graduate student at UC Berkeley
San Francisco Bay Area
graduate student at UC Berkeley
San Francisco Bay Area
(Biotechnology industry)
January 2004 — July 2008 (4 years 7 months)
Web developer for the U.S. Department of Energy's genomic sequencing and research facility. Maintainer of primary institutional web site and intranet site, user interface designer for genome data and collaboration systems.
(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)
April 1994 — January 2004 (9 years 10 months)
Webmaster and technical writer/editor for the Advanced Light Source, a soft x-ray synchrotron light source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Work involved writing and editing a wide variety of highly technical publications for both print and electronic distribution. Primary document types included World Wide Web sites, annual reports, proceedings, brochures, and newsletters. Duties also involved public information work, such as writing press releases, conducting tours, and fielding queries from the public. Web production involved extensive HTML coding (standards-compliant XHTML and CSS), scripting (perl, PHP, javascript), and some server maintenance (Windows NT and Mac OS X Server). Primary responsibility for maintenance of several large Web sites and development of new ones.
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Publishing industry)
November 1990 — April 1994 (3 years 6 months)
Managed own writing and editing business. Wrote and edited abstracts, booklets, articles, audiovisual presentations, and manuals for clients including the American Medical Association, Year Book Medical Publishers, and Varian Associates.
(Internet industry)
1989 — 1990 (1 year )
MIMS , HCI , 2008 — 2010 (expected)
bicycling, theater, knitting, visual arts, science
Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW) Site Designer
Society for Technical Communication (STC) International Technical Publications Competition, Award of Excellence (for Advanced Light Source Activity Report 2000).
Touchstone Competition (STC Region 8), Distinguished (for Advanced Light Source Activity Report 2000), Excellence (for Advanced Light Source Web site, ICESS8 Web site, Advanced Light Source Activity Report 2001, Advanced Light Source Activity Report 1999), and Achievement (for Advanced Light Source Activity Report 1997/98, MicroWorlds Web site).
Berkeley Lab Outstanding Performance Award, overall effort (2003)
Berkeley Lab Outstanding Performance Award, ICESS8 Web site (2000)
Berkeley Lab Spot Award, Advanced Light Source Web site (1999)
Berkeley Lab Spot Award, MicroWorlds Web site (1997)
ChemWeb, The Alchemist's WebPick, Advanced Light Source Web site (1998).
Publisher's Choice Excellence in Education, MicroWorlds (1998).
NetGuide Live Platinum, MicroWorlds (1997)