Technical editor at OpenOffice.org
Greater Detroit Area
- Current
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- Technical editor at OpenOffice.org
- Past
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- Technical editor at Freescale Semiconductor
- Technical editor at Metrowerks, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Motorola
- Induction heat-treating technician at Bodycote
- Teacher at Archdiocese of Detroit
- Teacher at Lincoln Park (MI) public school district
- TV director, among other positions at US Army
- Broadcast engineer (and at eleven other stations than the two) at WRVA
- Education
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- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Blackhawk Technical College
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Marquette University
- Brookfield Central HS
- Marquette University HS
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Gary Schnabl’s Summary
Technical editor--editor for the OpenOffice.org (OOo) OOoAuthors documentation project for the OpenOffice software suite (MS Office Professional 2007 analog)
Technical editor--updated assembler and compiler firmware-developer manuals for Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola) 8-bit and 16-bit embedded microcontroller familes.
Gary Schnabl’s Specialties:
Conventional and Structured FrameMaker expertise. Also Adobe InDesign.
OpenOffice and Microsoft Office Professional 2007 (plus Visio) expertise.
C, C++, Java, embedded-microprocessor firmware, and other programming languages.
DocBook 5 and other XML experience.
Gary Schnabl’s Experience
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Technical editor
OpenOffice.org
(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)
Technical editor on the OOoAuthors documentation project
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Technical editor
Freescale Semiconductor
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; FSL; Semiconductors industry)
June 2005 — November 2005 (6 months)
Back when Motorola still technically owned the firm before the Freescale Semiconductor spin-off was finalized, on a six-month contract administered through TAC Worldwide, I edited the separate Metrowerks CodeWarrior assembler and compiler manuals for both the 8-bit and 16-bit Freescale embedded-microcontroller chip families.
In addition, I wrote from scratch a practical tutorial for each of those four engineering manuals, describing how to use each assembler or compiler, plus mentioning any detected deviations or idiosyncrasies that each assembler or compiler possessed. -
Technical editor
Metrowerks, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Motorola
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
2005 — 2005 (less than a year)
Technical editing for Motorola/Freescale Semiconductor was often performed on behalf of its wholly owned software subsidiary--Metrowerks, located also in Austin. Confer Freescale Semiconductor for any details.
Besides the above job description, I have submitted numerous errarta lists of their software user guides and manuals to Metrowerks (or directly to Motorola for their errors...) since 1999. -
Induction heat-treating technician
Bodycote
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)
November 2003 — May 2004 (7 months)
Performed heat-treating of automotive components in its Canton MI plant
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Teacher
Archdiocese of Detroit
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)
February 2001 — June 2001 (5 months)
The principal at St. Stephen's (K-5) school in my neighborhood asked me to step in before the school fired an incompetent fifth-grade teacher, making me the third teacher for that particular class that year. The strange (hard to believe) thing about this was that this teacher was a recently retired public high-school teacher at a suburb of Detroit with some thirty years of "experience." Yet, she couldn't teach English, science, or math to nineteen eleven-year-olds...
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Teacher
Lincoln Park (MI) public school district
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)
September 1998 — February 2001 (2 years 6 months)
K-12 teacher in the 10-school Lincoln Park school district.
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TV director, among other positions
US Army
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; USA; Military industry)
March 1968 — January 1970 (1 year 11 months)
Drafted soldier (honorably discharged)--trained to kill, break things, and such. However, I never ever had an opportunity to utilize any of those specialized skills, as I never left the country.
Instead, after basic training I had a month's leave before being directly assigned to Fort Lee (Petersburg) VA--a fancy fort with three 18-hole golf courses--and then worked in the rather tame field of television production at the Quartermaster Corps headquarters and headquarters company (HHC). There, I primarily was a TV director, videotape editor, and master-control operator for Fort Lee's closed-circuit TV system and production facility, working with almost all civilians but very few other soldiers.
Even got out more than two months early in order to attend the University of Wisconsin again under the GI Bill... -
Broadcast engineer (and at eleven other stations than the two)
WRVA
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
November 1968 — January 1970 (1 year 3 months)
Worked sixteen hours weekly as a broadcast engineer at 50KW clear-channel WRVA (also WRVA-FM) in Richmond VA while on full-time active duty in the US Army as a TV director at the Quartermaster Corps headquarters at Fort Lee (Petersburg) VA. BTW, as one of the country's earliest FM stations, WRVA-FM (now WRVQ) is grandfathered to maintain its ultra-high power as the highest-powered FM station in the US--200KW versus the typical maximum today of 50KW.
Also worked at several radio/TV stations, both before and after my stint at WRVA, (sometimes, simultaneously at as many as three different broadcasters) in Wisconsin for twelve years in various capacities as a DJ to chief engineer.
Litany of other stations: 50KW WISN, WUWM, WTMJ, WTSO, WZEE, WAUK/WAUK-FM, WAWA/WAWA-FM, Channel 18 (Milwaukee), Channel 3 (Madison).
Gary Schnabl’s Education
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
BSEE , Electrical, computer, and chemical engineering and accounting , 1963 — 1992
Passed all four parts of the AICPA Uniform Certified Public Accountant (CPA) exam.
Engineered the remote radio broadcasts for the UW Badgers basketball home games for three NCAA Big Ten seasons with Jim Irwin (Green Bay Packer's play-by-play announcer) for the Milwaukee Journal's radio station--WTMJ. -
Blackhawk Technical College
FAA Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) Mechanics 1985 — 1987
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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Electrical engineering 1963 — 1968
Was a teaching assistant for the Radio/TV/Mass Communications department for two semesters while still an undergraduate--teaching radio/TV broadcasting lab classes.
Worked in commercial broadcasting for twelve years, starting back while attending college. Was the chief engineer for Wisconsin's second-highest powered AM/FM station (10KW WAUK / 20KW WAUK-FM) at age 22.- Activities and Societies:
- Elected as Student Senator (representing engineering students)
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Marquette University
Electrical engineering 1961 — 1963
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Brookfield Central HS
junior and senior years 1959 — 1961
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Marquette University HS
freshmanand sophmore years 1957 — 1959
MUHS is an excellent academic school, but the ten-mile (four-mile hike and six-mile public-transit bus ride each way) was a drag--day after day, especially during the winter.
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Gary Schnabl’s Interests:
General aviation (have FAA A&P Mechanic certificate and a Private Pilot license), consulting, fitness exercise, clawhammer 5-string banjo playing (Southern Appalachian styles, mainly), commercial broadcasting
Gary Schnabl’s Groups:
Mensa member (SE Michigan), OOoAuthors
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