Alan Houser

Current

• Conference Manager at Society for Technical Communication
• Technical Publishing Consultant and Trainer, Owner at Group Wellesley, Inc.
• Associate Fellow at Society for Technical Communication (STC)

Past

• Senior Technical Writer at Claritech (aka Clairvoyance), a Justsystems company
• Senior Technical Writer at Avid Technology
• Learning Products Engineer at Hewlett-Packard

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Education

• Carnegie Mellon University
• Carnegie Mellon University

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Connections

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Industry

Information Services

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
• Twitter

Alan Houser’s Experience

• Senior Technical Writer

  Claritech (aka Clairvoyance), a Justsystems company

  (Information Services industry)

  1997 — 2000 (3 years )

• Senior Technical Writer

  Avid Technology

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AVID; Computer Software industry)

  1995 — 1997 (2 years )

• Learning Products Engineer

  Hewlett-Packard

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1989 — 1995 (6 years )

Alan Houser’s Education

• Carnegie Mellon University

  M.A. , Professional Writing , September 1987 — May 1989

• Carnegie Mellon University

  B.S. , Electrical Engineering , September 1983 — May 1987

Additional Information

Alan Houser’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog
• Twitter

Alan Houser’s Groups:

Society for Technical Communication (STC),
Deputy Program Advisory Committee Chair STC Summit 2008 (Philadelphia, PA),
Program Advisory Committee Chair STC Summit 2009 (Atlanta, GA),
OASIS DITA Technical Committee,
W3C liaison for the Society for Technical Communication

•    Content Management Professionals
•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Society for Technical Communication
•    The Content Wrangler Community
•    Carnegie Mellon MAPW
•    Information Architecture Institute (IAI)
•    Informed Ideas For Writers
•    Adobe Certified Instructors
•    Avid Technology Alumni
•    XML and Related Technologies Network
•    Enterprise Content Management Writers' Community
•    STC Philadelphia Metro Chapter
•    Tools of Change for Publishing
•    DITA Awareness Group
•    Adobe Industry Leaders & Innovators
•    Friends of FrameMaker
•    Software User Assistance
•    Conference for Software User Assistance
•    Documentation Managers
•    STC Pittsburgh Employment Board
•    Adobe Technical Communications Professionals Group
•    Society for Technical Communication (STC) - Pittsburgh Chapter

Alan Houser’s Honors:

Associate Fellow, Society for Technical Communication

Alan Houser’s Contact Settings

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