THOMAS M FERRETTI
**** * ***** ******, ********, AZ
*********.***@*****.*** 602-***-****
OBJECTIVE: To secure a full or part time technical writing position that will use my many years of experience as a technical
writer and electronics technician.
EXPERIENCE: 50 years of combined Naval and civilian experience in electronics and scientific disiplines. Able to read and
interpret enginneering drawings, read and interpret electronic and fluidic schematics and develop
the theory of operation, test procedures, fault isolation, logic diagrams and assembly procedures from those
schematics and drawings. Can use Adobe Acrobat to create charts, diagrams and pictures for use in documents
Write technical manuals and service bulletins using various publishing software incuding Word, Framemaker, Interleaf, Arbor Text and
Corena Studio.
WORK HISTORY: 1997 -2017 FLATIRONS/JOUVE formerly INFOTRUST, DATA DIMENSIONS
Wrote and revised hundreds of avionics and mechanical technical manuals for Honeywell avionics equipment focused
on controllers, radar, communications, data recorders and dislay units used on Boeing, Aerospatile, Embrear and
Gulfstream aircraft.
1979 - 1997 MOTOROLA
Worked as a comunications field service engineer in Boston, moved to Scottsdale, AZ to work on
the ranging transponder for the space shuttle. Wrote quality requirments documents and testing procedures.
1973 -1979 UNIDYNE CORP
Field enginneer assigned to Mobile Oerational Unit 4 (MOTU4), New London CT. Traveled the world fixing
electronics problems on Navy ships and submarines
1963 -1973 US NAVY
Electronics Technician 1st classs, job codes 1594/9558 (Secret Clearance)
EDUCATION: High School Graduate
USN Class A and C electronic Schools
Navy Leadeship School
86 credit hours in electrical enginneering (Navy NESEP Program)
Motorola Microprocessor School