SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Over 12 years experience as an analyst with focus on business software and systems.
• Strong background working with clients, designers, developers, programmers, and SMEs to identify requirements, specifications, provide cost analysis assist with creating and mapping interfaces, and developing implementation timelines.
• In-depth understanding of project lifecycle, including all phases of system and software development.
• Proven track record in InfoMapping, technical writing, testing, quality assurance, networking, ADDIE protocol-based instructional design, and training.
• Master communicator with superior interpersonal, presentation, and training abilities.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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• Environment: Home Office: MS Word 2007, HP desktop with XP Pro, Toshiba Satellite laptop,Movie Magic Screenwriter 6, Canoscan 8600, HP Pro K550 printer, Brother IntelliFax 2800.

• Accomplishments: Developing opportunities for technical writers in Culver City and across the state ofCalifornia. For self and clients, developed, provided, wrote digital content for marketing and usermaterials such as: Why and How to Use Content Providers, and Health blogs: How One Person Beat

• Type 2 Diabetes, and Tasty Diabetic Cooking. Developed blogs and contributed to blogs, such as:Writing a Screenplay Beat by Beat, Politics from the Bible, Strange Travels Around the World, MentalIllness in a Nut shell, Hypnotherapy in a Nut shell, and Does A Pig Licve In My House

• Turtle Rock children's blogs for adults .

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Principal Tech Writer/Business Analyst

• Environment: Toshiba Satellite laptop with Windows 7, Dell laptop with Windows 2010, MS Office 2010, Visio 2007, WBS, Primavera 6, GSAP, Adobe Acrobat, Drop Box, Multi-level PC servers in both the Confidential
• Accomplishments: Analyzed management and employee SOPs and updated the SOP
• premise template for an EPCM-PCI client in the oil industry. Interviewed managementemployees to validate work requirements and worker specifications. Wrote an Activity
• Reference Guide for project management employees. Developed a Documentation Style
• Guide, and a library of technical documentation to support optimal work and cost performance in project management. QA'd all business, technical, and training documents. Wrote technical and marketing documentation. Edited technical documentation written by others. Edited and upgraded training materials for facility turnaround certification, and for a Scheduling and
• Estimation Instructor's Guide. Charted refinery workflows in Visio. Rewrote company website.
• Reason for leaving: completed contract.

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Staff Writer PTE

• Environment: Home Office: MS Word 2007, HP desktop with XP Pro, Toshiba Satellite laptop, Movie Magic Screenwriter 6, Canoscan 8600, HP Pro 6350 Printer/Fax/Copier Combo.
• Accomplishments: Wrote/Rewrote/Supervised the writing of feature screenplays and TV show concepts, including Time Passages and For the Love of Grace.
• Reason for leaving: Lee Levinson retired business ceased operation.

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Staff Writer PTE

• Environment: Home Office: MS Word 2007, HP desktop with XP Pro, Toshiba Satellite laptop,Movie Magic Screenwriter 6, Canoscan 8600, HP Pro K550 printer, Brother IntelliFax 2800.
• Accomplishments: Wrote such titles as: The Perfect Song , Hand of Greed , and No Honor
• Here for the one-hour TV drama series, Two Roads, broadcast on Middle Eastern and European satellite television.

• Reason for leaving: Series was cancelled.

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Story Editor PTE

• Environment: Home Office: MS Word 2007, HP desktop with XP Pro, Toshiba Satellite laptop, Movie Magic Screenwriter 6, Canoscan 8600, HP Pro K550 printer, Brother IntelliFax 2800.
• Accomplishments: Supervised, edited, and rewrote 14 half-hour segments for the documentary
• Oceans Away, funded by PBS and China Central Television, the first such joint Chinese and
• American television project.
• Reason for leaving: completed contract.

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Sr. Business Writer/Analyst PTE

• Environment: Home Office: MS Office 2007, HP desktop with XP Pro, Toshiba Satellite laptop, Movie Magic Screenwriter 6, Canoscan 8600, HP Pro K550 printer, Brother IntelliFax 2800.
• Accomplishments: Analyzed industry trends, developed start-up and corporate operations budgets, income projections, and pro forma sheets. Interviewed corporate partners to determine business needs and use cases to establish company requirements. Wrote company
• business plan. This plan became the corporate design for the start-up of one of the industry's
• largest new media companies.
• Reason for leaving: completed contract.

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Game/Story Designer PTE

• Environment: Home Office: MS Office 2007, HP desktop with XP Pro, Toshiba Satellite laptop,Canoscan 8600, HP Pro K550 printer, Brother IntelliFax 2800. On site: RAID disk arrays and proprietary software.
• Accomplishments: Advised/designed games for this game development company specializing in science-based single player, multiple player, and MMO games. Established high-level game requirements and player specifications. Performed high-level design of extensions for StarRovers, a large MMO-RPG currently being developed for NASA. Developed winning proposal to NASA for this work. Designed functional testing for game software.Reason for leaving: completed contract.

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Creative Executive PTE

• Environment: Home Office: MS Word 2007, HP desktop with XP Pro, Toshiba Satellite laptop,Movie Magic Screenwriter 6, Canoscan 8600, HP Pro K550 printer, Brother IntelliFax 2800.
• Accomplishments: Wrote film and television project marketing materials for such talent as Halle
• Berry and Morgan Freeman.
• Reason for leaving: completed contracts.

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Sr. Software Analyst FTE

• Environment: In a VB and C Windows NT, AS400 MS Navision server, InfoMapping.
• Accomplishments: Reverse-engineered and documented software to produce programming requirements and user manual documentation for eJewelry, an X12 EDI and AS2-based ERP accounting and inventory control program for this IBM Navision Development Partner. Interviewed jewelry industry executives to validate business needs and develop additional use cases. This is the only catalogue in the jewelry industry that covers all aspects of jewelry manufacture and sales.
• Reason for leaving: completed contract.

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Senior Instructional Designer FTE

• Environment: XP Pro, PC IBM Server, Adobe FrameMaker 7 Acrobat, Final Draft,InfoMapping.
• Accomplishments: Interviewed corporate partners and banking executives to develop training requirements, business needs, and use cases. Designed, wrote, and produced/authored DVDs, accompanying print, and e-learning modules for a ten-title series, Professional Sports Coaching for Managers, for this training production company, sold internationally to financial institutions. Performed functional testing on these training materials.
• Reason for leaving: completed contract.

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Sr. Psychologist PTE

• Environment: Home Office: MS Office 2003, SPSS for Windows, HP desktop, Canoscan 8600,HP Pro K550 printer, Brother IntelliFax 2800.
• Accomplishments: Designed, performed and authored research studies using statistical
• Sampling and data analysis modules of SPSS for Windows. These resulted in the national
• validation of a battery of popular educational tests via a functional testing model. Conductedinterviews with manpower placement specialists to identify business needs and use cases.
• Also QA'd and revised the Work Expectations Inventory, Work Concerns Inventory, Life
• Concerns Inventory, and the Cognitive and Conceptual Abilities Test, four extremely popularemployment tests in the manpower development industry.
• Reason for leaving: completed contract.

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Sr. Business Writer PTE

• Environment: Home Office: MS Office 2003, HP desktop, Canoscan 8600, HP Pro K550printer, Brother IntelliFax 2800.
• Accomplishments: Analyzed industry trends, developed start-up and corporate operationsbudgets, income projections and pro forma sheets. Interviewed recording company executivesto identify business needs. Wrote company business plan. My work served as the basis forthis very successful publisher of recompilations of popular music albums.
• Reason for leaving: completed contract.