Ernest Kinsolving

Current

• Technical Writer at Woven Systems
• Fiddler/Vocalist at Harmon's Peak Old-Time String Band

Past

• Consultant at Cooper
• Consultant at Woven Systems, Inc.
• Production Assistant at Objectivity

• Principal Designer at Egg Spinners, LLC
• Design Communicator at Cooper Interaction Design
• Excel Expert at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

see less...

3 more...

Recommended

19 people have recommended Ernest

Connections

103 connections

Industry

Writing and Editing

Ernest Kinsolving’s Summary

I'm a generalist with a strong interest in communication. Everything I've done, from working as an entertainer to interaction design, is at its core a form of communication, whether it's communicating the emotional essence of a song or the behavior of a piece of software. I enjoyed the last two years documenting Woven Systems' layer 2 networking software, and look forward to the next communication challenge.

Ernest Kinsolving’s Experience

• Technical Writer

  Woven Systems

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  Technical writing: creating end-user documentation for Woven's complete line of 10G Ethernet switches.

• Fiddler/Vocalist

  Harmon's Peak Old-Time String Band

  (Entertainment industry)

  1997 — Present (12 years)

  Fiddlin' and singin': interpreting and performing traditional American music with a talented group of miscreants.

• Consultant

  Cooper

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2000 — March 2008 (7 years 11 months)

  Interaction design: conducted interviews, synthesized results, designed software and created behavioral specifications to communicate designs to developers. Worked as a consultant for clients including Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Dolby Laboratories, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Terraspring, Cedars Sinai Hospital, Thompson West, etc.

• Consultant

  Woven Systems, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  May 2007 — March 2008 (11 months)

  Technical writing: created new manuals and contextual help for Woven's innovative Ethernet switch technology.

• Production Assistant

  Objectivity

  (Writing and Editing industry)

  2004 — 2007 (3 years)

  Technical writing: provided technical writing support and production assistance in the preparation of Objectivity's sizable library of end-user documentation.

• Principal Designer

  Egg Spinners, LLC

  (Public Company; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2004 — May 2006 (2 years 5 months)

  Interaction design: interviewed stakeholders, potential users and subject matter experts, synthesized the results into personas and used those personas to define appropriate behaviors for software.

• Design Communicator

  Cooper Interaction Design

  (Entertainment industry)

  2000 — 2002 (2 years)

  Interaction design and technical writing: conducted ethnographic interviews and used a persona-based, goal-directed design approach to design software for clients including Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Dolby Laboratories and The Getty Museum.

• Excel Expert

  Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

  (Entertainment industry)

  1997 — 1999 (2 years)

  Document processing and tech support: created Excel spreadsheets, provided technical support and maintained departmental databases.