The contents of this portfolio have been chosen to demonstrate the variety of projects and deliverables I’ve had the opportunity to contribute to during my tech comm career. They are listed in reverse chronological sequence, so that my most recent work appears at the top.

Using WordPress as a content management system (CMS) is now an established practice. This online portfolio takes additional advantage of the “Features & Teasers” function of WordPress and the Thesis theme to automatically display the portfolio items in a two-column format, with links and thumbnails.

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Website design (2009)

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While unemployed, I invested time and attention on “Web 2.0″ and current online trends.
In addition to designing my own website, I created and installed a [...]

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Image manipulation and design (2009)

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Starting with a digital photo of snow outside my front door, I worked with the image in Photoshop to crop it, re-color it and apply [...]

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Software training guide (2009)

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This generic, “vanilla” training guide for the company’s standard, in-house ERP systems was produced using Adobe Framemaker.
Most of these users would be transitioning from non-standard [...]

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Software implementation cookbook (2009)

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This book, written in Microsoft Word, provides step-by-step instructions on how a particular plant or location is to implement web-based logistics software from a third-party [...]

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Online help, mainframe (2009)

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Yes, greenscreen.
Since it is immediately available to end users at their point of need, the quality and usability of mainframe help is actually very important. [...]

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Quick references, web app (2008-9)

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These two quick references are based on a templated format I designed to support implementation of third-party software.
The Microsoft Word template is flexible enough to [...]

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Site design, SharePoint (2008)

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While many aspects of SharePoint were enforced enterprise-wide, the need to publish a library of content dictated that my team’s site be organized for ease [...]

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Software demo with voiceover (2008)

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This Flash demo is one of a series that introduced shipping clerks to a new web-based logistics system.
After familiarizing myself with the application and the [...]

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Software simulation (2008)

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This Flash-based simulation was produced using Adobe Captivate.
Since Captivate’s automated features do not function with a mainframe, I created the fields, entries, and navigation manually.
The [...]

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Online help, ecommerce (2008)

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This online help is one of a set of help files I created and maintained, using Adobe Robohelp, for the company’s e-commerce portal.
The information in [...]

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Control parameter documentation (2007-8)

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This document provides details of control parameter “switches” for one module of the company’s ERP system.
Each parameter is defined and the results of each setting [...]

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In-service presentation (2006)

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Monthly change notices for software updates were published monthly for the business units via a Lotus Notes database application. Product managers contributed overview text, while [...]

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Quick references, ecommerce (2006)

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These quick reference cards, created in InDesign, won an Award of Merit in the 2007 NEO STC Regional Technical Publications Competition.
They are designed to show [...]

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Software user manual (2002)

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This manual was created in Adobe Framemaker, using a standard corporate template, and was over 300 pages long. I revised the content for the latest [...]

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eLearning (2001)

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From draft text provided by a consulting company, I condensed and edited the content to draft courses in storyboard format. I was expected to source [...]

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Quick references, clinical (2000)

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These two quick references served as memory aids for critical and complex procedures that were infrequently performed.
They served to supplement the official documentation in the [...]

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