technical writer

David Mark Strom Technical Writer, Video Shorts Creator, Mobile Enthusiast San Mateo, CA [email protected] 650-574-8398 www.davestrom.com *** Objective *** Position involving writing and software, video, and/or mobile. Skilled as a tech nical writer and former programmer, creative as a video creator and writer, stro ng interest in mobile computing. *** Technical Writing Summary *** Design and write development guides, user guides, and application programming in terface guides. Work well with engineers. Write code samples. Design manual spec ifications, research technical information, test applications, and prepare manua ls for production. * Experience: 13 years as a technical writer, 7 years as a software programmer. * Write tutorials for www.macinstruct.com related to digital video and photos. * Designed, wrote, and prepared for production a 250 page programming, API, and user manual set; updated the manuals as the product morphed into PeopleSofts sta rt of no-code-on-the-client architecture. * Updated a system administrator guide for Red Pepper Software; kept it current under very tight deadlines while keeping my other technical writing project curr ent. * Programming languages: JavaScript, HTML, AJAX, XML, C++, Java * Android and iOS SDKs installed on my MacBook Pro, own an iPad and an Android p hone * Operating Systems: Macintosh OS X, Windows * Documentation Tools: Word, Arbortext, FrameMaker *** Video, Mobile, and Creative Summary *** * Member of the Silicon Valley Android Developers Meetup. Have Eclipse/Android S DK and Xcode/iOS SDK installed on my MacBook Pro. Joined Android App Inventor. O wn an iPad and an Android phone. Will beta test Storyist for the iPad. * Completed a class for television production at KMVT, Mountain View. * Member of SFCutters, a user group for creators of digital videos. * Skilled in Final Cut Express, iMovie, iDVD. Created videos (shoot, write, edit ) about a family wedding, my dear departed mom, loud movie trailers, and a film noir version of The DaVinci Code. Showed them at Macfilmmakers and at Red Rock C af in Mountain View. * Skilled in iPhoto: as a delta-tester for Hewlett-Packard; improved the Macinto sh iPhoto borderless printing instructions for the Photosmart 7950 printer. Also own Photoshop. * In Cinemasports, created 3-minute videos in one day on a team. Thats a deadlin e. * Posted some of my videos on my website: http://web.me.com/davstrom/davweb/dave vids-old.html * Converted video to Flash with ActionScripted text commentary: http://web.me.co m/davstrom/davweb/davevids/daveflash/daveflash.swf * Maintain my YouTube website: http://www.youtube.com/user/davstrom * Wrote comic book scripts and hired artists to illustrate them. Pros have seen and liked them. *** Experience *** 2008: Technical Writer, Equilibrium, Sausalito, CA Updated programmer, administration, and user guides for online video & media pro cessing software. 2007: Technical Writer & Web Developer, Stottler Henke, San Mateo, CA

Tested simulation software, edited web pages (HTML and Flash), did minor video e diting, converted video to different formats. Edited a Flash project to add more timelines, photos, & ActionScripted links. 2005: Technical Writer, thegilmartins.com (Prudential California Realty) Wrote a user guide for web-based software that allows salespeople to build a bus iness plan and track it in real time. 2003: Delta Tester, Hewlett-Packard Tested a 7960 Photosmart printer with Apple iPhoto, and from this testing, helpe d improve Hewlett-Packards borderless printing instructions from iPhoto. 1996-2003: Senior Technical Writer, PeopleSoft, Pleasanton, CA * Wrote application development, programmer, and application programming interfa ce (API) reference guides for PeopleSoft products. * Main projects: PeopleSoft Optimization Framework, for building applications th at use an optimization-based, decision-making capability in the PeopleTools envi ronment; Business Interlink (a 250 page manual set) to connect third party appli cations to PeopleSoft applications in real time. Designed these manual sets from scratch. 1995-1996: Technical Writer, Red Pepper Software, San Mateo, CA Updated a system administrator manual (very tight deadlines) and developer manua ls for an object-oriented programming language, for a database programming langu age, for a database, and for installation of the product. 1989-1995: Technical Writer, Comtech Services, Inc., San Jose, CA. Contracting projects for Novell, Pacific Gas & Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Johnso n & Johnson, McGraw-Hill, Octel, Measurex, US WEST Communications, EG&G, Versate c. 1989-1990: Abstract Writer, Med/Lay Publications, Sunnyvale, CA Wrote abstract of newspaper and magazine articles, and wrote a style guide for w riting these abstracts. 1982-1988: Scientific Programmer, Lockheed Missiles and Space, Sunnyvale, CA Wrote software that converted structured FORTRAN to FORTRAN IV, updated a data d isplay in real time, displayed records in user-specified formats, and simulated a mechanical device and its environment. 1980, 1981: Student Programmer, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA 1979: Student Programmer, Litton Mellonics, Sunnyvale, CA *** Education *** UC Extension Santa Cruz. AJAX class. KMVT, Mountain View. Certificate of completion for television production class. DeAnza College, Cupertino, CA. Tech Writing Certif., C++, UNIX, object-oriented design. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA. Computer Science. North Park College at Chicago, IL. BA in Mathematics.