Deborah Royston Email & Phone Number

• Work with team comprised of project manager, team leader, and system programmers in updating and creating technical documentation
• Assist team in locating, cataloging, and analyzing existing documentation
• Assist in identifying the audience, defining objectives, creating the initial outline and layout, and beginning the writing process
• Help assure adherence to organizational documentation standards
• Responsible for analyzing the business needs of clients and stakeholders to help identify business problems and propose solutions
• Work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies, and information systems

• Created on-line help system
• Developed system user manuals, quick reference guides, maintenance guides, functional specification documentation
• Conducted peer reviews, edits of internal documentation materials
• Managed multiple documentation projects
• Devised appendices for user, specification, reference manuals
• Developed graphic illustrations

Managed day-to-day operations, public outreach programs, and directed all communication initiatives for Georgia's foremost public lands advocacy group based in Ellijay, Georgia. (full-time, paid position)

Managed media relations and worked with landowners, farmers, businesses, and government, as well as other organizations and individual volunteers to preserve the natural, cultural, historic, and environmental resources of Northwest Fulton County, Georgia. (part-time unpaid position)

• Established first public affairs office for North Georgia city
• Spearheaded citizen survey initiative
• Designed, produced quarterly newsletters for city residents, employees
• Managed public information campaign for $17 million recreational bond referendum approved by 82 percent of voters
• Negotiated cable TV franchise agreement

• Penned bi-weekly news column about residential real estate for Georgia’s largest daily newspaper
• Wrote about finance and construction industry
• Covered municipal government in Cobb and Gwinnett counties
• Contributing writer, copyeditor for AJC Homefinder weekly real estate tabloid

Ms Candidate, Information Design And Communication Candidate, Technical Writing & Editing

Ma Candidate, Mass Communications Candidate, Virtual Communities, Desktop Publishing

Management Development

Ba, Communications, Magna Cum Laude, Journalism, Political Science, Psychology

Activities and Societies: - Phi Kappa Phi, Mercer University Chapter - CCTV News Reporter - Student Newspaper Reporter - Atlanta Press.

Education record

Activities and Societies: - Student Newspaper Editor - Student Government Association Scholarship Recipient - Who's Who Among Students in.