Howard Goldman

Certificated Sr. Temp/Consulting Technical Writer for Irvine, Orange County, and
Long Beach, CA
(in tel. area codes 949, 714, and 562, or work through phone and e-mail for
quickest document turn-around)

Cell phone:  [Send email to request phone number] 46-7231
Home office phone:  [Send email to request phone number] 51-1631
E-mail: HowGoldman@cox.net

Technical Publications Documentation Specialist (Tech Writer)

Writing and editing high-tech engineering documentation, from aerospace to
medical devices


* Award-winning fast-starting temp engineering writer and medical writer

* 30 years of successful copywriting and technical editing, reducing document
turn-around time

* Self starter able to work with minimal supervision

* Able to learn complex technical information quickly and present it
appropriately

* Detail-oriented, organized, and analytical

* Technical and analytical skills to convert complex principles, data, and
schematics into clear and simple documents 

* Demonstrated proficiency in all aspects of technical documentation:

- Coordinating with engineers, programmers, developers, project managers, and
technical end users 

- Defining procedures and establishing documentation needs for hardware and
software 

- Analyzing project requirements to determine documentation deliverables.

- Creating documentation plans and schedules.

- Managing projects and deadlines: prioritizing and executing tasks in a
fast-paced environment

- Designing, researching, writing, and editing text and graphics 
  
- Creating user-friendly tables, drawings, and photos

- Editing for logic, flow, clarity, simplicity, uniformity, format, spelling,
grammar, and style

- Maintaining currency, accuracy, and control of revisions 
- Regularly reporting project status to management


* Diplomatic, dependable, and motivated, encouraging teamwork

* Interpersonal skills to work productively with project teams (Engineering,
R&D, QA, Project Mgt, Marketing, Legal, Clinical, Regulatory, Micro)

* Copywriter with excellent technical English and simple English, including
English for foreigners

* Veteran translator and manager of translation into numerous foreign languages


* Experienced in producing the following document types:

   - 500 technical process scripts, including user guides, technical
specifications, and user policies per worldwide agencies and standards
   - 400 military-technical documents, written to various MIL-STDs
   - 350 marketing documents
   - 350 drawings and photographs
   - 300 procedures
   - 250 user guides and user manuals (user documentation)
   - 250 test documents
   - 200 hardware descriptions
   - 200 software descriptions
   - 150 Quality Assurance (QA) documents
   - 100 reports and summaries 
   - 75 installation guides and maintenance manuals
   - 50 white papers
   - 50 publications (journal articles)

* Proven effectiveness with numerous programs:

* Excellent references. See latest references on LinkedIn.com at the following
link: (http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?trk=hb_tab_pro#profile-recommendations)




PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATES 


* Certificates in technical and medical writing and editing from American
Medical Writers Association (AMWA), 1995 and 1997.










CLIENT LIST (SUMMARY)

* Writing Assist, writing white paper, “Qualifying in Europe for Personnel and
Equipment in Potentially Explosive Atmospheres.”

* Aubrey Group, editing a proposal on hardware development for Automated Cell
Isolation System (ACIS), for the extraction of endothelial stem cells from
adipose tissue.

* NanoIVD, Inc., editing marketing and technical documentation for cancer and
other health screening, diagnostics, treatment-targeting,
therapy-effectiveness-monitoring, and point-of-care tests (POCT).

* Xcorporeal Corp., designing, researching, writing, and editing QA procedures
(SOPs), user guides, technical specifications, policies, publications, and SOPs
for portable dialysis devices (artificial-kidney machines). 

* Cameron Health, writing and editing QA and other procedures; work instructions
(WI); Good Lab Procedures (GLP) animal study protocol; spreadsheet for tracking
requirements, tests, and compliance; and programmer software requirements
specification for subcutaneous implantable devices.

* QLogic Corp., writing and editing white papers, readme files, release notes,
style guide, and Tech Pubs procedures in Word and FrameMaker for world-leading
supplier of Storage Area Network (SAN) devices.

* Boeing Aircraft Corp., documenting avionics software test plans, test
procedures, and test results. Writing procedures for documenting the testing of
the C-17 cargo plane Software Engineering Environment.

* Alcon Laboratories, writing risk-management plans and reports and editing
journal articles on ophthalmic surgical lasers and endoilluminators.

* GeoTest/Marvin Engineering, writing and editing text and photographs for
Raytheon test station (MTS) user manual. 

