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A.R.FRY.
Summary of experience ► Documentation
This document provides a summary of my experience relating to Documentation and
Publishing.
I have generally been employed in technical design and development roles. I have never
been employed as a technical author per se. However, I have found that I have a particular
aptitude for documentation, and for this reason, I have played a part in the production of
documents/publications on almost all of the projects I have been involved in. This either
means designing and producing documents/publications myself, or making significant
contributions to other (project/product) documents/publications.
For instance,…
 At Netspan, I produced user guides for various subsystems (application elements).
 At ISI, I produced written material to accompany a networking course.
 At Instem, I produced the networking-related chapters of the product documentation.
 At X/Open, I produced most of the text for XTI, for XPG3 (X/Open Portability Guide).
I possess good communications and writing skills, am highly competent in the use of English
grammer and capable of presenting complex technical concepts in a simple, clear, concise
and easy-to-understand form. I am good at understanding the needs of users, at determining
the audience, purpose, scope and content of a document, at designing the layout of a
document, at gathering, producing and organising content and at producing the document
itself.
I have used a variety of DTP and word processor applications (which can also be used for
DTP purposes) to create documents/publications. These include:
DTP applications: Interleaf (a top-end, professional DTP package), Publisher
Word processor applications: Word, WordPerfect
(Note: These are mainly for work purposes … however, my children use Publisher frequently,
for school work, and I am always advising/helping them in its use).
I have used a variety of graphics applications and hardware devices to create, import, collect
and manipulate diagrams and graphics images. These include:
Graphics applications: Photoshop, CorelDRAW/PAINT
Graphics devices: digital camera, flatbed scanner
I have designed and produced many different types of document, including engineering
proposals, functional specifications, design documents, implementation guides, user guides,
administrator guides, technical overviews, test plans, websites and web pages.
As far as web publishing is concerned, I have…
 Lead the design and implementation of an intranet (designing the top-level pages)
 Designed and implemented websites
 Designed and implemented web pages
In the case of web publishing, I have a great deal of experience of HTML, usually designing
and creating web pages by hand, although I do have some experience of using web
publishing packages (Frontpage, Dreamweaver). I have also had some experience of a
sophisticated web publishing package called LivePublish.
I have also produced a number of documents in HTML form.