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Subject:Re: Contractor Position, Central New jersey From:Jan Bates <bates -at- KINGFISH -dot- ATT -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 28 Mar 1995 13:48:00 -0500
Your Ref: 63-95-B
Charles,
I might be interested in the position you posted today. However, I
would not be available until July 17, 1995 at the earliest and would
prefer a slightly higher rate than you quoted ($45.00). In any
case I am attaching my resume and would appreciate a little more
information about the position if you have it, in particular the
location. I live in Monmouth County (Red Bank) and prefer not to
have a long commute.
I have been working as a technical writer for most of the past ten
years (some of that time was spent programming, some doing small
system administration). I have done most of my work in FrameMaker
under UNIX/X Windows, although I also run the Windows version of FM
at home under OS/2. The details of course are in my resume.
Sincerely
Jan
Jan Bates - Documentation Consultant Voice: 908 949-2311
ADSS - AT&T Bell Labs Fax: 908 949-4001
Holmdel NJ e-mail: bates -at- kingfish -dot- att -dot- com
These opinions are mine and mine alone
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Janet Louise Bates
88 Bruce Road, Red Bank, NJ 07701
(Home) 908 842-7498
(Office) 908 842-2258
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o Position Sought
Seeking to expand my horizons in technical writing, technical translation, or
computer programming and analysis.
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o Technical Writing and Translation
FrameMaker, WordPerfect, WebMaker, html, Word for Windows,
Arts&Letters, Cricket Draw, troff.
Fluent French and German. Some knowledge of Russian, Spanish, Cantonese,
and Farsi (Persian).
Softronics Corporation (Red Bank, NJ) 1985-Present
OwnerManager--Major projects:
- Sole technical writer for group in major long-distance telecommunications
company producing optimization software for the airline industry.
Writing, production, and maintenance of user documentation for suite
of software products using FrameMaker 4.0 on a Sun-4 fileserver and
IBM X-station.
Design of user-interface screens for new features added to the
product.
Maintenance of technical "man" pages for all software products using
troff.
Pilot project to convert user documents to on-line format for use with
FrameViewer.
Development of internal "home page" for Mosaic using html.
Miscellaneous internal procedures: customer support procedures,
UNIX environment set-up for new employees.
Editing of all technical memoranda.
- Writing and production of 250-page reference manual and 28-page quick
guide for PC software product. Used WordPerfect 5.1 and Arts&Letters on a
PC.
- Documentation of a network management software system written in 'C'
under Unix for a major telecommunications research laboratory. Started
project in troff, later selected FrameMaker as troff replacement for use on a
Sun-3 workstation.
- Technical documentation of telephone directory delivery system for regional
telephone company.
Softronics Corporation (Red Bank, NJ) 1985-Present
OwnerManager--Major projects:
- Development of word processing and file-management software for
MS-DOS in Turbo Pascal and 808x assembler.
- System administration of small group of Sun workstations, running SunOS
Unix, 4.2 BSD.
- Providing a customer relations database system in Dbase III for a bank.
- Installing a loan management and financial management system for Japan
Security Pacific in Tokyo.
RCP Consulting (Kowloon, Hong Kong) 1981-85
Project Manager 1983-85
- Re-design and implementation of Loan Management System (tracking of
multiple loan types for a credit finance company).
- Client relations for all customers using RCP's Loan Management System and
Financial Management System (comprehensive general purpose accounting
package).
AnalystProgrammer 1982-83
- Client representative, analyst, and programmer for Financial Management
System.
Programmer 1981-82
- Team member and then principal programmer for Loan Management System.
Lambda Technology (now GE Information Systems, Piscataway, NJ) 1980-81
Programmer
- Conversion of JCL from OS/VS1 to MVS for publisher; programming for
AT&T stock swap; in-house teaching and course designing; technical support
for major software development team using Librarian, TSO, and Unix.
INSCO (now Continental Data Systems, Neptune, NJ) 1979-80
Programmer
- Maintenance of international reinsurance systems using Cobol, Librarian,
Easytrieve, VM/CMS, OS/JCL
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o Teaching and Course-Writing
Experience in teaching grammar, phonetics, and drama to young adults and
adults.
Development of home-study materials with particular emphasis on the
phonetics of English.
British Council and Iranian National Air Force Language School (Tehran, Iran)
1975-76
English Language Instructor
- Taught evening and day classes for the British Council.
- Taught young Air Force recruits, using US Department of Defense teaching
materials.
