Resume

Aaron DaMommio
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Summary of qualifications

· Ten years of experience developing user, programmer, training, and marketing documentation

· A career that spans hardware and software companies

· Document design experience

· Experience converting documents for on-line use and crafting them into interlinked systems

· A proven ability to learn new technologies quickly and communicate them to others

· FrameMaker, Adobe Acrobat, RoboHelp, Web Works Publisher Professional, Corel Draw, Corel Photo-Paint, Microsoft Word, Homesite, and raw HTML skills

Experience highlights

· Wrote API documentation in Javadoc and doxygen formats, editing source files in Emacs.

· Wrote and updated documentation for complex server software using FrameMaker, Web Works Publisher, and Homesite.

· Designed a context-sensitive help system using FrameMaker and Web Works Publisher Professional. Learned macro language, added code-generated “breadcrumbs” feature.

· Migrated a set of paper documents to an integrated on-line PDF library. Added new documents and additional hypertext features incrementally to manage resources. Designed system so that users could get the most out of legacy documents while the latest documents received layouts, formats, and organization designed for on-line usability.

· Led a cross-functional software team to produce software releases and collect customer information, putting the emphasis on user needs.

· Designed, developed, and maintained on-line and hardcopy user documentation for a laser-based rapid prototyping machine with proprietary hardware and software.

· Designed and wrote a heavily graphical hardcopy user’s guide with every two-page spread set up as a distinct topic.

· Wrote 47 model railroading feature articles in HTML format while maintaining web links, discussion forums, and user relations as the Model Railroading Guide for About.com.

· Developed documentation standards for technical writing teams.

· Wrote hypertext in HTML, PDF, Microsoft HTML Help, and Windows Help formats.

· Implemented an internal, on-line documentation library using HTML and PDF formats so that all members of the company could access released documents.

· Created training courseware and delivered training for a 20-application client-server database environment using the Unix-based NEXTSTEP operating system.

· Maintained documentation sets for multiple object-oriented software applications in a product set through many design changes, under tight deadlines.

· Co-authored a marketing document in Windows Help, the Dell Directory, which won Best of Show in the 1993-94 statewide computer-based medium competition of the Society for Technical Communication.

Employment history

Dates	Positions	Company
Sept. 2003-present	Contract Technical Writer	Motive Communications
Oct. 2002-June 2003	Contract Technical Writer	Spherion at Dell Computer Corporation
1998-Oct. 2002	Started as Senior Technical Writer; later added Software Team Lead role	3D Systems, Inc (formerly DTM Corporation) Austin, Texas
Aug. 2000-Sept. 2001	Model Railroading Guide (part-time)	About.com New York, New York
Sept.1996-Dec. 1997	Project Manager	PSW Technologies Austin, Texas
June 1996-Aug. 1996	Technical Writing Team Lead
Sept. 1994-June 1996	Technical Writer
1992-1994	Information Developer I, Information Developer II	Dell Computer Corporation Austin, Texas

Education

· B.A., Plan II Liberal Arts Honors Program, University of Texas at Austin

· National Merit Scholar

Organizations

Society for Technical Communication: Public Relations Committee Chairperson, 2002-2003

References and writing samples

Available on request.