Objective:
Web publishing position using HTML, graphics, JavaScript, CGI programming (Perl, Visual Basic), and other technologies.
Digital Publishing Experience:
Ten years: mark-up languages such as HTML, page layout software such as PageMaker, technical publishing software such as Interleaf, graphics software for line art and bitmaps, hypertext applications.
Design, discipline, and programming to support 'multi-purposing' of assets. 
Web Skills:
Hypertext: Expert at HTML. Wrote the definitive book on HTML for forms. Experience with other hypertext systems such as Interleaf's WorldView and Microsoft's Multimedia Viewer. Excellent at designing the simplest format to get the message across.
Graphic Design: Very high visual standards: my products always look good. Good at typography.
Graphics: Five years' experience with bitmap image manipulation and photo retouching. Ten year's experience with illustration/line art software. Excellent with Photoshop and Kai's Power Tools. Extensive experience converting between graphic formats. Wrote procedural manual for Exxon on converting from Macintosh to PC and UNIX graphics formats.
CGI: Extensive background in small programs manipulating text. Excellent at Perl and Visual Basic programming for forms. Developed global routines for common CGI functions so that new scripts simply define variables and call routines. Use naming standards for variables and functions. Wrote asynchronous, threaded discussion software.
Pre-processing: Extensive experience writing software to manipulate HTML documents to imitate stylesheets in tools for updating websites.

Technical Writing Experience:
Customers say my book on O'Reilly's PolyForm CGI program is worth the price of the software. It has the most thorough discussion of forms HTML of any book to date.
The PolyForm book was the first book at O'Reilly software to meet its production deadline.
At Exxon, my manuals were consistently chosen for circulation to upper management as examples of the quality of the documentation group's work. Management consistently praised manuals as 'standard-setting.'
Developed my own estimating and scheduling procedures. Met publication deadlines on all eight manuals at Exxon.
Programming Experience:
Developed Netscape 'driver' to convert straight HTML to Netscape-specific formatting (emulates stylesheets). Allows serving straight HTML and browser-specific files with less effort than creating a browser-specific file manually.
Developed web conferencing (asynchronous threaded discussion) system. Allows group interaction at website.
Other applications: Russian sentence generator. Audio flashcards for Russian and German. Various publishing automation systems. Various conversion utilities. Various small database applications: inventory, order processing.
Work Chronology:
5/96: Vacation. Also created library of global routines to handle common forms-related functions. Created program to read forms and generate most of the CGI code. Required field procedure is the best on the Web.
11/95-4/96: O'Reilly Software. Used background in web publishing to create the definitive guide to forms in HTML, as part of book on O'Reilly's form's handling program. Customers say the book is worth the price of the software. Created extensive examples of CGI applications. Acknowledged by managers as expert in HTML.
10/95: Developed software to generate Netscape-formatted documents from straight HTML. This allows World-Wide Web sites to present both enhanced and plain documents with little extra effort.
8/95-9/95: Oracle World-Wide Education. Short-term desktop publishing contract using Interleaf, PageMaker, Word, Sun Solaris tools, Macintosh, PC.
8/95: Developed computer conferencing (asynchronous discussion) software for World-Wide Web in Perl.
11/94-7/95: Sabbatical. Took time to travel, read, write, dance, update skill set, learn Internet skills including World-Wide Web publishing, and move to San Francisco.
3/95-4/95: Honkus & Associates. Took four-week contract to gain experience using Microsoft Word 6.0 for technical publishing. Set up template, wrote most of the documentation for a mapping program (to be completed later by proprietor's wife).
6/94-10/94: Senior Writer, Sysco. Three month contract to document AS400 database application. 
3/94-6/94: Educational multimedia software development using Microsoft's Visual Basic and Multimedia Viewer.
3/91-2/94: Senior Software Documentation Analyst at Exxon Exploration Company. Technical writing and hypertext development using Interleaf, WorldView, MS-Word and other software on UNIX, Windows, Macintosh. Contract extended five times.
7/90-2/91: Consulting, publishing, various.
8/89-6/90: Senior Information Center Specialist, United Way. PC technical support and systems design. Contract extended.
2/89-8/89: Technical publisher, Amoco Production Company. Produced complex graphics (well-head specifications) and redesigned document structure. Contract extended.
6/88-1/89: Analyst, Dow Engineering Company. Designed and programmed dBase III+ applications (including inventory system), trained users in various PC applications, trained graphics department for (Mac) desktop publishing. Contract extended.
2/88-5/88: Consulting, various, in Austin, Texas.
6/87-1/88: Assistant to manager of Businessland in Boston, Massachusetts. Developed automated publishing systems. Contract extended.
6/86-6/87: Consulting, publishing, created database publishing software for Directory of Holistic Practitioners.
1/85-6/86: The Networking Institute. Designed and implemented automated publishing systems, designed and built order processing database system, provided user support for national and regional computer conferencing systems. Contract extended.
Software:
Print Publishing: 4 years Interleaf, 10 years Word, 6 months FrameMaker, 5 years PageMaker, many others, 10 years converting between file formats.
Online Publishing: 1 year HTML, 4 months Interleaf WorldView, 4 months Microsoft Multimedia Viewer, 1 month Windows Help generator.
Illustration: 6 months Photoshop, 1 year Kai's Power Tools, 6 months Adobe Illustrator, 10 years with various drawing packages, 5 years with various bitmap imaging programs, 4 years scanning, tracing, and converting file formats.
Programming (for in-house and utilities): 10 years BASIC and Visual Basic. 2 years FORTRAN. 1 year LISP. 6 months Perl. 10 years various macro or application languages for word processors, databases, and spreadsheets.
Operating Systems: 4 years UNIX (Apollo, HP Apollo, Sun, SGI, Linux), 10+ years Macintosh, 10+ years DOS/Windows.
Education:
8/83-12/84: Mellon Fellowship for Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon University. Studied Nobel Prize Laureate Herbert Simon's cognitive psychology theories that are directly applicable to technical communications. 
5/82: BA, Macalester College, honors in Political Science and Economics.