John B. Email & Phone Number

I have been working in information design and technical communications since 1995. I am particularly interested in producing relevant, user-centric information, rather than compiling a glorified reference manual for an instrument or piece of software. With the increasing use of browser-based applications,I am also interested in improving the user experience by designing workflows to carry them through the most common tasks.My scientific background and experience with scientific software and instruments means that I am completely at ease in technical environments, as my roles in mass spectrometry, satellite simulation, telecoms and cheminformatics demonstrate.If you need technical communications as part of your project, but do not want to commit to a traditional contract, I am willing to discuss ways in which I can provide you with the service you need, such as part time and intermittent or piecemeal work.Specialties: Madcap Flare, FrameMaker, DITA, XMetaL, Oxygen XML Author, XML, software documentation, single sourcing, proofreading and editing, RoboHelp, Acrobat, MS Office, Git, Markdown

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  Technical Publications Specialist

  Various Companies

  Sep 2010 - Present

  I am providing technical communications services to a number of clients on a project by project basis, as a remote worker with occasional visits to the client office. Clients have included Spirent Communications Ltd, Waters, Aqua Cooling Solutions, Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis and CyberSafe.