Aaron DaMommio, Austin, Texas
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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
 
Sept. 2003-present
 Contract Technical Writer
 Motive Communications
 Austin, Texas

Oct. 2002-June 2003
 Contract Technical Writer 
 Spherion, at Dell Computer Corporation
 Austin, Texas
 
1998-Oct. 2002
 Senior Technical Writer; Software Team Lead 
 3D Systems, Inc. 
 Austin, Texas
 
Aug. 2000-Sept. 2001
 Model Railroading columnist and web site maintainer (part-time)
 About.com
 New York, New York

Sept.1996-Dec. 1997
 Technical Writing Project Manager
 Concero Software
 Austin, Texas
 
June 1996-Aug. 1996
 Concero Software
 Technical Writing Team Lead
 
Sept. 1994-June 1996
 Concero Software
 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.