David Peyton

Current

• Principal Member at Hired Fast Network

Past

• Technical Writer (Contract) at Marvell
• Technical Publications at Silicon Image
• Publications Contractor at Cswitch

• Contractor at KLA-Tencor
• Contractor at Altera
• Contractor at LongBoard
• Technical Writer at LSI Logic

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Education

• Harvey Mudd College
• The University of Texas at Austin

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Semiconductors

Websites

• STC

David Peyton’s Summary

Over 10 years of experience as a technical writer, including 1 year of publications management, following 6 years of experience as an electrical engineer.

David Peyton’s Specialties:

Specializing in all aspects of documentation projects, including research, planning, drafting, managing review cycles, and delivering final drafts for print and electronic distribution.

David Peyton’s Experience

• Principal Member

  Hired Fast Network

  (Privately Held; Education Management industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

• Technical Writer (Contract)

  Marvell

  (Public Company; MRVL; Semiconductors industry)

  September 2008 — August 2009 (1 year )

  - Collaborated with a remote engineering team to develop top-level goals for printer ASIC SDK and implemented the documentation on a controlled system (Perforce), allowing Marvell to meet a mission-critical project goal on schedule.
  - Developed an integration plan to leverage multiple design blocks in a single controller document, reducing preparation time by more than 50%.
  - Reorganized and updated hardware design guides and programming guides for printer SoC family, decreasing bug reports by over 90%.

• Technical Publications

  Silicon Image

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; SIMG; Semiconductors industry)

  September 2006 — July 2008 (1 year 11 months)

  - Managing the Technical Publications group within the larger Technical Marketing department.
  Founded first technical publications team at the company.
  - Reduced bug reports from Field Applications Engineering by more than 60% since establishing a full-time employee presence at the company.
  - Began a training program for Engineering, including presentations on how to review a technical document. Feedback from VP of Engineering was extremely positive.

• Publications Contractor

  Cswitch

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Semiconductors industry)

  April 2006 — August 2006 (5 months)

  - Created two chapters for a 12-chapter manual for a highly complex ASIC-FPGA hybrid. Reduced design requirements for first-silicon by 20%
  - Acted as de facto Publications manager throughout my contract, saving the company at least $50,000.
  - Created corporate templates and style guide, reducing the company’s expenses for specialized contractors such as graphic artists.

• Contractor

  KLA-Tencor

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; KLAC; Semiconductors industry)

  September 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 5 months)

  - Created two new software manuals for field service engineers on a $50-million wafer metrology product, reducing machine downtime by up to 50%.
  - Saved the company over $10,000 in legal costs by working within the support division to rename a suite of several dozen documents for a line of wafer fabrication products.
  - Updated multiple service and maintenance manuals for wafer metrology equipment, increasing saleability and reducing support costs.

• Contractor

  Altera

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ALTR; Semiconductors industry)

  August 2003 — March 2004 (8 months)

  - Increased traffic to online marketing over 10% by creating a new datasheet and updating a user guide for the Stratix GX family of FPGAs.
  - Helped the launch of the Stratix II family to stay on schedule by authoring two white papers and one user guide chapter, generating revenue from over 20,000 customers.
  - Increased quality awareness among writers by initiating a centralized, controlled style guide.

• Contractor

  LongBoard

  (Consumer Electronics industry)

  2002 — 2002 (less than a year)

  - Reduced time to prepare Java API from 6 weeks to 40 minutes by developing scripts for Javadoc and MIFDoclet to develop FrameMaker API files directly from Java source code
  - Increased customer satisfaction with the documentation by working closely with the Director of Customer Support and directly reviewing customer feedback.

• Technical Writer

  LSI Logic

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; LSI; Semiconductors industry)

  June 1999 — April 2001 (1 year 11 months)

  Researched, compiled and edited ASIC cell data books and design manuals (collections of application notes).

David Peyton’s Education

• Harvey Mudd College

  BS , Engineering

• The University of Texas at Austin

  MS , Electrical Engineering

Additional Information

David Peyton’s Websites:

• STC

David Peyton’s Groups:

Senior member of the Society for Technical Communication (STC)

•    Texas Exes/University of Texas at Austin
•    Link Silicon Valley, LLC
•    LSI Alumni Association
•    STC Silicon Valley Chapter (STC-SVC)
•    LongBoard Alumni
•    Silicon Image Alumni Association

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