Clients
(( TECHNOLOGY CLIENTS ))
CITRIX. The Citrix NetScaler family of products provide application security, load-balancing, and acceleration “boxes” to 200,000 customers, including top-tier companies such as Google and Microsoft. Edited thousands of pages of technical support materials for the NetScaler and other systems from the Citrix Application Delivery division.
ORTEGA INFOSYSTEMS, INC. A leading digital surveillance video systems integrator. Ortega’s 1400+ installations include Grand Central Station and Kennedy International Airport. Researched and wrote sales brochures. http://www.ortegainfo.com/
HYDROFOILS INC. Manufacturer of high-speed hydrofoil emergency rescue craft and ferries. Wrote datasheet for SeaFoil emergency rescue vessel. http://www.hydrofoil.com/
BEYOND SQL. Edited web copy for industry-leading benchmarking software. http://www.beyondsql.com/
TEKLEAP INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS. Edited brochure and website. TekLeap is a customer service-oriented networking and business analysis consultancy. http://www.tekleap.com
MERCURY, INC. (formerly Kintana, Inc.). Lead writer for re-branded website. Wrote and edited brochures, data sheets, white papers, executive summaries, and web copy. Kintana’s products accelerate application development for users of enterprise software applications from Oracle, Siebel, SAP, and PeopleSoft. Clients include Cisco Systems, Silicon Graphics, GE, and Corio. http://www.kintana.com.
TYPEPAD. Edited marketing materials. TypePad won the PC Magazine “Editor’s Choice” award for blog service providers. http://www.typepad.com
TVHEAD.NET. Edited website. TvHead provides high-quality aggregated videogame content to cable and satellite TV networks. http://www.tvhead.net
GLOBALVR. Edited direct marketing letter for world’s leading manufacturer of PC-based coin-op video games. http://www.globalvr.com
SIEGEWORKS. Edited web copy for this leading provider of enterprise security solutions. http://www.siegeworks.com
INTRESYS, INC. Edited marketing communications documents, including brochure and data sheets for major new product.
SWAT ENGINEERING — SHELL OIL PRODUCTS USA. Consulted on document-production technologies.
RECOGNITION SYSTEMS, INC. Wrote and edited copy for website, news releases, white papers, and data sheets. Recognition Systems is the leading supplier of biometric hand-recognition security devices worldwide. RSI’s clients include Lotus Development, General Electric, Bankers Trust, Lawrence Livermore Lab, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of Justice, Walt Disney, Westinghouse, and major universities. http://www.recogsys.com
WIDE AREA MANAGEMENT SERVICES. Wrote content for revised website. WAMS supplies network installation, configuration, and troubleshooting services for 20% of the high-tech companies on the Bay Area 150 list, including Cisco Systems, AT&T, Fujitsu Business Systems, Network Associates, Optical Networks, Santa Cruz Operations, Solectron, and Sun Microsystems. When network troubleshooters need help with their hardest problems, they call WAMS. http://www.wams.com
MONDOSOFT (SEARCHBUTTON). Wrote and edited copy for website FAQs and marketing and technology white papers. Searchbutton provides site-search and analytics for individuals, small business, and corporate websites. http://www.mondosoft.com
TRISTREAM. Wrote marketing brochures, press releases, data sheets, web copy, and advertising copy. Tristream provides web application and UI design services for tech companies and financial institutions across the US. http://www.tristream.com
PACIFIC ACCESS. Edited copy for corporate website. Pacific Access is a $100 million worldwide network and systems integration company, providing network and computing products and services to the telecommunications industry.
TREND TECHNOLOGIES. Wrote corporate marketing brochures, international sales brochures, and web copy. Trend is a manufacturing subcontractor for Dell Computers, Sun Microsystems, Sony Consumer Electronics, Hewlett-Packard, and Cisco Systems. http://www.trendtechnologies.com
E-M-SOLUTIONS. Wrote corporate marketing brochure. E-M-Solutions is a manufacturing subcontractor for Apple, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and other major tech companies. http://www.emsolutionsinc.com/
MELISSA RANDALL CONSULTING. Wrote product brochures and data sheets describing new enterprise software for the automobile industry. (Company name and product details withheld per NDA.)
(( GENERAL BUSINESS CLIENTS ))
NASA/AMES RESEARCH CENTER PLANNERS COLLABORATIVE. Researched and wrote scripts for live actors playing the parts of four icons of aviation history at the NASA/Ames Research Center’s annual “Flightpath” public celebration and exhibit. (The aviation pioneers were Wilbur Wright, Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong, and Yuri Gagarin.) Also wrote text for engraved plaques celebrating eight landmark individuals and events in aviation history. The Planners Collaborative is an independent design firm that supplies graphic design and video production services to NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Mountain View, California.
AODESIGN METHODS. Edited documents for Hewlett Packard’s high-end Halo immersive corporate teleconferencing system. AODesign is owned by Robert Arko and Aura Oslapas, former lead designers at IDEO, the world-renowed design firm founded by Stanford University professor David Kelley.
