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 Experienced
and competent in many diverse industrial areas.
I began my full-time technical writing business in 2000 as Expeditory UK, and Authorgraphic Ltd was established in 2002. I have now retired
from writing documentation, and have dedicated myself to helping others
to write their own manuals in house. I now have a track
record that includes 160+ client companies worldwide, spread across 11 countries
from UK to Europe, and as far away as India, USA and Australia.
I worked in various technical companies across my career (I
started on the Concorde Flight Computer development team!), and was often asked to write Equipment
Manuals or the Software Help Guides as part of my job responsibilities.
I seemed to 'have the knack'. These
career roles included:
- Electronics Development
- Drawing Office Management
- Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
- Technical Sales / Franchise Management
- Marketing
- Electronics QA, and later, Software QA
- Software Product Management
- Technical Troubleshooting
- Staff Training.
These areas gave me broad competence in technical, engineering and
business skills.
Authorgraphic Ltd, established 2002
As my authoring business was going well, I set up Authorgraphic Ltd in 2002.
I started training
in 2004, and have run
Technical Writing
Courses across 10 countries, and have trained hundreds of people.
Although I no longer run live courses, the full course content - and
more - is contained in my Training Manual. So
now I pass on my skills for free, with my
technical writing course.
I retired in March 2017.
Technologies handled
I have worked on documentation for a wide variety of businesses and
technologies, from a low-tech Lawn Care Franchise business, to the
highest-tech, such as editing the specification for world's largest
optical telescope for the European Southern Observatory (ESO), and a
manual for processing radioactive waste at a power station. See Author Skills.
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