Resume 5

Qualifications Summary

• Wrote, edited, and produced user and system documentation. Performed online editorial and production work on scientific and technical research articles. Received Society for Technical Communications Award of Merit, 1993.
• Wrote system descriptions and corporate procedures, based on analyses of system and user requirements.
• Interviewing, writing, editing and HTML development of internal online corporate newsletters.

• User s knowledge of PC graphical environments and editors, including Microsoft Office, WordPerfect, Visio, Adobe Acrobat/Distiller, Dreamweaver light , PageMill, Homesite, and FrameMaker.
• Working knowledge of hard-coded HTML markup and web page design using standard character-based text editors including vi and emacs.
• Working knowledge of UNIX system shell and editing and publication tools, including vi, emacs, nroff, and troff. User s knowledge of UNIX system networking communications structures and procedures.
• Able to read and interpret Cobol programs.
• Platform familiarity includes all Microsoft systems from DOS through Windows XP, OS/2, Solaris, Linux, and UNIX.

• Contracted through Software Guidance & Assistance, Hartsdale, N.Y.
• Researched and wrote procedures to document mainframe legacy systems supporting customer order processing.
• Procedures include those related to disaster recovery/site restoration, procedure preparation methodology, and automated system health checks.

• Gathered/analyzed information, and wrote technical specifications and low-level technical user documentation, especially standards documents for Cobol programmers at the Boston and Horsham, MA sites involved in the conversion from Cobol Resource to MicroFocus Cobol.
• Documented use of file conversion utilities to convert proprietary db trader data into Excel format.
• Documented conversion from Cobol Resource to MicroFocus Cobol, including a step-by-step Developer s Guide and a guide to using the Conversion Utility.
• Tools included Microsoft Office, Dreamweaver, Adobe Acrobat.

• Wrote and edited user and system documentation and requirements for all areas of the Firm s trading and backoffice functions using online tools including Microsoft Office, FrameMaker, Visio, and HTML markup.
• Projects included:
  • runtime environment descriptions for our proprietary data filter;
  • quickstart cards with the Training Department ;
  • printshop production procedures;
  • application-specific help guides for traders using historical volatility programs;
  • guides for external clients accessing commercial aspects of MS s TAPS system;
  • help overviews for traders using the FID market risk exposure program FRISK ;
  • and a user s guide to the MS Tax Database.
• Gathered data for and wrote the Installation and Administrators guides for Firmwide migration from Windows 3.11 to NT 4.0.
• Edited IT-Cache, the Firm s international browser-based newsletter for personnel in the Information Technology division.

• Author negotiations;
• online editing and rewriting;
• consulting with graphic artists and designers;
• supervising articles through the production process.