Laura Bayer's Resume

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Written technical communication authoring and editing, index development, FrameMaker template design and documentation, functional specifications, data sheets, application program interfaces, Web site management, graphics handling, basic illustration, preparation of technical disclosures for defensive publication.

Have experience with the following program products, environments and languages:

Word
Acrobat
FrameMaker
SharePoint
HTML
MediaWiki

Adobe Illustrator
Visio
OmniPage Pro
Windows 8.1/7/XP
DITA concepts
Linux

C
C++
SQL
Java
JavaScript
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LB Communications, Inc.

Consulting Senior Technical Writer/Editor (April 1997 - Present)

Ameriprise – Author and reviser of customer letters.
Autodesk, Inc. – Indexer of the ActiveX Reference Guide and ObjectARX Developer’s Guide manuals.
Best Buy – Analyzer of competitive websites, documenter of big data/cloud programming implementation and user of SharePoint for document control.
Butterfly Communications, Inc. – Author of the BFC2203 Broadband Spread Spectrum Microcontroller User's Manual.
Calabrio – Author of Running the Calabrio Recording Export Utility.
D2K – Data sheet and white paper for the IBN enterprise product.
Dow Jones & Company, Inc./MarketWatch.com – Documenter of a market-data transaction messaging system.
Education Law Office – Business consultant and webmaster.
Fujitsu Microelectronics – Editor of various marketing materials.
HID Global, Inc. – Author and reviser of user manuals, quick start guides and installation guides for several models of plastic card printers and laser engravers.
Hutchinson Technology Inc. – Documenter of manufacturing processes for FDA approval.
Intel – Reformatter of patent descriptions for publication for seven years.
Kranbery Technologies – Author of a requirements specification for Canna-Track software.
Mesaba Airlines – Updater of flight crew training materials and procedures.
MTS Systems Corporation – Author of on-line doumentation for TestSuite materials testing software, working in an Agile development environment.
ObjectX – Author of a requirements specification for location tracking software.
Oce' Digital Graphics Systems – Author of printer user manuals.
PricewaterhouseCoopers – Author of the microprocessor and embedded systems sections of Technology Update: 1998.
Starfire Massage & Health Center – Webmaster.
Target Corporation – Documenter of DataStage ETL jobs, user of SharePoint for document and program version control.
TeleCruz Technology, Inc. – Author of the TC701 User's Manual.
The Penny Traveller – Webmaster.
UC Berkeley Extension – Guest instructor of technical communication.
Visteon Technology – System messages dictionary and architecture description.

Ardent Software/Informix

Senior Technical Writer (January 2000 - May 2000)

Senior technical writer, editor, indexer using PC FrameMaker to write manuals for PC and mainframe database tools.

ZiLOG

Team Leader/Senior Technical Writer (May 1997 - December 1999)

Team Leader, senior technical writer, editor, indexer using PC and Macintosh FrameMaker to write manuals and product specifications for consumer-product designers and Internet-appliance users. Design and develop FrameMaker templates for multichapter guides and manuals. Areas of technical expertise include digital signal processing (DSP) used in television, modems, and telephony, and graphical user interface (GUI) for software emulation.
Novellus Systems

Senior Technical Writer (February 1996 - April 1997)

Technical writer/editor/indexer in Technical Publications using FrameMaker, CorelDraw, DynaText SGML tools, HiJaak Graphics Suite, and Word in support of semiconductor-equipment hardware and software.
Lam Research

Technical Writer (October 1994 - February 1996)

Technical writer/editor in the Product Training and Technical Publications using FrameMaker, Adobe Illustrator, HiJaak Graphics Suite, PhotoStyler, and other software for PC/Macintosh cross-platform development.

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Consulting Editor/Technical Writer (May 1994 - October 1994)

Rothenberg Computer Systems

Documentation Manager (August 1993 - May 1994)

Plan and prepare end-user manuals and internal-use documentation. Edit and rewrite online help screens. Perform pre-release testing. Supervise one assistant writer.

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Consulting Editor/Technical Writer (May 1993 - July 1993)

API

Technical Writer/Editor (December 1992 - May 1993)

Prepare resumes, marketing and business materials, and correspondence. Prepare data-flow diagrams and documentation using WordPerfect and CorelDraw.

IBM

Technical Writer and Application Development Project Planner (September 1989 - July 1992)

Document and control software development projects. Serve as site representative for software user-interface council. All projects involve international cross-organizational activities.

System Programmer/Application Support/System Support/Marketing Account Administrator (March 1982 - August 1989)

Provide system support for worldwide marketing-support computer systems in Palo Alto, CA, Dallas, TX, and Boulder, CO.

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