THOMAS M FERRETTI

**** * ***** ******, ********, AZ

ac2vj3@r.postjobfree.com 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