Experience

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  Self-employed

  • Brentwood California 94513

  • Technical writer/copy editor; aspiring show business novelist

    • 1961 - Present
    • Brentwood California 94513

    I have about 45 years experience technical writing (20%) and copy editing (80%). Currently, I have completed a 74,000-word show business novel. It's based on my three years research and experience acting in TV commercials as a member of Screen Actors Guild, having one play produced, and doing many showcases as a standup comic during the mid-1970s. After that, I joined the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, where I soon became a full-time expert at helping scientists, engineers, and administrators improve their technical presentations. Retirement came in early July 2006. Since then, I have focused on writing my first novel and currently am sending query letters to literary agents.

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  NYU Advisory Group on Electron Devices

  • Manhattan

  • Tech writer/editor

    • 1961 - 1963
    • Manhattan

    Left AGED to do similar work for North American Aviation's Autonetics Division, Anaheim, California, from 1963 to 1968. After that, worked as all-purpose general writer and editor for Isaacs-Dobbs Systems, a small computer startup company, Westwood, California, for one year (1968-1969). After IDS, joined Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena (1969-1973). Then came an inspiration to write a novel about show business as it's experienced in Hollywood. Spent three years researching (as noted above). After I ran out of money and gained sore wrists from writing hundreds of pages of notes, I moved north to join Lawrence Livermore Laboratory as a tech writer/editor (1976-2006). The University of California had administered LLL when I worked there. Thus I have a UC pension for my 30 years at LLL. During my retirement, I gathered all those hundreds of note pages plus profound memories and wrote my completed show business novel.