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b[0]="An attorney based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Chris has been in the high-tech industry since 1979 as a writer, publisher, and consultant.  He focuses his law practice on the areas of small business, estate planning, real estate, Internet, e-commerce, and intellectual property law. Chris has written on a variety of computer-related topics. He is a regular speaker at STC annual, regional and chapter conferences. An STC Fellow, Chris is has served the Society at all levels, including president of the Southeastern Michigan chapter and Assistant to the President for Special Interest Committees. He is the founding manager of STC's Consulting and Independent Contracting Special Interest Committee.";
b[1]="Karen was Manager of the Consulting and Independent Contracting SIG from 1994 to 1998.  During her tenure in this position the membership grew to over 2000 strong and made the transition to the digital age.  Karen sponsored CICSIG progressions at the national conference and developed the newsletter into a “must read” for all independent contractors.  She began the membership “rates survey” that has now become the standard for the Society.  She has gone on to other important duties in STC, but her contributions to the independent contractors membership remains.";
b[2]="Susan started her work on the CIC SIG newsletter, Independent Perspective, in early 1991 (Spring 1991 issue) as the Layout Editor and Designer. She continued in that capacity until she became the Editor in mid-1992 (Fall 1992 issue). Under her leadership, the newsletter came out each quarter without fail, regardless of how late contributors sent her their articles. Susan continued to serve unflaggingly as Editor and Managing Editor through the Winter 1997 issue. She brought the newsletter from a 6-page format through an evolution to a 12-page format, with each issue chock full of informative articles that continue to offer value to SIG members from our archives.";
b[3]="Over the past 34 years, Dr. Senzel has worked as a manager and consultant in analytical chemistry, toxic pollutant and hazardous waste management, quality assurance, and technical editing and writing.  He is experienced with GLP analytical pesticide methodology and registration procedures and GMP documentation for pharmaceutical manufacturing.  Dr. Senzel also has a background in toxicological risk assessment, visible emissions method development, air emissions standards, RCRA waste analysis requirements, and AOAC official methods of analysis.";
b[4]="Alice Jane is a technical writer living and working in The Netherlands. Originally from Montreal, Canada, Alice Jane worked on projects in several countries across the world before settling in Europe. Her academic qualifications include a BFA (Technical Design), a Post-Graduate Certificate (French), and an MA (English). She has extensive experience in writing, editing, information design, training, and project management. Her company, Comma Theory, offers documentation solutions just in time or far ahead, here or anywhere. Visit Alice Jane at www.ajemanuel.com and Comma Theory at www.commatheory.com.";
b[5]="Elizabeth (Betsy) has been consulting on plain language projects for businesses, not-for-profit organizations, and government agencies since 1990. Her specialty is converting highly technical, complex, or bureaucratic material into documents that are complete, consistent, clear, concise, and correct. Betsy holds a Masters degree in speech and hearing from Washington University. She teaches technical writing at the Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science in St. Louis, Missouri. She is an Associate Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication (STC), co-editor of Consulting Success, the online newsletter of the Association of Professional Communication Consultants (APCC), and a member of Clarity.";
b[6]="Brenda was named an STC Fellow in 2005.";
b[7]="Carol's company, A Written Word, specializes in the management of large libraries of documentation for regulated industries, such as healthcare, transportation, and pharmaceuticals. She converts legacy libraries into digitized format using templates of her own design; updates and maintains information contained in the books; writes new content; manages prepress tasks including vendor qualification; and manages the inventory of the printed books.";
