Peter Basch is a native New Yorker, educated at the Lycée Français de New York and then at Columbia University, where he received a BA in Physics. He has been at JPL for over 13 years, where has worked on editing and formatting many proposals, large and small—ROSES, Discovery, and New Frontiers. He has extensive experience with Microsoft Word, having used it (along with the Wang, the IBM Displaywriter, and the Xerox 6085) since before there were mice. He enjoys working in LaTeX as well. In 2018, he took a three-month leave of absence to write for a French software company (Antidot) in Lyon, interviewing the engineers in French and writing white papers in English to market their specialized technical documentation search engine, Fluid Topics, to potential customers in the United States. At Antidot, he learned about structured documentation, XML, and DITA (also, his French improved a lot, testing at the C1 level). Peter was part of the Mars 2020 (a.k.a. Perseverance) Assembly, Test, and Launch Operations (ATLO) team, managing procedural documentation at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Along with the rest of the ATLO team, his signature is on a little plaque on the Perseverance rover. Most recently he worked in Bangalore, India with the NISAR team in collaboration with the Indian space agency, ISRO.Specialties: Technical writing and editing, specialty in science and technology, proposal task managing,
Listed skills include Editing, Technical Writing, Proposal Writing, Writing, and 26 others.