Chris Herborth

Design, Develop, Document

abpob2@r.postjobfree.com

http://www.pobox.com/~chrish/

*** ********* ******,

Pickering, Ontario L1V 3X3

905-***-****

OBJECTIVE

To design and develop top-notch Web software, Mobile apps and

Games. To create useful and usable Tools for internal and external Users.

DEVELOPMENT

Designed and developed the Dundas Support Site based on ScrewTurn

Wiki; integrated it with internal CRM and bug tracking software, added

many additional features and tools. Designed and developed product

add-ons for .NET components. Lead Project Zombie maintenance de-

velopment team. [C#, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, ASP.NET, JSON, XML,

Ajax, SOAP, VisualStudio, Team Foundation Server]

(Dundas Data Visualization, Inc., http://support.dundas.com/)

Developed sample programs to support developerWorks articles. [Medi-

aWiki, PHP, jQuery, XPath, XML, Java, Ant, C, Unix, Eclipse, Subversion]

(IBM developerWorks)

Designed and developed single-source documentation processing tools,

generating HTML and PostScript/PDF. [XML, Python, SGML, make, La-

TeX, HTML]

(QNX Software Systems, Ltd. and CRYPTOCard Corporation)

Designed and developed code samples and demos for ReportNet report-

ing system. [XML, SOAP, XPath, C#, Java, perl]

(Cognos)

Developed samples and demos for SecureRealms, Plan Nein, s-Peer;

FrameMaker/CVS integration tools. [Java, C]

(Texar)

Developed BeOS port of V-Delta programming language; designed and

implemented thread pool, networking stack, OpenGL extension. [C++,

BeOS, make]

(Catharon)

Acted as geek liaison between R&D and other departments such as

technical publications and marketing.

(Everywhere)

Maintained, ported and used open source software continuously since

the late 90s. [Python, Info-ZIP, development tools, IDEs, Wikis, editors]

(Everywhere)

DESIGN

Designed organization and content of Dundas Support Site, Dashboard

documentation, developer newsletter. [HTML, CSS, WikiMarkup]

(Dundas)

Designed Apple Dashboard (and Yahoo! Widget Engine) widgets. [HTML,

JavaScript, CSS, Photoshop]

(My copious spare time.)

Helped redesign development/documentation/release process for Mo-

mentics IDE and developer utilities. Created now-defunct developer sup-

port website.

(QNX)

Designed custom HTML-based online help system, end-user focused

document redesign.

(CRYPTOCard)

Designed JavaHelp-based online help, end-user documentation.

(Texar)

Created BeOS game development/porting support library.

(Next Generation Entertainment)

DOCUMENTATION

Wrote end-user documentation for Dashboard, .NET component APIs

and technical newsletter for developer customers.

(Dundas)

Wrote patent provision documents.

(Dundas, QNX)

Wrote a wide range of freelance articles for developers, administrators

and power users.

(developerWorks)

Wrote end-user documentation for Momentics IDE, development and OS

utilities.

(QNX)

SKILLS

Enhanced Government of Canada Security Clearance (2002)

Development environments/tools: VisualStudio (2010 to 6), Eclipse,

XCode, Team Foundation Server, Bugzilla, Subversion, Perforce

Languages: C#, JavaScript, PHP 5, Objective-C, Python, Bourne shell,

VisualBasic.NET, Java, C++, C, Perl

Web: HTML (5, 4, 3.2), CSS 2, XHTML, ASP.NET, ScrewTurn Wiki, Me-

diaWiki, XML, XSLT XML Schemas (XSD), XForms, JavaServer Faces

Applications: Microsoft Of ce (all versions), Adobe Creative Suite,

FrameMaker, FrameMaker+SGML

Operating systems: Windows (7 95), Mac OS X (10.6 Snow Leop-

ard 10.3 Panther ), FreeBSD (9 6), Linux (Fedora, Mandrake), QNX

(Neutrino, 4), BeOS

Virtualization: Parallels, VMware, VirtualBox, VirtualPC

Excellent user-interface, page-layout, and graphic design skills; lots of

experimentation with 3D rendering and modelling, as well as video

editing

Excellent interpersonal and communications skills; perceptive and re-

sourceful, with proven problem-solving, analysis, mentoring, and team-

leading skills

Senior Member (lapsed) of the Society for Technical Communications

(STC), DNRC

AWARDS

Society for Technical Communications: Award of Merit (2001), Award of

Merit (2000), Award of Merit (1999), Award of Merit (1998), Award of Ex-

cellence (1995), Communications Award of Merit (1991)

STC Ontario Chapter's Haiku Contest (2000)

BeOS Masters Award for Outstanding Contributions (1997)

HISTORY

Dundas Data Visualization, Inc. Senior Zombiologist/Data Visualization

Products Developer (October 2006 - Present)

IBM developerWorks Freelance Writer (February 2006 - Present)

QNX Software Systems, Ltd. Senior Technical Writer (June 2004 - Sep-

tember 2006); R&D Technical Writer and Tools Developer (Kanata, On-

tario; April 1995 - December 1999)

CRYPTOCard Corporation Documentation Overlord (Kanata, Ontario;

September 2003 - June 2004)

Cognos Corporation Technical Writer 4 (Ottawa, Ontario; September

2002 - September 2003)

Texar Corporation Senior Technical Writer (Ottawa, Ontario; August

2000 - September 2002)

Catharon Productions, Inc. Senior Programmer and Technical Writer

(Telecommute; December 1999 - August 2000)

Next Generation Entertainment Chief Technical Of cer and Senior Pro-

grammer (Telecommute; April 1999 - December 2000)

Various Publishers Freelance Writer, Technical Editor (1996 - present)

NCR/AT&T Global Information Solutions Information Products Devel-

oper (Waterloo; January 1991 - April 1995)

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Junior Programmer (Toronto; May

1990 - August 1990 co-op work term)

EDUCATION

University of Waterloo Bachelor of Arts 1993

English: Rhetoric and Professional Writing, Dean's Honour List.

Mini-Minor in in Computer Science; classes in Anthropology, Semiotics,

Creative Writing.

INTERESTS

Computer graphics, animation, and multimedia (especially ray-tracing, 3D

rendering and image processing).

Programming/designing my many pet projects.

Video games (playing as well as designing and writing).

Music (there's only two kinds I don't like Country and Western).

Lego. Dragons. Cartoons and anim . Comic books (usually graphic

novels ).

Reading/writing (horror, fantasy, cyberpunk, literature, computer science,

sci-, whatever's handy).

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