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BRIAN
J. DOOLEY
28A McBratneys Road
Dallington, Christchurch 8061
NEW ZEALAND
Phone: (64) 3 980-7058
Email: bjd@bjdooley.com
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| October 1994 to Present |
Proprietor, BJ
Dooley Technical Information Services, Christchurch,
New Zealand. Freelance and contract technical writing for
a wide variety of New Zealand and international firms.
Products include technical journalism, technical reports,
market and technology research, manuals, online
documents, press releases, newsletters and multimedia for
the computer and consumer electronics industries. Two
additional part time employees. Clients include Datapro
Research (now part of Gartner), NBI, Faulkner, IDG,
Future Technologies, Tait Electronics, Accent Computer
Services, ANSO Systems and many others. Member of
Faulkner editorial advisory board, and advisory board
member for the Christchurch Institute of Technology's Graduate Diploma of Information
Design.. |
| January 1994 to January
1996 |
Partner, Whakapapa
Software, Christchurch, New Zealand. Creating multimedia
titles for US software company clients. Developed an
idea, proposal and prototype for a major product for
Microprose Corp. Project was contracted and an alpha
version was released. A complete multimedia demo was also
developed for the U.S. Consumer Electronics Show, and run
at the Microprose booth . Development involved
coordination of efforts from graphics design agencies,
video producers, and sound studios. I also did all
writing, including spoken scripts, plus planning and some
programming. |
| January 1991 to Present. |
Author. Wrote six
books for the US mass market: "Warriors for the
Working Day" (US Civil War), "Learn Windows in
a Day," "Desktop Publishing with WordPerfect
for Windows," "Learn OS/2 in a Day,"
"The Complete Guide to Single Engine Cessnas"
(with Joe Christy) and "Learn PowerPoint in a
Day." Won an STC award for a textbook. |
| January 1993 to September
1994 |
Senior Technical Writer,
Cardinal Professional Services (Aoraki Corp.)
Christchurch, New Zealand. Creating manuals for the LINC
mainframe database product as well as for external
clients' products. Mission was "to bring advanced
technical writing to New Zealand."
President and
founder, New Zealand chapter of the Society for Technical
Communication.
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| May 1989 to December 1992 |
Senior Product Information
Analyst, Unisys Corp., Flemington, NJ.
Responsible for creating manuals for SNA data
communications software. Also created a public relations
operation within the product information group for
publishing articles in the press. |
| January 1988 to May 1989 |
Senior Technical Writer,
Okidata, Mt. Laurel, NJ. Created manuals for printers,
served as technical adviser on modem manuals, automated
procedures, created scanned image database in Pascal.
Created one manual entirely by desktop publishing; won an
STC award for a printer manual.
Software
Developer (independent, part time). Created
graphics slide-show program (FLICKER) in Pascal; program
selected by PC WORLD magazine as best shareware product
of its type. Program also received favorable review in
COMPUTE PC and PC WEEK.
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| September 1983 to January
1988 |
Senior Associate Editor,
Datapro Research Corp., Delran, NJ (McGraw-Hill). Primary
editor of Datapro Management of Microcomputer Systems and
Datapro Management of Office Automation binder reference
services, consisting of reprints of technical and
managerial articles plus original material. Task also
included writing articles for the newsletters covering
all areas of data processing (both technical and
managerial).
Technical Consultant,
Ketron Corp., Wayne, PA (part time). Rewrote mainframe
software manuals translated literally from the Japanese.
Task included checking technical accuracy and ensuring
readability.
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| September 1980 to September
1983 |
Freelance Writer.
Business, trade, financial and technical journalism,
promotional writing and preparation of educational
materials. (Full-time self-employment.) |
| September 1977 to August
1980 |
Managing Editor,
In-Plant Reproductions (North American Publishing Co.,
Philadelphia, PA). Writing, editing, copy preparation for
this national magazine serving in-house printing and
communications managers. Promoted from Assistant Editor,
Pickin' Magazine, a national music magazine. |
| September 1976 to June 1977 |
Theatre Manager.
Worcester Foothills Theatre Co. (Worcester, MA). Teacher,
English Literature and Journalism, part-time at Notre
Dame Academy. |
| Education: |
B.A. English , McGill University in
Montreal, 1976, cum laude. All-but-thesis at Annenberg
School of Communications (University of Pennsylvania) for
M.A. Communications (1983). Full-time student (on
scholarship) from September 1980 to May, 1982. |
| Languages: |
Foreign: Portuguese, some French.
Programming: Basic, Pascal, Fortran, C; some Cobol and
8088 (IBM PC) Assembler, Visual Basic, Visual C++. |
| Systems: |
Familiar with IBM PC hardware and
software, to basic level (build my own systems). Familiar
with Unisys CTOS workstation systems. Some familiarity
with Macintosh and UNIX. Exposure to IBM AS/400, Unisys A
Series and V Series. Experience with major data
communications protocols. |
| Software: |
Experience with all major PC word
processing systems (as a user and as a software analyst).
Experience with all major PC spreadsheets, graphics
programs, and most office applications. Experience with
Pagemaker, for document design, and SGML (Author/Editor
and tools) for document control and production.
Experience with Microsoft multimedia tools, including
Multimedia Viewer, Help, and Video for Windows (including
Help file macros and internal structures). Experience
with Macromedia Director. Programming experience. |
| Personal: |
Have produced and hosted a
regularly scheduled radio program on poetry (5 years,
WXPN-FM, Philadelphia), owned a Cessna airplane and hold
a private pilot's license, am a certified scuba diver.
Enjoy cross-country skiing, guitar playing, and computer
games. |
| Awards: |
Two achievement awards from the
Society for Technical Communication (STC) for manuals and
books. Listed in the International Who's Who of
Professionals |
| Associations: |
Member of the Society for Technical
Communication (STC), New Zealand Technical Writers
Association (NZTWA), Canterbury Employers' Chamber of
Commerce. |