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Leslie Spaiser 1700 Broadway Street Concord, CA

Phone: (925) 681-0600 Email: mailto:lesllie@spaiser.net Fax: (928) 396-9187

Overview

For the last three years I have worked with and contributed to the staff at Concord EastBay Works career center. I TUTORED CLIENTS and WAS AN INSTRUCTOR, teaching clients how to use PCs.

-          I am very PROFICIENT IN LAYING OUT DOCUMENTS on the PC. I can use many authoring, editing, and publishing programs and different types of graphics software.

-          I am multi-skilled and previously did TECHNICAL WRITING, DESKTOP PUBLISHING and INTERNET WEB PUBLISHING
(please see my website at: http://www.spaiser.net/ ).

-         I am COMFORTABLE IN MIXED SOFTWARE/HARDWARE ENVIRONMENTS.

-         I have worked in PERMANENT AND on CONTRACT JOBS both locally and with distant clients
(BY TELECOMMUTING).

Background

3 years PC training and tutoring:

• Assisted lay people using PCs to find work – especially on the Internet
• Conducted workshops in Using the Internet and MS Word

15 years of documentation experience. I have written and / or produced:

• end-user manuals
• educational books
• marketing literature
• procedural guides
• catalogs
• field service bulletins
  
  I understand the principles of typesetting as well as DTP layout techniques and am proficient in the use and manipulation of graphics for illustration.

Previous Experience

2/90 – 4/98

• Updated WordPerfect document base into FrameMaker for Foxboro Corporation; Foxboro MA.
• Document Specialist; XRE Corp, Littleton MA - used Mac systems and FrameMaker. Finished current product manual and wrote/produced new manuals for X-Ray equipment.
• DTP Specialist Contractor/Consultant; Phoenix Controls Corporation, Newton MA (1 + yrs.) Worked with engineering and marketing to prepare documentation base for new product line.
• Principal Documentation Sub-Contractor; Foxboro Corporation.
  - Helped establish operation from scratch. Did extensive text and graphics conversions to bring obsolete documentation base up-to-date.

Education

• Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (BS in Physics)
  (A+ student in English - also A+ for all lab reports).
• Northeastern University (evening program): Courses in technical writing, editing, computer programming project management and marketing.
• RCA Institutes: Courses in solid state electronics.

References on Request