* Argo-Tech Cryogenics/J.C. Carter Pumps, writing and editing engineering
procedures and white papers and editing proposals on specialty pumps intended for
Halliburton-KBR (Kellogg, Brown & Root), Bechtel, Samsung, Korea Gas, and Chicago
Bridge and Iron (CB&I).

* Corning-Samsung Advanced Photonic Technologies, Optical Networking Devices,
Samsung-Corning Micro Devices, writing and editing engineering and manufacturing
procedures, specifications, and patents.

* Meade Instruments, writing, editing, translating, and proofreading
installation and user guides (SW and HW) and marketing material for telescopes,
microscopes, binoculars, and accessories.

* PairGain, writing and editing SW and HW manuals for copper-optical phone-line
telecommunications.

* Printrak, Inc., documenting nation-wide computerized imaging, identification,
and storage of fingerprints.

* Toshiba America Information Systems (TAIS), editing configuration and user
guides for notebook computers.

* Odetics/ATL, editing installation, maintenance, and user guides for automated
tape library HW and SW.

* Braun/McGaw Pharmaceuticals/Biological Testing Laboratory, writing and editing
animal test lab reports.

* Paragon Power, editing installation, maintenance, and user guides for Navy
shipboard systems.

* AST Computer, writing and editing technical guides for networking PCs. 

* Allergan Optical, writing and editing marketing and technical summaries,
reports, presentations, posters, and clinical studies for contact-lens care
products and eye medicines.

* Emulex Corp., writing and editing installation, maintenance, and user guides
(HW and SW) for data storage subsystems and data-communications devices
(modems).

* Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), writing, editing, and
illustrating a successful multimillion-dollar proposal for networking the
Veterans Administration hospital computer system. 

* Thermco/Silicon Valley Group (SVG), writing and editing installation,
maintenance, and user guides for robotic chemical reactors that produce
semiconductor wafers.

* Elbit Systems Ltd., technical, medical, and marketing writing and editing for
high-tech medical, military, irrigation, and communications devices.

* Baxter/Edwards Healthcare, writing and editing Information Mapping procedures
for preparing Engineering Change Orders (ECO) for the development of
cardiovascular devices.

* International Irrigation Information Center (IIIC), writing summaries of
agricultural research. 

* Mor-Carmi Engineering, writing, editing, and translating airport
communications and security guides.

* Masada Press, chief copy editor of books in English.

* Tel-Aviv University, Bates College (Maine), University of Waterloo (Ontario,
Canada), Indiana University, journal editor, translator, and Assistant Professor
of Russian and English language and literature.

* U.S. Dept. of State/U.S. Information Agency, Russian-, Ukrainian-, and
Armenian-speaking guide for exhibit “Hand Tools USA,” in the Soviet Union.

* U.S. Air Force/Indiana University Intensive Language Training Center, linguist
and Russian-language writer and instructor.







MEMBERSHIPS

* Society for Technical Communication (STC), 1987–present. Orange County chapter
Vice President and Membership chair, 2001-2002. Nominating Committee, 2003-2004.

* American Medical Writers Association (AMWA), 1993–1998. Pacific Southwest
regional representative to the international organization, 1994–1998. 








EDUCATION AND AWARDS

* PhD, 1975, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Literature, linguistics, and
area studies. 
Additional graduate work in economics, sociology, and politics for certificate
in area studies; National Graduate Honor Society, National Defense Fellowships,
research and teaching assistantships. 

* MA, 1965, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Literature and linguistics.
New York State College Teacher’s Fellowship, National Defense Fellowships,
Research assistantships. 

* BA, 1963, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Linguistics and science. 
Dean's Honor List. Cornell University Scholarship. N.Y. State Regents Math,
Science, and Engineering Scholarship. N.Y. State Regents College Scholarship.
Acacia Fraternity scholarship.






CONTINUING EDUCATION AND TRAINING

* Computer hardware and software, at Haifa University, Israel


* Technical writing and editing, at MIT, and Elbit Computer 


* Plain (simple) English for technical writing, at University of Wales, Great
Britain


* Technical and medical writing and editing at American Medical Writers
Association (AMWA)


* Writing to regulatory requirements, e.g., Compendium of Federal Regulations
(CFR), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOx), and international standards, at Xcorporeal, Cameron
Health, Boeing, Allergan, and Alcon