b[8]="Deborah, founding partner of dgh enterprises, is an expert in developing integrated, knowledge-centered programs, services, and products. She is passionate about creating opportunities that support success for the real people who use her solutions. Deborah began her career as a Special Education teacher in Oakland Unified School District. From there she continued in the K-12 education field as an editor for CTB/McGraw-Hill where she developed diagnostic assessment tools and wrote ancillary instructional support products for teachers and parents. Following that, Deborah moved into high-tech where she became a product manager for Jostens Learning Corporation responsible for the definition, development, and deployment of multimedia learning programs for students in grades K-8. Over the intervening years, Deborah migrated her career away from the education market into the B2B space where she has held senior management positions and has guided the efforts of teams responsible for Customer Support, Product Documentation, Client Training, and Product Design and Usability. In 1994 Deborah launched dgh enterprises and since then has leveraged her extensive background in information products, process improvement, and management to help her clients succeed. Deborah is currently on the Board of Directors for the San Diego chapter of CHI and serves on the Advisory Committee for National University. She is also a founding member of the national expansion of the User Experience group (formerly the GUI SIG of the SD Software Industry Council). In her spare time, Deborah hikes lesser-known trails throughout San Diego county, plays tennis, and serves as a behind-the-plate target for her softball team.";
b[9]="No bio is available at this time.";
b[10]="Jan is an indexer and controller of vocabularies who has been in the business since 1991. She is a member of STC, ASI, ASIS, and AIFIA, and is the editor of A to Z: The Newsletter of STC's Indexing SIG. She has a Master's Degree in Library Science and a degree in anthropology, and worked as a librarian and a desktop publisher for many years before turning to indexing and taxonomies. She's abandoned big city life to live in the mountains of New Mexico with her husband Chris and three silly cats, and loves to watch the ravens gather at sunset. Her web site is at www.wrightinformation.com.";
b[11]="Jane, a Certified Performance Technologist, has been an instructional designer for over 18 years and has experience developing training for classroom, audio, CBT, IMT, WBT, and e-learning. In addition, she has facilitated classes on instructional design. She is an independent consultant, providing course design, mentoring, project management, and workshops and seminars through her company JEM Communications, LLC (www.jemcommunications.com). She is currently the Manager of the Instructional Design SIG for STC and will be presenting at four sessions at the 2004 Conference in Baltimore, including a one-day post-conference workshop on Developing e-Learning Products.";
b[12]="Judith is an STC Fellow. She also is the SIG Advocate for the Management SIG and is an enthusiastic, long time supporter of STC - and has benefited greatly from being a member.";
b[13]="M. Katherine (Kit) Brown is an award-winning writer with a background in the life sciences and 15 years of experience in the technical communication field. She is currently the Principal for Comgenesis, LLC, which provides consulting services and training to clients on how to produce internationalized documentation, as well as more traditional technical writing and editing services. Kit is an Associate Fellow for the Society for Technical Communication (STC), and has spoken about various technical communication topics at several conferences in the United States and internationally.";
b[14]="Linda owns TechCom Plus, a technical writing and consulting firm that specializes in creating software and hardware user guides, both printed and online. She also develops training materials for a variety business needs and helps her clients create more usable software interfaces. Her focus in all projects is creating information that users can understand and use. Linda has more than 17 years of experience in technical communication and related fields. and has used single-sourcing techniques for nearly ten years to successfully meet the needs of her small clients who require both print and online documentation. She has been an active member of STC, holding many local and society-level positions, since 1993.";
b[15]="Mary Ann is a former software developer turned technical writer. She has a BSEE and an MA in Professional Writing. She has been a technical writing consultant in the Pittsburgh, PA area for about 12 years. In addition to numerous product documentation and user guide projects, she has coauthored seven mass-market Internet books, and was part of a team that produced a revised set of operations manuals for a major fast food chain.";
b[16]="Rahel is the president of Intentional Design Inc., a technical communications firm specializing in performance improvement of communications products. With some 15 years of experience in the technical communication field, Rahel has put her analytical strengths to use in the areas of usability and user-centered design, along with content development.";
