Rob Tobin

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*/**** - */**** ****** Electronics Anaheim, CA

Senior Marketing and Communications Writer

Tasks included extensive web content creation and editing work, headlines,

product descriptions for catalogs and websites, consumer communication,

newsletters, news wires, and various types of editing My main task was to

write 500-750 word articles describing AV installations around the world

that use Extron Electronics AV products. It required begin able to read

complex schematics, and determine the signal flow of each installation,

interview the "integrators" who performed the installations, try to find

unique things about each installation, and then convey the essence of the

installation as both an advertisement for Extron products and an

entertaining story that both technical and "civilian" readers would enjoy.

10/2002 - 9/2010 Rapiscan Security Products, Inc. Hawthorne, CA

Senior Technical Writer

As a tech writer for manufacturers of security X-ray machines (for both

Rapiscan and EG&G Astrophysics - see below), I wrote installation, operator

and maintenance manuals for machines as small as tabletop models, all the

way up to massive trucks and in-place installations that would scan entire

cargo containers in one sweep. The machines would include electronic,

electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, software, and networking components. I

would have to go out and not just operate the machines, but take them

apart, documenting and photographing each part, both separately and in

relationship to the other components of each machine. I've helped my

employers win government contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars,

and consistently met tight deadlines and stringent government and military

standards and requirements.

08/1998 - 10/02 EG&G/PerkinElmer Instruments Cypress, CA

Senior Technical Writer

Wrote operation and maintenance manuals for x-ray security machines

(software and hardware), and marketing materials.

06/1998 - 08/1998 Gillette Santa Monica, CA

Technical Writer

Wrote technical manuals for Gillette's pen-making machines.

10/1997 - 06/1998 Writers Boot Camp West Los Angeles,

CA

VP of Development

Developed screenplays and coached new writers.

09/1993 - 10/1997 The Cannell Studios Los Angeles, CA

Director of Development

Acquired, developed and pitched feature film scripts, did script

rewrites, polishes and treatments.

07/1986 - 06/1988 Manuscripts International Dayton, Washington

Edited non-fiction and fiction books.

EDUCATION

05/2005 U.S.C Los Angeles, CA

M.A. in Professional Writing

05/1982 University of Victoria, Canada Victoria, B.C.

B.A. in Creative Writing

State of California Department of Real Estate

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