Technical Writer Project

Gary J. 'ROD' Rodriguez

720-***-**** ***********@*****.***

“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.”

Jonathan Swift: English-Irish essayist, satirist, poet and cleric

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Re: Technical Writer

Sirs:

To deliver quality technical documentation, one must be comfortable with the details, and processes of science, technology, and business enterprises. I most frequently develop extensive sets of documentation in the support of discoveries, re-discoveries, inventions, proposals, and other business support functions. I also use the documentation process to drive the completion of project objectives. The process of problem documentation can also clarify, and help solve problems.

I have authored documentation in application domains that include, yet are not limited to aerospace, archaic technology, geometry, building technology, projects, and systems. I also create many, though not all illustrations that elaborate, or ornament a document. After a pause of a few years, I have recently resumed posting of technical papers to the ResearchGate.net website (Berlin) in my spare time, in order to eventually transfer a substantial fraction of my IP to the public domain. Perhaps, my musings may inspire someone. I prefer to engage on a contract basis, especially since many benefits are redundant to my family’s healthcare situation.

Thank You for considering my candidacy,

Gary J. 'ROD' Rodriguez

720-***-**** ***********@*****.***

Re: Technical Writer

Qualifications

Extensive experience in consulting, and contract research and development in diverse markets that include aerospace/avionics, engineering, industrial, oilwell, science, systems and building products. Hardware/software integration, embedded, diagnostics, team, and project management. Every project begins, and ends with high-fidelity documentation. Achievements (chronological)

φ Many examples of troubleshooting problems. In one situation, I identified the problem within two hours on the first day of a consulting call – and the manager later claimed that a dozen engineers had worked on the problem for six months, at a cost that exceeded $500K φ Developed a Data Acquisition Controller logic card that replaced both a computer board, and software – converting an existing Rockwell-Collins BSIU computer product into a Flight Data Recorder for use aboard the President’s Helicopter Fleet at Pax River NAS – simplifying the product, and enhancing reliability. The deployment has yet to exhibit a single documented failure, or glitch, operating aboard the Marine One fleet of VH3, and VH60 aircraft – exceeding the specified twenty years of product life cycle φ Sold the Colorado School of Mines on a research project for NASA BAA/Lunar Dust project, developing the project proposal, including the project management plan, schedule, budget, and a detailed, four-year Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)/Statement of Work (SOW) – securing a $15M NASA BAA contract for the Colorado School of Mines φ Developed software tools to support payload, and vehicle integration, plus on-orbit remote operation/recommissioning for Air Force Research Laboratories. Developed extensive documentation, and managed the project, leveraging two generations of proprietary (in- house) remote debug monitors that supported on-orbit operations as if the system were on- the-bench, leading to commercial users of the sIDErealTM software package φ Lead development of software tools, and a series of exploratory research contracts that studied feasibility of various electric/ion-drive long duration missions – making significant breakthroughs that had eluded the client’s mission teams, enabling the intended missions φ Independent developments, and documentation in machine cognition prized from ontogenic structure, and concurrent with geometric tools that exhibit a high fidelity to nature φ Collaborative research, and development of a table-top, battery-powered, aneutronic fusion process that does not require magnetic or metal lattice confinement, or massive scales of power, or construction. Authored the provisional, and draft patent, which is pending. Work History

CEO/Systems Architect & Designer at sysRAND Corporation Parker CO 12/1989 - present Education & Certifications

B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science with a minor in Business Data Processing from Metropolitan State College, Denver, CO. Heavy coursework in Psychology and Anthropology.

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