: About Me

Summary
Over 30 years experience with Raytheon in electronic, electro-mechanical, mechanical, and business technical writing. Often leading teams of writers or training developers, have produced technical manuals for complex electronic systems, proposals for large-scale programs, procedures and policy documents, training materials, and marketing/catalog pages.
Able to develop technical documentation from engineering drawings - mechanical or schematic, test procedures and specifications - from concept and outline through finished product, with minimal technical input.

Document Types Produced
- Multi-volume technical manuals for use by operators to field-service engineers
- Training presentations including student and instructor guides, practical exercises, and tests
- Proposals covering integrated logistics support for complex systems
- Alteration instructions for military and commercial equipment modification
- Integratated Logistics Plans covering documentation, training, repair, spares, and disposal
- Franchise manuals
- Computer application User's Manuals

System Types Worked On
- Complex radar and missile systems
- Rock-crushing equipmemt suites
- Fire-protection and OSHA compliance reports
- Area surveillance systems
- Radiation screening and detection
- Large-area (Amazon River basin) environmental monitoring

Excellant peer, supervisor, and manager references available.

My passion is ...

Astronomy, fishing, and most anything outdoors.

I know too much about ...

Ballistics, history, and woodworking.

Why I write ...

Because I must, to really learn any new subject.

My first job ...

First "real" job was as an ET in the US Coast Guard.

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Most people find a need, on a fairly regular basis, to persuade another person to a particular point of view. A parent often wishes to convince a child that a particular action is desirable, or maybe detestable. An employer, if presented with the possibility of union infiltration, would want to persuade his employees that a union would be undesirable. The union organizer would persuade otherwise. Special interest groups wish to persuade Congressmen; Congressmen wish to persuade voters. When this activity is face to face and verbal, the persuader can readily see when a mis-statement has cos...

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