Work History
Sparton Electronics ( www.sparton.com), DeLeon Springs, Florida, 1999 - 2000
Position: Technical Writer

Air Force Technical Applications Center (AFTAC) (www.aftac.gov), Patrick AFB, Florida, 1990 - 1999
Positions: Manager, Liaison, and Technical Writer

Management Experience
- Managed Canadian operations & maintenance contracts for AFTAC
-- Liaison between AFTAC and Canadian government officials, contractors, on-site personnel, and other Air Force Agencies
-- Led yearly on-site quality assurance team
-- Guided team to write new Statement of Work, later used as the model for international agreements with Spain, Turkey, Australia and Korea
-- Coordinated $12 million equipment upgrade in Cambridge Bay, Canada
-- Acted as a Technical Consultant to $129 million Canadian/American contract
-- Acquired a $60,000 tracked vehicle at no cost to replace another needing $10,000 in repairs

- Managed AFTAC's most sensitive, special-access classified program
-- Led team of six to solve contingencies and crises that evolved
-- Rewrote classified program regulation to resolve security concerns and decreased regulation by 40%
-- Initiated secure telephone and email communication with on-site personnel
-- Recovered $300,000 in misplaced communications cable

- Decreased nuclear test alert response time by 27% by conceiving idea, researching options, and initiating use of a multi-paging system, notebook computer, and projection screen to increase accuracy

- Supervised five personnel to detect foreign nuclear tests and manage the real-time data flow from 28 sensor arrays worldwide as part of the AFTAC Operations Center

- Led annual 10-person team to solicit over $25,000 in annual charity drive from 500 personnel to achieve a net gain of 21% over the previous year

Technical Writing Experience
- Sole Technical Writer for Sparton Electronics
-- Interfaced with engineers and performed final layout and editing of proposals - converted proposals to Portable Document Format (pdf) using Adobe Acrobat, and added necessary bookmarks and links
-- Improved company sonobuoy brochures by updating and standardizing technical data; color-coding and converting to Portable Document Format (pdf)
-- Designed graphic wall chart to teach new employees and potential customers about how a sonobuoy works - replaced a text-only brochure

- Sole Technical Writer for the Alert Management Office
-- Created daily, weekly, monthly, and special technical reports
-- Liaison with engineers and scientists in 14 separate departments
-- Decreased nuclear test alert response time by 27% by conceiving idea, researching options and initiating use of a multi-paging system, notebook computer, and projection screen to increase accuracy
-- Initiated website posting and electronic transmittal to improve report dissemination
-- Created and presented daily MS PowerPoint worldwide status presentations to the Air Force Technical Applications Center commander, senior headquarters staff members and visitors up to and including ambassadors and three-star generals
-- Published comprehensive nuclear test alert procedures for a suspected nuclear test - procedures were used for 1998 Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests
-- Created reports and graphics used to brief National-level policy and decision-makers following the "Suspect Earthquake" at Novaya Zemlya in August 1997
-- Initiated website posting and electronic transmittal to improve report dissemination
-- Wrote and presented daily worldwide status presentations to the AFTAC commander, department heads and visitors up to and including ambassadors and three-star generals

Skills
Microsoft Office 97 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); Adobe PhotoShop, Acrobat, PageMaker; Windows; ADA, Pascal; and Quark Express Able to quickly learn and master computer programs, then teach the programs to others