Consultant and Coach; Owner, Precision Communications, Inc.
Greater Seattle Area
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- Past
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- Contract Senior Technical Writer at Microsoft
- Education
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- Bastyr University
- University of Washington
- Western Washington University
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Jamie Myxter’s Summary
Small business owner since 2000 (http://www.precisioncommunications.org). Previously working in technical publications, more recently working in organizational development (OD) and coaching.
Jamie Myxter’s Specialties:
Coaching: executive coaching, personal development coaching, and writing coaching.
Consulting: organizational development (OD), facilitation, conflict resolution, change management, and training.
Jamie Myxter’s Experience
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Owner
Precision Communications, Inc. (www.precisioncommunications.org)
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
January 2000 — Present (9 years 7 months)
Coaching and consulting in organizations, as in "organizational development" (OD). Strong background and passion for systems thinking, sustainable futures, collaborative and non-hierarchical team-based learning and performance. Process consulting has me guiding you and your team through the difficult process of change; the learning stays where it belongs, in the client organization, resulting in increased team capacity.
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Senior Technical Writer
Wingcast
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
August 2001 — June 2002 (11 months)
Created technical documentation for telematics applications. Telematics apps enabled voice-based access to data such as e-mail, weather, flight information, and so on. Think OnStar(TM) but with access to data you care about. I wrote and edited technical specifications, architecture diagrams, public-facing presentation materials, voice XML (vXML) prompts, and voice user interfaces.
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Writing Lead
DataChannel
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 1999 — July 2001 (2 years 6 months)
Led a team of ten writers responsible for approximately 2000 pages of enterprise portal software documentation in a ten month development cycle. Wrote, edited, and produced sections of numerous software documentation, including SDK, User help, Admin help, Editor help, Installation Guide, release notes, Deployment Guide, Tech Notes, and courseware materials.
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Lead Technical Writer
Netegrity
(Public Company; Professional Training & Coaching industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years)
(DataChannel became Netegrity...but LinkedIn doesn't quite "get" the company name change, so when prompted I added an entry.)
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Contract Senior Technical Writer
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
May 1996 — March 1999 (2 years 11 months)
Edited, produced, and wrote computer documentation for Internet Information Server (IIS) and Personal Web Server (PWS) versions 2-5. Built Help systems, integrated a dozen Help systems into a single system, solved various interoperability problems, set up and maintained 4 test servers (Windows NT and Windows 2000), and interfaced with several teams to ensure timely content delivery.
Jamie Myxter’s Education
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Bastyr University
MA , Leadership and Organizational Development (LOD) , 2004 — 2006
Bastyr probram offered through Leadership Institute of Seattle (LIOS). http://www.lios.org
- Activities and Societies:
- Coaching and Consulting in Organizations (CCO)
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University of Washington
M.S. , Engineering (Technical Communications) , September 1999 — June 2000
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Western Washington University
M.A. , English Literature , 1996
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Jamie Myxter’s Interests:
River drift fishing for steelhead and salmon, pet dogs Roger and Niko, gardening, cooking, making the best homemade garlic dill pickles you've ever tried.
Jamie Myxter’s Groups:
Society for Technical Communication (http://www.stc-psc.org/)
Washington Toxics Coalition (http://www.watoxics.org/)
Western Washington Mensa (http://mensaww.org/)
University of Washington Technical Communication Alumni Association (past president 2004-5) (http://www.washington.edu/alumni/clubs/tcaa.html)
WashTech (http://www.washtech.org)
Institute of General Semantics (http://www.general-semantics.org/)
Pacific Northwest Organization Development Network (http://www.pnodn.org/)
Omak Chamber of Commerce (http://www.omakchamber.com)
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Leadership Institute of Seattle (LIOS)
Jamie Myxter’s Honors:
Local chapter Society for Technical Communication (STC) "Distinguished" award (their highest) for DataChannel Server Online Help. My writing team at DataChannel won the award for outstanding Help content and presentation.
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