Blair Bolles

Past

Technical Writer (Global IT Department) at White & Case
Technical Writer (IT Department) at UBS
Technical Writer (IT Department) at Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Technical Writer (IT Infrastructure) at Deutsche Bank
Technical Writer (IT Policy Department) at Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Technical Writer at Pfizer
Technical Writer at Bristol-Myers Squibb
Technical Writer (ETech Dept) at JP Morgan Chase
Technical Writer (Data Center) at Deutsche Bank
Technical Writer at Enterprise Technology Corporation
Technical Writer at The Chase Manhattan Bank

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Education

University of Pennsylvania
Washington University in St. Louis

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Blair Bolles’s Summary

My consultation work concentrates on three industries, medical, financial, and legal. The strengths I bring include: (1) strong writing; (2) powerful research; and (3) an ability to dig quickly to the heart of a matter.

I spent 3 years at White & Case, a global law firm, writing for legal, IT managerial, engineering, and user audiences. I came there as a consultant and was then put on the staff. As the house technical writer I documented programs from their start (providing/editing mission statements, listing project specifications), testing (preparing questionnaires), recommendations (test result reports), release material (user support), and final reports (project completion reports).

My medical writing is the most varied. I wrote a comprehensive report on medical outcomes software used by hospitals. It discussed in detail the problem of standardization of health data, compared features of over 50 different products, and discussed how to select software suitable for the reader’s institution. That project prepared me to work on electronic health records. I also consulted with several large pharmaceutical companies, Pfizer and Bristol-Meyers Squibb. On one Pfizer project I wrote over 150 procedures required to maintain its Brooklyn plant. That work gave me an excellent understanding of the pharmaceutical business. Besides consulting I wrote 2 books for patients and ghost-wrote one on hyperactivity.

Many top financial firms have asked me to document specific projects. Bankers Trust wanted a user guide explaining a new piece of software for recording deposits. UBS needed a series of technical documents supporting their business continuity plan, even if some disaster destroyed their data center. The New York Federal Reserve Bank brought me in to provide a document for their managers on IT security and policy.

Naturally I am experienced in all the major software used to create technical documents: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Photoshop, and Frameworks.

Blair Bolles’s Experience

Technical Writer (Global IT Department)

White & Case

(Partnership; Law Practice industry)

September 2005 — November 2008 (3 years 3 months)
Technical Writer (IT Department)

UBS

(Public Company; UBS; Banking industry)

March 2005 — July 2005 (5 months)
Technical Writer (IT Department)

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

(Government Agency; Banking industry)

February 2005 — March 2005 (2 months)
Technical Writer (IT Infrastructure)

Deutsche Bank

(Public Company; DB; Banking industry)

December 2004 — January 2005 (2 months)
Technical Writer (IT Policy Department)

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

(Government Agency; Banking industry)

September 2004 — October 2004 (2 months)
Technical Writer

Pfizer

(Public Company; PFE; Pharmaceuticals industry)

April 2002 — August 2004 (2 years 5 months)

This was three separate consulting assignments.
Technical Writer

Bristol-Myers Squibb

(Public Company; BMY; Pharmaceuticals industry)

December 2001 — January 2002 (2 months)
Technical Writer (ETech Dept)

JP Morgan Chase

(Public Company; JPM; Banking industry)

May 2001 — July 2001 (3 months)
Technical Writer (Data Center)

Deutsche Bank

(Public Company; DB; Banking industry)

June 2000 — January 2001 (8 months)
Technical Writer

Enterprise Technology Corporation

(Computer Software industry)

August 1999 — May 2000 (10 months)
Technical Writer

The Chase Manhattan Bank

(Public Company; JPM; Banking industry)

March 1999 — June 1999 (4 months)