Work Chronology

5/96: Vacation. Also created library of global routines to handle common forms-related functions. Created program to read forms and generate most of the CGI code. Required field procedure is the best on the Web.

11/95-4/96: O'Reilly Software. Used background in web publishing to create the definitive guide to forms in HTML, as part of book on O'Reilly's form's handling program. Customers say the book is worth the price of the software. Created extensive examples of CGI applications. Acknowledged by managers as expert in HTML.

10/95: Developed software to generate Netscape-formatted documents from straight HTML. This allows World-Wide Web sites to present both enhanced and plain documents with little extra effort.

8/95-9/95: Oracle World-Wide Education. Short-term desktop publishing contract using Interleaf, PageMaker, Word, Sun Solaris tools, Macintosh, PC.

8/95: Developed computer conferencing (asynchronous discussion) software for World-Wide Web in Perl.

11/94-7/95: Sabbatical. Took time to travel, read, write, dance, update skill set, learn Internet skills including World-Wide Web publishing, and move to San Francisco.

3/95-4/95: Honkus & Associates. Took four-week contract to gain experience using Microsoft Word 6.0 for technical publishing. Set up template, wrote most of the documentation for a mapping program (to be completed later by proprietor's wife).

6/94-10/94: Senior Writer, Sysco. Three month contract to document AS400 database application.

3/94-6/94: Educational multimedia software development using Microsoft's Visual Basic and Multimedia Viewer.

3/91-2/94: Senior Software Documentation Analyst at Exxon Exploration Company. Technical writing and hypertext development using Interleaf, WorldView, MS-Word and other software on UNIX, Windows, Macintosh. Contract extended five times.

7/90-2/91: Consulting, publishing, various.

8/89-6/90: Senior Information Center Specialist, United Way. PC technical support and systems design. Contract extended.

2/89-8/89: Technical publisher, Amoco Production Company. Produced complex graphics (well-head specifications) and redesigned document structure. Contract extended.

6/88-1/89: Analyst, Dow Engineering Company. Designed and programmed dBase III+ applications (including inventory system), trained users in various PC applications, trained graphics department for (Mac) desktop publishing. Contract extended.

2/88-5/88: Consulting, various, in Austin, Texas.

6/87-1/88: Assistant to manager of Businessland in Boston, Massachusetts. Developed automated publishing systems. Contract extended.

6/86-6/87: Consulting, publishing, created database publishing software for Directory of Holistic Practitioners.

1/85-6/86: The Networking Institute. Designed and implemented automated publishing systems, designed and built order processing database system, provided user support for national and regional computer conferencing systems. Contract extended.