Project Manager Management

Gary David Bannister

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Chicago, Illinois 60625

773-***-**** mobile

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LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-bannister

Technical Writer/Editor and Project Manager with twelve years of experience in the health

care, telecommunications, and insurance industries.

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

May 2012 – present: Part-time Document Specialist/Project Manager at FACIT (Functional

Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapies). Duties include translation project management,

editing/proofreading of clinical research forms, and data entry.

May – November 2012): Information Specialist/Consultant at Abbott Laboratories, Global

Research and Development division. Duties included migration of pharmaceutical legacy

documents to a new SharePoint-based repository, editing complex document lists, proofreading of

process and procedural documents in MS Word and PDF format.

July 2009 – May 2012: Full-time Document Specialist/Project Manager at FACIT (Functional

Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapies). This became a part-time role in May 2012.

Other projects: Data analysis for the organ transplant group at the University of Chicago Medical

Center (June-October 2010).

June 2002 – July 2009 Documentation Specialist/Project Manager at Center for Outcomes

Research and Education (CORE), part of NorthShore University Healthsystem (formerly

Evanston Northwestern Healthcare) Evanston, Illinois

Creation, editing and quality control of clinical research forms and other medical research

documents based on project requirements. Wrote and edited process and procedure documents for

internal and external audiences. Translation project management, maintaining SharePoint project

documentation archive and MS Access project database. Active in process

improvement/automation initiatives. (In July 2009 CORE re-formed as FACIT Translations.)

2000 - 2001 3Com Corporation Rolling Meadows, Illinois

Technical Writer and Editor for the Cable Access Group

Wrote and edited development process/process flow documents, software release notes,

installation manuals and software development lifecycle documentation. Installed and maintained

Documentum document archive system. Prepared documents for product and software

certification. Maintained development meeting records.

1999 - 2000 CNA Insurance Companies Chicago, Illinois

Systems Administrator for IT Department - Subscription Services

Managed subscriptions to electronic/web-based information services, performed troubleshooting

and problem resolution for Windows users. Maintained Novell and NT servers. Prepared

documentation and coordinated training for end-users. Provided content and assisted in testing for

web-based applications.

1997 - 1999 Kelly Services Chicago, Illinois

Consultant at CNA Insurance Companies:

For IT Department, managed subscriptions to electronic information services. For Agricultural

unit, calculated Agricultural Insurance rates and designed rate books.

EDUCATION

Immaculata High School Leavenworth, Kansas

National Merit Scholar

Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois

Bachelors Degree in History, 1997.

Minor in Spanish.

Northern Illinois University DeKalb, Illinois

Completed “Fundamentals of Technical Communication” at NIU in May of 2000.

SKILL SET

Healthcare/Pharmaceutical documentation

Knowledge of medic al terminology

Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, Visio and PowerPoint

Microsoft Access and Project

Windows and Macintosh Operating Systems

Adobe Acrobat

Adobe FrameMaker

Documentum

SharePoint

Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

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