Resume of Julie Brodeur, Technical Writer
techwriter @ toaster.net

Also see my portfolio.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Seven years of writing documentation for both technical and end user audiences
  • Produced a variety of guides, from end user online help to developer API guides--current focus is on administration guides for operations team and developers
  • Worked with and learned from very talented groups of writers and engineers
  • Received many kudos for online help and early tutorials produced for Cosmo Worlds--ZD Labs reviewed the product and said, "...SGI's incorporation of a true 3-D graphical view and its excellent online HTML help make the user interface more inviting."

TOOLBOX

Ordered by current ... older

  • Information Design: Acrobat/Distiller, FrameMaker, Word, Visio, SnagIt ... RoboHelp, WinHelp
  • Web Design: CSS, DreamWeaver, HTML ... VRML, Web Works Publisher
  • Desktop Publishing and Design: Illustrator, Photoshop ... Paint Shop Pro, Quark Xpress
  • Operating Systems: NT, UNIX ... MAC, IRIX
  • Programming/Scripting Languages read: PERL, PHP ... C, Java, JavaScript, TCL
  • Source Control: CVS ... Perforce
EXPERIENCE

Technical Writer @ Critical Path
June 1998 - Present
San Francisco, CA

Create and update internal and customer documentation for email products and protocols--current projects include:

  • Developer Guides for proprietary APIs
  • Operations Guide for new volume configuration on mail clusters
  • Administrator & Developer Guide for reporting system, which delivers stats on mailbox and domain usage
  • Customer Implementation Guide for Mail Administration Center
As Team Lead for past several months, coordinated efforts of 4 writers (until recent layoffs)

Technical Writer @ Silicon Graphics
September 1996 - May 1998
Mountain View, CA

  • Created and updated instructional material for Internet products (online help, FAQs, data sheets, hard copy manuals, tutorials)
  • Rewrote and updated system administration and programmer’s guides
Contract writing & HTML production
January 1995 - June 1995
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
  • Working for Poppe Tyson, formatted HTML pages for Red Herring magazine Web site
  • Working for Organic Online, wrote and edited sections of 1-800-CALL-COLLECT Web site, edited Microsoft’s An Internet Tutorial
Technical Writer & Marketing Coordinator @ Torque Systems
February 1993 - August 1996
Palo Alto, CA

Wrote and edited user manuals and marketing literature for digital publishing and distributed rendering software products

Marketing Assistant @ Micro Patent
January 1992 - December 1992
New Haven, CT

Wrote and edited marketing literature for patent search software

EDUCATION

Quinnipiac University - Hamden, CT
B.A. English (1992)


Resume of Julie Brodeur. Copyright 2001.
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