Kelli Pharo

Current

President at Society for Technical Communication Orlando Chapter
Sr. Technical Editor at PBS&J

Past

Customer Service Representative at EDR (Now CrossPointe, LLC)

Education

University of Central Florida
Brevard Community College

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Kelli Pharo’s Summary

Professionally, my true passions are writing and editing. My technical writing degree; the many opportunities I get to work on scripts, articles, press releases, publications, and reports on my job; and my active involvement in Society for Technical Communication support this.

Kelli Pharo’s Specialties:

Marketing communications, video script writing and production, press releases, magazine articles, technical editing, technical writing, project management

Kelli Pharo’s Experience

President

Society for Technical Communication Orlando Chapter

(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

March 2002 — Present (7 years 10 months)

STC is an individual membership organization dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication. It is the largest organization of its type in the world. Its 18,000 members include technical writers and editors, content developers, documentation specialists, technical illustrators, instructional designers, academics, information architects, usability and human factors professionals, visual designers, Web designers and developers, and translators - anyone whose work makes technical information available to those who need it.

I have been a member of STC since 2002 and I am currently the Orlando Chapter President.
Sr. Technical Editor

PBS&J

(Privately Held; Civil Engineering industry)

October 2001 — Present (8 years 3 months)

As a writer/editor in my company's marketing communications group I spend the majority of my time producing and writing videos/scripts and putting together various other marketing communications, such as magazine articles and press releases. Occasionally I still edit reports, marketing collateral, and various other documents.
Customer Service Representative

EDR (Now CrossPointe, LLC)

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 1997 — September 2001 (4 years )

EDR (now CrossPointe, LLC) is a software development firm that provides solutions for the public school environment. In my position as the customer service representative for the student series, I was responsible for developing user and technical documentation and conducting testing in the software development cycle for both IBM mainframe and AS400 environments. I also spent a good portion of my time providing help desk solutions, supplemented by assignments to conduct user training and participate in the development of web-based applications.

Kelli Pharo’s Education

University of Central Florida

BA , English, Technical Writing track , 1997 — 1999

Activities and Societies:

Sigma Tau Delta, PR Officer
Brevard Community College

AA and AS , Business Management , 1990 — 1993