BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL WRITING / EDITING EXPERIENCE

STEPHEN N. JAMES
Freelance Writer / Web Weaver
11105 Sierra Nevada, Austin, TX 78759
Voice: 250-1571, Internet: snjames@snjames.com

TECHNICAL AND BUSINESS WRITING / EDITING EXPERIENCE

During the past twenty years I have written virtually every type of business related piece possible including complete business plans, company histories, departmental procedures manuals, quality assurance guidelines, magazine ads, sales brochures, newsletters, proposals, reports, and most recently Internet WWW home pages. Although I am highly skilled at design and layout, my passion is producing text of the appropriate content and amount to elicit the desired response from the reader. Communication is the key.

The following list illustrates some of my more notable writing accomplishments:

Books

MORE HTML for DUMMIES (working title) - Co-author with Ed Tittel and Sebastian Hassinger, IDG Publishing. June 1996, 400pp.
HTML for DUMMIES 2nd Ed. - Co-author with Ed Tittel, IDG Publishing. March 1996, 500pp.
Computer Telephony Essentials - Co-author with Ed Tittel and Dawn Rader, Academic Press. February 1996. 250pp.
ISDN Networking Essentials - Co-author with Ed Tittel, Academic Press. August 1995. 200pp.
HTML for DUMMIES - Co-author with Ed Tittel, IDG Publishing. June 1995, 450pp.

Magazine Articles

Review of WWW Browsers - Co-author with Ed Tittel, I-Way magazine, July 1995.

User's Manuals written and/or edited:

Great Hills Information Systems, Inc.

User's Manual for Windows based insurance industry software package. (Name and exact content are confidential until released.)

Environmental Technical Services Co.

Designed, wrote, and produced WWW home page in HTML on Internet.
Wrote and produced marketing brochure.

FlexSales Systems, Inc.

Wrote, edited, and produced user's manual for OS/2 Point-of-Sale system.
Wrote, edited, and produced marketing and sales materials for company's software and hardware products.
Prepared company business plan, contracts, licenses, and non-disclosure agreements.

The Psychological Corporation

Wrote technical portions of user's manuals for seven Psychological testing products coded in C, C++, and Visual Basic for Windows.
Prepared software specifications and schedules for ten DOS and Windows products in C, C++, and Visual Basic for Windows.
Prepared consulting and non-disclosure agreements.
Wrote Software Development Procedures manual for entire department.
Edited seven user's manuals over a three year period.
Wrote Quality Assurance procedures manual.

The Austin Cycling Association

Edited the newsletter for the 500 member association for one year.
Wrote numerous articles on bicycling, health, nutrition, and clothing.
Transformed the old xeroxed letter page format into printed newspaper format complete with pictures and advertising.

FYI, Inc.

Wrote and edited all marketing and sales materials for all company software products.
Wrote and/or edited user's manuals for FYI-MCD, FYI 3000, and SuperFile products.
Prepared all contracts and agreements between FYI, Inc. and clients.

Radian Corporation.

Wrote the biological portions of many EIS's and edited others over a five year period.
Prepared qualifications and proposals for numerous projects.

Texas Parks & Wildlife Dept.

Wrote reports relating to the work of the Coastal Fisheries Branch in concert with other state agencies and the University of Texas Coastal Management Project team.

The University of Texas Marine Science Institute.

Co-wrote reports on the Biotopes of the Texas Coastal Zone for the State of Texas Coastal Zone Management Project.

Tracor, Inc.

Wrote portions and edited the overall environmental assessment report concerning the 9,600 acre San Antonio Ranch housing development west of San Antonio, TX. for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.

EDUCATION

B.A., Zoology, The University of Texas at Austin, 1970.
M.A., Zoology, The University of Texas at Austin, 1974.
Workshop on Managing Software Development Projects, 1991.
Workshop on Team Building Skills and Total Quality Management, 1993.

SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY

Windows 95, Windows for Workgroups, Word, Excel, Windows Help, Photo Styler, Paintshop Pro, On-Target, Quicken, TurboTax, Internet software (HTML, Win95 Dial-up Networking for ISDN, Trumpet Winsock, Mosaic, NetScape, Gopher, Archie, WS_ftp, Eudora, WinQVT, etc.), and many more packages.

PERSONAL COMPUTER EQUIPMENT

Windows95 network using Ethernet cards in two 486's with multi-media/CD ROM capability, ISDN connection using US Robotics Sportster ISDN 128 card, a separate 486-33 system for hardware testing, and HP Laser and Color Ink Jet printers.

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