Manager Technical Writer
Resume:
Lawrence Hurley
PO Box ****
Broomfield, Colorado 80021-0013
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summary
Extensive professional experience writing, editing, compiling, and
publishing collateral materials for high-technology products and services
in aerospace, telecommunications, and network information-technology
development, manufacture, installation, use, and repair.
projects
Network open storage systems ISO-compliant, electronic-data
transfer
Aerospace systems design and Network administration of third-party
manufacture tools
Telecommunications: telephony and Legacy document-library migration
television
RFP document-response and coordination Public-policy research, analysis, and
publishing
publishing tools
Web Publishing Book Publishing Online Help Graphics
Structured FrameMaker WWePublisher Photo Shop
FrameMaker MS Office RoboHelp VisioPro
WebWorks
selected technical-publishing projects
Freelance Writer/Research & Analysis, Westminster CO 2010-present
. Mississippi Play-Obtained private grant aid to research and develop a
study of the social effects of hydraulic fracturing for petroleum and
natural gas on four families in Woods County, Oklahoma. Lived, worked,
visited, and interviewed extensive family connections to analyze how the
discovery/non-discovery of natural gas or oil on their properties
determined their life decisions.
. Convert to Framemaker-Convert and reformat structured legacy documents,
from any application, to Adobe FrameMaker for printing and online
document delivery, including templates with standardized tag sets,
autonumbering, cross-references, variables, and hyperlinks.
Technical Writer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Broomfield, CO 2007-2009
Researched, composed, compiled, and published system requirements,
functional specifications, and collateral design materials to an
interactive project site for the Sun 7000 Unified Storage Systems product
family that features an open-source ZFS file system and DTrace system-
analysis tool suitable for small-business, IT-system applications.
Technical Editor, Motorola Solutions, Inc., Boulder, CO 2007
Developmental and substantive edits to installation and configuration
procedures for Premier CAD, an integrated suite of emergency-dispatch (911)
applications that enables multi-jurisdictional call centers to share and
manage resource allocation.
Technical Writer, OpenTV/Time Warner, Westminster, CO 2006
Mystro Digital Navigator PVR User Interface Specification, a description of
the component relationship between the AT8550 remote control and the
Motorola DVR HD Set-Top DCT6412, with which viewers locate, view, select,
preview, purchase, and record broadcast, cable, and pay-per-view programs
from a television screen.
Technical Writer, Group Systems, Inc., Broomfield, CO 2005
GroupSystems II Operations Manual and comprehensive, Web-based HTML help
for team-collaboration software designed to expedite group interaction with
idea-management tools for strategic planning, requirements gathering,
balloting, commenting, and attaching media.
Technical Writer, Hart InterCivic, Inc., Lafayette, CO 2003-2005
. Installation and operations manuals, online help, and collateral
materials for an Internet-based, voting-system application built for the
US DOD Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE) as an
alternative to paper ballots on US military bases overseas.
. Software operations manuals for an ISO-9001-certified direct record
electronic voting system used by major jurisdictions in seven states for
local, statewide, and national elections.
Technical Editor, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Broomfield, CO 2002
Full substantive and mechanical edits to Sun StorEdge system-management
instructional media and Sun Management Center data-services installation
texts and classroom materials.
Adobe Product Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Broomfield, CO 2000-2001
Sun IT network administrator for Adobe productivity tools, FrameMaker and
Acrobat; ensured effective liaison between external software provider and
Sun internal customer base worldwide, including third-tier customer support
to corporate help desk, direct user support, training materials, and
instruction.
Technical Writer/Editor, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Broomfield, CO 2000
Sun Remote Services customer-planning, installation, and technical-
operations documents for a fully redundant network of global-monitoring
centers designed to manage event detection and problem resolution in Sun IT
environments.
Technical Writer, Conexant, Inc., Boulder, CO 1999-2000
Very Short Reach Converter network-access data sheet and technical-
marketing collateral materials for the CX29900, an economical parallel-
optical interface designed to reduce the cost of connecting co-located,
high-speed, networking equipment in a service provider's central office or
point of presence.
Technical Writer, Applied Technology, Inc., Boulder, CO 1998
Site Minder User Guide, a system-configuration and procedural manual for an
automated aviation and marine fuel terminal that automatically performs
inventory and accounting tasks for individual or multi-site operations.
Technical Writer, Information Handling Services, Inc., Denver, CO 1997
PI GRID Applications User Guide, an instruction manual for a database
application that enables engineers in remote field locations to specify
natural-gas-pipeline, point-to-point criteria and to develop and
communicate maps and rates information for least costly route analyses.
Technical Writer, USWEST Information Technologies, Denver, CO 1996-1997
Online service-desk support documents for installation, configuration, and
tests of USWest residential and business data-delivery services, including
its initial public offerings of ISDN and DSL over fiber-optic networks.
Technical Writer, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Westminster, CO 1994-1996
. Intuity Voice/FAX Messaging User's Guide, a desktop reference booklet
that describes telephone keypad access to the Intuity AUDIX voice-mail
system, where users personalize desktop voice mail.
. Message Manager Help, online help for Intuity AUDIX, a multimedia-
messaging platform that enables small businesses to attach voice, fax,
text, or files to messages.
Technical Writer/Editor, ICTT, Terre Haute, IN 1993
Substantive edits and rewrites to ICTT proprietary software specifications
engineered to perform model-based systems processes for booth-testing
diesel engines at the Cummins Diesel plant in Columbus, IN.
Book Editor, National Conference of State Legislatures, Denver, CO 1991-
1992
Primary editor and production manager for books and non-periodical
publications at NCSL, a public-policy research institute that serves as the
principal advocate for the interests of state governments before the United
States Congress and federal agencies.
Classroom Instructor, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 1990-1991
Honorarium instructor, University Writing Program, which focused on
critical thinking, analytical prose, exposition, and discourse to prepare
incoming students for the rigors of university writing.
Technical Writer, Ball Aerospace Systems Group, Inc., Boulder, CO 1986-1989
Senior technical editor and principal publications coordinator for major
system-element documentation for the Relay Mirror Experiment, a $120M, DOD-
funded demonstration of space-based-laser pointing and tracking
technologies required for a ballistic-missile defense system described by
the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO).
education
University of Colorado, Bachelor of Arts, English 1984
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