Technical Writer
(documentation engineer)

R O Y P A S S F I E L D
(805) 278-8987 [email protected]

3844 Channel Is. Bvd., #216
Oxnard, CA 93035

EDUCATED in England as follows:

Hampton Grammar School	6yrs	GCE: Math, Eng Lang, Physics, French
Army Apprentices School	2yrs	C&G II: Telecoms Math & Principles
Reading University	4yrs	BS Electronics Engineering

EXPERIENCE for 20 years as follows:

Worked alone, and led teams of writers and drafters developing documentation and on-line help for software and hardware for a broad range of electronic equipment such as computer applications, computer peripherals, digital control systems, and lecommunications.

Documentation included User, Programmer Reference, Diagnostics, Service, Installation, and Customization Guides, from system conception through development, production, commissioning and training for all levels of personnel (development, test, production and customer/users.

TOOLS and EQUIPMENT familiarity

Environments	MS Office, Framemaker, C++ on Windows PC and MAC RoboHelp and Doc-to-Help HTML and some cgi, PERL,and JAVA GML/SCRIPT/ISIL/BookMaster on VM/CMS Network with LAN/WAN including Novell, ethernet, TCP/IP and internet
Software Applications Languages Communications	Applications, Languages, Communications DBMS, Graphics, Optical Archiving, Internet Utilities, WEB pages C++, HTML, VBasic, JCL, Intel Assembler, Microcode on 68000 Internet and Intranet with TCP/IP, and GroupWare Networking with Novell, LAN/WAN Ethernet and Token Ring Telephony (ROLM/IBM, NTI )
Hardware	Micro (80x86, P2, 68xxx) IBM Mini AS/400, System36 Mainframe (IBM 370, DEC PDP11) 32-Bit dedicated 68000 Array Processor Digital switching (ITT, NTI, MCI Fiber Optic

ASSETS:
Familiar with wide range of electronic disciplines, hardware and software.
Capable of developing documentation from design through released product.
Familiar with many documentation environments and techniques.
Short learning curve so can be productive quickly.
Able to communicate with all levels of personnel, both to gather and to disseminate information.

WORK HISTORY OF ROY PASSFIELD

6/98-11/98 CDI Corp. Santa Barbara	Assigned to Tracor to write installation and maintenance procedures for a new generation of mobile target acquisition and database management network system for the USMC. Used Microsoft Word running under Windows 95. Work included practical application of the proprietary LAN/WAN system used for communication and data acquisition.
7/96-10/97 New Boston Sil Spring, MD	Upgraded User and Customization documentation and wrote on-line Help for 32-bit version of document imaging archive and retrieval system . Used Word for Windows v6 and v7 and RoboHelp.
2/96-7/96 New Boston (Writer) Sil Spring, MD	Wrote Methods and Procedures for the maintenance, technical suppot and upgrading of the US Courts nationwide WAN. Also assisted with the Tech Support for the WAN, using internet tools such as telnet, ping, trace and remote control software, in both PC and UNIX environment..
8/95-2/96 New Boston Sil Spring, MD	Upgraded Training courses for latest release of Hughes Strategy Network system. Also integrated on-line help into the Windows based program. Used Framework and Lotus Notes on Novell Netware LAN.
2/93-6/95 Westat Inc. (SysEng) Rockville, MD	Worked with a team of developers on a Btrieve based application to tailor, customize, diagnose and use a NTI SL100 switch control program. Also did the complete documentation and on-line help for the product. Used C++ and Btrieve on Windows equipped PC on a Novell network. Documentation on Word and Robohelp.
6/91-12/92 CTG (SysEng) Vienna VA	Worked on application to install, tailor, customize, diagnose and use an IBM program offering to integrate office and document image storage (OfficeVision and ImagePlus) in an MVS environment. Of particular interest in this project is that there was no product specification, just source code with programmer's comments. Also did software verification and diagnosis. Used EPM on OS/2 equipped PC and XEdit/Bookmaster on VM/CMS.
2/90-4/91 Contract (MCI) Vienna VA	Investigated for NCS (US Gov.) architecture and features of the proposed development and implementation of the digital fiber network. Included technical information on switch architecture, ISDN implementation, signaling and long haul routing and provisioning. Used WordPerfect on IBM PC and GUI graphics application on MAC.
9/84-1/90 various contract assignments	(IBM) Team leader producing SysProg, SysOp, MesCod, Inst/Customize, and AppProg Guides for MVS. application from initial spec through publishing. Used XEDIT & BookMaster on VM/CMS. Generated on-line Help on AS/400 using PDM/SDA under CUA. (NTI) Digital telephone switching equipment (used TOPS spec & HP word processor). ITT) Upgrades to file control equipment (WordPerfect & PageMaker on PS2) (IBM) Telephony software system on MVS/XA (BookMaster on VM/CMS (Exide) Sole responsibility for Manuals, Mktg Lit. nd Docs Procedures for UPS equipment. Started on contract. Offered permanent position after 6 months. (Used ASM/PASCAL under MSDOS for software, Wordstar/Word under MSDOS for docs).
1/7211/81 EMI /OMNI/GE England/IL/WI	Started with EMI as freelance engineer. Joined permanently in '75 to assist a team developing new generation CAT scanner. Responsible ref, prog ref and diag manuals for a new 32bit array processing system. In '79 was selected as one of a team of consultants to assist in setting up a US operation (EMI Inc). Led team of writers and drafters documenting US developed equipment. When EMI sold the US subsidiary in '81 to OMNI, was retained as instructor to train field service personnel and customers on the new generation scanner. Used VAX/UNIX for docs and Fortran/ASM and icrocode for software. Left when OMNI threatened to resell and went to GE to document the new generation CAT Scanner from that company.

Pre the above, spent 1966-1972 as contract engineer in England.