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Web-savvy technical writer with strong knowledge of APIs and…
Web-savvy technical writer with strong knowledge of APIs and…
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New podcast: Will our next users be AI agents? The future of content delivery with Fabrice Lacroix, founder of Fluid Topics In this podcast, I chat…
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Don't miss this one. I'll chat with Tom Johnson and Scott Abel about the challenges and pitfalls of LLM-generated documentation.
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So long, Google! what a great decade it was. #retirement
So long, Google! what a great decade it was. #retirement
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Experience & Education
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Google
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Volunteer Experience
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Event Program Manager
Society for Technical Communication -- Silicon Valley Chapter
- 1 year 2 months
Education
Find and organize topics and speakers for monthly STC Silicon Valley chapter meetings.
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Co-organizer
Write the Docs - San Francisco Meetup Group
- 1 year
Education
Help find topics and speakers for monthly WTD meetings.
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Summit Proposal Review Committee
Society for Technical Communication
- Present 9 years 9 months
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Podcast co-host
Write the Docs Podcast
- Present 8 years 9 months
Science and Technology
Particulate in a regular podcast covering topics in tech comm. Also manage the website and distribution of the media. See more at https://podcast.writethedocs.org.
Honors & Awards
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Misc Awards
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2015: Outstanding guest editor -- STC Intercom magazine, API documentation edition. May 2015.
2014: Top 10 most influential in #techcomm (MindTouch). See http://www.mindtouch.com/blog/2014/04/25/top-50-most-influential-techcomm-experts-lets-connect-at-the-stc-summit-2014-techwhirl-or-writethedocs
2014: "Most Valuable Professional" (Dr. Explain). More details here: http://www.drexplain.com/mvp/tom-johnson/
2013: #1 Most influential in #techcomm (MindTouch)…2015: Outstanding guest editor -- STC Intercom magazine, API documentation edition. May 2015.
2014: Top 10 most influential in #techcomm (MindTouch). See http://www.mindtouch.com/blog/2014/04/25/top-50-most-influential-techcomm-experts-lets-connect-at-the-stc-summit-2014-techwhirl-or-writethedocs
2014: "Most Valuable Professional" (Dr. Explain). More details here: http://www.drexplain.com/mvp/tom-johnson/
2013: #1 Most influential in #techcomm (MindTouch). http://www.mindtouch.com/blog/2013/04/04/2013-influencers-in-techcomm/
2012: #1 Most influential in #techcomm (MindTouch). See http://www.mindtouch.com/blog/2012/01/06/techcomm-contentstrategy-400-knowledgebase/ for details.
2012: STC senior member (Society for Technical Communication), Oct 2012
2011: Most innovative in technical communication. See http://www.mindtouch.com/blog/2011/05/16/2011-technical-communication-innovation-award-winners/ for details.
2010: #2 Most influential in #techcomm (MindTouch). See See http://www.mindtouch.com/blog/2010/07/29/the-most-influential-technical-communicator-bloggers/ for details.
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