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Subject:RE: âWhat we need is a developer who can write.â From:"Janoff, Steven" <Steven -dot- Janoff -at- hologic -dot- com> To:Simon North <simonxml -at- gmail -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 9 Oct 2015 17:38:57 +0000
You've got the job!
Steve
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From: On Behalf Of Simon North
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 8:29 AM
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Subject: Re: âWhat we need is a developer who can write.â
Well, since Craig asked: I can - with various levels of proficiency - code in Fortran, Algol, Ada, Pascal, C, C++, Modula2, Python, Perl, Lisp, Verilog,RTL, SystemC, JavaScript and a lot more that I have forgotten. I am an expert in HTML, XML, CSS, HyTime, SGML, XSLT and PostScript. I am fluent in English (my first native language), French, Dutch and German, and can manage with Spanish, Italian and Russian. In addition to a postgraduate qualification in technical writing, I have a higher diploma in electronics
(avionics) and a good understanding of EDA. Oh, and I spent 2 years as a software quality assurance engineer so I know things like the CMM and Agile intimately. I can edit sound, video and image files, including authoring subtitles. I am also good at graphics design and am a usability expert. I guess that's why I am the documentation manager in the software R&D department....
Simon.
On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Cardimon, Craig <ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com> wrote:
> Seen on the web: âWhat we need is a developer who can write.â
>
> Letâs take it as a given that as technical writers, we can write.
>
> To increase our value, we need to learn addition skills, such as a
> programming language.
>
> What other skills do you all have?
>
> Iâll go first. I know basic HTML. I have edited code. I can edit sound
> and image files. A few other things, too.
>
>
> Cordially,
> Craig Cardimon | Senior Technical Writer Marketing Systems Group
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