Doug
Hewitt
32228 Montclair
Street, New Haven, MI 48048
586-453-6345
29DHewitt@gmail.com
TECHNICAL
WRITER/EDITOR
“Take
complex information and produce technical documentation, including user
manuals, lab reports, white papers, product comparison guides, and environmental
case studies, that has the appropriate technical level for general or specific
audiences.”
QUALIFICATIONS
·
20
years experience editing and writing user manuals, parts manuals, lab reports,
product comparisons, presentations, tutorials, and online content.
·
15
years experience writing and editing for mass market publications, including
six nonfiction books published.
·
15
years experience mentoring technical writers and technicians for editing and
writing skills, conformity to house styles, and improving documentation time
requirements.
·
Proficient
in Chicago Manual of Style, AP Stylebook, MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and
Sharepoint. Familiar with FrameMaker and InDesign.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Gilbarco Inc. Greensboro,
NC August 1993
– July 2011
Reliability
Technician and Documentation Specialist
·
Work
with design engineers to test electronic systems for environmental stress,
shock and vibration durability, and operational parameters; document procedures
and results.
·
Produce
test reports for Sales, Engineering, Marketing, Field Service departments in
South America, Italy, India, China, and Germany.
·
Work
with Underwriters Laboratories to produce traceable reports to document testing
of new products.
·
Meet
ISO 9001 requirements for documentation archives. Comply with all documentation
procedural change requests.
·
Work
with microscopy, webcasting, MS Word and Excel, FrameMaker, PowerPoint, and
digital photography to convey test results and engineering directives to field
and test personnel.
Telecommute July
1995 – Present
Freelance
Writer
·
Author
of five traditionally published non-fiction books, two novels, one novella,
over 50 short stories, and hundreds of articles for online content.
·
Non-Fiction Books
·
The Practical
Guide to Weekend Parenting, published in September 2006 by Hatherleigh Press.
·
The Joyous Gift of
Grandparenting,
published in May 2008 by Hatherleigh Press.
·
Microsoft Word
2007 for Beginners,
published in October 2009 by Champion Writers.
·
Free College
Resource Book,
published in December 2009 by Prufrock Press.
·
Learning New
Techniques with Microsoft Word 2010, published in January 2010 by Champion
Writers.
·
Get
Into College in 3 Months or Less!, published in December 2010 by Prufrock
Press.
Writers Group of the Triad July
1995 – June 2011
Freelance
Editor
As a member of a novel critique group,
line edited and critiqued the following manuscripts by fellow authors.
·
Bitterwood, by James Maxey,
published in June 2007 by Solaris.
·
Unholy Covenant: A
True Story of Murder in North Carolina, by Lynn Chandler-Willis, published in
August 2000 by Addicus Books, reprinted in 2003 as The Preacher’s Son by St. Martin’s Press.
·
Storytellers, by Julie Anne
Parks, published in November 1998 by Design Image Group Inc.
Previously
employed with Gilbarco, Inc. as Communication Specialist (1989-1993);
Electronics Technician (1984-1989); U.S.M.C. as Precision Measurement Equipment
Specialist (1979-1983).
EDUCATION
University
of North Carolina at Greensboro
B.S.
in Mathematics, 1986
GPA:
3.7
M.A.,
Liberal Studies, 1999
GPA:
3.5
REFERENCES
available upon request
For Doug's CV, click here