Larry Hosken

Current

• Tech Writer at Google

Past

• Tech Writer at Openwave
• Programmer at Infinite Machine
• Software Engineer & Senior Technical Writer at Blue Mug

• Senior Technical Writer at Geoworks

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Education

• University of California, Berkeley

Connections

49 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog

Larry Hosken’s Summary

Several years documenting APIs, OSs, software platforms, software development tools, software development practices. Write sample code. Organize documentation sets. Keep simple things simple; make complicated things seem possible.

Larry Hosken’s Experience

• Tech Writer

  Google

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Computer Software industry)

  January 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)

  Write internal engineering docs. Find old docs and encourage them to un-obsolesce. Help engineers to communicate with each other.

• Tech Writer

  Openwave

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; OPWV; Computer Software industry)

  June 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 5 months)

  Write sample code. Explain sample code. Write scripts that package up SDKs so that other people can play with sample code. Somehow, mobile phones emerge from this process.

• Programmer

  Infinite Machine

  (Computer Games industry)

  November 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 1 month)

  Worked with a team to program New Legends, an XBox Game. Controlled game events with a mixture of UnrealScript and C++. Wrote simple tools to ease converting animations into cutscenes.

• Software Engineer & Senior Technical Writer

  Blue Mug

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

  October 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 1 month)

  UI programmer on OS for Mitsubishi D2101v, a Japanese smartphone. Consulting for Phone.com (now Openwave). Wrote developer documentation about provisioning phones via WAP. Consulting for Palm Software, wrote a system software overview for a new OS.

• Senior Technical Writer

  Geoworks

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1990 — 1999 (9 years)

  Wrote API and "cookbook" docs about operating systems for smartphones and PCs. As a doc lead, coordinated three other writers. Wrote sample applications in C and x86 Assembly. Created FrameMaker templates. Wrote Perl tool to tidy FrameMaker's HTML output. Trained developers. Supported third-party developers via email and forums.

Larry Hosken’s Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  BA , Computer Science , 1987 — 1992

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Larry Hosken’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog

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