David Reid Email & Phone Number

Hengelo, Overijssel, Netherlands

Thales Nederland (Naval) based in Hengelo make radars and CIC systems for the world

Europe

Bespoke hardware design for high speed interfaces. Operating system testing for Acorn computers and other hardware/software solutions for many clients.

Hengelo, Overijssel, Netherlands

I was re-elected to the works council for another 3 year term. but still doing my normal job as well.

Hengelo, Overijssel, Netherlands

Hengelo Netherlands

I am developing new technology for documentation and knowledge capture using video I used to write technical maintenance and service manuals for Thales in S1000D.I am also the XSLT guru for the department - responsible for the PDF/HTML production layout and bug fixing in the XSLT templates we use in our production environment.I've just completed XSLTs to automatically generate all the front matter of all the Binders in a documentation set - in 20 mins instead of hours and hours per binder.I am also a member of the content/structure expert group in Thales.I am the pioneer of using Scenario based Documentation in TNL for our online user software manuals for our Combat Management System software for Maritime Security Operations. I designed the methodology, and practical implementation of using S1000D XML with DITA methodology to allow creation of the content in conjunction with the bi-weekly SCRUM software development teams.On June 25th 2013 I presented a talk at the Congility S1000D conference in Gatwick UK. Courses completed:e-Monitor+ - 100% score on the testThales University - Welkom bij Thales Module 1Thales University - Welkom bij Thales Module 2 BWF251Warfare course - Den helder KM.Thales University - Introduction to Radar course.Thales University - Marketing course completedThales University - Marketing part II 1/5 completed.Since October 2014, I am a member of the Thales Hengelo Ondernemingsraad (works council) - elected by my co-workers for a 3 year term. Since May 2017, I work on a special Augmented Reality/ Virtual reality project, creating AR and VR experiences for Service and Maintenance of our systems.and I now do a lot of work with our XR Innovations lab...including some HID device design for our VR headsets.

Hengelo, The Netherlands

Technical Writer - writing the user documentation for Thales Naval systems and sensors. I work mostly on innovative ways to disseminate the information to the user. This includes embedded context sensitive information, User scenarios online as an instructional aide, Installation videos for the customer...as well as developing the internal processes, procedures and tooling for improving the way in which Thales uses S1000D. I am involved in a number of internal workgroups and I am one of the XSLT gurus in the department.

Hengelo, Netherlands

I was re-elected into the works council for another term of 3 years.

Hengelo, Overijssel

I was elected from the employees of Thales Hengelo to represent them in the Works council. Along with 15 colleagues we form the Work's Council of Thales Hengelo and spar with the Management over issues concerning the workforce and the business.My main task in the group is lead for the Public Relations (PR) team, but I am also a member of 3 other sub-committees who meet on a regular basis with department managers and discuss issues with them.This is possibly one of the most rewarding jobs I have and the interaction with so many people is terrific to experience. I also get to learn a lot about how the company operates, which I find fascinating.

Eindhoven Area, Netherlands

Technical Documentation Services support project manager.I invent, design and write the software used in checking and improving the quality of the Technical documentation published by NXP Semiconductors.NXP used to be called Philips Semiconductors, but broke away in October 2006I am the project manager for about 5 project teams in the TDS department, concurrently managing all these projects within the scope of the department.as well as actually writing the software and user manuals to support the documentation process. We use FrameMaker, MIF, EPS, SVG and XML to generate our documentation - a lot of my work is involved in automating and converting one source document into a final document. ( covering the whole range from Marketing documentation to data sheets and reference guides).

Eindhoven Area, Netherlands

In April 2000, I started as a Product Information Engineer - PIE, (Tech Doc Writer) but within a month I was working on projects.We developed the Acceptable Quality Level (AQL) for all our documentation. Next, I lead a project creating Automated Checking Tools, allowing authors world-wide to check their content before publication. I lead a project for a Library Management System to maintain the quality of the symbols and parameter descriptions.My following project ensured the quality of our Technical Drawings using a web-driven tools I designed and wrote. I have been working with IP XACT for the past 2-3 years , creating tools to process XML files and generate our documentation in FrameMaker. I am currently the NXP SPIDER Documentation Consultant , which is a XML based (DITA) single source solution for all customer facing documentation. I have successfully led four of my project teams into the semi-finals of the “Quality Improvement Competition” in Philips/NXP.

Aachen Area, Germany

Writing the user manuals for their chip design software and coordinating with the head office technical writing department based in California.

Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany

Editing banking documentation written by non-native language speakers worldwide. Preparing documentation for publication on the website of the bank. Training and guiding the authors to write better and more consistently. This was a contract position - renewed 3 times in the 2 years I was there.

Writing maintenance manuals, service manuals and other technical documentation, also I wrote the ASML company newsletter The Chronicle which was distributed internally and also to all customers.

Education record

I finished my American Education via correspondence courses wuth TTU. Then, I started my own company ( aged 17) and was earning so much.

High School Diploma, Architecture, A+

3 years of Architecture ran a Dungeons and Dragons group of 30 fellow students - as Dungeon-master - back in the days before computers!!!