Manager Technical Writer

Christopher B. Castro

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Sunnyvale, CA 94089

Cell: (408) 306 – 6629

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

Employment History

Christie Fremon Consulting, Sunnyvale, CA 02/11–Present

Proofreading/Editorial (sub-contract)

Current duties include proofreading content for grammatical and typographical consistency and providing feedback on content for Apple ITunes Financial Payments and Reports training documents.

Freelance/Consultant Writer/Editor 04/08 12/10

Network Frontiers, Inc. Cupertino, CA 12/04 – 03/08

Senior Staff Writer (Contract/Freelance)

Researched government and privately-developed regulations, standards and policies; organized and developed summaries for a Sarbanes-Oxley compliance-related project and accompanying book and tools related to the subject; identified key elements and processes for IT compliance, including records-retention, business continuity and risk management requirements.

Freelance/Consultant Writer/Editor 08/01 11/04

Numerous small projects including article writing, publications management and a writing project for Bath N' Counters custom marble.

Optivo Corporation, Palo Alto, CA 10/00 – 07/01

Technical Writer

Developed online help system for the Optivo pricing application and worked closely with engineers to devise its overall structure. Wrote user manual for the first release of the product. Contributed to the outline and structure of the installation and configuration guide.

The Dialog Corporation, Mountain View, CA 05/00 – 09/00

Technical Writer

Worked on a number of projects for the technology department, ranging from online product documentation to internal process documentation based on the RUP (Rational Unified Process). Edited numerous internal web pages.

Education

• UC Santa Cruz, March 2000. Bachelor of the Arts in Literature including coursework in computer science.

• De Anza College. Technical Communications Certification (Completed Spring 2003).

• Certified Licensed Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) California PCTB.

Additional Experience

• Intern Technical Writer at Taligent, Inc. 06/97 – 09/97. Style guidelines development and documentation for IBM VisualAge C++.

• Intern/Co-Op Technical Writer at Compaq. 07/98 – 04/00. Training, Configuration Management and SDLC process documentation.

• Production Manager, Chinquapin Student Literary Magazine, UC Santa Cruz, 1998-2000

• Editorial Staff, Red Wheelbarrow Student Literary Magazine, De Anza College, 2002-2003

• Layout Design, BayCon 2011 Progress Report and Newsletter, 2011. http://baycon.org/2011/publications.php

Web Pages

• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/castrochris

• Personal Web Page: http://castro.planetx.com/

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