Skills

• Ability to consult on a wide variety of issues related to publications
• Extremely high (award-winning) level of writing and editing skills
• Strong technical background and logical sense, yet an easily readable style
• Impeccable attention to detail (copyediting as well as developmental editing)
• Ability to evaluate and improve virtually any writing or writers
• Speed and adaptability; fast learner of new applications and technologies

Experience

• Extensive writing and editing of books and web content for developers and end users
• Lead editorial and supervisory role for documentation suites and a technical journal
• Creation and maintenance of numerous editorial style guides
• Publications group management under Steve Jobs
• Involvement in design of end-user and programming interfaces
• Programming, from assembly language to object-oriented programming

Clients (partial list)

• Adobe
• AMD
• Apple
• Apress
• Bare Bones Software
• BigFix (later part of IBM)
• Collaxa (later part of Oracle)
• Genentech
• Group Computing (later E-Pro Magazine)
• HotPaw Productions
• Institute for the Future
• Kinoma (later part of Marvell)
• Leadership Learning Community
• Logitech
• Marimba (later part of BMC Software)
• Netscape (later part of AOL)
• Nokia
• PSS Systems (later part of IBM)
• Rational Software (later part of IBM)
• SkyPilot Networks (later part of Trilliant)
• Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA)
• TidBITS (later Take Control Books)
• TiVo