PRINT SOMETHING BACK. Edited a business plan for this inspiring San Francisco startup, which hires high-functioning at-risk individuals to train for management positions. Print Something Back founders Jeff Sheinbein and Kevin McCracken achieved 15 years of outstanding financial and social success with the Print Something Back business model when they managed Ashbury Images. Update: The PSB business plan was selected among 20 finalists (of 600 applicants) by Investors Circle, a venture capital group that focuses on socially responsible investments. Two Investors Circle VCs specifically praised the clarity of the plan.
LABOR CONNECTION. Edited administrative materials. With more than twenty offices in California, Labor Connection has provided reliable temporary labor to industry since 1991. http://www.laborconnection.com
ICON FINANCIAL SERVICES. ICon is the sixth-fastest-growing company in Silicon Valley, and one of the top 300 woman-owned businesses in the US. ICon provides tax compliance services for independent contractors and the companies who hire them. (Nature of work protected by NDA.) www.icontract.com.
BJORN EYEWEAR. Edited marketing materials for this top San Francisco eyewear boutique. The bjorn* brand encompasses an exclusive line of hundreds of Italian and French designer frames, plus custom optics and sunglasses.
BAKKEN CREATIVE CO. Wrote and edited copy for multiple-award-winning design agency. Bakken was one of the Bay Area’s 25 fastest-growing companies in 2005. (Project details withheld per nondisclosure.) www.bakkencreativeco.com.
REDWOOD TRAILS. Edited web copy for this race management company specializing in long-distance running and other outdoor events in scenic areas. http://www.redwoodtrails.com
SCHWEICHLER PRICE & PARTNERS, INC. Wrote and edited executive applicant review materials. Schweichler Price is one of the top 25 technology search firms in the U.S. http://www.schweichler.com/
THE MCMURRY COMPANY. Industrial psychologists specializing in upper-management candidate evaluation, and corporate culture analysis for business investors. Copyedited reports and profiles.
DELAPLAINE CREATIVE. Lead editor for major website redesign. Delaplaine Creative, Inc. is one of the nation’s best-known multimedia production companies, with a client list that includes Microsoft, Mercedes, Lego, Disney, MTV, Palm, Sony, IBM, Samsung, Saab, Landor Associates, Blockbuster, Virgin, Seagate, FedEx, Xbox, Straw Hat Pizza, and Media 100. http://www.delaplaine.com.
DYSTRICK DESIGN. Edited web copy for a Dystrick client company. http://www.dystrick.com
BEYONDWORK.COM. Wrote brochures and cover letters for print and e-mail marketing campaigns, edited other sales materials. Beyondwork offers desktop PC-accessed discount shopping to employees of more than 1500 US corporations. http://www.beyondwork.com
DANCETIME PUBLICATIONS. Helped publisher with formatting of complex bibliographies and source lists, copyedited text for dance history DVD, and rewrote narrative descriptions. http://www.dancetimepublications.com/
(( STUDENT CLIENTS ))
RANDY HUANG, PhD Edited doctoral dissertation, ‘Hardware-Assisted Fast Routing for Runtime Reconfigurable Computing,’ in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley.
CHEN CHANG, PhD Edited doctoral dissertation, ‘Design and Applications of a Reconfigurable Computing System for High Performance Digital Signal Processing,’ in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley.
YOUNG GON KIM. Edited MBA program application essays.
BRENT DAUGHERTY. Edited MBA program application essays.
HYERAN PARK. Edited master’s thesis, ‘Home Language Socialization in the Bay Area Korean Community,’ in the Dept. of Sociology, San Jose State University.
MARC SCHINDLER. Edited thesis, ‘Efficiency Analysis and Improvement Project of the SAP Netweaver Development Unit Palo Alto,’ for Diploma in Business Engineering, University of Applied Sciences, Mannheim, Germany.
GANESH RANGANATHAN. Edited MBA program application essays.
(( ACADEMIC FACULTY ))
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT. Full-charge production of departmental newsletter (ME News), including author contact, articles editing, design, layout, photography, and management of print production and mailing services. Edited articles authored by the following Stanford faculty: Professors Ron Hansen (former department chair), Fritz Prinz (present chair), Eric Darve, Chris Edwards, David Kelley (founder/president, IDEO, Inc.), Larry Leifer, Adrian Lew, Parviz Moin, Guenter Niemeyer, Heinz Pietsch, Beth Pruitt, and Sherry Sheppard. Also managed departmental website: http://me.stanford.edu.
PACIFIC GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY. Compiled and edited an oral history of the school based on interviews with the president, faculty, a board member, and an alumnus. PGSP is the nation’s highest-rated independent graduate school of psychology, granting the PsyD in a consortium with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Stanford University School of Medicine. http://www.pgsp.edu.
(( AUTHORS ))
NORM POND, author, The Tube Guys. Norm Pond is the founder and CEO of Intevac, Inc. and former CEO of Varian, Inc. (CTI). The Tube Guys presents the personal stories and technical innovations of the developers of the microwave tube industry, starting with the invention of radio. (Privately published for distribution to the industry.)
MICHAEL KEEFE, author, Riding the Waves. Michael Keefe is the president and CEO of Dentalmetrix, a leading dental practice management consulting company. Riding the Waves advises dental practice owners on acquiring and efficiently using new dental and practice management technologies.
JOSEPH CORNELL, DEAN OTTATI, DAVID STEINMETZ, CHERYL AND EMERSON MARTLAGE