Writer/Designer/Producer dynamo, with diverse experience in designing, writing, and producing everything from print ads, press releases, brochures, product sheets, videos, and slide presentations to user guides, reference manuals, newsletters, and training guides for leading high-tech industries.

• Designed, wrote, and produced print ads, pr, marketing collateral (brochures, data sheets, trade show materials, posters, and multimedia presentations), and both internal (sales) and external (customer) newsletters, and maintained the corporate website for a leading worldwide manufacturer of network protocol analyzers. Also performed marketing research and data base maintenance. Reported to the VP of Sales and Marketing.
  
• Designed and wrote marketing collateral, end-user manuals, online help, and tutorials for a start-up firm that produced cutting-edge AI products (natural query language, and an expert system). Edited articles, produced internal and external newsletters and video training tapes, and laid the groundwork for their technical publications department. · Designed and wrote award-winning brochures, sales guides, data sheets, and end-user manuals for a well-known manufacturer of medical diagnostic equipment and hospital information management systems.
  
• Designed and wrote white papers, marketing collateral, and technical documentation for a manufacturer of data migration and warehousing software. Reported to the VP of Development.
  
• Maintained and updated eleven manuals and six online help files and wrote a new tutorial on a series of products for a top manufacturer of mainframe performance assurance products.
  
• As a contract and freelance writer, produced a wide range of technical and marketing materials for companies in the medical instrumentation, business systems, DBMS, natural language query, chip/printed circuit, data migration/warehousing, and banking industries.
  
• Also created and produced two long-running cablevision series, produced and scripted a nationally syndicated television series plus several programs at WQTV-68 (Boston), taught programming courses for three years, served as a part-time drug counselor and youth leader for over 10 years, and currently author the. "Books" column for the Mensa Bulletin (Mensa’s national magazine), which surveys have shown to be the most-read column in the magazine.
   

Applications: Buy-side order and trading management and compliance, stock market charting, relational databases, natural language query, medical instrumentation, performance assurance and computer measurement, networks, GUI front-ends, AI, expert and knowledge-based systems, 4GL and other programming languages, data migration and warehousing, client/server architecture, printed circuit board design.

Platforms: Microsoft Windows, OS/2, UNIX, IBM mainframes (OS/390, MVS, etc.).

Programming Languages: HTML, SQL, COBOL, Assembler, C, BASIC, and JCL. DBMSs: SQL/DS, SYBASE, DB2, IMS, IDMS, ORACLE.

DTP Tools: MS Office, QuarkXPress, Adobe PhotoShop, FrameMaker, Paint Shop Pro, Visio, Dreamweaver, Adobe Acrobat, Documentum. Trained & experienced in Information Mapping.

Director of Marketing, endoscopic applications software, July 2004 - present
Director of Marketing and Communications, telecomm software firm, June 2002-July 2004
Marketing Manager, Financial software company, Burlington MA, 2000-2002
Senior Technical Writer, Tradeline.com (formerly DowJones/IDD Information Services), Waltham 1999–2000
Senior Information Developer II, BMC Software, Waltham 1998–1999
Contract Marketing Writer, Analog Devices, Norwood 1998
Senior Marketing Communications Writer, GN Nettest (Azure), Hopkinton 1996–1998
Contract Writer, Ardent Software (VMark), Abbott Laboratories, Instrumentation Labs, Apertus Carleton Technologies, Linguistic Technology, Pitney-Bowes 1992–1996
Senior Marketing/Technical Writer, Computer Associates (Platinum/Trinzic/AICorp) 1981–1993
Senior Marketing/Technical Writer, Hewlett-Packard Medical Division 1973–1981

American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) Awards of Excellence for:

When Critical Decisions Are Made
Computerized Patient Data Management System
A Compendium on Computerized Arrhythmia Monitoring

Accounting, Business Law, Bentley College
Creative Marketing Communications, Northeastern University
Advertising 101, Advertising Club of Greater Boston
English Composition, Suffolk University
Video Workshops, Cambridge Center, various community cablevision stations
Medical Instrumentation, Anatomy, and Physiology, Various universities, in-house training
Programming, University of Massachusetts, Sybase, Honeywell, DEC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM

"Time-Sharing", Cybernetics, Yale University Press
"Arrhythmia Monitoring", Medical Electronics and Data
"Card-Programmable Process Controllers in the Factory", Control Engineering
"From Armchair to Director's Chair", Videomaker
"Precision Socket Screw: A Profile", Distributor's Link
"Telemarketing Software: A Benefit Package for the Entire Team", Telemarketing

Abbott Laboratories, CA; Allied Advertising Agency, Boston; Analog Devices Inc., Norwood MA; Arlington Software+Systems, Arlington; Boston Documentation Design, Braintree; Carleton Corp., Burlington; Hands-On Learning, Burlington; NationsBank; Pitney-Bowes; Precision Socket Screw, Inc., Burlington; PTR Optics; ResX; Sage Advertising

Society for Technical Communication (1998– )
American Medical Writers Association (1973–1980)
American Mensa Ltd. (1965– )
Marquis Who's Who in the US
Who's Who in U.S. Writers, Editors, and Poets
Marquis Who's Who in the East
The International Authors and Writer's Who's Who
 

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