Experience

OpenOffice.org

• Germany
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical editor

  • Mar 2006 - Present

  Technical editor on the OOoAuthors documentation project Technical editor on the OOoAuthors documentation project



Freescale Semiconductor

• Technical editor

  • Jun 2005 - Nov 2005

  Back when Motorola still technically owned the firm before the Freescale Semiconductor spin-off was finalized, on a six-month contract administered through TAC Worldwide, I edited the separate Metrowerks CodeWarrior assembler and compiler manuals for both the 8-bit and 16-bit Freescale embedded-microcontroller chip families. In addition, I wrote from scratch a practical tutorial for each of those four engineering manuals, describing how to use each assembler or compiler, plus mentioning any detected deviations or idiosyncrasies that each assembler or compiler possessed. Show less



Metrowerks, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Motorola

• Technical editor

  • 2005 - 2005

  Technical editing for Motorola/Freescale Semiconductor was often performed on behalf of its wholly owned software subsidiary--Metrowerks, located also in Austin. Confer Freescale Semiconductor for any details. Besides the above job description, I have submitted numerous errarta lists of their software user guides and manuals to Metrowerks (or directly to Motorola for their errors...) since 1999. Technical editing for Motorola/Freescale Semiconductor was often performed on behalf of its wholly owned software subsidiary--Metrowerks, located also in Austin. Confer Freescale Semiconductor for any details. Besides the above job description, I have submitted numerous errarta lists of their software user guides and manuals to Metrowerks (or directly to Motorola for their errors...) since 1999.



Bodycote

• United Kingdom
• Metal Treatments
• 700 & Above Employee

• Induction heat-treating technician

  • Nov 2003 - May 2004

  Performed heat-treating of automotive components in its Canton MI plant Performed heat-treating of automotive components in its Canton MI plant



Archdiocese of Detroit

• United States
• Religious Institutions
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Teacher

  • Feb 2001 - Jun 2001

  The principal at St. Stephen's (K-5) school in my neighborhood asked me to step in before the school fired an incompetent fifth-grade teacher, making me the third teacher for that particular class that year. The strange (hard to believe) thing about this was that this teacher was a recently retired public high-school teacher at a suburb of Detroit with some thirty years of "experience." Yet, she couldn't teach English, science, or math to nineteen eleven-year-olds... The principal at St. Stephen's (K-5) school in my neighborhood asked me to step in before the school fired an incompetent fifth-grade teacher, making me the third teacher for that particular class that year. The strange (hard to believe) thing about this was that this teacher was a recently retired public high-school teacher at a suburb of Detroit with some thirty years of "experience." Yet, she couldn't teach English, science, or math to nineteen eleven-year-olds...



Lincoln Park (MI) public school district

• Teacher

  • Sep 1998 - Feb 2001

  K-12 teacher in the 10-school Lincoln Park school district. K-12 teacher in the 10-school Lincoln Park school district.



WRVA

• United States
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Broadcast engineer (and at eleven other stations than the two)

  • Nov 1968 - Jan 1970

  Worked sixteen hours weekly as a broadcast engineer at 50KW clear-channel WRVA (also WRVA-FM) in Richmond VA while on full-time active duty in the US Army as a TV director at the Quartermaster Corps headquarters at Fort Lee (Petersburg) VA. BTW, as one of the country's earliest FM stations, WRVA-FM (now WRVQ) is grandfathered to maintain its ultra-high power as one of the few super-powered FM station in the US--200KW versus the typical maximum today of 50KW. Also worked at several radio/TV stations, both before and after my stint at WRVA, (sometimes, simultaneously at as many as three different broadcasters) in Wisconsin for twelve years in various capacities as a DJ to chief engineer. Litany of other stations: 50KW WISN, WUWM, WTMJ, WTSO, WZEE, WAUK/WAUK-FM, WAWA/WAWA-FM, Channel 18 (Milwaukee), Channel 3 (Madison). Show less



US Army

• United States
• Law Enforcement
• 1 - 100 Employee

• TV director, among other positions

  • Mar 1968 - Jan 1970

  Drafted soldier (honorably discharged)--trained to kill, break things, and such. However, I never ever had an opportunity to utilize any of those specialized skills, as I never left the country. Instead, after basic training I had a month's leave before being directly assigned to Fort Lee (Petersburg) VA--a fancy fort with three 18-hole golf courses--and then worked in the rather tame field of television production at the Quartermaster Corps headquarters and headquarters company (HHC). There, I primarily was a TV director, videotape editor, and master-control operator for Fort Lee's closed-circuit TV system and production facility, working with almost all civilians but very few other soldiers. Even got out more than two months early in order to attend the University of Wisconsin again under the GI Bill... Show less