Audience: DECwindows programmers.
- API: System Set-up file
- Defines the windows environments for nodes on a cluster in an
initialization template file.
Demonstrated my technical skills with lower level user
environment information.
Audience: cluster or single system managers.
- API: Mark-up Language Tag Designer's Guide
- Describes how to create mark-up language tags.
Demonstrated my technical ability to understand and describe
lower level programming concepts, abstract conceptualization
(through flow charting, and technical ability to create examples.
Audience: markup language programmers.
- API: Programmer's Guide to 3-D Graphics
- Describes a programmer's hierarchical interactive graphics
system, a library of functions that enables the creation of
three-dimensional graphic images.
Demonstrated my abstract conceptualization through picture
descriptions, and my ability to create the graphic figures for the
documentation. Also demonstrates my ability to come to a project
and produce quality documentation very quickly.
Audience: graphics systems programmers.
- Operating System: Utilities Reference
- Describes utilities for the VS System.
Audience: all users of the VS operating system.
- API: Programmer's Guide
- Describes the programming interface to the WP Plus editor.
Audience: software programmers.
- Software: Object-oriented Repository User's Guide
- Describes an integrated project support environment to create a
repository for total project control.
Audience: primarily software engineers, repository
administrators, and project managers.
- Installation Guides
- Describes how to install software.
Audience: system managers.
