Donnamaie White

Current

CEO & President at WhitePubs Enterprises, Inc.
Manager, ASIC Technical Documentation/NAND Systems - User Manuals and Firmware Sequences (Vendor) at SanDisk

Past

Manager. Imaging Technical Documentation at Micron
Technical Writer at PLX Technology
Senior Technical Writer at QuickSilver

Training Manager/Lead Content Developer/eLearning Project Coordinator at Synopsys
Technical Publications Manager, at IMP, inc.
Director of Customer Documentation and Training/Director of Market Communication at AMCC

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Education

University of California, Los Angeles
University of Hartford
University of San Diego

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Industry

Semiconductors

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Donnamaie White’s Summary

I am with both the ASIC and the NAND Systems groups at SanDisk - 2 departments - 4 1/2 days a week - which I like. I finished the 3rd project.

I have just released some of my vintage works to whitepubs.com (Technical training and textbooks)

My expertise is in:
Controllers and system design, hardware and software, Process review and development (design flow for productivity); eLearning, Instructional Designer/Trainer, Instructional developer, eLearning Curriculum developer, Senior Training Developer, Instructor-led and self-paced on-line learning; Multiple years of technical instruction development/delivery

Donnamaie White’s Specialties:

Project Management - Hardware/Software/Firmware experience, technical training, Content development, Instructional design, process improvement, release coordination; User and technical manuals, application notes and white papers, Content Management, Secure Documentation controls (encryption)
ShaprePoint2007, FrameMaker, Acrobat PRO, Office; RTL, EDA design tools, UNIX, PC,MAC OS. Expert in eLearning concept and implementation.

Donnamaie White’s Experience

CEO & President

WhitePubs Enterprises, Inc.

(Publishing industry)

2007 — Present (2 years )

Previously listed as White Enterprises since the 1970s, WhitePubs Enterprises, Inc. was incorporated in Oct 2007. I offer contract technical services to Silicon Valley and I also write and produce eBooks on High-Tech; High-tech and other training seminars, and plan to expand publication to other subject areas, including fiction.
WhitePubs is a trademark of WhitePubs Enterprises, Inc.
Manager, ASIC Technical Documentation/NAND Systems - User Manuals and Firmware Sequences (Vendor)

SanDisk

(Public Company; SNDK; Semiconductors industry)

April 2006 — Present (3 years 8 months)

I am a vendor of technical publication services under contract to SanDisk Corporation, Inc. in Milpitas, CA - currently working with TWO departments - ASIC and NAND Systems
* Documentation Process development
* Programmer's Guide (Emphasis on register documentation)
* Controller Datasheets
* Sharepoint 2007 - ASIC webmaster (web site administrator + template design)
* FrameMaker / PDF/ Visio / Office 2003/2007 etc. - some training; mnay ap notes (how to do this----)
* improvement and merging of NAND User Manuals - emphasis on standardization of the Firmware sequences for HOST-NAND-CONTROLLER operations and meta-langage for same
Manager. Imaging Technical Documentation

Micron

(Public Company; Consumer Electronics industry)

October 2004 — July 2005 (10 months)

Sr. Content Developer/Technical Writer for the San Jose Imaging Group (imaging sensors and SOC). Multi-location documentation operation.
Technical Writer

PLX Technology

(Public Company; Computer Networking industry)

November 2003 — October 2004 (1 year )

also part time until March, 2005 (overlap with full time job at Micron)
Datasheets for Controllers - PCI-X, PCI Express Bridge, Vega databooks (heavy register documentation)
Senior Technical Writer

QuickSilver

(Privately Held; Computer Hardware industry)

July 2002 — July 2003 (1 year 1 month)

Wireless Controllers; Created Assembly Language Reference Manuals for the various hardware nodes, Programmer’s Guides, misc. marketing and training support, wrote validation code. (Start up)
Training Manager/Lead Content Developer/eLearning Project Coordinator

Synopsys

(Public Company; SNPS; Computer Software industry)

April 1997 — March 2002 (5 years )

Started as the SIARC Training Manager for two years, - Produced and presented the CBA Design System training in SIARC; then 1 year as a Sr. Staff Instructor coordinating internal technical training and then Then moved to Customer Training at Synopsys proper as a lead content developer.CHIP and the Advanced CHIP (Synthesis) workshops. Became the eLearning Project Coordinator - On-line training conversions (Instructor led training conversion to full eLearning; managed interface to a Learning System (LMS).)
Technical Publications Manager,

IMP, inc.

(Semiconductors industry)

March 1995 — April 1997 (2 years 2 months)

Webmaster for the IMP web site (http://www.impweb.com) (3/95-1/98). Responsible for technical documentation and marketing support for the IMP EPAC project, including:
o Editor of The EPAC Design Handbook (1996)
o writing the user's manual for the IMP50E10 Development System and Analog Magic 1.2 the development system software
o writing and editing application briefs and application notes o packaging the development system marketing literature (registration, license, customer letter, release notes)
o creating presentations and player files.
o creating, maintaining and monitoring the IMP web site.
o EPAC User's Guide including Analog Magic, April 1995.
Director of Customer Documentation and Training/Director of Market Communication

AMCC

(Semiconductors industry)

1984 — January 1995 (11 years )

Director of Market Communication at AMCC in San Diego (3.5 years) and the Director of Customer Documentation and Training at AMCC (10 years, overlapping above), 1984-1995.

Director of Market Communications for AMCC in San Diego (1990-1994). Developed and coordinated the marketing for three business units and the corporation including advertising, direct mail (design and copywriting), inquiry handling and response packages, the inquiry database, com pany letterhead, business cards, press packages (look and content), press releases, player files for trade shows, presentations, datasheets, trade show booths, databooks, design manuals, field/customer news letters, product introduction and announcements.

Director of Customer Documentation and Training, AMCC, 1984-1990. Developed the design methodology, from design conception through design submission procedures, for the all of the AMCC logic array families, High-Speed Bipolar, CMOS, and BiCMOS, including the specification of most of the MacroMatrix design support software. This included the design and coding of the more complex algorithms, debug and documentation. Authored the AMCC Array Design Manuals (Q700, Q1500, Q3500, Q5000, Q20000 Bipolar and Q9000, Q14000 BiCMOS) and the User's Manuals for the design support software (rules, checks, vector submission, vector checking, design checklist, package selection, annotation).

Donnamaie White’s Education

University of California, Los Angeles

MSE, PhD , Engineering, Computer Science
University of Hartford

BSEE , Electrical Engineering
University of San Diego

Professional Certificate , Market Communications

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Donnamaie White’s Interests:

eLearning

Donnamaie White’s Groups:

SVRWA - Silicon Valley Romance Writer's Assoc. I am the editor of the monthly newsletter,
FABIOIFC - I run the Fabio International Fan Club - do the websites - and monitor the yahoo group