b[17]="For 18 years, Rhonda Bracey was a high school Teacher-Librarian and Vice Principal in Western Australia. After leaving teaching she worked for a library software company for 5 years where she was involved in customer support, software installations, training, and ultimately all documentation (newsletters, website, training materials, functional specifications, and online help). Rhonda now owns her own company (CyberText Consulting http://www.cybertext.com.au) focusing on technical writing, training, and editing for clients in all sorts of industries. She has been a technical writer 'officially' since 1997, and became one of the first two AuthorIT Certified Consultants in 2003. Rhonda volunteers her services to STC in several ways: she is the webmaster for the STC Australia Chapter (http://www.stc-aus.org.au) and the Lone Writer SIG (http://www.stcsig.org/lw/) websites, and in was a judge in the 2003-2004 Australia Chapter competition.";
b[18]="Jodie has been in the technical communication field for 15 years. She holds a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Technical and Professional Writing. As well as writing the stereotypical user manuals, Jodie also designs web sites and writes freelance articles for a wide range of magazines. She has been an independent contractor since 1993.  In her 'spare' time, Jodie runs a small farm in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains and homeschools her two children.";
b[19]="Mary has over 25 years of experience in designing, writing, editing, indexing, and managing business and technical communications. She formed Information Engineering Company  (www.inform-engine.com) in 1990 to offer these services on a contractual basis. After several years of writing user manuals and internal documentation for computer and telecommunication companies, Mary currently specializes in technical and business editing, Web content development, and website maintenance. Mary has an MS in Information Science, a strong business and research background, and proven professional communication skills. She is an active member of STC's Rocky Mountain Chapter and a founding member of Boulder Writers Alliance, where she has been webmaster since 2001.";
b[20]="As principal of AzuWrite, LLC, Martha helps clients with usability issues, designs user interfaces and websites, and provides technical writing and editing. She recently wrote a few \"hacks\" for the O'Reilly Hacks Series \"Online Investing Hacks\" book. Martha has 26 years of experience developing technical communications as a geologist, manager, and information architect. She and has been actively involved in STC since 1992 and is a senior member. Martha has presented at STC conferences, judged in both local and international STC online competitions, and has held several positions in the Rocky Mountain chapter.";
b[21]="Thomas' career moves between the world of the consultant and the academic.  His consulting career includes work in Lubbock and New York as a freelance procedural writer for the medical office system and hybrid microprocessor industries.  He is co-editor if the collection of essays entitled Getting Started in Consulting and Independent Contracting (1998), and has edited a special issue of Technical Communication on independent consulting. He served as Manager of the Consulting and Independent Contractor's SIG from 1998 to 2003. His academic career has been spent at Texas Tech University, in the Technical Communication program, where he currently serves as Director of Technical Communication.  He has edited a collection of essays on software documentation entitled New Perspectives on Software Documentation (1989) and is author of Writing Software Documentation: A Task-Oriented Approach (Second edition, 2003).  His current academic interests include technical communication pedagogy and multicultural approaches to technical communication. He is the recipient of the STC J. R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching (2005). He is currently serving as Manager of the STC Academic Community, which he founded in 2005.";
b[22]="Rich, a communication consultant, works with fast-growing technology firms implementing an integrated, company-wide communication plan employing a propriety Enlighten, Convince, Educate, Motivate, and Align\&reg\; approach. He is the President of Solari Company which offers technical communication and learning solutions, including topics through the Solari Classroom. Rich has over 25 years experience in marketing, educational, and technical communication. He is currently Assistant to the President for Competitions, a member of STC's Board of Directors, the Membership Manager for our own CIC SIG, the Competitions Manager for the Vermont chapter, a member of the planning committee for the 2007 STC Annual conference in Minneapolis, a frequent presenter at STC annual conferences, and an STC Associate Fellow.";
b[23]="Ann joined STC in 1983, was named Associate Fellow in 1996, and Fellow in 2006. She founded the Quality SIG, has managed that SIG and four others, and led development of the STC Forum and STC-on.org in 2005 and 2006.";
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