Mike Unwalla

Current

Principal technical communicator at TechScribe

Past

Technical author at EMIS (Egton Medical Information Systems)
Technical author at Easysoft Limited
Language analyst at University of Sheffield

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Education

The University of Sheffield
The University of Sheffield

Recommended

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Connections

121 connections

Industry

Information Services

Websites

Mike Unwalla’s Summary

Technical documentation, technical writing, technical authoring. Specifically, software documentation: user guides, reference manuals, online help systems.

For samples of documentation, see www.techscribe.co.uk/techw/downloads.htm.

Former Principal UK Expert on software documentation, appointed by BSI (2004 to 2007).

Mike Unwalla’s Specialties:

Controlled language, English for machine translation, English for international readers, controlled vocabulary, machine translation, automated translation

Mike Unwalla’s Experience

Principal technical communicator

TechScribe

(Information Services industry)

1999 — Present (10 years )

1. Software documentation. When your customers struggle to understand your software, TechScribe makes things clear to them.

2. Author training for software developers.

3. English that is optimised for machine translation. Get excellent translation quality, and save the cost of manual translation.
Technical author

EMIS (Egton Medical Information Systems)

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

February 1998 — March 1999 (1 year 2 months)

At EMIS, I was a member of a small technical authoring team. I produced the following documentation:
• Task-based user guides
• Self-paced tutorials for new users of Microsoft Windows 95
• Clinical EDI wall chart
• Questionnaires for end users
• Style guides and templates for EMIS employees.
Technical author

Easysoft Limited

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

May 1995 — February 1998 (2 years 10 months)

As the sole technical author at Easysoft, I had full responsibility for all the technical documentation. I produced the following documents:
• Training material (course notes, tutorials, practical exercises, and presentation slides)
• Software manuals
• Release notes for system administrators
• FAQ sheets for end users
• Online help (WinHelp)
• HTML web pages.
Language analyst

University of Sheffield

(Educational Institution; Research industry)

November 1993 — October 1994 (1 year )

I was a research assistant on Yorick Wilks' EDR project.

Mike Unwalla’s Education

The University of Sheffield

PhD , Computer Science , 1990 — 1993

Thesis: A Mixed Transaction Cost Model for Coarse Grained Multi-column Partitioning in a Shared-nothing Database Machine (www.techscribe.co.uk/thesis/thesis.html).
The University of Sheffield

MsS , Software Systems Technology , 1988 — 1989

Dissertation: Investigation and development of response matching functions for computer-based training packages (www.techscribe.co.uk/cbt/index.htm).

Additional Information

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Mike Unwalla’s Groups:

Society for Technical Communication
BCS Consultancy SG
BCS Chartered IT Professional
Natural Language Processing People
Lingua
Automated Language Translation Group
Sheffield Software Industry
CompTIA - softwareCEO.com
Language Jobs
Industrial Marketing Mavens
Software User Assistance
ELIA (European Language Industry Association Ltd)
Controlled English - Simplified Technical English - Global English
BCS South Yorkshire Branch
Terminology
TermWeb - Terminology management on the Web
Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators
ASD-STE100: Simplified Technical English for aerospace and defense documentation
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC7 Software and Systems Engineering
Writing for Translation