Richard Thomson Information Designer 9 Whelden Lane Stow MA 01775 (978) 823 0075 richard.thomson@attbi.com Objective: Principal-level or management position taking advantage of my skills and experience in Web- based information systems, documentation writing and production, online help systems and user interface design. Particularly interested in finding ways to adapt computer technology to people's needs, rather than training people to adapt to the computer's needs. Experience by Skill Set Writing _ Effectively used user interface design skills to produce documentation sets that integrated graphical application interfaces with minimal or non-existent hard copy. _ Successfully managed the design, writing, and printing of the documentation and training materials for multiple V1.0 products. _ Co-authored a paper published in the ACM SIGDOC Journal of Computer Documentation Volume 18 Number 1, January 1994. _ Wrote award-winning documentation for, and contributed to the user interface design of Digital's DECwindows "hypertext" system. _ Produced a series of high quality user guides for a new line of personal and mini computers. Their award-winning design was readable enough to be used as a pre-sales tool, but technical enough to be used in a post-sales environment. Web site / online creation and management _ Designed and developed innovative help systems for several startup companies. _ Managed complete redesign and rebuilding of a corporate Web site. _ Designed, built, and maintained a new-from-the-ground-up corporate intranet. _ Designed, built, and maintained a highly successful 10,000+ page extranet serving a worldwide sales network. _ Created (Hyper)help systems and online information sets in HTML and WindowsHelp. _ Currently working on a Certificate of Professional Achievement in WebMaster Technology at Northeastern University. Project-leading _ Led a 6-person team to design and produce information sets for a suite of tools running on the Ultrix platform, with an emphasis on modularity and online formats. _ Drove the award-winning redesign of the Datatrieve documentation set, reducing it by 1000 pages and saving an estimated $1 million in distribution and printing costs. Tools _ FrameMaker, RoboHELP, Word, and Interleaf _ Dreamweaver, HomePage, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Access, JavaScripting, Active Server Pages, Cold Fusion (varying degrees of familiarity) _ Windows, NT, Mac, UNIX (limited) Chronological Work History October 2001 to present Consulting to Compaq Corp, Veridiem Inc, Waban Software Technical writing services. _ Designing and writing documentation, training, and help materials. June 2000 to September 2001 Veridiem Inc, Maynard, MA. Principal Technical Writer _ Managed the design, writing, and printing of the documentation and training materials for a V1.0 product. _ Designed and implemented an innovative context-sensitive help system. December 1998 to May 2000 Atcomm (nee Xiox) Inc, Manchester, NH. Principal Technical Writer _ Managed complete redesign and rebuilding of the corporate Web site. _ Managed the design, writing, and printing of the doc set for a V1.0 telecommunication product. _ Combined user interface design skills to produce documentation sets that integrated graphical application interfaces with minimal or non-existent hard copy. March 1995 to October 1998 Open Market Inc, Cambridge, MA. Webmaster, Principal Technical Writer _ Designed, built, and maintained a new-from-the-ground-up corporate intranet. _ Designed, built, and maintained a highly successful 10,000+ page extranet serving a world-wide sales network. _ Managed the design, writing, and printing of the doc set for a V1.0 product September 1992 to March 1995 Digital Equipment, Tewksbury, MA Documentation Design Consultant _ Led a 6-person team to design and produce information sets for a suite of tools running on the Ultrix platform, with an emphasis on modularity and online formats. _ Created (Hyper)help systems and online information sets in HTML and Windows Help. _ Co-authored a paper published in the ACM SIGDOC Journal of Computer Documentation Volume 18 Number 1, January 1994. January 1991 to August 1992 Digital Equipment, Varese, Italy Senior Technical Writer _ Drove the award-winning redesign of the Datatrieve documentation set, reducing it by 1000 pages to produce an estimated $1 million distribution and printing cost savings. March 1987 to December 1990 Digital Equipment, Valbonne, France Senior Technical Writer _ Wrote award-winning documentation for, and contributed to the user interface design of Digital's DECwindows "hypertext" system. _ Combined user interface design skills to produce documentation sets that integrated graphical application interfaces with minimal or non-existent hard copy. June 1980 to February 1987 IBM, Austria; Philips, Holland; Olivetti, Italy ICL, England. Various positions as a technical writer Status: Resident Alien (Green Card holder) Education: B.Sc. Psychology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England 1980.