Objective	To use my experience, education and skills as a publications manager, writer, or web developer to help a publishing or media-communications company reach its goals and audience.
Experience	January 2000 - present | Xilinx Inc., San Jose, CA Technical Writer, web developer Working with the knowledge management team, my duties and assignments have included being the principle tech writer of various book-length user guides and numerous data sheets documenting the features, operation, and market advantages of programmable logic devices. Also includes creating our team's web pages and making documentation appropriate and ready for access online, using text-based HTML, DreamWeaver, and Adobe Acrobat.Have also used FrontPage and Robohelp. October 1998 - January 2000 | Tava|R.W. Beck, llc. | Los Angeles, CA Y2K Specialist, Technical Writer My duties and assignments have included being the principle tech writer on Y2K contingency plans for 16 Business Units of Tava|Beck's client, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. In addition, I have edited and contributed technical writing to the Program Management Plan, the LADWP's primary Year 2000 preparedness document.  I am also responsible for creating both the text and rendering in HTML the home page on the Department's Y2K intranet website, which includes latest news updates on the program.
	1997-1998 (12+ mo.) | Kanisa, Inc. | Cupertino, CA Technical Writer As the company’s sole tech writer, I wrote user interfaces and online help files for financial planning software, user support documentation, and documentation for a knowledge management system. Edited all company documents including statements of work and knowledge management presentations.  Worked three-months as a software quality assurance engineer with very favorable reviews.
	1996–present | Nanty Glo Home Page | San Jose, CA Webmaster/publisher Founded and continue to maintain the Nanty Glo Home Page, serving my home town of Nanty Glo, Pa., with thousands of pages, graphics, and streaming videos. Create, prepare, edit and provide all material for a this community online newspaper that is updated weekly and often more often.
	1996–1997 | Net+Effects | San Jose, CA Consultant-web designer Consulted and worked on major projects involving many web tools and applications, including HTML and Java, PhotoShop, and MS FrontPage. Created the HTML on catalog sections including Eljer and Acutherm, major corporate clients.
	1994–96 | Times Newspaper Group | San Jose, CA Webmaster/editor Designed, created in hypertext markup language, edited, transferred to Unix Internet domain, and maintained hundreds of worldwide web pages logging all articles carried in the Times newspapers. Maintained the Times interactive movie, editorial issues, and religion and ethics forums; created graphics for the site using scanning and graphics software. The site which I created was among the first 75 online newspapers in the world.
	1986–present | High Technology Careers | Santa Clara, CA High-technology industry news columnist In both West Coast and East Coast editions. Regular high-technology feature writer 1996-present. Under the pen names Brian Conley and Dan Howard, have researched and written articles on the future of high speed modem communication, the limits of personal computing capacity, hardware companies moving into software production, incubators for hatching businesses, the implications of the Texaco case for future minority employment and advancement, and so on. These articles are online at: (http://www.hightechcareers.com/backissue.html). (Note: Pen names are required by the client, not my own preference.)
	1983–86 | Writers Connection | Cupertino, CA Marketing writer-PR director Planned the area’s major writers’ service company and all of its projects in conjunction with owner Steve Lester. Designed and executed membership program, conducted extensive marketing writing program through editing of monthly magazine, catalogues, advertising and promotional literature, organized seminar curriculum with as many as three dozen teachers per quarter, and regularly taught half a dozen seminars on writing, publishing, and the freelance business.
Education	1970–1972 | University of California | Los Angeles M.A., Journalism/Mass Communication. Winner DuPont Fellowship. 1967–1968 | Shelton College | Cape May, NJ B.A., English, writing. Winner graduation honor: President’s Award 1960–1964 | University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA Completed course requirements for major in English writing.
Skills, tools	FrameMaker, MSWord, DreamWeaver, Front Page, PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator, PageMaker, Interleaf, Ventura Publisher, HTML, JavaScripts, Microsoft Image Composer and Gif Animator, Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, RoboHelp.
Interests	Travel; former member (volunteer), County Historical Heritage Commission; have done newsletters and marketing/PR for several nonprofit charitable entities pro bono. Maintain the web site for the Blacklick Valley area of Pennsylvania (www.nantyglo.com) as an avocation and as a not-for-profit public service.
References	Available on request.