Technical Wroter

James H. Allen, Jr.

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Los Altos, CA 94024

Home: 650-***-****

Cell: 650-***-****

Email: *********@*********.***

OBJECTIVE

Technical Writer: Creating technical materials for customers as well as engineers inside the company. Generating Data Sheets, Programming Guides, Reference Designs, and Technical Notes to explain the easiest ways to get the maximum performance out of the company’s products.

SUMMARY

Professional technical writer and instructor with more than 10 years of experience writing technical materials and instructing engineers in the semiconductor industry. Generated Data Sheets, Reference Designs, Developer Guides, and Technical Notes for Solid State AutoFocus lens. Generated Site Preparation, Installation and Maintenance Manuals for semiconductor test equipment. Generated documents including Data Sheets, Developer Guides, and Technical Notes for image sensors. Responsible for the creation, development and instruction of stand-up and WEB based classes for System on a Chip design process.

Noteworthy accomplishments include:

• Created documentation for LensVector’s Solid State AutoFocus Lens

• Creating a variety of Technical Documentation for Micron/Aptina Image Sensors on aggressive schedules with excellent quality to meet customer demands

• Made successful transition from primarily Engineering tasks to Technical Writing

• Developed floorplanning class to take a netlist through all stages of floorplanning, including clock synthesis, power closure and timing closure (LSI Logic)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Authoring Tools: FrameMaker, Illustrator, Photoshop, Visio, Word, PowerPoint

Office Productivity Tools: Documentum, Synchronicity, Excel, Acrobat, MS Project

CAE Tools: PrimeTime, VCS, Jupiter, MarsRail, Design Compiler, Formality

EXPERIENCE

LensVector Mountain View, CA 2009 to 2011

Senior Technical Writer

Created documentation for LensVector’s proprietary Solid State AutoFocus (LVAF) Lens. Created Data Sheets, Programming Guides, Technical Notes, and Reference Design documentation for use by LensVector’s customers to design the LVAF lens into their cell phones, PDA's and other hand held devices. Taking input from Application Engineers and Marketing personnel in the form of Word documents and producing PDF documents directly or converting them into Framemaker files then to PDF format.

Teradyne, Inc., Nextest Systems Division San Jose, CA 2008 to 2009

Senior Technical Writer

Responsible for the generation and maintenance of a variety of customer-oriented documentation required for the Site Preparation, Installation and Maintenance of semiconductor test equipment. Documentation created in FrameMaker and delivered to customers in PDF format. At Nextest, the Technical Writer is responsible for checking the accuracy of their documentation by going out in the lab, setting up the test equipment and running various diagnostics and test routines.

Micron Technology, Imaging Division San Jose, CA 2005 to 2008

Senior Technical Writer

Creating documentation for image sensors and System on a Chip (SOC) products for use in a variety of mobile applications. Creating Data Sheets, Developer Guides and Technical Notes for use by our top tier customers to design cameras for cell phones, PDA's and other hand held devices. Taking input from Application Engineers and Marketing personnel in the form of Word documents and converting them into FrameMaker files then to Adobe PDF format.

LSI Logic Milpitas, CA 1998 to 2004

Senior Technical Training Engineer

Developed training material for LSI Logic's latest product line: "RapidChip". This included material for both stand up and WEB based training. Developed and taught technical training courses on LSI Logic's FlexStream ASIC development flow, including the Design Sign-Off Milestones. Recorded audio and video lectures of course material for course availability on the internal LSI web site. Utilized Dreamweaver software to produce WEB ready custom training.

Synopsys / Viewlogic Systems Mountain View, CA 1996 to 1998

Technical Training Engineer

Conducted training courses at Synopsys and Viewlogic as well as various customer sites. Participated in course development and verification. Managed three classrooms, installed software upgrades, licenses etc. Taught technical training courses on a variety of Viewlogic products: Verilog with VCS (Verilog Compiled Simulator) and PowerView (Schematic Capture and Simulation).

MasPar Computer Corp Sunnyvale, CA 1994 to 1996

System Engineer

Reported to the VP of Engineering, responsible for overall system level design requirements including integration of individual boards (processor, router and I/O) into the complete system as well as the scheduling of resources. Responsible for the development of processor and I/O sub-system backplanes, power supply sub-system and front end (workstation) subsystem. Managed an industrial / mechanical design subcontractor.

Project Engineer

I was the primary technical interface between MasPar design team and a military contractor responsible for shrinking and ruggedizing the system. Generated detailed Statement of Work and Technology License Agreement to facilitate transfer of technology from MasPar to contractor. Participated in design reviews with ARPA.

EDUCATION

MSEM in Engineering Management, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

BSEE in EECS, University of California, Berkeley, CA

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

UCSC Extension: Grammar for Technical Writers (2006), Dreamweaver (2003)

Perl Programming (2002), TCL/TK (2001)

UCB Extension: Designing w FPGA’s (1998), UNIX Utilities (1996),

ANSI C (1994), RISC Processors (1993)

Foothill College: Introduction to C++ (2003)

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