Melanie G Flanders

Current

• Instructor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Chief Information Architect at KnowledgeMasters, Inc.
• Associate Fellow at Society for Technical Communication

Past

• Sr. Technical Writer at Trend Micro, Inc.
• Adjunct Lecturer at University of Houston--Downtown
• Adjunct Instructor at Houston Community College

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Melanie G Flanders’s Summary

Technical communication expert with 28+ years experience in all aspects of planning, designing, and developing information that is easy to use, easy to understand, and easy to retrieve.

• Structured writing methodology expert (22 years' experience)
• FrameMaker expert (15 years' experience)
• Use modular, top-down approach to document design
• Concise, precise, active writing style
• Excellent research and interviewing skills
• Strong editing and organizational skills
• Superior analytical and logical reasoning abilities
• Adept at defining, designing, and implementing documentation
strategies and work flow processes
• Able to visualize an entire project and its components
• Project management (8 years' experience)

Melanie G Flanders’s Specialties:

Industry knowledge includes computer software and hardware, oil and gas, banking, retail, financial databases, and publishing. Areas of expertise include information design and development, single source content and reusability, internationalization, localization, and translation concerns, and style guide development.

Computer software expertise includes operating systems, mainframe (CICS, VM, MVS), networking, routers, gateways, security, databases, and numerous applications.

Additional Information

Melanie G Flanders’s Honors:

• Society for Technical Communication Award of Excellence for Understanding Ultrasound Physics, Third Edition, by Sidney K. Edelman, PhD.,
ISBN 0-9626444-4-7, 2006

• Associate Fellow, Society for Technical Communication, 2005

• Distinguished Chapter Service Award, Society for Technical Communication Houston Chapter, 2002

• Association for Women in Communications Matrix Award, 1999

• American Business Women’s Association Regional Newsletter Award for Woman to Woman, 1998

• Dynasty Technologies, Inc. Master’s Award for Outstanding Achievement, 1997

• Society for Technical Communication Award of Merit for Introduction to Dynasty, 1997

• Society for Technical Communication Award of
Achievement for Dynasty User’s Guide, 1997

• International Society of Poets, International Poet of Merit Award, 1995